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Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

#418 - Why Online Courses are Completely Dead Now

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9816 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

I’ve sold thousands of online courses—and I’m telling you right now: the traditional course model is dying.

 

With ChatGPT and other AI tools, people can now get 90% of what most courses teach for free, instantly. The information gap that used to justify $997 price tags? It’s gone.

 

In this episode, I break down:

 

  • What ChatGPT has replaced in the education space

  • Why I’m shifting away from selling static courses and into real-time coaching

 

All my resources at: www.andyisom.com

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Online digital course industry is completely dead.

0:03.6

And that's coming from someone who has sold thousands of dollars worth of online courses over the past five to seven years.

0:10.2

And it's not because people don't want to learn on their own anymore.

0:13.7

It's because chat GPT has changed the game forever. What's up guys?

0:26.6

Welcome back to Built by Business with Andy Isam.

0:29.6

We're talking about real strategy of people building brands, not just buying blueprints.

0:35.6

This is something that I've teased at for the last few podcast episodes,

0:38.8

and so I wanted to dedicate today's episode to this subject. And it's also kind of going a little bit

0:44.1

more in depth about the future of my own intentions with my own personal brand, as well as

0:49.4

kind of with my Wevos agency. The old online digital course model is completely dead. Back in the day,

0:56.3

before AI, before chat GPT, online courses were built around information scarcity. So if I created

1:03.5

an online course or whoever creates an online course packaged up the right steps on how to

1:08.5

launch a brand on Amazon, how to lose 30 pounds, how to make sourdough

1:12.7

bread. People would pay for that access. Information around certain topics like how to start a

1:18.8

brand on Amazon or again how to cook the best sourdough bread was scarce and it may be even

1:23.5

difficult to find on free platforms like YouTube. But now anyone can ask ChatGPT for a step-by-step

1:31.8

Amazon FBA launch plan or even more in-depth build an entire start-to-finish course for me,

1:39.7

specifically how to launch a brand on Amazon. And in a matter of seconds or minutes, Chat

1:45.8

GPT will map out for you an entire course that most people could have and would have sold

1:52.8

for thousands of dollars just a few years ago. You can do this for almost any topic on earth,

1:59.6

day trading, e-commerce, cooking, weight loss. In fact, Chad

2:04.5

Chb-T is so powerful now. You can take pictures of your boat motor and ask it to instruct you

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