At a certain point, you may decide you want to make money with your blog. Monetizing your blog can prove easy if you have a large number of subscribers to your posts or to your email list or a huge amount of traffic each day. However, even with a small following, it’s possible to make […]
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 to Start Selling Products and Services From Your Blog
For years I did not have a plugin installed on my WordPress.org sites that allowed me to create membership sites or to provide courses and products via members-only technology. Instead, I sold my products and services on a typical webpage and then from blog pages without a member-only plugin. You can do the same until […]
How to Create an Audio Product to Sell on Your Blog
Not all writers consider themselves “techies”—even if they decide to blog their books or blog about their books. Thus, the idea of creating a business around your blog with membership sites and courses might seem overwhelming. An ebook might seem more doable since you probably consider yourself a writer. But even those who aren’t highly […]
How Membership Sites Help You Create Courses While Writing Books
This month I introduced the idea of building a business around your blog and your book(s). You may be wondering how you can manage one more activity in your busy schedule. Actually, creating courses using membership site technology, like Premise by CopyBlogger, can help you use your time more efficiently by multi-tasking. Create Courses While […]
Build a Business Around Your Blog with Membership Sites and Courses
Since January I’ve spent a ton of time creating courses and products around my books and blogs. I even wrote the first draft of my next book while creating an online course. I’m also working on new products and membership sites. Not all of these projects are complete, although a few are. Yet, at this […]