The One Thing Standing Between Your Expertise and Your First Dollar
The One Thing Standing Between Your Expertise and Your First Dollar It’s not capability. You have that. It’s not credentials. You earned more of those than most people accumulate in a lifetime. It’s not the content. If you’ve spent any time with this blog, you already know your knowledge is worth packaging and selling. That…
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How to Find Your First 10 Students When You Have No Audience
How to Find Your First 10 Students When You Have No Audience Here’s the belief that stalls more good first offers than almost anything else: “I need to build an audience first.” You don’t. Not for the first 10 students. An audience is valuable. Eventually you want one. But waiting until you have one to…
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Course vs. Coaching vs. Consulting: Which Model Fits Your Expertise?
Course vs. Coaching vs. Consulting: Which Model Fits Your Expertise? Before you build anything, there’s a decision that shapes everything else: how are you going to sell what you know? There are 3 primary models. Each works. Each has real tradeoffs. The right one for you depends on your expertise, your lifestyle, and where you…
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The Minimum Viable Course: Why Smaller Is the Right Starting Point
The Minimum Viable Course: Why Smaller Is the Right Starting Point The first instinct when building a course is to make it comprehensive. Cover everything. Leave nothing out. Give the buyer so much value they couldn’t possibly ask for a refund. It’s a generous instinct and it’s almost always wrong. Here’s what actually happens when…
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How to Know If Your Course Idea Will Actually Sell
How to Know If Your Course Idea Will Actually Sell Most courses that fail didn’t fail because they were badly built. They failed because nobody asked for them before they were built. Building a course is a significant investment of time and energy. Doing it before you know someone will buy is one of the…
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You've Got the Outline. Here's How to Build the Business Around It.
You’ve Got the Outline. Here’s How to Build the Business Around It. Say you’ve done the work in the earlier posts. You used The Foundation, or you sat down and figured it out on your own, and now you have a course outline built from your experience. Good. That’s a real asset, and most people…
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What to Charge for Your First Offer (and Why Most Get It Wrong)
What to Charge for Your First Offer (and Why Most Get It Wrong) Pricing is where a lot of good first offers quietly die. Not because the number was too high or too low, but because the person picking it was answering the wrong question. Let me give you the right one. The two wrong…
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How to Choose the One Thing to Teach First
How to Choose the One Thing to Teach First Here’s a problem that only happens to people who actually know things: you have too much to teach, so you teach nothing. You sit down to build your first course and your mind floods. You could teach this, or this, or this other thing that connects…
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AI Won't Replace Your Expertise. Here's What It Actually Does.
Worried AI makes your hard-won expertise worthless? It does the opposite. Here is what AI actually does for a subject-matter expert, and what it can’t.
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The Real Reason I Built Rhynowerks
The man who married my daughter, his mother was once my student. I didn’t know that when they met. I found out years later, and I had to sit down when I did. That moment told me something I’d known in my head for decades but never felt in my chest: the work you do…
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