 The top 9 niches to sell courses. I never thought I would do it. What's it? Well, it's creating an online course. I mean, it seemed really hard and I mean, what do I know that I can even teach? Well, I've been selling e-commerce for a long, long time and I'm really glad I checked into it because over the years, I've sold millions of dollars online and I've got a steady income from online courses. And that's why you should start one. And in this video, I'm going to show you the top 9 niches that you can sell a course in. Hey, I'm J.R. Fisher. Welcome to my channel. If it's your first time here, welcome and do me a favor. Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget, turn on the bell notifications. There's a little bell next to that subscribe button. You need to click that bell and turn on all notifications. Now in this video, it's really pretty exciting because I'm going to show you how to have an income every single day, every single month from selling online courses. I'm not only going to do that, I'm going to tell you the top nine areas that you should probably create a course in. Now, in a survey conducted by bestcolleges.com, 79% of the students said that online courses were as good as if not better than actually attending a class. As of 2025, it's estimated that online courses will account for $325 billion in sales. Now that's triple what it was in 2015. Now, if you check out this chart I've got online here, you can see how people are thinking about career changes, about getting academic credentials, about lifelong learners, high school grads in a traditional academic path, high school grads. And you can see how this is growing and growing and growing. So how do you decide where you're going to put your efforts and what kind of course you're going to make? In this video, I'm going to show you the best niches that you can make your course for so you're that much more successful. Please keep in mind these are more general subjects. We can break this down more. And the more you niche it down, the better off you are. I would recommend before you pick your niche, you actually figure out who your audience is. If you can figure out who your audience is, you're going to be in leaps and bounds above everybody else. You never want to create a course for anyone and everyone because if you do that, you're going to be speaking to no one. So for example, let's say you're going to do a course on search engine marketing. You don't want to do just a course for search engine marketing. You want to niche it down more. You may want to niche it down to search engine marketing for bloggers. Now that would be a really good niche because it really speaks to those people. And when people hear something like that and they're a blogger, they're going to listen. The number one category is computers and technology. Let's face it guys. Computers and technology grow every single day. The knowledge base grows every single day. There's a huge need for courses in this area. Now we can break it down further. It can be about building websites. It can be about repairing computers and networks. It can be about machine learning or artificial intelligence. It can be operating systems. It could be cell phone repair. It could be cyber security robotics, even software programming. And the more you niche that down, the better off you are. The next thing I'll tell you, and this is my area and that's business entrepreneurship. This is a great area to do a course in. People are looking more and more on how to make money online. And a course on how to do that is extremely helpful. Some of the subjects you may want to cover are affiliate marketing or handmade products on Etsy. That's a big area now. Dropshipping, blogging, freelancing on your talent. You could do e-commerce. You could do business and entrepreneurship. You could do digital marketing. You could do branding, social media marketing, content marketing, advertising. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. And that's the area I work in. I know there's a huge demand for that. Number three is arts and crafts. A lot of people want to know how to do arts and crafts now. There's a lot of DIY channels now on YouTube that teach people how to make things, how to do things, how to repair things. That's a huge area. A lot of people want to learn how to do things and make products to sell on things like Etsy. So that would be a great area for you to do a course on. Some of the areas that you could cover would be drawing, painting, calligraphy, knitting, sewing, carpentry, digital art, photography, videography, web design, game design, fashion. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. That's another great area that you could do a course on. Number four, health. Health has always been around. It'll always be around. People are always trying to get better health. And if you're doing a course that can help people be healthier, feel healthier, have more energy, then you're going to have a huge demand for that. I think nowadays, too, people are more attuned to this. They realize that exercise and food play a huge part in their life. And if they can learn these things from you, they're going to be interesting. Some of the examples could be diet nutrition, maybe meal planning, vegan cooking, reflexology, acupuncture, massage, aromatherapy, any and all of these areas have a huge demand right now. Number five is going to be, and it always will be fitness. People are always looking to get fit. They're always looking to lose weight. They're always looking to look better and feel better. And the more we can niche this down like maybe home workouts or home workouts without any weights, pilates, maybe weight loss, weight loss for people who just had a children, weight loss for executives who don't have time to work out, swimming, running, any kind of sports, yoga, martial arts, even survival skills, all of these things fall under that fitness category that has an incredibly high demand for. Now it's kind of funny that I'll bring this one up. But number six is education, because that's what we're doing right now. But people are wanting to educate others and they don't know how to do it. So if you can educate these people on how to educate people, that has a huge demand now too. Some of the areas you may want to cover could be presentation skills. How do they present themselves in their education? Maybe they're doing videos, maybe they're doing talks, media training and how to deal with media and education, instructional design, child psychology, you know, maybe video editing. I use Camtasia. So maybe Camtasia and ScreenFlow. Maybe you can teach how to do that. Teaching English, that's a huge area right now. And teaching and starting online businesses, which is what I do. Maybe even starting coaching consultation and how somebody would do that. Number seven is writing and content creation. Okay, so we all know we need to create content, but how do we do it? If you can come up with a course that teaches people how to create this content through maybe content marketing, maybe it's making videos, maybe it's blogging, maybe it's writing copy for websites, maybe you want to teach them how to do storytelling, which is huge in content writing. YouTube video creation, I mean, that's what I'm doing right now. And people need to know how to do that too. Maybe they want to do a podcast, you can teach them how to do podcasts, or even search engine marketing once they get all this stuff together. Number eight is a big one, personal development. People are always trying to improve themselves. Personal development has become huge and courses on this are really kind of helpful and in high demand. An example would be you could do a course in time management. Everybody's trying to get more done in less time and get more accomplished. That's a great course. Of course, you want to niche it down so it could be time management for medical doctors, you know, maybe you have some experience in that area. It could be for people who have procrastination problems. So, you could say salespeople with procrastination. So, call out different areas and keep in mind if you do a course for salespeople who have procrastination problems, they'll get it. You know, they're putting off making that phone call or making that sales call, but you could also say procrastination for teachers, procrastination for carpenters, procrastination for lawn care. So, what you may want to do is do several different courses in different areas that speak to different people. You could also do ones on goal setting. That's huge. Speed reading, investing in the stock market. A lot of people don't have any clue how to do that. Maybe you have experience in that area and you could help there. And just to name a few more, we've got life purpose, we've got study skills, we've got self-esteem, we've got anxiety management, we've got emotional intelligence, conflict management, that's a huge one. Confidence, presentation skills, body language, persuasion, negotiation, networking, and of course everybody's favorite, public speaking. Now, number nine, entertainment. We all have to be entertainers now, don't we? We've got to entertain in our blogs and our videos on YouTube. We've got to entertain for our business to get customers. We all have to kind of entertain. So, if you can come up with a course that teaches people how to do those skills, it's hugely marketable right now. Now, let's break down some of those areas that you may want to do a course in because your course would not be entertainment, it would be maybe video production, video editing, filmmaking warms, cinematography, teaching things like Adobe Premiere or Camtasia, color grading your videos, iPhone photography, there's a bunch of courses on that that are hugely popular. YouTube audience growth, people would want to know how to do that. Livestreaming, video marketing, which is a huge thing a lot of businesses are doing now. Whiteboard animation, people don't know how to do that. Great idea for a course. Facebook marketing, Instagram marketing, Twitter marketing, any other social media platforms, people need to learn. And I want to throw in a bonus here because this is a big, big area and I didn't mention it but one area that's really good for courses is lifestyle training. Courses on lifestyle are very diverse. They cover the gamut from men to women, to high level lifestyle, to an average lifestyle, to living below your financial means. So there's a whole bunch of different areas within lifestyle that you can teach. Some of the other ones that I see and I see videos on this all the time is maybe travel hacking, maybe it's Airbnb hosting, maybe somebody wants to do that, journaling, becoming a digital nomad. I even know some of those people that travel around the world, cosmetics, women are into that, skincare, nail art, makeup, hairstyling, fashion, cooking and baking. That's huge on YouTube. Plenty of people doing stuff on that. Gaming, maybe you have musical skills, that's a lifestyle thing too. And let's not forget things like head care, that's a lifestyle area, gardening, decluttering. There's so many areas you can get into in lifestyle that are really, really popular and have a huge demand. All you got to do is create the content. Now I want to go through seven quick steps when you're doing this. Number one, know your passion, okay? Know what you care about, what you are interested in. If you get into an area that you have no interest in and you're trying to create courses, you're going to have a hard time. So number one, know your passion. Step two, know your strengths, okay? If you're not good in a particular area, you're not strong in a particular area, even though you may like it, if you're not good at it, you're not going to come up with a very good niche. Step three, know your risk readiness, okay? If you're not ready to do this stuff, if you don't have the time to invest it, now is not the time to do it. Wait until you do have the time to do this. Step four, and I did kind of mention it before, is know your target audience. Don't go out there with a course, don't go out there with a niche, trying to sell things, and you don't know who your target audience is. You've got to know them. Step five, know where you fit in, okay? I'm on e-commerce and digital courses and online sales and all. I know where my lane is, I got to stay on my lane, okay? So you have to do the same thing. Step six, choose your platform wisely. Now I know there's a lot of platforms out there you can put a course on and there's a bunch of other courses. They're like Udemy or Coursera or any of that. I like to personally host my own courses. I use Cartra. I'll put a link in the description down there. You can watch the video on Cartra. There's a plethora of other things too, not just hosting courses, but I highly recommend it. The video is free and if you want to try Cartra, you can get a trial for only one dollar. So I would definitely check that out. Number seven, learn to adapt to change, because this is going to change. Everything you do is going to change. Every software, every program, every way of marketing and you've got to stay on top of it. If you don't adapt to change, you will be left behind. So all in all, remember it's about them, not you. It's not what you want, it's what they will buy and what they want and what they demand. I really appreciate you watching this video. If you like it, give me a thumbs up. I would really appreciate it. There's a big subscribe button down there. Please hit that subscribe button next to it. There's a bell just like this. You got to ring that bell and you got to turn on all notifications. That way you become part of the Fisher Family, the VIP group that gets notified every single time I do one of these videos or even go live so we can talk. Put your comments below. Let me know what you're working on, what you've tried, what problems you're having. I want to hear from you. Put it in that comments below. 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