online courses I've made a lot of them myself well six but why should you make them take a look at this this is how much money it's possible to make with skillshare every month this is Ali abdall and he has quite a few courses on there and this is the amount of money he's making every month sixty thousand fifty thousand seventy thousand no big deal you could buy a few McDonald's meals with that right so the main reason to make a course is passive income baby once you make it you don't really need to update
it or anything else it just sits there and makes you money Cold Hard Cash let's take a look at some examples skillshare pays five to seven cents per one minute watched so if someone watches your course for one minute you get five cents so hypothetically if you make a course that's one hour long and 300 people watch it you will make 1 000 bucks not too shabby look I currently have six courses on skillshare they're pretty good if you ask me and if I go into my dashboard here you'll see that the traffic that skillshare
gives you is pretty consistent over time which means that I can create a Course once and then one month from now or two months from now it's going to get consistent views which means that I make consistent passive income of course 50 bucks a month is not life-changing money by any means but if your course making skills aren't a dumpster fire like mine then think about it you may be making enough to stop working one day per week that's a free three day weekend every week your whole life by just making a course now the
second reason is that a course doesn't really cost anything to make if you have a phone you can use free editing software like DaVinci Resolve and record everything on your phone like I'm doing right now I'm recording on my iPhone 8 so you really don't have an excuse if you have an outdated iPhone 11. it's pretty easy too you just sit down write a script produce the course and it flops but then you make another one and another one and maybe it doesn't flop after all repetition is the mother of skill and now I can
comfortably make 50 bucks a month completely passively forever that's one dinner per month that I just get to enjoy for free with your mom just kidding when you make a course you get to tell someone how to do something and get paid for it just like being a boss really Your Own Boss here's a pro tip teach how I do something not how to do it I got this idea from Alex hormozzi and he talks about the idea of teaching someone how you do it not how to do it if you say that's how I
do it then no one can judge you for teaching something wrong because it's like oh that's how he does it not how you should do it if you teach how you do something you own it and no one can give you for it as I've once heard Ali Abdel say perfect is the enemy of good so just make the course and don't overthink it but man I don't have anything to teach wrong your ideal client the one you're going to teach is you one year ago or you five years ago you're teaching a person who
you used to be who you were before you learned the skill that you're gonna teach now for example five years ago I didn't know how to make a tasty tortilla but I've experimented with it and came up with a cool recipe that I pretty much eat every day now and decided to make a 10 minute course about it the good thing about creating a course on skillshare is that your course can be as short as 10 minutes that's basically like a YouTube video I've also been learning Photoshop for like five years now and experimenting with
the software and I made a short course about its tips and tricks it's pretty much the same with all my other courses I'm making YouTube videos so I figured out how to make my MacBook microphone sound pretty good and also made a course about that you can make a course about anything that you didn't know a few years back and you know now chances are someone's struggling with that thing right now and you can help them don't think about what do all of these people need what should I make a course about change it to
to what did I need one month ago or what did I need one year ago or what did I need five years ago and teach that teach what you know also don't think that what you know is obvious that everyone else knows it too people are very smart but each in their own field this is kind of weird but when you know something very well you might not realize that others don't know anything about it at all and that's why you should make their lives Easier by making a course about it your mess is your
message when you solve your problem any problem like figuring out how to make a tasty recipe or learning a software you can sell this knowledge to other people or at least teach it you can ask yourself these three questions to make it easier to come up with a course topic number one what problem can you solve think of literally any small problem anything you have overcome like I've made a course how to create a financial tracker with Google Sheets there are thousands of courses about that already but I did it in my own way and
so I made a course about it it can be as simple as that number two why what goal or what dream can I help someone achieve faster and number three what can I create to give someone a shortcut to succeed cool now that I've hopefully convinced you to make a course where should you make it and how for beginners there are really three platforms that I would recommend skillshare udemy and gumroad each have their own pros and cons so skillshare is where I host most of my courses and it's good because the minimum length of
a course is only 10 minutes however their guidelines are very annoying and strict so once you upload your course you might have to change it up a few times to adhere to their Community guidelines if like me you failed to read them the first time now on the other hand udemy has very loose guidelines and they don't really care what you put in your course however your course should be at least 30 minutes long so if you're planning to make a short digestible course udemy might not be the best fit but if you make a
course that's longer than 30 minutes you can put it up on udemy and also on skillshare as well you'll only have to do a few modifications because skillshare has this thing called a class project which basically encourages students to make something while watching your course and then there's gumroad gumroad is a platform where you can sell digital products and a course is essentially a digital product the good thing with gumroad is that they're not a course hosting platform so they will not take a big cut out of your income however it has no built-in audience
like udemy or skillshare udemy and skillshare basically promote your course for you you don't have to do any work yourself but if you host it on gumroad then you'll have to promote the course yourself but you can set your own price for the course and not have to worry about high fees so how do you make the course okay now you hopefully know where to put the course but how do you actually make it how do you record it and my best advice here is to not overthink it script and outline so you don't ramble
and so that there's some structure for your course don't think twice about it think about how I do something not how to do something that way you'll take pressure off yourself to make it super perfect then set your phone by the window to have good enough lighting Turn on screen recording if you're teaching through slides or a screen share and then just do it don't make it perfect you can always edit all of the mistakes later on or re-record something if you failed I cut out like 80 percent of the footage that I record because
I screw up every single sentence now what's important for the course is not really the visual quality but the audio quality as luck would have it I made a skillshare course about how to make your phone's microphone sound amazing you can check it out if you want to but here are the most essential tips for audio number one speak close to your microphone number two remove background noise for example close all the windows unplug the refrigerator remove the battery from your ticking clock on the wall turn off your AC and so on and number three
don't rush and try to speak through a smile that's 20 of the main things that you need to do to achieve eighty percent of the audio quality once you make the course you can create a thumbnail for it with canva and edit the course for free with DaVinci Resolve when it comes to creating the name of the course just copy what already Works take a look at other people that already have made similar courses and just look at how they name your course you can do this with the thumbnail as well take the main idea
of the thumbnail and just apply it to your own course you don't have to invent anything yourself because what's already working is already there next just upload your course to skillshare udemy or gumroad which is free and enjoy the hard earned cash I hope this was helpful to someone out there and I'll see you in the next one
