3 Reasons I Don’t Sell Online Courses Anymore
The Graham Cochrane Show
Graham Cochrane
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
I’ve made over $15 million selling online courses over the years… but here’s the thing — I stopped selling them.
And no, it’s not because courses don’t work.
It’s because the business model changed…buyers changed…and honestly, I changed.
In this video, I’m breaking down the three reasons I walked away from online courses, what I’m doing instead, and — most importantly — how to know if courses still make sense for your business in 2026.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Shift in Online Education
02:32 The Impact of the Pandemic on Online Courses
05:46 Course Saturation and AI's Role
11:57 Reasons for Moving Away from Online Courses
14:47 The Future: High-Ticket Group Coaching Programs
19:17 Building a Premium Coaching Offer
24:15 Creating Commitment and Value in Coaching Programs
29:57 Conclusion and Call to Action
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Graham Cochran Show, where each week I help you create more money, margin, and meaning in your life. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm your host, of course, Graham Cochran. |
| 0:11.5 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:19.3 | I've made over $15 million selling online courses, just online courses. But here's the thing. |
| 0:26.9 | I've stopped selling them. And no, it's not because courses don't work. It's bigger than that. |
| 0:32.5 | It's because the business model has changed. Buyers have changed. And honestly, I changed. So today, I'm going to |
| 0:40.2 | break down the three reasons I've walked away from online courses, what I'm doing instead. |
| 0:46.2 | And most importantly, how to know if courses still make sense for your business in 2026 |
| 0:51.3 | and beyond. Now, I've been talking about the business online coaching course |
| 0:57.7 | info product space shifting for the last year or so. We've talked about how to future-proof |
| 1:02.3 | your online business, how you need to move away from relying only on courses to include communities |
| 1:08.2 | and coaching, all these other things. This has been something that's been |
| 1:12.6 | happening for the last three years easily, and this is not new. It depends on who you listen to |
| 1:18.2 | and if your head's in the sand or what, but this is not a new thing. But what I want to share today |
| 1:24.1 | is that I literally do not sell online courses anymore. It's not something |
| 1:28.9 | I promote. I don't do any launches to my list for courses anymore. And it is a big deal because |
| 1:35.0 | that's all I did for the last 16 years, if you really want to include everything I've done. |
| 1:40.6 | I've been in the online course space. I wrote the book on this, |
| 1:44.5 | how to get paid for what you know. I literally have built my business around online courses, |
| 1:50.5 | but things have changed. And so I get asked a lot by my clients, by people that come to my |
| 1:57.1 | challenge, by people on YouTube. Like, are you still doing online courses? Do |
| 2:02.3 | online courses still work? I'm filming my course. What do you, like, what? And I can't, like, |
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