August 14, 2017

Episode 37: How I Built My First Online Course For Less Than $500 (and How You Can Too)

I just built my first online course and in this episode, I share the steps I took to plan and execute the effort and the technology I used. I also talk about how much everything cost me and you’ll be amazed at how you can also put together a digital product on a budget. I put the main 8 steps of my course building process in a download that you can get below.

Topics Discussed (Time Stamped)

00:48 Today’s episode talks about Building my first digital course
03:17 Recap
05:32 Building the digital course through Hubspot CRM
06:27 Step 1 – The Planning Process: Picking a topic
08:16 Using Dropbox paper in building outline of the course
09:01 Building a checklist
09:58 Course recording
12:21 Getting a freelancer for course editing
16:37 Picking a course platform
22:40 Setting up SSL
26:35 Setting up Custom Graphics
28:40 Setting up Payment
34:03 Building course modules
34:59 Making back ups
36:40 Have Free Preview Modules available

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Quotes Worth Sharing

You put out there what you think is going to work, and then you listen and then you learn. Click To Tweet Don’t try to be perfect. Don’t wait for everything to be right before you move forward. Click To Tweet

Resources Mentioned

5000fish – https://www.5000fish.com/
Yurbi – https://www.yurbi.com/
Yurbi Academy – http://academy.yurbi.com/
HubSpot CRM – https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm
Episode 33 – https://techsmartboss.getmailsync.com/blog/podcast-episode33/
DropBox Paper – https://www.dropbox.com/paper
Camtasia – http://www.camtasia.com/
UpWork – https://www.upwork.com/
Teachable – https://teachable.com/
Coach – https://www.withcoach.com/
AppSumo – https://appsumo.com/
GetStencil – https://getstencil.com/
Invanto – https://www.invanto.com/
Cloudflare – https://www.cloudflare.com/
GoDaddy – https://godaddy.com/
Tech Smart Boss Academy – http://learn.techsmartboss.com/
Leadpages – https://www.leadpages.net/
Tech Smart Boss Course Sales Page – https://techsmartboss.getmailsync.com/hubspot
Fiverr – https://www.fiverr.com/
99Designs – https://99designs.com/
Paypal – https://www.paypal.com/
Stripe – https://stripe.com/
Wistia – https://wistia.com/
Vimeo – https://vimeo.com

Thanks!

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