HOW TO CREATE YOUR FIRST COURSE EASILY & QUICKLY
Pick Your Topic
Choose what you want to teach in your course.
Ask ChatGPT to do market research for you to come up with in-demand ideas for a specific topic you're looking to flesh out.
You can also ask ChatGPT to help from a positioning perspective (e.g. you want to create a daily schedule template but it might look different if you’re aiming for it to be used by a 20-year-old versus a 40-year-old)
Plan Your Lessons
Break your topic into small parts. Each part will be a lesson. Still think each lesson is too broad? Have ChatGPT look over it and make suggestions.
Lesson 1: Introduction (What the course is about and why it’s useful)
Lessons 2-5: Main Content (Teach different parts of your topic)
Lesson 6: Conclusion (Summarize what you taught + Call To Action)
Write Your Lessons
Write down what you want to say for each lesson. Use simple words and short sentences.
You can use this as a script OR you can just do bullet points.
Sometimes it’s easier to talk out an idea - use Otter.ai to record yourself speaking and it will transcribe it. Use ChatGPT to simplify the rambling or create it into the actual course itself.
Add pictures, videos, or activities to make it interesting (Pexels has free images)
Most courses will require a ‘cover image’ for each section, so you'll want to create that too (use Canva for making things pretty)
create Your Lessons
Use something simple like Beacons to sell your digital products quick & easy with no technical skills and minimal headaches ($30/mo - no processing fees!!)
If you’re willing to put in extra time, use Kajabi, Thinkific, Squarespace, or Teachable for the course. This will require more time, money & energy with a massive learning curve needed.
Speedy + cheap route: Beacons
Long + expensive route: Kajabi, Thinkific, Squarespace, & Teachable
Check Your Work
Go through each lesson to make sure it makes sense and there are no mistakes.
Use ChatGPT to review everything
Share Your Course
Tell people about your course and share the link so they can join!
Example Instagram Story I posted to promote my podcast course
CONGRATS!
You’ve just created your first course! Remember, your first course won’t be your best or the last course you’ll ever create, and interactions and updates are recommended. Congrats on taking the first step to monetizing your knowledge!