My guest today is Cindy Bidar. She is the founder of Six-Figure Systems and CEO of Cindybidar.com. Her online career has spanned multiple specialties, including content and copywriting, marketing and operations management, coaching and consulting. She's had the privilege of working with some of today's most profitable online businesses, and has helped train seven figure marketing teams. She helps her clients scale their digital course businesses by creating automated systems that improve conversion rates, increase sales and add more profit to the bottom line.

Today my special guest is Jennifer Ledwith. She is the owner and teacher of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. Scholar Ready, teaches math, writing, reading, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for the PSAT, SAT and ACT exams. It was started 16 years ago, with the goal to help students graduate with as little student loan debt as possible. Jennifer stresses the key to college and college scholarships are; perseverance, strong writing skills and competitive test scores. Every day she inspires her students to confront their academic challenges.

Today my special guest is Amy Rose Herrick. Amy is a profit building specialist. Business owners implement her secret profit system to increase productivity 10,000 to 100,000 thousand or more by eliminating their hidden profit eating black holes. Clients have turned to Amy since 1991, accelerating profits, increasing bottom lines, demystifying root causes of business losses and making more money without requiring adding costly inventory, changing locations or adding more staff.

Today, my guest is Neha Naik. She is the founder and CEO of RG, The Sleepy Cub, Creative Arc, and Triad Partners. Neha is a four times business owner and she runs those while raising two toddlers. Neha is an expert in career planning, recruitment, a certified sleep consultant, and a mom entrepreneurship coach. She mentors moms with young children on how to start a business to create a better work-life balance. She helps moms who dream of starting a business, but don't act on it. Takes them by the hand and walks them through all the steps of their new business from concept to delivery.

My guest for today is Franziska Iseli. Franziska is a best-selling author, and co-founder of the marketing education platform, Basic Bananas, based in Sydney, Australia. Basic Bananas is a unique marketing training organization that doesn't play by the rules of convention. Through their marketing programs, they have supported thousands of businesses by using smart, innovative and effective marketing strategies.

Abbey is the Founder of The Virtual Savvy. She helps aspiring virtual assistants launch and grow their own at-home business from scratch. Abbey started her own virtual assistant business in 2015 and was able to double the salary from her full-time corporate job, working only 20 hours a week... in just 30 days! She's since gone on to grow a multi seven-figure business and retire her husband ALL from her at-home business.

In this episode Kate shares her journey as a course creator, membership owner and entrepreneur, running an agency specializing in Pinterest Management. Listen in as she walks through the steps she took getting started. From conducting beta testing for clients, analyzing their marketing and traffic strategy, she created a membership community, to help her members through the process.

Lindsay Padilla: CEO and Co-Founder, Hello Audio

My guest today is Dr. Lindsay Padilla. Lindsay is an ex-community college professor who accidentally started a business while on the tenure track. Now, as the CEO and co-founder of the Hello Audio software, which takes your content and creates private audio feeds to make learning on the go much easier for your people, Lindsay challenges online industry norms of unfinished courses and unconsumed content with her product. All of her business ideas were born out of her tenure-track years teaching adults online at a community college, the ridiculous amount of learning she's done in all things education, and the years spent growing her course creation business online.

In this episode Whitney Lauritsen shares her journey and early beginnings as an online course creator and entrepreneur. She explains how her focus on partnership helped her gain the traction needed for success. With a focus on sponsorships, affiliate marketing, and bundle sales she walks through the steps she took to monetize her business.

In this episode Dan shares the story of how 1 Minute Media evolved by providing a platform to help others share their stories. Listen to his inspiring story of the steps his company took during the pandemic to assist restaurant owners in Flint, Michigan. Recording their stories, he gave them a 1 minute video, creating a platform for them to share their journey to keep their doors open. In a short period, he generated 30,000 organic views for six restaurants. Telling their stories and sharing with the community, he helped them increase their revenue. He provided a hopeful future with authentic, heartfelt, 1 minute videos, all done pro bono and in return, he created great content and established many followers.

In this episode Krista gives valuable advice on scaling your business with free digital marketing, repeatable traffic, and lead generating strategies. She is a pioneer in digital marketing, creating industry respected, certified, accredited, online programs. Tune in to hear about her company Boot Camp Digital, where she trains businesses on how to drive impact to their brand, using proven digital marketing strategies.

In this episode Doug shares his journey from trial attorney to successful online course creator, peacemaker and mediator. He talks about all the twists and turns he took to become a successful online course creator. He gives examples on how he targeted his audience, built Facebook campaigns to drive traffic, continuously reviews his analytics and creates high value content his audience wants to buy.

In this podcast episode, Emily shares her journey from busy stay-at-home mom, to digital media consultant, entrepreneur and now owner of a fully staffed Virtual Assistant (VA) Agency. Using her knowledge and experience as a VA, she started teaching her very smart, overeducated, underemployed, fellow military spouses and friends. This lead her to creating her signature course called The Unicorn VA Crash Course.

She created her online course “How to Start a Shoe Brand” as a means for people to gain access to her knowledge and expertise. Through “The Shoe Community”, she has created an online space where members such as shoe start-ups and shoe brand founders come together to share their experiences and support each other. “Who doesn’t love shoes?” Listen to Susannah’s incredible story of how she took her passion for shoes and created her own special niche market, inspiring others through her membership community.

In this episode, Elizabeth shares her inspiring story of her early beginnings: from her college days that helped shape her ability to lead, work in groups, create projects, to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Learn how she started using Convert Kits to find her audience and then became the first Convert Kit certified expert. By refining her content, she mastered the art of creating a fun filled business, turning it into a profitable, repeatable process.

Tune into this episode to see how she increased her revenue significantly by creating a higher ticket, six month group coaching program. A program that has her audience wanting to buy from her again, and again, and again.

They were a regular American family - stressed, working too many hours, spending too little time together, and struggling with debt. In the summer of 2012 after some tough times at work, they decided to start an online business and take control of their own destiny. They would go on to replace their income, quit their teaching jobs, and make millions online to build the life of their dreams! Now they're helping others control their own destiny with faith and hard work. In this episode Shane describes in detail how he and his wife Jocelyn used their knowledge, wisdom and experience to create digital products and resources.

You’ll hear Andréa's journey from a freelancer to a social media agency owner and creator of her Savvy Social School.

My guest today on The Course Creator's MBA Podcast is Brandi Good. Brandi loves to systematize online business activities using tech, workflows, and automations - customized to the needs, comfort level, and budget of each business owner she works with. Her signature service, Systematize Your Biz, is designed to help you pandemic-proof your business by getting your courses and memberships online. Brandi is currently obsessed with Kajabi, morning coffee, and Star Wars.

Listen in to hear her best advice on tech integrations for your online course especially if you're just starting out.

In this bonus podcast episode, I'm chatting with Kate Ahl with Simple Pin Media. We talk about the differences between Pinterest versus Instagram so you can determine which one is the right fit for your business (maybe both!).

Kate also walks us through three things to do when you first start marketing your business on Pinterest so you can get started right away.

My guest today on The Course Creator's MBA Podcast is Rachel Mitchell. Rachel is the founder & CEO of My Sweet Sleeper. She is a certified Pediatric & Maternity Sleep Consultant, former night nanny, and mom of six.

Listen in to hear her best advice for selling and promoting your online course including what’s worked for her business.