These days teachers, trainers, coaches, consultants, real estate agents, professors, medical doctors, indeed professionals of all hues are looking for ways for making side income online.
Imagine if you could make say $16,000 to supplement your $28,000 yearly income?
This is a question Caitlin Quinn asked @Marisa Murgatroyd’s private Facebook Group, “I’m a physical therapist and have a niche treatment I want to educate on. What platform do you think I should host my course on? (and why?)”.
Below is the answer I posted, and I’m re-posting it here so anybody who is interested can learn from its implications.
Caitlin Quinn the “why” leg of your request can best be answered by you.
It all depends on what you wish your course platform to be able to do.
Some others would say it depends on your objectives.
Cost and ease of use are the two major considerations when choosing a course platform.
In all, you can try Podia, Kajabi, Ontraport, Vonza, Teachable, Thinkific, and Ruzuku.
Vonza is a new guy on the block and have really cool features. I’m proud to announce the brains behind Vonza are Nigerians.
Out of the seven, I’ve only used Teachable – with mixed result.
From my own experience, launching a course without knowing how to attract audience to your offer as Marisa Murgatroyd has shown us is a total waste of time to be sincere.
I’d suggest you first learn how the entire online business ecosystem (which online course creation is one), including how to attract subscribers (mailing list), works.
You could go for EPM (Experience Product Masterclass) but at $1,997, it’s a high ticket course.
It assumes you understand the basics or the fundamentals: “YOU” in the equation, how to build relationships, build a mailing list, understand basic demand matrix, craft a game plan, develop your products’ value ladder, and so on.
While most of the high ticket courses in the market are excellent, without the basics, you’ll flounder.
I’ve experienced it many times over.
To help my co-learners, I recently launched a course that addresses the short comings of the high ticket courses.
It’s called iBMC (Internet Business Mastery Course).
iBMC is a 12-Week Combo.
By combo, I mean it’s two courses in one.
It comprises Internet Business Foundation Course (which runs for 4 Weeks), and Internet Business Mastery Course proper, which runs for 8 Weeks.
The 25 pioneer students that attended iBMC have lauded it as “A game changer”, “A masterclass”, and so on.
iBMC positions you to win, and prepares you for courses like EPM where you’re taught how to scale and join the BIG League.
As one of my teachers, Ramit Sethi, likes to say, “Don’t try to be 40, when you’re not yet 40.”
Based on the experience from the first outing, I’ve tweaked iBMC-2.
While iBMC-2 still follows the 7-Step Internet Business Success Formula, the Assignments and the order of assignments will be different.
The essence is to ensure every student that enrolls in iBMC-2 completes the Course unlike the experience with iBMC-1.
The fee is N75K ($225) if you pay at a go or N35K ($105) if you pay in three installments.
This is the link to the video of the webinar where I unveiled iBMC: https://vimeo.com/447657140.
If you want to give it a shot, this is the registration link: https://pauluduk.com/page/ibmc-registration/
Hope this helps.