E129: 6 Move-The-Needle Steps for Your Online Course Business

In this episode, you’ll discover 6 steps you can take to move the needle on your course business in the year ahead. Follow through and you’ll be amazed at how much more you accomplish! 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS 

The 6 move-the-needle steps and their pages:  

1. Take better notes from the training you attend – and actually follow up with action steps! Page 29 of Part 2.   
2. Brain dump your project list and review it each week. Page 42 of Part 1.   
3. Plan some 90 day sprints using the Quarterly Calendars on pages 15-18 of Part 1.   
4. Design your course AND your launch with the documents in Section 3 of Part 2.    
5. Track those really important numbers in Section 5 of Part 2. Revenue Estimator, Income, Expenses, Bills, Subscribers, Savings, Mileage.   
6. Make sure you follow up with potential JV partners. Pages 27 and 28 of Part 2.   

FULL INDEX OF PLANNER PAGES

I don’t recommend printing off the whole thing. Find your favorite pages and print those:

1. Page 5 – TO DO – Do a brain dump of all your open items
2. Pages 6-7 – DAILY TO DOS
3. Pages 8-10 – WEEKLY PLANS
4. Pages 11-14 – YEARLY CALENDARS – plan your big projects for each month – or even list reminders about birthdays
5. Pages 15-18 – QUARTERLY CALENDARS
6. Page 19-30 – MONTHLY CALENDAR
7. SECTION 2 – starts on page 32 – VISION BOARD and GOALS
8. Page 42 – PROJECT LIST – one of the most powerful pages to help you stay focused
9. Page 43-44 – PROJECT PLANNERS
10. Page 45 – 30 DAY CHALLENGE
11. SECTION 3 – COURSE & LAUNCH PLANNER
    1. Page 3 – Course Planner
    2. Page 4 – Lesson Planner
    3. Page 6 – Launch Timeline
    4. Pages 7-10 – Launch Planner/Email/Social Media/Images to help plan and schedule your emails and social media posts
12. SECTION 4 – MINDSET AND AFFIRMATIONS – gratitude, affirmations, selfcare, + trackers
13. SECTION 5 – TRACK YOUR NUMBERS – Revenue Estimator, Income, Expenses, bill, Subscribers, Savings, Mileage,
14. SECTION 6 – TAKING NOTES
    1. Page 27 – For your next meeting: Agenda / Actions Steps
    2. Page 28 – JV Notes
    3. Page 29 – Training Notes
    4. Page 30-32 – Contacts
    5. Page 33 – Passwords
15. SECTION 7 – Blank Pages