Another advantage of selling online courses is that whenever you have new updates to the materials you teach, it is very easy for you to add or replace existing lessons and then inform your learners online.<\/p>\n
In the past, I have learners who have attended my previous physical workshops requesting to re-attend the newer ones to refresh what they have learned. Imagine if every learner comes back to you just to re-learn or refresh what they learned in the past! Thus, online courses are very much efficient in this aspect!<\/p>\n
This is quite obvious because once you start selling courses online, people from any part of the world can buy your courses.<\/p>\n
Today, most of my online courses are attended by people outside of my country, Singapore. Only 2.4% (about 2,000+ learners) come from Singapore.<\/p>\n
Only 2.4% of my learners come from Singapore.<\/p><\/div>\n
You will be able to reach out to more people when you start to sell your courses online!<\/p>\n
So are you ready?<\/h2>\n
The following are the three steps you can take to begin this exciting journey!<\/p>\n
1. Where to sell your online courses<\/h2>\n
Nowadays, there are many online platforms that you can use to sell your online courses. But not many are truly profitable at the end of the day.<\/p>\n
There are three areas you need to consider when choosing a platform to sell your online courses.<\/p>\n
Number 1 consideration: Will the platform market the online courses for you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMany learning platforms like teachable, thinkific and learnworlds do not market your online courses.<\/p>\n
Their role is just to help you host your online courses and you need to market the online courses yourself 100%. Unless you are currently an experienced Trainer or Instructor and you already have knowledge in marketing your courses online, else it is a very difficult (& time-consuming) thing to market your own courses!<\/p>\n
Thus, it is better to choose a platform that will help you market your courses like Udemy.<\/p>\n
From what I know, there are currently two platforms I know of that help you host and market your courses, they are Udemy.com and Skillshare.com.<\/p>\n
Number 2 consideration: How many learners the platform has?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe second area you need to consider is the number of learners that are currently enrolled in the platform.<\/p>\n
Udemy (as of the time of writing this blog post) has 40 Million learners.<\/p>\n
Skillshare has a much smaller number of learners but has a good potential for niche audience in the art and craft domain.<\/p>\n
Number 3 consideration: How easy it is to sign up as an Instructor with the platform?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe final area to consider is how easy it is to sign up as an Instructor to start selling your online courses at these platforms.<\/p>\n
Platforms such as Coursera and Udacity only work with professors\/teachers informal institutions. So it is not easy to sell your online courses on these platforms.<\/p>\n
The easiest platform to get started is Udemy, they do not require you to be officially certified in the topic you teach. And they allow anyone to start selling your courses after some simple identity verification.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, I strongly recommend you to start selling your online courses at Udemy, especially since this is your first time doing so online.<\/p>\n
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2. What to sell?<\/h2>\n
After you decided which platform to sell your online courses, now you need to decide what topic to teach.<\/p>\n
You can watch the video below for some ideas:<\/p>\n