When I began teaching online in 2012, I had no online experience, no email list, and zero traditional teaching experience. I started out in a position like many of you. Today, I have over 60,000 students taking my own high-quality courses. I'm making more money than I've ever made before, and I believe you can do it too! In this in-depth book, I teach you everything I did to build my own online teaching career – from the very beginning to now. In this complete guide to teaching online courses, I break down how I got started teaching online, how I built my own brand, and how I make recurring passive income from teaching online. The book is broken down into 4 THINK, CREATE, SHARE, BUILD. Here’s what is taught in each THINK Do you really want to be an online teacher? What can you teach? How to get in the right mindset of an online teacher Steps to your first course Types of online courses Coming up with class topics that will sell Brainstorming your first course and more! CREATE Developing powerful teaching presentation Understanding the power of video and audio Learning about design skills Proper video lighting Proper audio recording Finding a good background Creating your first course and more! SHARE Where to sell your online course How to get your first, second, and xxxx student Getting your first paying students Specific actions to take for getting paying students Using social media and blogs effectively to get new students How to write a killer reddit post How to market your course for the long run and more! BUILD Building an online brand – beyond your course Building an email list Building a user-friendly website Building awesome content that people love Using YouTube to grow your audience Using a blog to get new followers Creating a self-hosted website Preparing yourself for the future and more! My goal is to help you be successful. I believe this course can do just that. I was inspired by people like Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income and Tim Ferriss of the Four Hour Work Week. I hope that this book can inspire you to becoming the best person you can be!
The author is a well known successful online educator. You will get the best practices in an easy to read ebook, direct from the horses mouth. Highly recommend the book as well as his other online resources.
I bought this book to learn how to make online courses. I learned that I should set the PowerPoint slide size to 16:9 and use a sans-serif family font. There is no comparison of what microphones or cameras to buy, just two or three pages about the fact that you should get one. A lot of advice is very vague and does not go into detail, it is like reading a magazine.
It is also poorly formatted (missing photos or photos that go over text) and obviously has never been proofread.
Not to mention he is promoting his online in every chapter. One of his strategies that he reveals is to have a presence everywhere and that's what this book is - a quick presence on Kindle to promote his online courses.
Awesome book. If you ever wanted to teach online this book gives you the basics to get started. I started reading this book a week ago and before I even finished the book I had a class up on Skillshare and working on one for Udemy. I am telling you the way this book lays it out for you makes it simple enough for the novice.
Looking for another point of view before making the commitment to teach writing online. Phil's straightforward approach and valuable links place the responsibility for success where it belongs: on my shoulders. Thank you!