Why Online Courses Are A Dream Business Model with David Siteman Garland
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
David Siteman Garland is the creator of The Rise To The Top & Create Awesome Online Courses. David helps people turn their expertise & 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!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You're certainly not too late if you're interested in online courses.
2. If people scare you, and you feel like you don't want to help them, then online courses are probably not the best model for you.
3. A nightmare business model is one that leaves you unfulfilled, stressed out, does not give you any money, or makes you work so much that you don't have time to go to the bathroom.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Light that Sparkfire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by |
| 0:07.8 | the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like Being Boss. |
| 0:12.4 | Today we're pulling a timeless EO Fire classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking |
| 0:17.5 | down why online courses are a dream business model. |
| 0:21.2 | To drop these value bombs, I have brought David Saitman Garland into EOFire Studios. |
| 0:25.8 | DSG is the creator of The Rise to the Top and create awesome online courses. |
| 0:30.9 | He's helped people turn their expertise and experience into a successful online course and dream business. |
| 0:35.7 | He has over 5,000 students in over 100 countries who have created successful courses on |
| 0:39.9 | everything from baby sleep training to clarinet lessons for adults. |
| 0:44.3 | And today, Fire Nation will talk about how a nightmare business model is one that leaves |
| 0:47.9 | you unfulfilled, stressed out, does not give you any money and makes you work so much that |
| 0:52.7 | you don't have time to go to the bathroom and so much more when we get back from thinking our sponsors. |
| 0:59.4 | Still think you can create an online course the same way you did five years ago. |
| 1:03.5 | Think again. Think Kivik has looked at the top 20% of course creators to see what they're doing |
| 1:08.2 | now to be so darn successful. Find out for yourself |
| 1:11.8 | at thinkific.com slash fire trends. Business Made Simple hosted by Donald Miller takes the mystery |
| 1:19.2 | out of growing your business. Recent episodes like how to attract and retain top talent |
| 1:23.5 | and how to make more money with your current products are straight fire. |
| 1:28.1 | Listen to Business Made Simple wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:33.8 | DSG, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about yourself that most people |
| 1:39.6 | don't know. |
| 1:41.2 | What's up, Fire Nation? |
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