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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.
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.
40: 5 Simple Ways to Find Students for your Online Course (without huge ad spends)
Need more students for your online course?
I bet you do.
In this podcast episode, I walk you through 5 simple ways to find students for your online course (without huge ad spends).
39: 4 Best Practices for an Actionable Quiz (for your online course lead magnet)
Did you know that a quiz is a great lead magnet for an online course? People love taking quizzes. It sparks their curiosity and tells them a little bit about themselves.
What I love about quizzes as a marketer is that it allows me to personalize my follow up to their results. Everyone is at a different stage in their business and therefore their needs are different.
This is what we call personalized marketing.
In this podcast episode, I cover 4 best practices to consider when creating an actionable, personalized quiz to use as a lead magnet.
38: Pinterest Tips and Trends With Alisa Meredith, Tailwind
In this podcast episode, I chat with Alisa Meredith who is the Content Marketing Manager at Tailwind about 2020 Pinterest tips and trends.
Are you using Pinterest in your business? Want to know some of the latest trends (e.g. video)? Curious about how SEO works on Pinterest? Wondering if you should focus on YouTube or Pinterest? Interested in learning about Tailwind and how it can help expand your reach?
37: How to Hire a Facebook Ad Consultant
Hiring someone to help you with your Facebook ads can be scary.
After all, you’re spending your hard-earned money on the ads in addition to their consulting fee.
You want to make sure they know what they’re doing so you get a return on your investment.
In this podcast episode, I will walk you through everything you need to know and questions to ask so you can hire your Facebook ads consultant.
36: Is Your Online Course Business Ready for Facebook and Instagram Ads?
Social media is a pay to play market.
Even if you’ve been successful in the past selling your online course and growing your business, at some point, you’ll need paid advertising to grow.
In this podcast episode, we'll ask some questions to find out if your online course business is ready for Facebook ads.
35: The No Stress Way to Plan a Years’ Worth of Content (in less than an hour)
It’s that time of year.
It’s time to put together your content and promotional calendar for the upcoming year.
This year, I put together my yearly content plan and promotional calendar in less than an hour and I want to share my super simple process with you!
34: Behind the Scenes of a High Converting Sales Funnel
Get a behind the scene view of a high converting sales funnel for an online course.
33: How to Explode Your Website Traffic Using Tailwind Communities (for online course creators)
Is anyone seeing your content? Pinterest is one of the main drivers of organic traffic to my website. And my secret sauce? Read on to learn more.
32: How Speaking Can Add an Income Stream (and help you find students for your online course)
Have you ever wanted to expand your influence by getting paid speaking gigs? In this episode, Ashley and I discuss how speaking can add an income stream to your online course business and help you find students at the same time!
31: 5 Proven Time Saving Hacks to Implement Today
There’s never enough time…
What would you do with an extra hour two hours day in your business? 3 hours a day? Join Allison and I as we chat about proven time saving hacks to implement in your business today so that you can free up hours of your time.