116: How to Get 10,000 Students in Your Online Course

We’re back with an all-new interview, this time with artist Angela Fehr! Angela recently hit an awesome milestone with her online course business, and it was great to get to know her a bit and chat about her online course journey.

"Marketing your course is like parenting or saving money: you could always be doing it better."

- Angela Fehr

Angela has approached certain aspects of her course very differently than me, but we also have had a lot of similarities in starting out. It’s always great to hear what works for other course creators, and I think you’re going to enjoy our conversation!

In This Episode, We Talked About:

(1:47) Updates from me and David on webinars, upcoming travel, and more

(6:50) Angela introduces her online course business and shares a recent milestone

(10:14) The teaching platform Angela relies on

(12:22) Looking back at her online course journey

(15:22) Thinking about changes in online course businesses as they become more mainstream

(17:01) Building an audience and evolving course content

(20:05) When Angela realized that her online course was going to work

(21:16) Branding and marketing decisions

(26:06) Does Angela use scarcity to drive sales?

(27:19) How she spends most of her working time and how she measures growth

(31:04) Looking at similarities in how we gain traffic

(32:27) How Angela deals with exchange rates for international sales

(34:48) Favorite tools and thoughts on keeping things simple early on

(40:05) Mighty Networks vs. Facebook Groups

(44:03) Angela’s advice for new course creators

(46:01) David and I discuss what we’re most impressed by with Angela and her business

(48:22) Thoughts on why I prefer Facebook Groups

(52:11) Creating courses and moving past imposter syndrome

(54:39) Wrapping up

That’s all for now, folks! See you on the next episode of The Online Course Show, and don’t forget to sign up for my Online Course Community (link below) if you haven’t already.

Links

Camtasia

Canva

Mighty Networks

Zapier

ConvertKit

Loom

Screen-Cast-O-Matic

The Online Course Community (free Facebook group)

Piano in 21 Days

The Online Course Guy

Bonjoro Free Trial

Angela’s Website

Teachable

Logitech C920 webcam

Camtasia

Canva

Mighty Networks