Imagine this scenario: You decide to monetize your knowledge and create an online course. You produce the videos, documentation and membership access. In addition to explaining the benefits of the course, your sales page features a picture of you and bio explaining that you are an authority on this particular topic. You mention that you […]
How to Leverage Media Appearances into Book-Based Courses
If you use any type of media as a promotional tool for your book or blog or as a way to build your author platform, you can leverage your appearances into material for courses based upon your book. All it takes is some planning on your part and knowledge about how to repurpose these forms […]
How to Use a Membership Site to Deliver a Book-Based Course
If you choose to use a membership site to create and deliver a course based on your book, use all the same principles you’ve learned in previous posts, such as with password-protected pages on your blog or with an email autoresponder system. The same concepts apply, and you provide the same types of content, such […]
5 Reasons to Offer Your Online Courses Through a Membership Site
In my last post, I discussed a variety of ways to create an online course from your book. Today, I’d like to explain why I think the best way to deliver them with a membership site. 1. Automation First, and foremost, membership sites are automated. This means much of the work is done for you. […]
How to Turn Book-Based Webinars and Teleseminars into Online Courses
If you know how to produce teleseminars and webinars based upon your book, you now find yourself in the perfect position to take the next step: creating online courses. Online courses can prove a phenomenal way to build a business around your book. They are easy to create once you know the system for extracting […]
How (and Why) to Turn Your Book Into Teleseminars and Webinars
A great way for an author to build a business around a book is to turn the book into teleseminars and webinars. If you can turn the chapters of your book into a talk, speech, workshop, or class, you can turn it into a teleseminar or webinar. That means you explode the number of opportunities […]
How Authors Can Turn Their Books into Workshops and Classes
If you are willing to go from author to speaker, a whole new world of opportunities opens up to you. Additionally, your ability to earn money increase as well. Since most chapters of your book can be turned into speeches, talks or lectures, which you can present to group of all sizes and types, you […]
2 Fundamental Steps for Building a Business Around Your Blog
I won’t tell you that I have it all figured out when it comes to building a business around my blogs. Nor will I claim, like some, to make millions from my blogs or from the products or services I sell related to my blogged books, my other books, or my blog topics—at least not […]
A Short Book with Bonus Content Makes a Great First Product
If you want to monetize your blog, one of the easiest products to create may be an ebook or short book. I’ve discussed these numerous times on this blog. As book bloggers and bloggers, you are uniquely set up to produce this type of content. And, of course, short books were the first products I […]
Will You Turn Your Blogged Book Into a Business?
You’ve got your blog set up, and you’ve started blogging your book. Have you considered what you might do to sustain your interest in your topic or story and to fill your wallet once you finish your manuscript and publish your book? Here are the cold hard facts: Making a living as a writer takes […]