How Much Free Content Should I Give Away with My Online Course?

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Pat Flynn

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

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Richard, who has a question about how much free content he should add within his online course. How much content should he give for free as a teaser for his online course? What are some ways I can show how valuable my online course is without giving it away entirely for free? Richard’s website is at AFlexibleYou.com. In this episode, I mention AskPat Live. You can check out AskPat Live every Friday at 1:30 p.m. PT at http://facebook.com/smartpassiveincome. Do you have a question about marketing your online course? Record it at http://askpat.com. Today’s sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://freshbooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:01.0	AskPath.com
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:09.0	Askpads.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 832 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.0	We have a great question today from Richard, but before we get to that, I do want to thank
0:23.1	today's sponsor, which is FreshBooks, one of my favorite companies because they help me manage my
0:26.9	books, my finances, that's the income and the expenses that I have, plus the invoicing.
0:32.4	I've been doing a lot of invoicing lately with some coaching that I've been doing and stuff and it's just made it really easy to
0:38.2	send invoices out in less than 30 seconds but also keep track of who opens those invoices
0:43.5	who is paid and just gives me some great insight in terms of everything that's going on in my
0:48.7	business so I highly recommend you check it out if you want to try it for 30 days for free you can
0:53.4	you can go to freshbooks.com slash ask pat and make sure you enter Ask Pat in the how did you hear about
0:59.0	us section. All right, thanks so much. And here is today's question from Richard.
1:03.5	Hello, Pat. My name is Richard. And I'm in the very early stages of putting together a
1:08.8	course and business for the purpose of helping
1:12.1	people become more flexible, reduce daily pain, and reduce stress through stretching
1:18.8	and mobility exercises. This is a flexible u.com. Anyway, I've designed the entire
1:26.3	course, I'm in the process of doing video and I'm trying to build up my list through various channels.
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