Today Video-Vitamin is about the ONE question that is always greeted with puzzled looks from my learners, plus, helping you see why courses are built around teaching people, not content.
Try the transformational exercise I use and let me know how it worked.
See you next time beyond the book!
Olimpia Mesa
As you have probably seen we launched a Free Discovery Session Campaign for Romanian authors. The reason I’ve decided to create this campaign that many Romanian authors, especially blog authors, reached out is they needed help in their pursuit of a next level product for their audiences.
They saw the need to go deeper with their help and many of them strongly believe they can create a learning product to help their followers on a deeper level.
Because we can only schedule 10 free discovery sessions this month, I’ve decided to answer some of the questions via my Youtube channel.
Join the conversation! Looking forward to your questions.
See you soon beyond the book!
Olimpia Mesa
In a society where “there’s an app for that” is synonymous with quick problem-solving, the desire for self-directed and instant learning is a defining characteristic. Check my new vitamin-video on how to replace the many pages of written content with new-era performance support tools.
This vitamin-video presents just some of the ideas for transforming old content into new tools. What are yours? Leave a comment to share them with the Book to Courses community.
If you enjoyed this video-vitamin, I’ll be posting many other videos every two weeks on re-purposing and transforming your book into courses, so I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel and engage in the conversation.
Looking forward to your questions right here.
See you soon beyond the book!
Olimpia Mesa
Watch this Vitamin-Video to find out the 7 Easy Steps to Creating a One Page Handout for your Workbook!
I’ll be happy to see what you’ve created and send you my thoughts. Share an example of your handout in our Facebook Community and I’ll get back to you.
Creating Workbooks is so exiting, it’s about being part of their transformation!
Good luck and see you soon beyond the book!
Olimpia Mesa
My favourite book-to-courses transformations in 2016:
1. Brene Brown, COURAGE Works, Living Brave Semester, opened Jan 11, 2016.
(offered once per year Jan-April); Registration closes Friday Jan 15, 2016 at midnight EST
2. Terri Altschul, Women Connected Circles, opened until Friday, January 15th when the portal opens.
3. Shawn Achor, 21 Days To A Happier Life, On demand.
4. Esther Perel, Love, Sex & Power + Reclaiming Connection, On demand.
5. Dan Roam, Professional Hand-Drawn Whiteboard Video Course, On demand.
Let me know what online course you signed up for and how it went.
Good luck and see you soon beyond the book!
Olimpia Mesa
“How to set up practice in the right way?” is the question I’ve got from Miriam.
Sharing my thoughts + how cooking home made tortellini went wrong for me 🙂
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.
See you soon beyond the book!
Olimpia Mesa
“What’s the right amount of content for my course?” is the question we’ll explore in this Vitamin – Video.
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts!
See you soon beyond the book!
As a book author, you’ve probably heard a lot the term Marketing Platform which includes elements like a web presence, media contacts you’ve established, articles you’ve published, public speaking services you offer, TV shows, Podcasts, and any other means you currently have for making your name and your work known to your readers.
Creating courses out of your non-fiction book is also a great way to build your own unique marketing platform. But it can be more than just a way to market your book. Taking your expert knowledge and turning it into something that creates value for your audience,actually becomes another stream of income for your business.
It’s good to know that in the Online Learning world a Platform is also a marketplace for online courses. A Learning Platform provides tools which enable users to create a course, promote it and earn money from student tuition charges.
A Learning Platform allows you to build online courses on topics of your choice. You can upload videos, presentations, PDFs, audios and live classes to create courses. Instructors can also engage and interact with users via online discussion boards.
Some Learning Platforms also offer marketing services. In some cases the platform can retain up to 50% of the earnings if the student comes through the platform’s own marketing efforts.
From what I’ve experienced, authors who identify their audience and start speaking to it directly, are the ones who succeed today. The ongoing conversations build connections and opportunities to catalyze their relationship over time and create a strong community. People follow those who have a unique story to tell, those who speak their audience’s language, those who show up, and those who provide tools and support. Building a marketing platform for a book or a course should be about building a community – a natural and ongoing process.
Authors from all over the world are sending questions about their book-to-course transformation ideas.
What would be one thing that you need help with?
Join thousands of authors who leap beyond the book and win!
Olimpia Mesa