281. 5 Entrepreneurs Who Were Paid To Create Their 1st Online Course (And How You Can Too)

Cubicle to CEO

Ellen Yin

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

5.0 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The start of a new year is the perfect time to explore a new revenue stream for your business, especially one that produces residual income you can actually scale. In this roundup, you’ll hear insights from 5 business owners, including myself, on how we productized our expertise and got PAID to create our first digital course. In other words, pre-selling an offer that doesn’t exist yet using the beta launch framework we teach in our Paid to Create Challenge. I’ll introduce each sound bite with the guest’s name and the original episode number, so you can dive deeper into the full interview if you want to hear more. All the episodes are linked below in one bingeable Spotify playlist for convenience. And if you want me to hand-hold you through our proven 3 day process that has successfully launched over 2,700 courses, go to paidtocreate.com to enroll in our next live challenge. View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/fs-6atl3dCqB_jwiGna6hdU4h7o?utm_source=copy_url Link to our Paid to Create Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UAmTGZhcNcmRz4OiYwcYo?si=VVmaYuNORHGo8ExSsVtJcQ Check out our previous roundup episodes: Client Acquisition + Retention: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4dtubMBir7MpuRiZsW4mFL?si=TQlOiPetTcOGT9kDzOHE0g Hiring Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/cpFd5Kxw Email Marketing Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/zW5tKLM2 Podcast Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/CUa_hAXC Launching Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/jz5RbIv0 Pitching Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/sllNCKMT Lead Generation Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/dbjNLFH1 Conversion Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/AYNw_c2w Customer Feedback Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/lTKbWBYY Marketing Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/AkgrDVmg Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quiz If you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Kivocalda CEO, Episode 2.81. The start of a new year is the perfect time to
0:05.4	explore a new revenue stream for your business, especially one that produces residual income
0:10.5	you can actually scale. In this roundup, you'll hear insights from five business owners,
0:15.2	including myself, on how we productized our expertise and got paid to create our first digital course. In other words,
0:23.0	pre-selling an offer that doesn't exist yet using the beta launch framework we teach in our paid
0:28.1	to create challenge. I'll introduce each soundbite with the guest's name and the original
0:32.5	episode number so you can dive deeper into the full interview if you want to hear more.
0:37.1	All the episodes are linked below in one bingeable Spotify playlist for convenience.
0:41.8	And if you want me to handhold you through our proven three-day paid-to-create process
0:46.4	that has successfully launched over 2,700 courses, go to paid tocreat.com to enroll in our next live challenge. That's paid
0:57.0	P-A-I-D-to-create.com to enroll in our next live challenge. Welcome to Cuvicle to
1:07.5	CEO, the podcast where we ask successful founders and CEOs, the business
1:12.0	questions you can't Google. I'm your host, Ellen Yen. Every Monday, go behind the business in a
1:18.0	case study style interview with a leading entrepreneur who shares one specific growth strategy
1:23.0	they've tested in their own business, exactly how they implemented implemented it and what the results and revenue
1:29.4	were.
1:30.4	You'll also hear financially transparent insights from my own journey bootstrapping our media
1:35.1	company from a $300 freelance project into millions in revenue. example one is from Claire Woodhouse episode 78
1:51.1	Claire shares her personal experience signing up for paid to create as a complete business
1:56.1	newbie and finishing the challenge having sold out all 12 of her beta spots in just three days.
2:02.6	I had no idea what to do. I didn't know who my ideal client was. When you first brought up
2:07.9	ideal client, I was like, what is an ideal client? I had no idea, right? So business newbie at its
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