A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses
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Published 2024-05-21
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āļøTimestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - My history of selling courses
9:11- Examples of other course creators
19:45 - The courses business model
24:09 - Building your course step by step
28:24 - Choosing a platform for your course
30:57 - Setting up your course for purchase
34:28 - Creating your landing page and website
38:02 - Creating your offer
43:48 - The biggest problem: traffic and leads
52:42 - Frequently asked questions
53:09 - What if you feel you have nothing to teach?
55:45 - What order should I do the things to build this kind of business?
58:42 - How do you choose a price for your course?
59:49 - Whatās a funnel?
1:01:05 - What if I don't feel like an expert in my field?
1:02:30 - What are the most common mistakes to avoid?
1:02:56 - What do you do about people pirating your content?
1:03:23 - How much should I give away for free?
1:04:07 - How do you handle refunds and dissatisfied students?
1:05:13 - What are some resources you recom
All Comments (21)
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What was the most useful/interesting part of this video for you?
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The efficiency of this Abel Dorsey is next level. To juggle walk throughs of various angles on the topic delivered to-camera, differnet content per topic from various folks underneath the umbrella of the track list of the larger big band concert itself is engaging and refined. To make a dense taccess like this so digestible is really something. Awesome work jack!!
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This is really frustrating to me. For the past two years, Iāve been trying to build my career as a content creator. A friend of mine has a successful YouTube channel with millions of subscribers, and sheās one of the most genuine people I know. She always offers valuable advice and supports me whenever I feel down. We started our channels around the same time, but her content took off while Iām still struggling to get leads and grow my audience. Iāve tried collaborating with other creators, participating in online communities, and even running ads, but nothing seems to make a difference. Sometimes it's just not for you and I just had to accept that and move on.
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this is scary, i was just digging through Ali's youtube to find something about creating online courses and even purchased a book about this topic and BRO HITS ME WITH THIS VIDEO!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, I APPRECIATE THIS VIDEO AND YOU A LOT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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Web designer here! I just wanted to say that landing pages are not just simple pages on your website or one-page sites (this is a common mistake). Landing pages are where you "land" after clicking on ads, such as from a web marketing campaign. Apart from that, I want to truly thank you for your content. I'll follow your instructions and create a new channel to share free content with my audience. I'll start with free webinars and ebooks, and then move on to selling courses. You are a true inspiration, Ali. I love how you've transformed your life and aim to transform others' lives too. Thanks š„°
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Ali this is incredible!! Iām a data YouTuber, I started my YouTube channel two years ago following lot of your advices. Iām now in the middle of this exact process, trying to build a new platform for my online courses, one of the things I was thinking last week was āhow did Ali create and host his YouTube Academy courseā? This is pure gold!! Thank you very much for your help as always!! š
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Downloading this incase it ever gets removed, awesome stuff Ali
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No fluff, an hour video with different modules and real examples. Gotta say Ali, this was an incredible video. I appreciate the minimal editing and conversation aesthetic a ton in my journey to try and learn these concepts.
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Just listened to the intro and I have to say thank you Ali. I've been trying to find a resource for learning how to actually make money selling a course that I have an outline for and a bunch of little courses and a community and the whole kit and kaboodle. I have a lot of trouble trusting that any online resource that I find on my own will be trustworthy but I have been watching you for a while and now you have provided that which I was looking for, somebody that I already trust providing me with those resources that I need. Your videos are always so timely for me. ā¤
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JUST WOW š„ I spent an hour watching this and didnāt even see the time pass. Incredible work, Ali šš¾šš¾šš¾
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This is a great step-by-step breakdown of selling information online. Iāve made a lot of money teaching people to grow an audience and monetize it on Facebook and I do exactly what Ali teaches on this video. I provide free content and value to my audience first. The most important thing is you have to ensure you have some experience, knowledge or expertise in one topic. I see a lot of beginners selling BS courses without going through the years of grind to master the skill their selling. In a nutshell, master one skill, get the results and then youāre qualified to teach other people.
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So much value, thank you so much Ali!
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This isn't just a YouTube video,this is a full course. Thank you so so much Ali. I took a lot of notes and watched till the end. Absolutely amazing
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Thanks Ali for always putting out these videos and being so open about your process and earnings. Really helps instructors like me to better understand the business. This is a Gem.
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Thanks so much for this! Iāve been working towards building a YouTube channel/instagram with the plan to create an online course later on so this is really useful. Iāve been working my way through your recommended books list so Iām currently listening to 100m offers - those recs have been super helpful too ā¤
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I am a high school student and u are my genuine mentor and inspiration i can ever have. As always loved the video ! ..Thanks a ton for being so transparent and sharing very handy insightsā¤Keep taking us along in your journey. Btw i've completed reading your book lately and just wanna say it's damn good ā¤
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What a comprehensive video! Thank you Ali for this! This will be on repeat for me!
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Thank you for sharing Ali! As inspiring as alwaysā¤this video is super useful and really gives me a push to start
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I've been waiting for a video on this from Ali!! So great.
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The greatest lesson here is that thereās no shortcut to success!!!! I donāt think you guys will ever learn anything from this video. You canāt technically replicate his process because itās probably obsolete by now BUT what I learnt from this video is DOCUMENT EVERYTHING