#961 - Blogger Earns $140,000 from Beta Phase of Online Course
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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A blogger and podcaster earns $140,000 from her online course on rental properties *before launching*. After completing beta testing, the real launch does even better.
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| 0:00.0 | I have something really fun for you today. |
| 0:10.5 | It is a case study of an extremely successful online course launch from a good friend of mine. |
| 0:16.3 | This friend is Paula Pant, who writes the Afford Anything blog and is an advocate for low-cost |
| 0:21.3 | rental properties. |
| 0:22.3 | I heard her talk a few years ago at another event and then we brought her to WDS to speak |
| 0:26.0 | to our community last year. |
| 0:27.8 | Very popular talk as I expected. |
| 0:29.5 | I also wrote about her in the book, Side House Soul, from Idea to Income in 27 days. |
| 0:34.4 | I remember doing this long email Q&A with her because I was like, Paula, I don't understand |
| 0:38.3 | this whole rental property thing. |
| 0:40.4 | Most people who talk about it, I don't think are giving very good advice. |
| 0:43.0 | It seems like what you've done actually works really, really well. |
| 0:46.1 | How does it work? |
| 0:47.2 | What do people need to know? |
| 0:48.2 | Anyway, I'll talk about that more in the episode. |
| 0:51.0 | Before her official launch of this course, she earned $140,000 from beta testers. |
| 0:57.4 | She earned $140,000. |
| 1:00.2 | Then when she opens up the course, she does extremely well, even better than $140,000. |
| 1:05.0 | Now Paula is the kind of person who deserves her success. |
| 1:07.6 | She's extremely hardworking and she's also very open and transparent about how she achieved |
| 1:12.2 | that success. |
| 1:13.2 | I was really excited to work on this story and bring it to you today on Side House Soul |
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