In this episode:

01:50 - Who’s your best customer?

05:49 - Creating a product for yourself

08:20 - Choosing your space

09:57 - The danger of being a pioneer

11:59 - How to validate your idea

16:50 - What a course feeds

18:32 - More on the back end

21:58 - Do something that is going to sell

24:56 - Two big tips

26:17 - Wrapping up

Create, sell and leverage valuable online courses with James’s personal coaching

Part 5 of the series

Grab Getting The Most Out Of Making An Online Course (and the PDF transcription)

Transcription:

James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. This is Episode 619 - Which Online Courses Will You Create in 2019? Today, I brought along my special guest, John Lint. Welcome back.

John: Hey, everybody. Nice to be back. Thanks for having me, James.

James: John, I'm enjoying doing this Membership Series with you because we are covering some really great topics. Some of the things we've talked about have really only ever been discussed behind closed doors, and certainly not freely available online up until the series, and that's because we've been working away behind the scenes. I've been working inside SuperFastBusiness membership. You have been helping members of 10XPRO.io software, which is your baby, and you've been growing that and it's turned into quite the machine.

So today, we're going to tackle this subject of which online courses will you create in 2019, because it's a great time to create a course, because the platform has never made it easier. And with some of the ideas we're talking about in this podcast series, we're actually getting some usable information. So get out the notepad, grab a coffee, this episode is going to be punchy. And we're going to cover a few things you might want to do, especially in that research phase, which is probably the most critical phase before you go launching that course. You ready?

John: Yeah, ready. Let's do it.

Who’s your best customer?

James: So something I look at is who is your best customer. And often that best customer in the past many times has been me. I’ve been the one going through the research phase. I've been the one pulling out the credit card. I've been the one buying things and joining memberships and getting courses. And as I did that, I became quite the expert in what things were good and what things were not good.

And I remember one of the first successes that I had online was being an affiliate for some software,