Create your first online course and sell it in minutes

Here is how you can create your first online course and sell it in minutes.

Sounds too great to be true?

It really is possible, and you can achieve this without being a professional computer user, an artist, or a marketing guru.

I will show (tell) you right away.

What do you need before creating your online course?

To sell your online course, you need a landing page.

Pay attention, I said a landing page, not a website.

The landing page is very different from a website.

The first one is dedicated to complete info about your online course, and it is a one-page design.

The website has many different websites and they contain much more information, usually about page, contact page, products/services page, homepage, portfolio page, and many others.

When people will click on your ad (later on this subject), they will find a landing page with all the info they need.

To get a landing page, you will need the following things:

Domain name

Usually, it is best to have a short domain name, and because everybody is looking for that, it is hard to find the best domains with a .com extension.

The great thing is that for your online course you can use a long domain name like – learnstopmotionanimationtoday.com

As you see, the domain name I suggested as an example is available.

This is the great thing when using long domain names, you will find plenty of them available.

Hosting

Any basic hosting plan will do the trick for the moment.

After your landing page will plenty of traffic, you might consider upgrading the hosting plan.

Landing page builder

Don’t go with a website builder or WordPress or other CMS if you don’t know how to use them.

They are not so simple to use in reality.

Rather than using these options, I suggest you try a software like Click Funnels, GetResponse, and others.

They cost more than WordPress which is free in many cases, but they do a lot more for you.

FYI – the landing page will be created after you build your online course. But you need to have the foundation, that is why you have to decide which software you will need to create your landing page.

Payment processor

Stripe is a very nice payment processor but you can also use just PayPal.

Email

Create an email account with your domain name.

How to create your first online course

The very first thing you need to do to create your online course, is to decide what you want your online course to be about.

Do you want people to learn stop-motion animation from your course?

Or maybe you want your course to be about mathematics for kids?

Think about what you want your course to be about.

Now that you have your idea, think if it will work.

The fastest test is to search for similar courses with yours and see how many sales they’ve made. The biggest websites that sell online courses will show you this information.

In plus, these websites will show you how to structure your online courses.

You can even use these websites to get more knowledge on the subject so you can create a better online course.

As you have the idea and you know that it will work, and you also decided how you will structure your online courses. now it is the right time to actually create the course content.

If you will choose video as the communication form of your course, you should first write down the plan and all the content you want to discuss about.

Only after you are ready to start filming.

Sell your first online course in minutes

From people with lots of experience in the online course industry, I know that the easiest way to sell your online course is to make ads on social media channels and search engines.

The secret is to experiment and make lots of tests.

You don’t want to put all your money on just 1 or 2 ads.

The best is to have several ads and see which ones work best.

After you know that, invest more money on those ads.

Conclusions

Here are some important things that you should consider:

– If you make a brilliant online course (and this can be done), you can be super successful.

– No good camera and lights? Borrow from a friend or rent them. The quality of your videos is super important.

– Make 2 courses, a basic one which is nice but the best things are not added, and the complete one. Offer the basic course for free.

– After you make some sales, get video reviews of that persons. Add the video reviews on your landing page as social proof.

– A small price is not always great and might scare some people.

– Use Mailchimp or any other email marketing software to stay in touch with all your customers.

– Try to create an online community for your online course.

– What if your online course will be a giant hit in the industry? Always have in mind how can you further develop your business.