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Teach and Grow Rich: Share Your Knowledge to Create Global Impact, Freedom and Wealth
What is the Teach and Grow Rich opportunity, and how does it affect you?
In Teach and Grow Rich, entrepreneur and bestselling author Danny Iny reveals the ocean of opportunity for anyone who has useful knowledge and is willing to share it with others. If you've tried to create and sell an online product before and failed, this book will show you a process that will help you succeed at last: co-creation. This updated edition describes co-creation in greater detail.
It also tells the stories of many who have learned and executed the process. They're proof that the opportunity to teach and grow rich doesn't favor only those who have specialized expertise, business experience, or vast resources. Almost anyone can seize this opportunity and attain wealth, impact, and lifestyle freedom.
To begin, you'll learn how to:
Address the common obstacle that keeps others from teaching online: confidence Determine your potential for becoming an online course creator Use co-creation to create an online course people will pay for and that will produce the outcomes they desire
Following this blueprint, you'll also learn how to:
Find a hyper-narrow and specific topic for your first (pilot) online course and validate it Write a single-page curriculum with the flexibility for co-creating your course with your pilot students Sell your pilot course even before you've built it and even if you don't have an audience Address different learning modalities and deliver an online course Gather meaningful feedback from your students and use them to keep making your courses better Lather, rinse, and repeat the process until you have an Education Empire
In Teach and Grow Rich, entrepreneur and bestselling author Danny Iny reveals the ocean of opportunity for anyone who has useful knowledge and is willing to share it with others. If you've tried to create and sell an online product before and failed, this book will show you a process that will help you succeed at last: co-creation. This updated edition describes co-creation in greater detail.
It also tells the stories of many who have learned and executed the process. They're proof that the opportunity to teach and grow rich doesn't favor only those who have specialized expertise, business experience, or vast resources. Almost anyone can seize this opportunity and attain wealth, impact, and lifestyle freedom.
To begin, you'll learn how to:
Address the common obstacle that keeps others from teaching online: confidence Determine your potential for becoming an online course creator Use co-creation to create an online course people will pay for and that will produce the outcomes they desire
Following this blueprint, you'll also learn how to:
Find a hyper-narrow and specific topic for your first (pilot) online course and validate it Write a single-page curriculum with the flexibility for co-creating your course with your pilot students Sell your pilot course even before you've built it and even if you don't have an audience Address different learning modalities and deliver an online course Gather meaningful feedback from your students and use them to keep making your courses better Lather, rinse, and repeat the process until you have an Education Empire
222 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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About the author
Danny Iny
21 books52 followersDanny Iny (@DannyIny) is the founder of Mirasee, host of the Business Reimagined podcast, best-selling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch!, The Audience Revolution, and Teach and Grow Rich, and creator of the acclaimed Audience Business Masterclass and Course Builder’s Laboratory training programs, which have together graduated over 5,000 value-driven online entrepreneurs.
All of this grew out of humble beginnings; he started out just like most online entrepreneurs, with an idea and message to share, and no idea how to do it. He made several wrong turns – which he calls “plot twists” in the Audience Revolution – before really understanding the Audience First paradigm, and how to apply it to online business.
And when he did, it was like lighting a match to a fuse. Back in 2011, he started Firepole Marketing with less than nothing; he had no traffic, no subscribers, no relationships with any influencers in the industry, and over a quarter million dollars in personal debt, left over from his last failed startup.
In just a few short years, he’s transformed Firepole Marketing into Mirasee, grown the business to multiple-seven figures in revenue and a team of 30+ people spread all over the world (including his talented wife) on a mission to support very special global community of 50,000+ loyal and inspired entrepreneurs.
Danny has maintained a passionate commitment to learning and transparency, freely sharing lessons learned from great successes, major challenges, and even his personal life to support the online entrepreneurial community as a teacher, speaker, angel investor, and advisor to many of the top leaders in our industry, who have Danny on speed-dial when they need help with their business or strategy.
All of this grew out of humble beginnings; he started out just like most online entrepreneurs, with an idea and message to share, and no idea how to do it. He made several wrong turns – which he calls “plot twists” in the Audience Revolution – before really understanding the Audience First paradigm, and how to apply it to online business.
And when he did, it was like lighting a match to a fuse. Back in 2011, he started Firepole Marketing with less than nothing; he had no traffic, no subscribers, no relationships with any influencers in the industry, and over a quarter million dollars in personal debt, left over from his last failed startup.
In just a few short years, he’s transformed Firepole Marketing into Mirasee, grown the business to multiple-seven figures in revenue and a team of 30+ people spread all over the world (including his talented wife) on a mission to support very special global community of 50,000+ loyal and inspired entrepreneurs.
Danny has maintained a passionate commitment to learning and transparency, freely sharing lessons learned from great successes, major challenges, and even his personal life to support the online entrepreneurial community as a teacher, speaker, angel investor, and advisor to many of the top leaders in our industry, who have Danny on speed-dial when they need help with their business or strategy.
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August 21, 2020
This book is a sales pitch for the author's business "Course Builder's Laboratory." If you're interested in creating online courses, the book is useful in that it provides some background about delivering an "education" versus delivering information. The value of an education is the attention from the instructor and hands-on training. A student can read all the medical textbooks available but still not know how to be a doctor. The student received information, not an education. Hence, we are paying thousands of dollars to sit in classrooms to be educated. Online courses offer an opportunity to scale up to provide an education to a lot more people and at a more reasonable price. However, the quality and standard aren't there yet.
January 27, 2017
Strong in Promise and examples, weak in the "how to."
I came away inspired and ready to take action. I'm fuzzier on how I'm going to make a transformational experience for the learners. I would like to have seen Danny discuss the pedagogical approach of praxis: Teacher opens process around an idea: the thesis, but not articulated as such; students question, clarify, challenge, etc. This is the antithesis. Now the two sides hammer out it to come to an unexpected but delightful conclusion, which is the synthesis. This synthesis now becomes the new thesis, and the praxis begins again. Insights are forged, content is internalized, verbal skills of civil debate, formulation of well-established arguments that become both knowledge and skill-sets. Teach and grow rich has proven its bona fides wherein becoming rich is equal parts financial freedom, a meaningful life, and the psycho-emotive self- fulfillment that so easily eludes it. Read this book if only you are curious
I came away inspired and ready to take action. I'm fuzzier on how I'm going to make a transformational experience for the learners. I would like to have seen Danny discuss the pedagogical approach of praxis: Teacher opens process around an idea: the thesis, but not articulated as such; students question, clarify, challenge, etc. This is the antithesis. Now the two sides hammer out it to come to an unexpected but delightful conclusion, which is the synthesis. This synthesis now becomes the new thesis, and the praxis begins again. Insights are forged, content is internalized, verbal skills of civil debate, formulation of well-established arguments that become both knowledge and skill-sets. Teach and grow rich has proven its bona fides wherein becoming rich is equal parts financial freedom, a meaningful life, and the psycho-emotive self- fulfillment that so easily eludes it. Read this book if only you are curious
July 2, 2017
Honestly, I thought this would be a get rich quick book and wasn't really interested. I got it for free, but I don't remember how I got it. I read the first two pages and then ignored it for a couple of months.
While going back over some podcasts, I heard the author being interviewed by Michael Port on the podcast, "Steal the Show." The name sounded familiar and I realized he was the author of this book. The interview explained that Ivy was a not a get rich quick guy, but a teach people what you know guy. This motivated me to read the book.
I picked it back up two weeks ago, and finished just before midnight. I am already starting to implement his strategies and we will see what happens next!
While going back over some podcasts, I heard the author being interviewed by Michael Port on the podcast, "Steal the Show." The name sounded familiar and I realized he was the author of this book. The interview explained that Ivy was a not a get rich quick guy, but a teach people what you know guy. This motivated me to read the book.
I picked it back up two weeks ago, and finished just before midnight. I am already starting to implement his strategies and we will see what happens next!
September 23, 2016
Content has stood the test of time.
July 2, 2017
A high school dropout talking about how useless a college degree is, because he knows a bunch of people that were successful without them. Or, he feels like the success of people who have them had nothing to do with the education they received. He made so many incorrect leaps in judgement and logic that I had to stop reading about a third of the way through. Errors that could have been corrected by decent a college education, by the way.
August 2, 2017
Solid practical and actionable advice
There are longer books on this topic I'm sure. But this one is powerful and easily digestible in one sitting. Make lots of notes (or Kindle highlights) and then go back and implement exactly what the author advises.
If you are thinking of creating an online course, but have not yet done so, then this book is your "Yellow Brick Road." Follow it and you will succeed.
There are longer books on this topic I'm sure. But this one is powerful and easily digestible in one sitting. Make lots of notes (or Kindle highlights) and then go back and implement exactly what the author advises.
If you are thinking of creating an online course, but have not yet done so, then this book is your "Yellow Brick Road." Follow it and you will succeed.
March 28, 2018
I discovered this short book by Danny Iny after attending his webinars offering to teach people how to create online courses. While the book is a cheap investment compared to taking his course, it lacks the depth of his course. The book provides an overview of his approach to making money selling online courses. If you are interested in creating online courses, I would recommend buying the book and then exploring the possibility of taking his course.
August 10, 2018
It was a waste of my time
The book can be summed in one sentence: Applying lean startup principles to online courses and a lot of hogwash to make you think there is a silver bullet.
The book assumes you have a wide network of people who you can readily reach and sell your first “pilot” course too.
It’s an okay read, an additional star for the authors diligence to find many examples of successes.
The book can be summed in one sentence: Applying lean startup principles to online courses and a lot of hogwash to make you think there is a silver bullet.
The book assumes you have a wide network of people who you can readily reach and sell your first “pilot” course too.
It’s an okay read, an additional star for the authors diligence to find many examples of successes.
March 2, 2025
Great introduction
Teach and Grow Rich is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of online education. It provides some
good guidance for testing readers' readiness for developing a preliminary online course, along with a brief discussion about b the importance of marketing. From the book's title, I was hoping for more direction regarding pricing, effective platforms, and marketing than what is provided.
Teach and Grow Rich is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of online education. It provides some
good guidance for testing readers' readiness for developing a preliminary online course, along with a brief discussion about b the importance of marketing. From the book's title, I was hoping for more direction regarding pricing, effective platforms, and marketing than what is provided.
July 30, 2017
Inspiring guide to creating online courses. I appreciated the online webinar afterward to review the information (although be advised, there is an invitation to Danny's Coursebuilders Lab at the end). Danny is such a relaxed presenter that the information was really easy to understand and follow. He allowed time to work through some of the concepts so that made it personal for my own situation.
May 25, 2017
It is interesting, kinda redundant but an interesting read. Not all online courses are equal in being presented live with real time access to the teacher. I do like the idea of co-creation and a pilot program.
May 30, 2017
Build from our experiences
We need to create from what we already know. Research it but move forward. Then our first customers feedback will let us know what we need to do to make it even better.
We need to create from what we already know. Research it but move forward. Then our first customers feedback will let us know what we need to do to make it even better.
June 4, 2017
Like many seminars we attend, walking away with one nugget of valuable information makes the time, well spent. Danny's description of the difference between knowledge and education helped to clarify my Value Statement.
June 9, 2018
Not much actionable material for a book that advertises itself as the way to teach and grow rich. Several good stories but seems to be an attempt to write a book to attract attention to the authors other websites and opportunities to generate customers, think of it as a funnel tool.
April 3, 2020
Great read.
Very good salient nuggets different from the usual hypes of online educational entrepreneurship.
Recommend for serious people who want to learn solid foundation to build upon.
Very good salient nuggets different from the usual hypes of online educational entrepreneurship.
Recommend for serious people who want to learn solid foundation to build upon.
September 21, 2017
Great insight into creating a course and how to get noticed. I recommend this book to anyone thinking of doing some courses online.
April 18, 2018
I would have rated this higher if it wasn't more or less a review of stuff I've found from other sources - still, it was good reinforcement, and I will be returning to certain pieces in the future.
May 21, 2018
This book has some helpful information; but not anything new that you can't find anywhere else. It's just basic stuff that you have heard before. But it's helpful to be reminded of it again.
July 19, 2018
Be the Change
Catchy title, with useable and doable information. "We" need to promote advocacy and challenge Generation Z to become "Do-ers" !
Catchy title, with useable and doable information. "We" need to promote advocacy and challenge Generation Z to become "Do-ers" !
July 23, 2018
Quick read and leads
Quick read, lots of links to more information, anecdotes and encouragements. Centered probably in US sphere. Time invested - benefit positive
Quick read, lots of links to more information, anecdotes and encouragements. Centered probably in US sphere. Time invested - benefit positive
August 27, 2018
Good book
Eliminates the procrastination process! Helped me to understand exactly what to do to not only create a course, but pitch it to prospects.
Eliminates the procrastination process! Helped me to understand exactly what to do to not only create a course, but pitch it to prospects.
September 21, 2018
Don't waste your time on this book. It might make a good 1600 word blog article, but not a 206 page book.
October 2, 2018
An interesting idea. It seems valid and I appreciate that the authors have a good grasp of good teaching practices.
October 22, 2018
Good advice about how to start an online business teaching. Be warned Iny expects you to really connect with students. :-)
October 16, 2020
Great read!
Entertaining and insightful introduction to the world of online course building, and practical steps to take so set yourself up for success and avoid waist time on a course that no one will buy!
Entertaining and insightful introduction to the world of online course building, and practical steps to take so set yourself up for success and avoid waist time on a course that no one will buy!
March 24, 2020
This book is just a marketing material of its author — for his marketing course to be specific. I learned nothing from this book. Not recommended.
October 11, 2015
Great overview of the coming "thing" by a world-class online entrepreneur
Danny Iny talks the talk and walks the walk. This book opens the doors to the next big opportunity for the little guy, online education outside the traditional passive student model. Most of the education we encounter is based on an "empty" student being filled with knowledge from books or very rigid and one way teacher to classroom infodumps. The new paradigm of smaller is better, coupled with the reach of the internet, allows more interaction and the teaching of less mainstream topics that would not be viable otherwise.
I think Danny is on to something yet again. Almost everyone has an expertise or interest they know more about than those starting to learn about it. The internet will allow you to find them, charge them, and teach them in a better fashion than the old paradigm would have allowed.
Danny Iny talks the talk and walks the walk. This book opens the doors to the next big opportunity for the little guy, online education outside the traditional passive student model. Most of the education we encounter is based on an "empty" student being filled with knowledge from books or very rigid and one way teacher to classroom infodumps. The new paradigm of smaller is better, coupled with the reach of the internet, allows more interaction and the teaching of less mainstream topics that would not be viable otherwise.
I think Danny is on to something yet again. Almost everyone has an expertise or interest they know more about than those starting to learn about it. The internet will allow you to find them, charge them, and teach them in a better fashion than the old paradigm would have allowed.
June 21, 2016
Teach and Grow Rich...from value to impact!
In Teach and Grow Rich: The Emerging Opportunity for Global Impact, Freedom, and Wealth, Danny Iny gives a glimmer of hope for the future of course creation.
Teach and Grow Rich adeptly lays out an argument for sustainability: the central thrust being a movement from just presenting value to making an impact.
While it may not be an extensive volume, Teach and Grow Rich packs enough punch to be impactful. Key points from the book include 1) recognizing that what you're really creating (your book, product, course or service) is an "opportunity"; and 2) bringing your audience into your creation process.
I highly recommend Teach and Grow Rich to anyone serious about impacting the world, whether in a niche or on a global scale. The Global Course Empire Roadmap Infographic and additional FREE resources you'll have access to are worth the investment of reading the book.
In Teach and Grow Rich: The Emerging Opportunity for Global Impact, Freedom, and Wealth, Danny Iny gives a glimmer of hope for the future of course creation.
Teach and Grow Rich adeptly lays out an argument for sustainability: the central thrust being a movement from just presenting value to making an impact.
While it may not be an extensive volume, Teach and Grow Rich packs enough punch to be impactful. Key points from the book include 1) recognizing that what you're really creating (your book, product, course or service) is an "opportunity"; and 2) bringing your audience into your creation process.
I highly recommend Teach and Grow Rich to anyone serious about impacting the world, whether in a niche or on a global scale. The Global Course Empire Roadmap Infographic and additional FREE resources you'll have access to are worth the investment of reading the book.
October 28, 2015
The concept of this book is really fascinating to me and I think a very viable method for an online business model. Iny asked some great questions and identified some important trends. I think that many of his ideas are valuable and worthy of in depth discussion. However, to me this book only scratched the surface of what could be said on this topic. It was basically just a sales pitch for Iny's online e-Course called The Course Builder's Laboratory that goes for around $2K. Very little in depth discussion is presented. Have to say this is a fairly weak effort and this topic deserves a more honest in depth discussion. Still glad that I read it.
October 3, 2015
This book is just an overview of the current state of the online education industry. Iny explains how the industry over-charges for just information online as opposed to real, actionable, lasting education, and why. Again, it's just information, no step-by-step instructions in here and hence the 3 stars. (I got the book for free free on Kindle because it was free for the first few days it was released.) However, if you are seriously considering creating an online course to reach and help people with your wisdom & knowledge, then YES spend the $2.99 and BUY the book; It's worth it.
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