Our favorite online course platform is hosting a course creators competition, and you can win up to $100,000! In this post, we share how you can enter the competition easily and get your online course set up in just a few days. Make sure to read through the steps below to enter before the deadline and also sign up for your free trial.
If you have ever considered creating an online course, now is your time!!! Our favorite course platform is hosting an amazing competition right now, and you can win up to $100,000. They also have three runner-up prizes of $10,000 each.
To get signed up for the Next Big Course Creators Competition, follow these steps:
- Click this link to get signed up for a 14-day free trial
- Then make sure to click this link to enter the course creators competition by the May 15th deadline
- Finally, read thru this post and also bookmark the following link to read our most popular course article: 10 Tips to Create An Online Course Fast
Important note: You DON’T HAVE TO HAVE YOUR COURSE CURRICULUM COMPLETED in order to enter the competition. So make sure to go sign up before the deadline. You just need to make sure to have the curriculum completely entered by the end of the competition to qualify for the prizes. This means, you can sign up students NOW, and “drip” out content to them weekly to create your course in your spare time.
If you are reading this post past the entry deadline date, but you still want to start your online course, use this free trial link to test out the platform for free.
How to easily set up your online course for the Next Big Course Creators Competition
Maybe you have thought about setting up an online course to make passive income, but the task of creating it seems overwhelming and time-consuming. We’re going to share our best tips to create an online course fast.
We want to help all you passionate creators and business owners get your course, program, or offer automated and put into an online course. AND we would LOVE to see YOU win the Next Big Creator Challenge grand prize!
Our goal with this article is to show you how to create a course easily in your spare time but that also brings you passive income.
Here are the steps to create your online course fast…
1. Choose a niche that you are passionate about or have mastered
It will be so much easier to create a course quickly if you are passionate about the topic or you are the person everyone turns to because you have mastered some skill or developed your abilities in a specific area of expertise.
If you are a beginner at course creation, don’t worry. Simply choose a topic that you love talking about. You can share things from your own unique perspective and develop authority over time.
If you are a business owner or coach, choose a topic that your client needs help with NOW. You can even sell coaching as your “course” for the competition. The sky is the limit with HOW you present your help and services to the world.
2. Outline your course right on the platform
The course platform is our favorite place to outline our courses. You can simply go into the platform and start outlining your course by giving each section a name, and then listing out the steps your students need to make in order to achieve their goal or make a transformation. Once you have the steps filled out, go into each section and add text, videos, worksheets, or quizzes.
Remember, you can outline the course now, and then “drip” out content weekly, meaning you push out new content each week as you create it. This way, you can take your time to record videos, write out text and steps, and develop worksheets in WORD or Canva.
If the thought of turning out content weekly stresses you out, make it bi-weekly sessions. Ask yourself what feels right to you and make creating this course easy and doable for YOU. You’re going to have more fun and a better chance of being a successful digital creator if you listen to your own guidance and create in a FUN WAY that is ALIGNED to YOU! Your potential students will be attracted to a course that shows you have a passion for what you teach.
3. Use your smartphone or Zoom to record videos. Then load them into the platform.
You don’t need fancy equipment or high-tech abilities to create your course. I have one course that includes all audio meditations, and it was all recorded on my smartphone. I simply loaded the recordings to my computer and transferred them into the platform.
Another course I have available online is all written text and journal worksheets. And yet another course is a combination of videos I recorded using Zoom along with entered written text. You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on fancy microphones and video cameras in order to sell courses online.
You just need to provide LOTS OF VALUE. Think of breaking the steps down into simple actions and help your student develop their skills and learn to use tools along the way.
4. Create a simple Sales Page on the course platform and start sharing the link!
There are so many ways to get the word out about your new online course, but one of the fastest and easiest ways is using your current social media platforms. The people you already know might want to support you or learn from you. Don’t be afraid to share what you have created. This is where I see so many people give up, and I don’t want that to be you. Share what you have worked on, and let people know to share it forward.
You can use the platform to create a sales page. Then have a goal to create an automated way (funnels, ads, blog posts) to get traffic to your sales page. You can start a blog and write about the topic and share your course there. We do this with many of our online courses, and people who enjoy reading our blog often buy our courses to dive deeper and learn more.
You can also use free platforms like Pinterest to create pins that link directly to your sales page. You can create many pins with many different angles all related to your course topic and point all those pins to your one sales page. Pinterest is free to use, and we have great success with getting free traffic to our web pages and sales pages using Pinterest. Here’s an example of a Pinterest Pin leading to this article:
Finally, you can use paid advertising such as Facebook or Instagram ads or buy ads on Google to drive traffic to your sales page on the course platform. We’ve done all of these and had great success. You can pay as little as $5 a day to boost a post on Facebook to drive traffic to your sales page.
If you would like personalized training to make sure your course idea is profitable and to have our eyes on your curriculum and marketing, we offer business coaching to help online business owners, coaches, and creators to clarify their offer and then develop it into an online course. We help you map out your profitable course or offer and get it onto a platform so it is automated and doing the hard work for you. This way, you can use one platform to create your course, develop your sales page, and take payment from your students all on automation. Click here to get help and accelerate the process of making money with your online course.
We work with everyone from beginners to business owners and coaches who already have been doing one-on-one sessions but would like to put their programs into an online course to reach more people at once.
The benefits of entering the course creators competition and hosting your course online…
There’s no better motivation to finally create your online course than entering a competition to win money. Even if you don’t win, the platform offers so much support and education that you will be able to learn everything you need to know about creating your online course.
I would suggest going ahead and getting the free trial so you can outline the course idea that is most on your heart to share now. The great thing about this competition is if you develop one course and start selling it, but then get an even better idea and get that course selling, the platform will recognize whichever course is performing best automatically for you.
Also, if nothing else, you will finally be on the road to becoming a digital creator and developing your own suite of online courses. There is a lot to learn, but there’s no better way to learn than to DO IT. Once you start, you can use Google or Youtube to ask questions about techie things or reach out to us for coaching if you get excited and decide to learn more and expand your business online!
When does the competition start?
It started on April 1st and the deadline to enter is May 15th. You can enter by clicking here.
When does the competition end and when are the winners announced?
The Next Big Creator Challenge ends September 30th and winners are announced on October 1st.
We would love to know if you read this article and got inspired to enter the competition! Tag us on Instagram at @BePassionateAndProsper and show us a snapshot of your course page. We will be happy to share it and let others know about your course!
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