Hasty Treat - So you want to make a course... Will people buy it?
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about making courses — techniques, best practices, things to avoid, and more!
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Show Notes
3:07 - Validating your ideas
4:44 - Generating ideas
6:38 - Figuring out which ideas will stick
10:00 - Show your expertise
14:02 - Pay attention to what’s popular
15:50 - Collect email addresses
Links
- Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights
- Refactoring UI
- Adam Wathan
- Steve Schoger
- Scott’s Svelte 3 course
- Wes’ Sublime Text articles
Tweet us your tasty treats!
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Torloco, Tolinsky. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Syntax in this Monday, |
| 0:28.0 | Hastie, treat. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to be talking about making courses. So, you want to make a course? Well, you want to make a course? Well you got you know two course |
| 0:36.4 | Masters over here who are going to enlighten you into some things to keep into consideration before you get started. |
| 0:44.1 | My name is Scott Tylinsky. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. |
| 0:47.6 | With me as always is West Boss. |
| 0:49.4 | How's it going, Wes? |
| 0:50.7 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm excited about this topic, because I get all the time people ask me like hey I want to make a course do you think people will buy it like and the answer is don't just ask me because I don't know there's techniques I see that all the time on |
| 1:04.8 | Twitter as well people are like I'm thinking about making a course on X Y and Z will |
| 1:08.3 | you buy it and then they have yes or no and it's always like a hundred |
| 1:11.8 | percent yes and I was like people vote with |
| 1:14.1 | their wallets on Twitter polls yeah yeah it's really easy to click yes |
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