#2920 - Q&A: “Why did you give away your ‘Doing Things’ course?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
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?
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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: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:56.8 | Hey friends. hey listeners. |
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| 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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