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Welcome to the Creator's MBA Podcast, your go-to resource for mastering the art & science of digital product entrepreneurship.
Join me as I unravel the secrets to boosting digital product revenue and designing long-term business growth strategies. From exclusive interviews with industry leaders to in-depth analyses of successful digital product models, this podcast is your guide to thriving in the digital product marketplace.
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Latest Podcast Episodes
Here you’ll find the resources to grow your digital product business. Keep scrolling for all of our latest podcast episodes.
58: Chelsea Baldwin: Freelance Writer to Serious Business Owner + Course Creator
In this episode, you’ll hear Chelsea Baldwin's journey where she started as a freelance writer after she had hard time finding a job in journalism after graduation. She later worked in at a firm in content marketing and was promoted to their CMO, but online entrepreneurship was calling her name. Determined to take her business seriously, she set up a LLC, started serving clients and eventually created online courses so clients who couldn't afford her services could still learn from her.
Listen in to hear about her advice on why you should just get started and make improvements from there.
57: Chelsea Clarke: Content Monetization Strategist, Investor and Business Broker
You’ll hear Chelsea's journey about how she started in entrepreneurship through dropshipping and eventually made her way into the online course creation world after she saw an ad for a virtual summit with Teachable.
56: Ronii Bartle: Data Focused Marketer and Serial Entrepreneur + Course Creator
In this episode, you’ll hear Ronni Bartle's journey as a data focused marketer which has helped her launch several different online courses. As a self described serial entrepreneur, in this episode, you'll hear about her evergreen product, Stalker, and a new project she just launched with Vacation Rental Life for a 6-week live course called the Book Direct Accelerator. This course serves vacation rental managers who want to get more direct bookings for their short-term rentals.
55: Corinne Hone: Non-Profit Career to Social Media Expert & Course Creator
In this episode, you’ll hear Corinne Hone's journey about how moved working in non-profit organizations to moving into online entrepreneurship so she could have the freedom lifestyle she craved.
Bonus: How to Write Your Book Even When You Don't Have the Time
Listen in to learn how you can write your book even when you don't have the time.
Bonus: What Online Course Creators Need to Know About Self-Publishing on Amazon
Listen in to hear what online course creators need to know about self-publishing on Amazon.
Bonus: Get Clarity and Nail Your Book's Topic
Today, we’re in a 3-part bonus episode series that focuses on helping you finally self-publish your non-fiction book. I know that many online course creators have a book idea in the back of their mind and you know that a book can be a powerful lead generation machine. Let’s face it…if you can launch an online course, you can also write and self-publish your book.
Listen in to hear how you can get clarify and nail your book’s topic.
54: Meredith Noble: How She Grew a Recurring Revenue Online Course Business
In this episode, you’ll hear Meredith Noble’s journey from a grant consultant to an online course creator with an established recurring revenue business. Meredith is an entrepreneur, community leader, and outdoor adventure. She is part of Geeks in the Woods, a new wave of pioneers building technology companies from remote, yet connected Valdez, Alaska.
Meredith is the founder of Learn Grant Writing, where her team helps those looking for a career change become freelance grant writers.
52: Ben Taylor: Freelancer & Blogger to Online Course Creator
In this episode, you’ll hear Ben Taylor's journey from a full-time freelancer to blogger and then online course creator. Ben is the Founder of HomeWorkingClub.com, a global portal providing advice to remote workers and freelancers. His freelancing course, Freelance Kickstarter, released in September last year and he now has 100 students signed up.
Listen in to hear his best advise for aspiring online course creators and some mistakes to avoid along the way.
51: Azalee Maslow: Social Media and Blogger Freelancer to Branding Coach + CMO
In this episode, you’ll hear Azalee Maslow’s journey from a social media and blogger freelancer to a Branding Coach +CMO. Azalee will talk about how she was let go from her FT job which forced her to get her side hustle up and running quickly.
Listen in to find out her tips for creating an online course if you’re just getting started and why it’s important to brand yourself.
50: James Pollard: How Automated Funnels Have Grown His Online Course Business to 31,000 Students
In this episode, you’ll hear James Pollard’s journey from a high school entrepreneur to a successful online course creator who now serves more than 31,000 customers. He started his online entrepreneurial journey in 2015 as a coach (The Advisor Coach) and quickly realized coaching wasn't for him because he was burned out with the one-on-one sessions. He realized he couldn't scale his time, even though he raised his prices several times, so he transitioned into paid digital courses and products.
Listen in to find out how he has built a successful online course business and how he learned the hard way the importance of improving productivity and automated sales funnels.
49: Emee Estacio: The Road from Academia to Self-Publishing Strategist
In this episode, you’ll hear Emee Estacio’s journey from a university lecturer who walked away from academia to pursue online entrepreneurship. She started her journey with writing self-help books and then created an online course that helps aspiring authors write and self-publish books on Amazon.
48: Stacy Juba: Published Author to Freelance Editor and Online Course Creator
In this podcast episode, you’ll hear about Stacy Juba’s journey of how her freelance work has grown over the years and how she transitioned into online courses.
47: Anna Gray: How She Takes Her Shots and Doesn't Worry About "Failures"
In this podcast episode, you’ll hear about Anna Gray’s journey of how she got started in her online course business with all of the twists and turns - a true roller coaster ride! Anna is a Facebook group strategist, adoptive mom, and 20-year operating room nurse who lives just North of Los Angeles. She has built successful online businesses using Facebook groups as her sole strategy for over 10 years. She is the creator of the Done for You Group Content Creation membership conversation starter, and the course Mastering the Art of Facebook Group.
Listen in to hear her thoughts on “failures” and her best advice for all online entrepreneurs.
46: Jodi Bourne: Freelancer to Vacation Rental Marketer & Course Creator
In this episode, you’ll hear Jodi Bourne’s journey from a freelancer to a successful vacation rental marketer and course creator. Jodi’s inspiring story walks us through her journey of working in marketing for a non profit to starting her own business by freelancing. You’ll hear about how she was first introduced to online courses and the steps she took to build her online course business (hint: it wasn’t by creating the course first).
44: How To Organize Your Business With Trello
In this podcast episode, I chat with Kate Doster about how to organize your business with Trello.
If you have 15 tabs open right now and you never wear socks that match, Kate Doster is the productivity lady for you. You’ll see that Kate's zone of genius isn't organization. In fact, she's a creative copywriter turn course creator who kept missing deadlines, skipping over crucial steps in her launches and lived in a consistent state of digital clutter.
It wasn't until Trello entered her life as a solopreneur that things finally started to come together. Think - never missing emails, actually finishing up paid products and publishing and promoting her podcast Inbox Besties every week even when things got crazy.
You’ll walk away from this episode with productivity tips for your online course creation projects and course launches even if you feel that you’re the most disorganized person you know!
45: Debbie Gartner: Using Her Blog and Course Revenue to Pay off $238,000 of Debt
In this podcast episode, you’ll hear about Debbie Gartner’s journey of how she’s leveraged the power of SEO to get over 500,000 page views per month and generates over 20,000 net profit a month. She used her blog and course income to pay off more than $238,000 of debt. Debbie has coached over a hundred bloggers on SEO, and she's a best selling author of two very successful SEO books, Easy on Page SEO and Easy Backlinks for SEO. She has sold over 3,000 eBooks and courses to bloggers and entrepreneurs.
Listen in to learn the secret to her success and how she’s been able to have $20K, $30K and even $45K months in profit from her online business.
43: Make Your Online Course Look Pro with Video (without costly equipment)
In this podcast episode, I interview Noah Mittman who is the Founder & CEO of Snowman Films. In this fun episode, Noah walks us through his top tips on how to make your online course look like a pro with video and without any costly equipment.
If you’ve avoided using face to camera video in creating your online course, don’t miss this one! Noah walks us through how EASY it is to create your online courses videos and make them interesting and engaging to students.
You’ll walk away from this episode with camera confidence and knowing exactly how to record your online course videos with some simple and easy to use equipment that you may already have in your home office.
42: Skyrocket Online Course Sales with a Virtual Summit
Do you wonder if launching your online course with a summit is right for you? Do you have questions such as how do you find speakers if you aren't well known?
In this episode, join me and Krista Miller with Summit in a Box, where we discuss your burning summit related questions. Specifically, we cover:
How do you know if you're ready to host a virtual summit?
How to find speakers if you don't have a large audience on social and/or a small email list
How a summit can lead to a successful online course launch
41: 5 Key Elements for an Evergreen Sales Funnel
My online course business primarily runs an autopilot. Around once per year, I do a live launch like a virtual summit with a webinar, but for most of the other months, my sales are driven by my evergreen sales funnels.
I absolutely love evergreen sales funnels because they allow me to focus on what I do best which is serving my students and creating content.
I will walk you through EXACTLY how to set up an evergreen sales funnel in your own online course business so you can sell your online course on autopilot every single day.