#2920 - Q&A: “Why did you give away your ‘Doing Things’ course?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In today’s episode, we dive into the strategy behind giving away an online course for free. Was this a crazy idea, a strategic plan, or something else? Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.substack.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Adobe Express makes it quick and easy to create everything I need for my business.
0:05.0	From social posts, TikToks and flyers, all in just a few clicks.
0:09.0	Get Adobe Express for free.
0:11.0	Search for Adobe Express to find out more.
0:18.0	You know what that is.
0:20.0	An ice cold beer.
0:21.6	What's different?
0:23.6	It's Budweiser.
0:26.6	A perfect beer for party season.
0:29.6	Best enjoyed with your best buds.
0:34.6	Cheers to that.
0:40.4	Budweiser, like no other.
0:41.9	Please drink responsibly.
0:43.9	For the facts, visit drinkaware.com.uker.uker. UK.
0:56.8	Hey friends. hey listeners.
0:57.9	Welcome to the podcast.
1:04.5	So about a month or two ago, I did a thing where I gave away copies of my newest course.
1:07.7	The course is called Doing Things, a guide to neurodivergent productivity.
1:12.2	And I basically gave it away to any paying subscriber of my newsletter,
1:17.5	Your of Mental Health.com. People can subscribe for as little as $10 a month. And rather than doing a big product launch for this whole course that I worked on for months, I decided to give it
1:21.3	away free to anybody who had subscribed. And so a listener is kind of wondering today
1:26.1	asking me about it, like, what was the
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