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ENCORE: Where Should I Focus My Online Course Marketing?
One of the new things for STC this year is the incorporation of coaching calls into the podcast from time to time. Join us for a glimpse into today’s coaching call about online courses.
Our Featured Guest for today’s coaching call
Heather McKenzie, LCMHCS
Heather McKenzie came through Online Course School as a beta student back in the fall of 2021. Online Course School is a live, eight-week experience that takes your online course from a simple idea all the way through the development stages so that you are ready to record. Heather created a course specifically focused on anxiety that can be found at Dial Down Anxiety. Like most of us who create an online course, she faced a common struggle about how to handle marketing time and costs to promote her course. Join us to hear the coaching call!
You’ll Learn:
- How to handle logistical challenges in the online presentation of your course
- Why Heather’s course is an eight-week course to help people understand anxiety and DBT emotion regulation skills
- How marketing options for an online course can be overwhelming for most people
- How to pinpoint your own superpowers in teaching and the style that works best for you
- How to structure the content levels for promoting your course in six-month blocks:
- Start with webinars, both free and paid.
- Offer a downloadable guide or cheat sheet.
- Use a core blog post as a stand-alone feature that blows people away.
- Tips from Melvin about content levels:
- Offering too many things can confuse people, so stick with one core webinar.
- Less is more!
- Be thoughtful about using the words “webinar” and “workshop” so as not to intimidate people.
- Link your blog post videos to YouTube to drive more traffic back to your webinar.
- Consider that high-quality offerings through webinars, guides, and blog posts help to establish your authority as an expert and give people value that keeps them returning.
- How podcasting can help with future promotion by giving a call-to-action to your webinar
- Why you need to take notes during the first offering of your course with beta students to know what content resonates the most; that content can be used for future free webinars
- In summary, five tools to market an online course that have evergreen potential:
- Webinar (start with live ones and then transition to evergreen ones)
- Downloadable guides or cheat sheets
- Core blog post
- Select podcast episodes
- Mini-podcast
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Course Creator Starter Kit
I know that many of us are thinking and planning for the upcoming year. If an online course is on your radar, I want to encourage you to download our free online course starter kit. It's a seven-day email course that will help you validate your course idea. Now, it's going to be 10 years for me as a course creator next year, and the validation part is the most important part of an online course. You can download it over at coursecreatorstarterkit.com.
