Online Courses: Superstar Instructors, $140k Before Launching, Distribution

and, hence, hiring. This is what a typical salesperson would do to build a list of prospects, but now Bob provides those tools to job seekers. So, how can you create innovative digital products and courses to educate your audience? Perhaps instead of just teaching skills, train and certify others to replicate your framework or methodology. Create a

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Online education 2.0 is about group courses, community, vocational training, and edutainment. A lot of smart people are experimenting with new approaches. Teachable is taking the Shopify approach of “arming the rebels” by enabling anyone to easily set up an online course. David Perell, Tiago Forte and Nat Eliason are building online-first schools f... See more

These creators are a far cry from Hollywood types. But with internet platforms, they can broadcast their knowledge and expertise. They’re also able to better monetize what they know and what they love: before YouTube, MKBHD might have worked as a techie at the Apple Store; now, he employs a dozen people and does tech reviews for 14 million subscrib... See more

Online course creators are frequently caught between goals that, too often, come into conflict: to teach and to sell. What happens when one gets in the way of the other? How do creators navigate the tricky waters of being both teacher and business owner? And do course creators actually know how to teach? 

Online courses have become a crucial part of the creator, influencer, and thought leader economic ecosystem, especially as we know that creators are experiencing extremely high levels of burnout in their work. It’s hard to make a living from creator funds and tip jars. Online courses make it easy to monetize experience at scale. Again, a total win.