Results for Tag: Productivity
#221: Conquering the Blank Page Syndrome: How to Start Your Course When You Don’t Know Where to Begin
Have you ever stared at a blank page, your cursor blinking, and felt that familiar dread? That’s the blank page syndrome. It’s a common challenge for course creators, especially when starting a new project, course, or workshop.
Creating a new course feels like birthing a child, choosing the finishes for a kitchen remodel, or planning for and carefully choosing your first car. In other words, big!
It doesn’t have to feel overwhelming, though. In this episode we will cover 3 tips that will help you:
Complete a piece of your course every day
Overcome creative blocks with your course
Experience more productivity and less stress
#200: Entrepreneurship is About Persistence
“State of running a business with considerable initiative and risk” (dictionary.com). That is the definition of entrepreneurship. This definition is accurate. You have to show initiative, you have to assume the risk of creating something new, finding an audience who wants to purchase what you’ve created, and then deliver on what you’ve promised.
What I don’t see in this definition is the word persistence. And the truth is that persistence is at the foundation of every entrepreneur’s journey. It takes persistence to create something new, find the right audience, and then deliver on what you’ve promised.
Today, in the 200th episode of the Digital Course Creator Podcast, we are going to talk about the realities of persistence, the actions that can help you generate persistence even when you don’t think you have anything left, and also when it might be time to step away from something because the risk or cost is too high.
#196: Too Many Ideas & Too Little Time: 3 Tips For Staying Focused on Your Course
The curse and the gift of being a creator is that you probably have a lot of ideas. That is a gift, because you can always create a new offer, adjust an existing lead magnet to better align with client needs, and write those stories that will engage your reader.
Sounds great, right?
It is, right up until it isn’t.
The swirl of ideas also means that you may find it difficult to focus on just one task, one offer, or one idea. The other ideas are crowding in and tempting you to shift gears to something else.
What happens as a result is that your tasks remain unfinished and your course remains un-launched.
You can keep up this half-finished way of building your business, or you can implement 3 tips for staying focused in spite of the never-ending swirl of ideas.
Which path will you choose?
#191: Failed Digital Course Launch. Here’s What to do Next
Have you ever found yourself getting jealous as you read through social media because you want to post on social media that your course launch was a rousing success? You want to shout from the rooftops that you didn’t just get one sale, but you in fact got more than you planned for AND your audience has grown exponentially.
You’ve seen the posts that share that exact news, but when it comes to your launch all you can post is that you had low or no sales after months of effort, a course that is detailed and packed with valuable information, and you even spent money on ads that ended up costing you instead of adding to your bank account.
Now, what? Well there are two paths forward.
#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!
#151: Guest Olivia Parkes: Building Your Business with Systems in Mind
Olivia Parkes, an entrepreneur & Fractional COO for dozens of online businesses ranging from $500k-10M/year in revenue, has create her own operations consultancy where she works with entrepreneurs to help them implement systems, build a team that takes the CEO out of the day to day & create a truly scalable business. In this episode she shares her tips and tricks to make business growth easier.
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