How To Come Up With Online Course Ideas
Fancy getting into the online education industry but struggling to come up with online course ideas? The best online course ideas come from what you already know!
Hi Trish Davies, here, founder of Build Your AU and online course creator. You probably have noticed the increased demand for online learning. Millions of people all around the world are clambering to learn new skills.
Now that may have arisen from the direct impact of Covid-19 and the loss of millions of jobs. It may also have come about because life evolves in general so you must learn new skills to adapt to change.
Whatever the reason is the eLearning industry is a multi-billion industry which anybody can tap into. What you must understand is that when you browse online training portals the instructors are people just like you and me.
There is nothing different from them and us apart from they have taken action to share what they know. They are sharing experiences which has led them to success in practically any area of life and business.
What they have done is drawn on their expertise and packaged it up into an online training program. A program that they can monetize to create an additional income stream or replace their full-time income.
Now the fact that you have landed on this web page tells me you are interested in creating your own online course. You want to discover how to come up with online course ideas and I am going to share with you a very simple but comprehensive method.
How To Come Up With Online Course Ideas
I have a program called Build Your AU which is designed to guide you step by step in creating an online training program. What I do is tap into three core areas that then generates the ideas and concepts for online training courses and program.
Authenticity
The first area focuses on who you areas a person. I focus on every detail of your story so far which is a “this is your life experience”. It is also a self discovery process so that you have clarity on just what makes you tick as a person.
Together we will define your core personal values and the value that you can offer to other people. What you excel at, your achievements in life and the success you have experienced.
Through this process you will find the online course ideas that you are looking for. Things will unravel before your very eyes, opportunities will present themselves, doors will start to open. The point of this first process is to show your authenticity, what’s real about you and what your unique perspective is.
Authority
The next step in the process is to establish your authority. Here you will start to create content around what you have established in the previous step. That content will then become the foundation to your online training course or program.
What you must understand is that you must appear credible, have presence online so people take you seriously. Part of this process is creating what I call an authority business model. Here you will define specific areas which make up your course structure. In many ways this will define your course chapters and modules.
Also, during this part of the process, I will show you how to deliver your content online. Along with developing an authority website which will direct people to where your online course is delivered from.
Audience
The online course ideas you generate from the first step of the process will help you identify your ideal audience. This is critical because you must have clarity on who you want to serve. You and your ideal customer must be a perfect fit for each other to benefit from.
As you can see there is a lot of things that must be aligned for any online course idea to have impact. What I have shared with you is the way that I help people come up with online course ideas. Sometimes this happens by sheer accident which happened just the other day during one of my weekly mastermind.
How Online Course Ideas Just Happen
In my latest weekly mastermind one of my members delivered a presentation on marketing strategy he is implementing. What he has done is develop a podcast where he interviews entrepreneurs within the entrepreneurial niche.
Now he only started this around 3 months ago from the time I am writing this post. He now has presence in lots of countries around the world with hundreds of downloads of his podcast.
The only experience of podcasts he had was that he subscribed to some himself. He didn’t know the process of starting his own, but he took action, researched and built up contacts in the industry.
Now as I said he gave a presentation to the mastermind group, showed what he was doing and had done. This was to give the other members some food for thought on how potentially they could use podcasts in their business.
What emerged from that presentation gave him an idea for an online course. I and other members made him aware that he could create an online course on how to start podcasting. He had not thought about that possibility until as a group planted that seed.
He has the authenticity because he can tell people his story. What he also has is the authority because he has his podcast on multiple channels gaining five-star reviews. Also, he knows how to generate an audience for his podcast.
Hopefully you can see just how quickly you can come up with online course ideas just through what you know. When you think about it there is a very simple formula to follow to come up with online course ideas which is as follows.
- Learn
- Do
- Teach
You have learned things all your life and then taken action on what you learn. The only thing you need to do now is teach that to other people. My mastermind member is a perfect example of learning something new, taking the necessary action, now he has the opportunity to teach that to other people. All of this in just a few months.
Your Opportunity To Join Build Your AU
I have a created a 9-week program which will help you in your search for online course ideas. The program goes through everything I am shared with you today and will certainly shorten your learning curve within online course creation. Click the image below to reserve your place on the course.
The program will not only help you generate online course ideas very quickly it will also show how to set things up. Your time is now, don’t waste this opportunity to share your expertise and make an impact on peoples lives.
Helping you build your authenticity, authority, and audience.
Trish Davies
Build Your AU
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