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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

How Do I Market and Validate My Online Course Idea?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Bobby, who has a question about marketing his online course. If he has already built his online course, how does he collect students? What should be his focus: research or promo video? What can he do to validate the course idea? How does he know what's working and what's not working? In this episode, I mention my book on validating your idea for a business, Will It Fly?, at http://willitflybook.com. Do you have a question about creating online courses? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0

AskUp. Ask Pat.

0:05.0

Ask Pat.com.

0:10.6

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:11.8

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 777 jackpot of Ask Pat.

0:18.2

Thank you so much for checking in today.

0:20.8

And as always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

0:24.9

All right, now, here's today's question from Bobby.

0:28.2

Hey, Pat, my name is Bobby Sandstrom.

0:30.0

I purchased Will It Fly yesterday because I had a suspicion that I was putting the cart before the horse on a project that I've been working on for the past couple of weeks.

0:38.9

I decided to create a course on Udeme entitled Mastering Simple Mind Mapping Software.

0:44.9

And it hadn't occurred to me to do some homework first and find out how much interest there was on the subject.

0:51.0

So the question is, because the course is nearly complete at this time, do I finish the promo video, which will take a chunk of time itself, or do I do some research into its viability?

1:03.1

So I'm very interested to hear what you have to say about this, being that I'm far along into the project.

1:08.8

But I am thankful that I was able to get a hold of your book,

1:12.5

and this won't happen to me again. I can promise you that. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on it,

1:16.7

Pat. Thanks a lot.

1:18.7

Hey, Bobby. What's up? Thank you so much for the question. Thank you so much also for purchasing

1:23.0

my book. Will It Fly? It will be the perfect compliment to what you are doing now. And I actually was

1:29.0

quite surprised that you have already set up a course on Udeme. You know, actually, I have recommended to

1:33.9

many people that Udeme be the place where once you get to a certain point in the research that you do,

1:40.9

once you get a general understanding of kind of what it is you want to offer if it's a

1:45.1

course then actually putting it on utami is a great place to test the waters you can put it out on

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