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10 – Do This Next – Summary
It may seem impossible to create an ecourse in seven days or less. But as you can see, it can be done. Follow the steps to create your ecourse. Begin by choosing a topic. For a quick course like this, stick to something you know well in order to limit the research time, or start with quality PLR. Create an outline for your topic. Decide on the type of content you want, as well as who will create it. Will you use Private Label Rights products or repurpose your own content? Will you use curated content or create fresh? What combination of the different types could you use to add…
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09 – Improving Your Course
Getting feedback is important to determine if any part of your ecourse needs improving. Feedback is essential for moving forward and can help you build valuable dialogue with your students. Negative feedback is better than no feedback. When you don’t have any feedback, you don’t know what needs changing or where the problems exist in your ecourse. There are many advantages of getting feedback and many ways to get student feedback. Benefits of Feedback • Testimonials for your ecourse you can use to display in your sales copy. • Showing you where your course needs improvement. • Shows where students had trouble with a lesson. • Shows where students received…
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08 – Easy Marketing Tactics
You can use many of the same marketing tactics for your ecourse as you do in much of your other business. Here are some easy marketing tactics you can implement. 1. Promote on your blog. Showcase it at the top of your website. You can use a plugin like Sumo or Hello Bar to display it in a top bar. Add it to your sidebar, in blog posts, and your About Page. 2. Do a video about the course and post on YouTube and social media. 3. Go live on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube daily to promote your course, providing added value. 4. Link to your course sales or info-page…
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07 – Creating Engagement
While you are creating your content, you want to factor in ways to create engagement with your learners. There are many ways to accomplish that. Here are a few to consider. • Create a sense of community by having a Facebook group just for your course students. This is where they can ask questions, encourage each other and get feedback from you. • Create interaction with assignments. Creating tasks for your students to do each week helps create a personal experience and keeps them engaged. • Check in with your students through email. Set up emails to send out at certain points throughout the course to check in with students.…
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06 – Strategies for Quick Creation
Now that you have some ideas where you can get your content written for you, it’s time to begin creating the ecourse. Use these strategies to write and/or record your ecourse quickly. 1. Recycle old content/repurpose. Dig out your top-performing content from your blog, videos, webinars or trainings. Incorporate these into your course in a logical manner. Add new material, upgrade outdated sections and add value where needed. Build on what has already worked before. 2. Make small changes to PLR you’ve purchased. Add your story, an introduction, images, and whatever else to make it relevant to your topic. 3. Create an outline of your course. This works especially well…
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05 – Collecting Course Content
Gathering your course content might seem like a daunting task, especially if you believe you have to create it from scratch. But there are easier and faster ways to collect the content for your ecourse. Of course, your number one goal for your ecourse should be good content that transforms or helps your customers in some way. If you will be doing videos, you can use bullet and sub-bullet points to prompt you as you’re creating your video. In fact, when creating your video, you want to be as natural as you can so reading a script, word for word isn’t the best idea. Here are some ideas to find…
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04 – Learning Methods
Now that you have a topic, you need to choose the type of learning model you want to use. There are many types, but for our purposes we want to use ones that are quick and easy to put together. These can be: • Videos • Audios • Written lessons • Combination of different ones Keep in mind people learn in different ways. It’s been shown that students are more likely to complete a course that appeals to their learning style. The different learning styles include: • Verbal: Words using speech or writing. • Visual: Images, pictures, videos • Auditory: Sound, music • Physical: Sense of touch using hands, body…
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03 – Choosing a Topic
Before you can begin creating your ecourse, you need to have an idea of the topic you are going to teach. Your ecourse will depend on what your audience wants, what you know about and feel at least a little passion for, and what is profitable. If you’re not sure what topic you want, use this guide to help you brainstorm. 1. Identify your own interests and passions. Do you spend your weekends golfing, talk about golfing to everyone and often share tips with other golfers? Your e-course topic could be as simple as how to golf like a pro on an amateur’s time. 2. Find a problem your audience…
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02 – Planning Your Course Timeline
Let’s get started on creating your ecourse in less than a week by planning it out. You probably already have a niche you work in or are knowledgeable about. And you already have an audience of some type, either an email list or a social media following. Follow these steps to plan your course to get it created quickly. Day One Step 1: Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour Quickly decide on a topic. What subjects get you excited enough to teach? What do I have experience in that others want to learn about? Choose a topic you are comfortable enough with to have plenty of information you can share.…
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01 – How to Create an E-course in Less than A Week
Learning online has become a billion-dollar industry, to the tune of more than $250 billion. Digital courses and trainings are more popular than ever. Taking your knowledge and turning it into something that others can benefit from can be both rewarding and profitable. Most believe it takes time and lots of work to create an ecourse. But did you know you can create one in less than a week without spending a fortune to have it created for you? This guide will take you through the steps needed to create your ecourse, quickly, while still containing relevant information your readers want and need. Before we begin, let’s look at what…