Hello, and welcome to Get That Course Online – the online course. I’m Ginette, and I’m your instructor for this course.
In this first section, we are going to go over some of the strong foundations that I’d love for you to have in place, before we get right into the heart of creating your online course. The reason why I want to talk through these strong foundations is because every person who I have taught in this stuff, who’s had success with it, has put these foundations in place. So they’re really important for you to start here to make sure you have the best chance of getting that course online.
So within this section, we’re going to go through some top tips for success, how you can really turn on everything that you possibly can to make sure that you’re successful. Then we will talk about something called the Online Course Taker’s Mantra. And this is something that I originally developed back in, 2015 I think, as a way to keep myself focused on what I was creating in my online courses. This has a counterpart called the Online Course Maker’s Mantra. So we’ll go through both of those and why they’re important for you.
Then we will look at finding the one. So this is all about understanding your audience and understanding what they want from your online course. And then we will work out what will sell for you. And this is obviously one of the most important things because, what we want is for you to be able to create an online course that you can sell, should you choose.
At this point, I thought it might be important for a few of you to have a little bit more information about me and who I am, because you might not have come across me before. And this online course might be the first time you’ve received any kind of training from me. So I call myself an Online Business Alchemist, which means that my special skill, my talent, my superpower, if you like is being able to discuss other people’s businesses with them, and find the areas where they can really develop some great online content to add to their offerings, and in a lot of cases, make that some form of passive income for them. It’s also just a shortcut for saying, and I really am a bit of a geek when it comes to all things online.
I’m an author, and some of you may have come to me on this course via a copy of Get That Course Online, the book. And if you have you’re very welcome. If you haven’t, don’t worry, we will follow the same methodology that I lay out in the book. And I would obviously recommend that you get a copy anyway. I’m also a trainer, which means I have been trained in the art of helping other people to understand what it is I’m talking about, which is useful in a couple of ways, but not always as useful as you might think.

So when I first started in online course creation, I assumed that I would know exactly how to create a good online course, because I was a trainer. And of course nothing could be further from the truth! Training and delivering and designing a face to face or a virtually live course is very, very different to the process of designing an online course, as I found out the hard way. But luckily for you, that means that I’ve taken all my learning and can give that to you, so you’ve got all the shortcuts and all the easy routes to get to where you need to get to.
If you’re into Human Design, then I’m something that’s known as a Manifesting Generator. If you’re not into Human Design, this won’t mean anything to you so you can just ignore it. Similarly, if you’re into Sacred Money Archetypes then I am a tied Romantic Nurturer. But again, if that doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry about it. You can find more trivia about me on my TheGetThatGang.com website, which has got all sorts of interesting bits of information, including the fact that Ed Sheeran, yes, him has watched me umpire hockey match twice.
Anyway, that’s it for me for now, except for one really important thing. It’s a very pink elephant in the room. And I just wanted to touch base on something that is really important to understand when it comes to learning about online course creation. I think it applies to learning lots of things, too. You may well have tried to create online courses previously, or you might at the very least have done some reading about them. And it wouldn’t surprise me if very quickly, you have found that there is an awful lot of conflicting information out there.
One of the things that I did when I first started learning about online courses was I compiled what I called best practice. So I did a lot of research into finding out what different people were doing and what worked for them. And initially I thought of them as a set of rules for creating online courses, but actually, I think they’re more a set of guidelines.
So, what you might find throughout this online course is that I might be doing some things just slightly differently to the way I’m asking you to go about doing them. Don’t worry, don’t panic, this isn’t a case of do what I say and not what I do. It’s just that by using the guidelines once, you will be able to understand where you’re starting from with creating online courses. And then once you’ve done one, once you’ve created an online course, you will understand a lot better how you can bend, flex, and perhaps even break some of those things. So you understand too, they’re not necessarily rules, they’re are a set of guidelines.
But what I would say is follow my methodology as closely as you possibly can to begin with, especially if you’ve not learnt about this stuff before. Ignore everything else. Don’t worry about it, just do what I’m asking you to do and you will definitely come away with a successful online course created. Alright, that’s it for this introductory lesson. I will see you in the next one.