How To Build Your Online Course

Throughout our lives, we get exposed to new lessons, experiences, and valuable knowledge that helped you to become the person that you are today and helped you to achieve many successes in your life and career. However, there is a way of fully utilising the lessons, experiences, and knowledge that you have without feeling as though they are useless things that are only gathering up dust. If you have a passion for teaching others, want to make extra money on the side, or want to build a personal brand and establish new relationships, building an online course is the way to go.

Building an online course is not this super complicated thing that certain people in the world can do, there are many simple steps involved in creating a great online course with the lessons, experiences, and knowledge that you have. Here are 7 simple steps that will help you to build and bring the online course to life.

1. Figure out the subject for your online course

The subject of your online course can be anything that is teachable and related to the lessons, experience, and knowledge that you gained in your life so far. If you build an online course based on what you already know, the creation process will become simple to do.

2. Validate your online course idea, plan, and content

It’s important to bring to the online course market a course that people need. In order to determine this, you need to first build a plan around the modules and information your going to deliver to the people.

Then do some research and figure out:

The main thing to remember is that an online course needs to deliver results for the people in order for it to be successful. How well can your online course deliver results to the people?

3. Build the online course together by putting the information and content together

In this step, it's important to find out what types of exercises and action steps will be included inside your online course.

4. Get a Beta Testing Program Setup

With any online course, it's important to know whether it’s going to achieve success or not. In order to know this, you need to create a beta testing group of students and see if they produce any results from doing the online course. Make sure to ask the beta testing group for feedback about what things they liked about the online course, what things they didn’t like about the online course, and what improvements and adjustments that can be made in order to make the online course better. Getting feedback from the beta testers will help to validate the information that you're going to teach, the exercises that you're going to use, and the action steps that you are going to implement to your online course students.

5. Think about the structure and delivery method of your online course

During the building and creation of your online course, there are many things to consider. Whether you are going to build your online course through videos and workbooks that the student can complete throughout each course module, or just have workbooks. Whether it’s going to be in an audio or video format with a group coaching element to it. What is the structure and delivery of the online course going to be like that is going to provide great value for the online course student’s?

6. Research and find out the best platform to display your online course

It’s important to determine which online learning platform is going to have your target students and how does the online learning platform work. There are many great hosting websites out there for online courses including Teachable, Thinkific, and Kajabi that have a diverse range of online course students.

7. Market your online course to the world

Make sure to have a marketing strategy that will help you to get people to your online course. It can be as simple as doing a webinar, presenting at a networking event, creating a social media ad, or doing an email newsletter about why you should the online course. Also, having an opening and closing enrolment period will create a sense of urgency for people to join your online course.

I hope these steps will help you out in creating your online course and I wish you all the best on your journey.

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