What if you could find your students without a website, without an email list, and without a social media following? Sounds pretty impossible, right? Not with today's strategy from Connie Livingston! Listen in to get the scoop and then check out the full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/172    

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Join Julie's workshop to create your mini-course fast (and host it for FREE)! Save $50 as a podcast listener -   
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Make sure you get Connie's FREE mini-course on how to use MeetUp to find students! She includes a 30% off coupon when you signup -   https://coursecreatorshq.com/MeetupMiniCourse    

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

You can host online workshops and courses using Meetup to promote your event!

It has a database of over 60 million people, and will promote your event for you. 

Listen in to hear how Connie had 90% of her attendees sign up and she made $9,000 from one event.

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In this episode, host Julie Hood discusses if you need a website as an online course creator (and what you might need instead)! Get the links and full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/171

LINKS MENTIONED     

Mini-Course Workshop - December 19, 2023  
https://coursecreatorshq.com/PodcastMiniCourse  

ConvertKit:
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/ConvertKit    

Kajabi - get a 30-day Free Trial: 
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/KajabiSignup    

Google Workspace - for branded email:  
https://coursecreatorshq.com/GoogleWorkspace
 

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

Do you need a website? 

You definitely need:

• A unique angle and/or unique audience
• Mini course to get revenue started
• Weekly email to nurture potential students
• Ways to get in front of prospective students (we talked about 2 in the episode)
   

Websites are great for branding and SEO!
 

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In this week's episode, host Julie Hood shares two different roles in your business... the Visionary and the Implementer. You need both, and you probably have some of both. But which way do you lean? Let's talk about how it impacts how you build your business. Get the full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/170.  

LINKS MENTIONED     

Leave me a written or voice message! Share your celebrations, questions, and challenges with Julie:   :https://coursecreatorshq.com/backstagepass  

Black Friday Deals   

Join the Profit Levers Workshop & Rock 2024:   
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Get started on your course marketing foundation for only $1!  Special pricing ends soon! 
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Coming in December!  Mini-Course Workshop  

By the way, the audio episodes are not on YouTube! Come listen and subscribe -  
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KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

It can be super helpful to know if you are more of a Visionary or more of an Implementer.   

Both are needed in your business - and both roles are important to your success.   

Also remember when you are hiring team members, are they already experienced and know what to click OR do you need to train them in what and how to work with you?   
  

Thanks for being a listener and subscriber! I'm so grateful for you!

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In this episode, host Julie Hood talks about mini-courses and how to strategically use them in your online course  business for leads & revenue. . Get the full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/169.
 

LINKS MENTIONED     

Come listen on YouTube:  
https://coursecreatorshq.com/YouTubePodcast  

Leave me a written or voice message! Share your celebrations, questions, and challenges with Julie:   :https://coursecreatorshq.com/backstagepass  

Black Friday Deals  

Join the Profit Levers Workshop & Rock 2024:  
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/ProfitLevers

Get started on your course marketing foundation for only $1!  
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/PodcastLaunchpad

Coming in December!  Mini-Course Workshop

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

Advantages of Mini Courses as Online Courses

- Great for lead generation
- Mini courses provide more value than freebies like resource guides or ebooks
- Quick way to generate fast cash
- Mini courses that offer specific results can be charged for
- Faster to create than full-length courses
- Can be focused on a tight topic with fewer lessons and less material

Focus on Microlearning

Julie's definition of Microlearning is a lesson that can fit on one screen of a cell phone. 

- Microlearning resonates with people who are used to scrolling through social media on their phones
- Easier way to reach people and deliver content

Challenges of Mini Courses  

- Keeping mini courses focused  
 - Experts tend to want to share more information, so it's important to edit content down  
- Choosing the right topic for a mini course  
 - Topic should be a step people take right before needing your full course  

Announcements  

- Course Creators HQ podcast is now on YouTube!  
Let's connect at https://coursecreatorshq.com/YouTubePodcast   

- Come join me in the new backstage area for audience interaction
- Voice messages and written chats can be left for the host

- Black Friday deals!
   - Profit levers workshop for getting ready for 2024
   - Launchpad membership for only $1 - creating and marketing online courses

- Mini class workshop for creating mini courses more efficiently coming in December!

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Use this mini-masterclass episode to help you build a skill that can absolutely be a needle-mover in your business. This skill is essential to finishing your projects and host Julie Hood shares her own secrets with you. Get the links and full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/168

LINKS MENTIONED   

Pandora - Classical for Studying Radio
https://coursecreatorshq.com/pandora

Pomodoro Timer
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/Pomodoro
 

RELATED EPISODES

E147: Get Through Your To-Do List – Including Your Online Course!
 

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  
 

What is this key skill? FOCUS

In order to focus better, you need to answer 3 key questions - 

1. What should you focus on? 

2. How to make yourself focus? 

3. How to use your time well?

Focus on your 1) Routines and 2) 1-5 Current Projects. 

Listen in for the strategy of creating two lists:

• The Brain Dump List
• The 1-5 Current Projects
   

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Make sure you check out this episode to prevent burnout, tackle perfectionism, handle people pleasing and help prevent burnout. Coach Jennifer Bassman shares her secrets to managing (and preventing) these challenging emotions. Get the full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/167.  
 

Please Note: We do not claim to practice medicine, prescribe for or diagnose disease; do not hold out, state, indicate, advertise or imply that we are licensed physicians. The materials and content contained in this episode are for general education only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Listeners should not rely exclusively on information provided in this website for their own health needs. All specific medical questions should be presented to your own health care provider.  

LINKS MENTIONED  

Are you a people pleaser or having trouble saying no? Jennifer is giving us one of her favorite coaching tools! Worried You Never Seem to Make The Right Decisions? Use this free Decision-Making Tree to help you focus:  
https://coursecreatorshq.com/JenniferBassmanFreeGift

The Burnout Recovery Method Course -  
https://coursecreatorshq.com/BurnoutRecovery  

Unstuck & Unstressed: A journal to get your life together... peacefully by Jennifer Bassman
https://coursecreatorshq.com/StressJournal  
 

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

Symptoms of Burnout - usually a combination:  

• Exhausted 
• Bad Day 
• May look like depression 
• Inability to concentrate or focus 
• Irritable and impatient 
• Lack of energy 
• No satisfaction in achievements 
• Poor sleep  and may not stay asleep 
• Extreme cynicism 
• No excitement around things that used to be exciting 
• None of your coping mechanisms are working 

It can be hard to tell when burnout starts.  

Self-care and changing jobs may not be the solutions to burnout.  

Tackling Perfectionism 

• Unrealistic expectations 
• Limiting beliefs about the way things are 
• Control issues 

What are the mindset strategies that will help you? How do you learn to handle these things? 

Have friends do "gut checks" with you on your expectations (as long as you are open to feedback).  

People Pleasing 

• Wanting people to like you 
• Love language is doing for others and ignoring yourself 

Get a "sponsor" to help you stay balanced.  
 

Make the list of what's frustrating you... and then dig in further to see underlying issues. 
 

How to handle students who feel they are not a fit?  

• Have a conversation 
• Determine your policies ahead of time 
• Consider a partial refund 
   

Prevention of Burnout  

• Build awareness of how you use time & energy 
• Building stress management into your daily routine 
• Build awareness of your stress 
• Have fun 
• Find your trigger signs & stress response (for example, Jennifer can't find words) 

 
Stress response take blood to everywhere in your body - except your brain! This makes it difficult to make decisions. Stress hormones create "fuzz" and you cannot make decisions.  Your goal is to bring blood and oxygen back to your brain.   

Your brain loves certainty and unfamiliar territory (like creating a course or getting on social media) causes your brain to fight you. Talk your brain "down" and provide some certainty.   

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In this episode, host Julie Hood share 7 tips to create and post your social media content more quickly and easily. Get the links and notes from this episode at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/166.

LINKS MENTIONED   

Missing Lettr: 
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/MissingLettr

https://coursecreatorshq.com/MissingLettrDemo

Social Bee:
https://coursecreatorshq.com/socialbee

Meet Edgar:
http://coursecreatorshq.com/meet-edgar

YouTube Videos on using ChatGPT and Canva

• https://coursecreatorshq.com/50socialmediapostsin5min
• https://coursecreatorshq.com/200postsin10min

RELATED EPISODES

E158:  Is Social Media Dying? What Should Course Creators Do?

E073: 6 Social Media Tools I Can’t Live Without

3 Main Steps of Social Media Creation

1. Create content
2. Create the graphics
3. Post or schedule to the tools

To create content faster -

Tip #1 - Tracking your ideas: have one place to save your ideas

Tip #2 - Use ChatGPT: obviously all the standard rules about using AI generated content

ChatGPT Prompts - 

Give me a list of 50 things people may not know about ______ (your topic)_____. 
Give me a list of 25 encouraging or inspiring quotes for  _____(your audience)_____. 
Give me a list of 25 tips for _____(your audience)_____.

To create the graphics – 

Tip #3 - Get good at your tool (most people use Canva Pro)

Tip #4 - Hire it out (make sure they are using royalty-free images and videos so you don’t get in trouble)

Tip #5 - In general, the square Instagram graphics can work across the platforms

To post or schedule – 

Tip #6 - Use scheduling tools

TIp #7 - Use tools with “buckets” of evergreen content that gets reused – Social Bee, MeetEdgar


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In this episode, host Julie Hood shares 7 rules you can add to make your online course business even better - to save you time, to make you more efficient, and to make sure you are staying organized. See the full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/165. 

LINKS MENTIONED     
Be sure to check out Good Day - it's a web and mobile app to help you stay organized:
https://GoodDay.Work

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

Here are the Online Course Creators 7 Rules: (listen in for the full scoop!)

1.  Work with Yourself, Not Against Yourself
2. Focus and Pay Attention 
3. Invest Your Time 
4. Create Habits and Routines
5.  Use the Right Tools & Just Enough Technology
6. Do the Homework
7.  Save All Your Ideas

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Trying to decide where to host your online course? Use these 7 questions from host Julie Hood to help you evaluate Kajabi and whether it is the perfect tool to build your online business. Sign up for a 30 Day free trial at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/KajabiSignup    


LINKS MENTIONED     

Get Julie's bonuses of over $1,500 in courses when you sign up for Kajabi using her affiliate link - 
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/KajabiSignup   

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

Here are some key questions to ask before you pick your course hosting platform - 

1. Is the tool an all-in-one or just for course hosting?

Kajabi is an All-in-one Tool to have your entire online business in one place.

- Website
- Blog
- Course Hosting
- Email Newsletter
- Funnels
- Landing Pages
- Shopping Cart
- Coaching Offers & Tracking
- Calendar for booking appointments
- Membership
- Private community
 

2. What is the student experience like? 

Student experience is stellar (and you can check your student’s status)?

3. How is the support? 

Kajabi support is outstanding (live chat, email, Facebook group, live webinars, help center with both video and step-by-step text steps). 

4. How long has the company existed? 

Kajabi began in 2010 and  has processed over $6 billion in sales for its customers. 

5. Are they building new features and how often?

Kajabi has new features every month. 

6. Can your students take their courses on their mobile devices? 

Kajabi courses can be taken on the Kajabi app in both iPhone and Google stores.

7. What other options are available? 

Kajabi also lets you create events (and automatically upload the recordings), memberships, communities, coaching offers, and even your own podcast – all within the tool. 


Get Julie's bonuses of over $1,500 in courses when you sign up for Kajabi using her affiliate link - 
https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/KajabiSignup   

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Join Julie Hood and her co-host Mimi Langley for this week's episode on the 5 things you should have for a course that sells. This is a longer episode (almost an hour) - because it is a replay from a Clubhouse room where we dug deep into what it takes to create an amazing online course. Get the links and full show notes at https://CourseCreatorsHQ.com/163. 

LINKS MENTIONED     

Jump into the Topic and Title Challenge that starts on October 2, 2023. Save Your Spot Here:    
https://coursecreatorshq.com/PodcastTTC  

And don't forget - the 24 Hour Course Creator Daily course and coaching program starts October 11, 2023. Let's work together on your course! Get signed up here:
https://24HourCourseCreator.com

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS  

The 5 Things (listen in for details - and for even more questions!) -

1.      You need to know who you want to help.

2.      You need a topic that people really want.  

3.      You need a specific result that your course provides.  

4.      You need a really good, intriguing title.  

5.      Your course needs to be consumable - and not too long and not too short. 

Hope you got an idea or two you can use!

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