 How to make money with courses, no talent required. Hey, you've probably heard about all these people making money with online courses and you wanna be part of it and I don't blame you. I became part of it and I really enjoyed it. In this video, I'm gonna show you the exact steps to creating, marketing and hosting an online course and guess what, you don't need any special talent and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher, welcome to my channel. I appreciate you being here. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button down there and next to it, ring the bell. Right, right, turn on the notification bell. When you turn on the notification bell, I can let you know each time I do a new video. At the end of this video, I've put in the description a $97 course that you can get absolutely free for just clicking the link. So make sure that you check that out. Now, people go online for a variety of reasons, you know, entertainment, socializing, all that and you know, you could go to YouTube and literally watch a course just about anything you wanted from heart surgery to, you know, how to build a house. So there's a lot of information out there and people are used to accessing it. Generally they will access some basic courses but in many cases, they're looking for more information. They're looking for a full blown course and that's where you can come in and where you can make some money. Now by 2021, they say online course sales are supposed to reach $240 billion. That's a lot of money. Why not get your share of it? Now a lot of people think they have to have this wealth of knowledge to create a course and nothing could be further from the truth. You don't need that. The truth is you just have to know more than your audience. That's it. That's what makes you an expert is knowing just more than your audience. So if you've got some knowledge in a particular area, you probably have all you need to create a course. Now before we get into creating this course, I think it's wise to look at the pros and cons of it. You know, not everything is as easy as it seems but creating courses does have some pros. Let's check them out. Nowadays, there are easy to use platforms. I use Cartra, a highly recommended. Down in the description below, you'll see a link for Cartra. You can click on the link, you can see what it does and if you're interested in getting Cartra, you can actually get a trial through my affiliate link for only $1. Next thing up is you can create courses that actually compliment your business. Now I started off selling survival food online. We did really well. People wanted to learn how to sell stuff online. I started doing courses on how to make money online. You can do the same thing. Course the next thing is, if you've got a course and you've created it, you can sell it over and over again. That's a product that once it's created, it's unlimited as to how many people can actually buy your course. So you're making money over and over again and not having to create the course again. Now the next thing I'll tell you is your courses can actually lead customers to buy other products. I've had people who, you know, bought my $27 a month course and they became a coaching client and spent thousands of dollars with me. Or they would see some video I did and I would talk about my survival food company and they would buy survival food from me. So these courses, these things that you create out there can actually lead to even more business. And of course, the obvious online availability brings in business from all around the world. Never before the internet could you do this before where you could have a course like that. And I've had people in Australia and England and just all around the world, Saudi Arabia, you name it, actually give me money for courses. And these are places that I've never seen or been to and they don't even know me and I can make money from those countries. Pretty cool. There are some cons. And I wanna go through those with you real quick too. First off, creating a course is time consuming. It's gonna take some of your time to actually create it. So you gotta, you know, not watch that TV show or go to that sports bar or go to that game or movie and put some time into this. Some of the cons are if you post your course at a site like Udemy, they can actually take your customer. So I don't do that. I host my courses on my own site on Cartrain. The next thing is courses are only gonna be successful if you target what is already selling out there in the market. If you try to create a whole new niche where there's no traffic and there's no desire for it, you may not do well. And then the last thing is, you know, you gotta find your sweet spot on pricing. You know, is it gonna be a $27 a month continuity? Is it gonna be a $1,000 course? And you gotta test all those things and figure out what works best for you. Yeah, I will tell you as we get back to the pros here, online courses are easier than ever to create because of the software that's out there now. I use Cartra. There's a whole area in there where you can develop your membership. There's templates in there you can use. It's really super easy to set up your course in there and just upload your videos or put a URL to where the video is hosted at. I prefer to leave it in Cartra. That way I can watch the analytics of who's watching that course. Okay, let's get down to the brass tax here and let's talk about creating the course. Number one thing you gotta do is pick a subject, okay? So you gotta pick a subject. We wanna pick a subject that people are actually searching for. We can use Google for this. We can use YouTube. If there's other people selling a course in that area on that particular topic, it's probably gonna be successful. And number two, do your market research. Go out there and figure out what people are looking for. Go out there and see what courses are being sold and look at those courses and even buy those courses so you can see the content of it. This market research part is very, very important. Number three, do an outline of your course. Have an introduction. Have the part where it tells people how to get started. Have the meat of it and then have a conclusion. But go ahead and outline that course. Not hard to do. You can jot it down on a piece of paper, pull up a word doc, whatever you wanna do, but just get a rough outline of your course. Number four, decide the best methods to deliver your lessons. So when I do a course, it's generally something on PowerPoint. I'll make a bunch of slides. I narrate over it and I record me doing that. So there's a video of me actually teaching what those things are. So if you were trying to teach Excel, you had a class on Excel, you could do the same thing. You could actually pull up your Excel program, talk them through each step. I will tell you when you're doing these videos for your courses, try to keep them under 10 minutes. That's about all somebody wants to consume at a time. If it's gonna go over 10 minutes, put it in the next video. You can set it up in individual modules. Have a dropdown with all the actual videos that are in the course. Number five, create your lessons. This is probably the most time consuming. It is gonna take you a lot of time to do this. But when you do it, you have a product that you can sell for maybe years and years and years. So it's gonna take you some time, but you're gonna have to create all these lessons. You're gonna have to walk everybody through everything and make it thorough. Make sure you check it over. Make sure there's not spelling errors. Make sure it looks good. Make sure you have a good color theme. All these things are really important, especially if you wanna sell out more courses on down the road. Number six, determine how you'll sell your lesson. Is it gonna be on something like ClickBank that has affiliates to market with you? Are you gonna host it on your own side? Are you gonna host in Cartra, which I highly recommend? There is a link below. You can watch a video on Cartra. And if you wanna try out, there's a $1 trial, so you can try out Cartra. I highly recommend it. But maybe you wanna put it on something like Skillshare. Maybe you wanna put it on something like Udemy. There's all kinds of courses and they already have traffic going there. That's not my thing. They're a little bit cheaper there and I don't like having my customer see other people's courses. But it's an opportunity for you if you wanna quickly get a course off. Number seven, once you get it created, load your course on up. You're either gonna load it to one of these sites that I just talked about or you're gonna load it to Cartra. I like Cartra because I can put all my individual videos in there and it's actually hosted there. And then I have the analytics of what people are watching and what they're doing. So I prefer Cartra but you could pick one of these other platforms too but you've gotta have your course somewhere. Even if you have a WordPress website, you could get a plug-in for a membership course on your site and actually run them to your site there too. So there's a lot of opportunities there and just pick one. I would tell you, just pick one. Too many people overthink this. They're like, what should I do this? Should I do this? Let me analyze this. Just pick one because whatever you pick, once you've done the course you can always move it someplace else if you need to. You don't have to be there forever but you do have to get going. And then number eight, the obvious, you gotta market your course. Even if you're on a site like Udemy that already has traffic coming to it, I would still recommend you marketing your course and getting people to that course on Udemy. Don't forget, once you've created your course you want people to know about it. So use all your social media. Do post on Facebook. You can do live videos on Facebook. You can promote it on YouTube. I have a course down in the description right there, $97 course, you get absolutely free. I'm promoting it right now. Go ahead and grab it while it's free. It's down there in the description. But you should promote it. Maybe you have Twitter, maybe you have Instagram. Whatever you have that you can post about your course I would highly recommend you doing so. Number nine, keep your information up to date. Especially if it's technical stuff and you're doing stuff with software or things that may change, you're gonna need to keep it updated. I have a couple of courses now that I need to go back in and update some stuff because things have changed. So you wanna make sure that it is up to date. Number 10, I think this is the biggest one. Listen to me now, listen to it. Come in here for a second. Rinse and repeat. What does that mean? Well, that means you don't have to have just one course. You can have a bunch of courses. You know, probably the smartest thing I did is started doing a bunch of little mini courses because now there's little spots of money coming from different places. You know, I have, you know, WebCash Academy and I have Ecom Road and I have Digital Cash Academy and I have Facebook Ad University. I have an inner circle and that way all these things that are out there are generating money for me. Some months, some of them don't generate much. Some months the other ones do. They kinda counteract themselves so that I always have an income. You know, it's crazy how much money can be made on this. I know a lot of people will say to themselves, well, I don't know if I wanna create a course because I don't know if it'll work out. I don't know if it'll work out. Well, the only way it won't work out is if you don't do it. That's, you're guaranteed it's not gonna work out if you don't do it. Now, could you create a course and have trouble selling it or trouble marketing? Yes, of course you can. But if you're doing what I tell you to do in these steps, if you're looking at other people's courses, if you're looking at what they're doing and you emulate what they're doing and they're already successful, it's gotta tell you something, right? It's gotta tell you something. So, I would tell you, you wanna get started. You can make money. Get in your head that it is possible first off. That's the biggest obstacle that I've seen everybody have is they don't have that confidence. They think, well, I've never done that before and they start off with, I've never done that before. Well, you've never done a lot of things in your life that you're good at now. So, the thing is, the more things you try, the more things you're gonna get good at, the more things you get good at, the more opportunity to make money. And this is one of them. I'm telling you, don't miss out. All of this video, this is the one point I want you to really listen to is, don't miss out on this opportunity. It's a huge opportunity for an individual sitting in your studio apartment to put a course together and possibly make millions of dollars. That's insane. All you need is a laptop and an idea. That's it, that's it, okay? So, do this, go through these steps, apply these steps and make some money, okay? I really appreciate you listening to this video. Don't forget, I have a course. 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