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#190: Why You Don’t Need a Virtual Assistant
Among the very first bits of advice you get as a digital course creator, or really as a digital entrepreneur, is to hire a virtual assistant before you think you need one. But hiring a Virtual Assistant, or VA, costs money and at the beginning or middle of your journey that might feel like a luxury instead of a necessity.
There are books telling you to Buy Back Your Time, how to hire a VA, and even what tasks you should be outsourcing, but let’s face it. That doesn’t work for everyone.
Today I’m going to share with you 5 ways to put off hiring a VA and they are all free! Now, you can go ahead and hire a VA, but I encourage you to consider these ideas first because they are certainly easier on your budget and don’t require you to interview anyone!
#176: 5 Ways to Fix Your Digital Course Videos So Students Don’t Quit Early
It can be time consuming to edit the videos inside our digital courses trying to make them engaging for our students.
Today I’m going to share with you 5 tips for editing your video content to be more engaging for your students that I’ve been using for over 15 years in my courses and none of them involve video editing techniques.
#175: 3 Critical Steps to Getting Started on Your First (or Next) Digital Course Without Having to Backtrack
You’ve finally decided to create a digital course for your business, but when you look on YouTube or do a Google search about what you need to do, there are endless lists that all say something different. Suddenly adding a course doesn’t seem like a good idea, it feels overwhelming and downright messy. The reality is that a lot of people have put together lists of things to do to create a course based on their experience instead of research and proven practices. Creating a profitable course can be your reality and today we will cover the first 5 steps you need to take. Without these 5 steps any course will fail to gain traction and become a profitable piece of a business.
#174: How to Get Students to Finish Your Digital Course
In the post-COVID world, it isn’t enough to have an interesting course idea, catchy sales page, and some video modules. Your course has to be designed to not only help students move through the content, but to skip binging Netflix in favor of your lessons. While this isn’t always easy, today I’m sharing 3 ideas that you can implement to boost your course completion rates and have students hiring you again.
#173: AI in Digital Course Creation: Capabilities and Limitations
AI in digital course creation has many capabilities and many limitations. So many people are saying that you can simply put your digital course idea into an AI generator like ChatGPT with a few parameters and it will write your whole course for you.
While that is technically true, you won’t end up with a digital course that delivers on the course promise, is designed with solid learning principles in mind, and might even have inaccurate information.
It is worth the time to create your course without relying heavily on AI.
#172: Busting 5 Common Digital Course Creation Myths
As a digital course creator, it is easy to fall into myth traps as you search Google, scroll on Facebook, and even sink into YouTube videos. There are countless “to-good-to-be-true” stories out there that our brains have trouble alerting us to.
In today’s episode, I’ll walk you through 5 myths to keep your eyes open for as a digital course creator and the truth behind each.
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