YOUR NEXT STEP IS TO….

Find and Build Your Audience!

You’ve got a promising idea and enough passion to back it up. You just need to polish off your startup know-how before you make the leap and strike out on your own…

Your next steps:

Your next step in finding a good online course idea will be to find an audience. For example, if you're passionate about dog training, it's likely that you already frequent a few dog training forums or are part of a facebook groups where people share their experiences.

For some niches, it may not be as simple as logging onto Facebook. Depending on your target demographic, you may be more likely to find your audience on forums, subreddits, or event within certain Instagram hashtags. The

So while you may have your course topic, you may need to make sure that your audience will actually buy it. If you don't have an audience, then you need to work on identifying the broad market you will attract and slowly

A good online course idea will meet these criteria before you start creating:

  • There is an audience for it

  • It’s narrow enough that you can get nitty gritty

  • You are an authority on the topic

  • You’ve gone back and validated your course idea

Keep an eye out on your email for tips on finding and building your audience

  • Who do you want to help?

    • Is there a community that could benefit form this course?

  • Research

    • Google course topic and related words and phrases

    • Is there a certain group of people that is interested in your topic?

  • Find similarities

    • Is your audience mostly located in a specific country?

    • What language does your audience speak?

    • What's the level of education?

    • What age range are most of them?

    • Most male? Female?

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