Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like being boss.

Today we're pulling a timeless eo fire classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down why online courses are a dream business model to drop these value bombs. I brought David,

Simon Garland in the eo fire studios. DSG is a creator of the rise to the top and create awesome online courses. He's helped people turn their expertise and experience into a successful online course and dream business.

He has over 5,000 students in over 100 countries who have created successful courses on everything from baby sleep training to clarinet lessons for adults.

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DSG say what's up to fire nation and share something interesting about yourself that most people don't know what's up fire nation. I like a juicy question right off the bat.

As you tell as I'm stalling here as I talk slow I'll say something this is something a lot of people that especially online don't know me and people in person do know about this if you meet me for two seconds is that I am obsessed with slow pitch softball.

Yes is my jam the amount of time I spend thinking about it playing it running to teams on top of my business and playing and ordering bats would scare anyone but is one of my very passionate hobbies that I love.

Oh fire nation you have a hobby that you love I hope that you are as obsessed and taking his full advantage while you can of your hobby as DSG is do you share some of this on Instagram DSG I think I start following you there on that you know I do some you know I have a lot of business stuff on there too I should probably even share more of that shenanigans to because we do that we do that a lot you know people love it too because my father who works for my company is you know JLD he is and I'm going to date him right here 69 years old he'll be and he.

And he comes out and pitches batting practice to me at least once a week in the middle of the day behind a screen I know Randy I love him and now I love him even more the fact that he goes out and does that so that super cool and yes I think you should start posting more stuff like that I want to see at least one time and slow motion you swinging and just completely missing losing your balance and falling on your.

I'll see what I can do but you know at David's time a garland on Instagram maybe coming soon yes love it okay so fire nation we did the intro you know all about.

Dishies on the show multiple multiple times and today's audio master class is why online courses are a dream I said dream business model and we're going to really rock and roll this we're

talking also about eight keys to a successful online course that is if we can get to that because we have so much to cover but this is all leading up to a completely free live class otherwise known as a webinar that we're going to be hosting on June 27th at 2 p.m. Eastern 11 a.m. Pacific or if you live in.

St. Louis like DSG it's at 1 p.m. Central time I think it is that's right you're absolutely right waited no that.

E. O fire dot com slash course E. O fire dot com slash course press pause fire nation go over there register for this event because it's

completely free so much value we're going to do what we can to share some great things today but there's going to be so much more on creating your dream business model during this entire

episode and then of course during that incredible live master class E. O fire dot com slash course so DSG let's just dive right in and talk about the

ideal person and online course is great for.

Yeah so this is a great question and realize whenever I'm answering the stuff this is not just me throwing random spaghetti at a wall right so whenever I get a question

your JLD just to give people like a lightning fast context is that I've been doing this I've been doing online courses since 2010 and I've been teaching online

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