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.

In this episode, you’ll hear Dan Tricarico's journey about how a high school English teacher starting helping teachers overcome stress, practice self care and find more balance and happiness in the classroom.

Listen in to hear how he is growing his online course business and expanding to a new market to help others achieve their inner zen.

In this episode, you’ll hear Tom Scarda's journey about how moved into online course creation after years in the franchise industry and how he uses his online course as a lead gen for his consulting business. He was the number one franchisee of the year with his first franchise concept and failed miserably in his second franchise. Tom is the author of several books including the number one bestseller, Franchise Savvy. He has helped more than 1,500 people figure out if franchising is for them since 2005.

Listen in to hear his advice on how to fast track your success and how he continues to educate himself to set up his business for success.

In this bonus podcast episode, my guest is SEO Expert, Rachel Lindteigen. Rachel is the President & Founder Etched Marketing and in this episode she walks us through three easy steps to sell our online course with search engine optimization.

Listen in for her tips on how to optimize your online course sales page for Google and an insider tip on how to handle courses that may not be open all year round.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Listen in to learn how you can write your book even when you don't have the time.

Listen in to hear what online course creators need to know about self-publishing on Amazon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.