Q&A: “Can you make more from courses than anything else?”

Notes from Chris

Episode 1988

We talk a lot about the knowledge economy or selling information in terms of online courses and other digital products. There’s a reason for that: many of these courses and resources are very profitable!

It’s also a common path to go from being a Creator in a certain field to teaching people how to do something similar. It happens organically sometimes, not always strategically. But today we have a question about this—does the tail sometimes wag the dog? (That’s not quite how they put it, but basically they’re wondering: why “do the thing” in the first place? Do these course instructors earn more from the courses than they did in the actual field?)

"I've noticed that a lot of case studies tend to switch pretty quickly to making a course about the thing they did—as in, their product or service—instead of just continuing to do the thing. Is it the case that teaching is better than doing? I don't mean to be overly skeptical but I wonder if their business was so good, why don't they invest more time in that instead of pivoting so quickly?"

Listen to today's episode to learn more...

 

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