What's up? What's up, Nick Loper here? Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because life is just one big experiment.

Special solo bonus edition of the show for you today where I try and use this format to catch you up on some of the specific

projects I've been working on outside of the traditional interviews. One of those

projects actually one of the biggest initiatives for me last year was to build and

launch a side hustle online course of my own.

Look, businesses do well through sponsorships and affiliate income but I reasoned that those are

income streams I don't have as much control over so I thought I might try and build a

third leg of the stool and hopefully help some people in the process. The impetus for this was

Teachable's Creator Challenge and the premise of that was to research, create and

launch an online course over three months over the summer.

It was June, July, and August of last year.

Teachable for their part was going to provide some expert course creator support, a community of

fellow instructors, and a little friendly competition like hey reach these

milestones we'll send you some gifts. Plus if you sell more courses than anybody else

will fly you out to New York.

That ended up not being really relevant for me

for reasons we'll get into.

But people had been asking me about creating an online course for years. And

since I tend to work better with a deadline, I jumped in on this challenge from Teachable.

Stick around in this episode to hear what happened next.

First of all, it might make sense to explore the benefits and the appeal of an online course. For students, it's a way to condense the information they need to

achieve some transformation they want. The information is online, it's on demand, it can be consumed at their convenience.

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