How do you create, market and sell your first online course? If you are building a business online working with customers and clients on a one to one basis, you might be ready to create your own online course. Where do you start? In this episode, I talk through the seven steps to creating, marketing, selling and growing your own online course. To join my free three-part video series on how to create your own online course, the top mistakes to avoid in creating an online course, and the top tech tools to use, sign up today https://louisebrogan.com/freetrainingonlinecourse/ 

Mandy Hamerla worked as a global HR Director before leaving corporate to start her own consultancy, HR Refresh. Having only been in business for 18 months, Mandy has already written and published a book - How to Hire your First Employee. We talk about the issues facing the growing entrepreneur business, the difference between employees, workers andcontractors and how to avoid pitfalls of hiring someone.

Lucy Eckley is the founder of Build your Brand Story. From working in financial services and specialisting in Internal Communications, Lucy now works with professionals and entrepreneurs helpingthem to figure out what their brand story is,and how to communicate this to their audience. Lucy also jointly runs local meetup events in Oxford for independent consultants. Networking events are a passion of mine, and we talk about how that has evolved and how members benefit from it. www.buildyourbrandstory.com 

Carol Cox is the host of the Speaking Your Brand podcast. In this episode we dive into why speaking gigs are so good at growing your business, how to organise your presentation, why you need to dump the bullet points, and how to integrate examples and client stories into your signature talk. We also discuss Ted talks - how to find them, how to create your own, a bit of history about where TedX came from and how Carol can help you to not only pitch for a TedXtalk, but also how to craft your talk into an idea worth spreading.

Dina Pruitt is based in Little Rock Arkansas. We had a delightful on air coaching call to help Dina with using LinkedIn to raise her profile, get more of her ideal clients and grow her business. We also talked a little bit about tourism, which is Dina's speciality and one of my favourite pastimes! You can find out more about Dina at www.glowflymarketing.com 

Michelle Shulman runs a gorgeous cake business - La Belle Cake Company. They create high end wedding cakes, celebration cakes birthday cakes etc

In our on-air coaching call, we talka bout how Michelle can start to grow her email list, in order to use email marketing to grow her business.

Jessica Fearnley is a Business Coach who specialises in promoting work/life balance alongside business growth. She helps female entrepreneurs to win back more of their time, effortlessly make more money, and work with better clients - all while reducing their stress levels and increasing their quality of life.

Find out more at http://jessicafearnleybusinessconsulting.com 

This week I talk to Debbie Clarke, who is a podcaster, social media trainer and famous for always wearing yellow. Debbie Dooodah is one of the founders of the Blue Stocking Society in Nottingham. This is a regular meetup of women entrepreneurs who get together for brunch, networking and chat. Debbie and I met originally through a mastermind online, and got to know each other when we met up at an event in London. Find out how Debbie set up her networking group, and how it helps her in business. You can find Debbie at www.debbiedooodah.co.uk or on her own podcast Women Who Create.

This 50th episode would be a good opportunity to talk to about how my business has grown and developed since I started. If you are maybe thinking of starting a business or are in the early stages of business, my own usiness has shifted and changed shape a change format really quite a lot since when I first started. Also, in this episode, how to start creating content consistently in your business every day with my content creation challenge for October. 

Episode 49 - How to get started in podcasting. This week I am sharing a webinar that I recorded with KathyEnnis on how I got started in podcasting. From running through the tech set up, to how to grow the podcast, finding topics and guests and how to promote the finished podcast.