25: How to Create a Profitable Online Course, with Vasavi Kumar

Episode 25 -- we made it to the quarter-century mark! Learn how to create valuable and profitable time-leveraged online courses utilizing the skills and experience you already have. Vasavi Kumar, a certified life coach, shares her transition from a one-to-one business model to a one-to-many model that funds her lifestyle and freedom. This is a "meat and potatoes" conversation filled with both the strategies and actionable steps and tactics you can take to get started down this path today. Many thanks to Herby from BillionSuccess.com for the intro! Vasavi was kind enough to offer her 21-day Conquer course (normally $30) to Side Hustle Nation for free. Check it out through the link below and get a first-hand look on what a paid online course can look like. Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show on iTunes! Subscribe to The Side Hustle Show on Stitcher! Get your learn on: Vasavi's pivotal "ah ha" moment (at just 4 years old). How she got fired from her first and only job after 2 weeks. How she landed her first coaching clients. How she found a mentor and why she invested over $100,000 in herself outside of traditional education. The paradox of "expansion by scaling back." The 3-step process for figuring out what you can teach. The technical steps and tools of putting a course together. How to set the courses up to run on auto-pilot. The power of in-person events. Vasavi's #1 tip for Side Hustle Nation. The 3 Step Process: Right down everything bad that's ever happened to you. Right down anything positive that resulted from those bad things. Consider the "bridge" of you got from bad to good. Is it replicable / teachable? Boom: course idea! Links: VasaviKumar.com Your free access to her Conquer course David Siteman Garland | The Rise to the Top Infusionsoft | Aweber | Mailchimp | Office Autopilot Lisa Nichols Spreecast Fiverr Udemy <-- for more on selling on Udemy, check Episode 16 Sellfy.com We also talk about the value of design and of building your personal and professional network. What do you think? Could you set up an online course as part of your side hustle strategy? Using her 3-step process, what would you teach? If you're liking The Side Hustle Show, show me some love w/ a 5-star iTunes review!