You work tirelessly and spend days or months creating the content for your online course. Finally, you launch your course. But what’s next? Once the course has been launched and the landing page is ready, how do you decide how to sell your online course quickly? What do you need to do?

Successful online coaching businesses rely heavily on creating an amazing online course with great content and then marketing the course well. In this post, we share with you some quick ways to make sure you get the traction you need, to sell your course. The steps mentioned below will help you sell quickly and cost-effectively so that you get the maximum bang for your buck.

First things first: Who can sell online courses?

The answer is anybody. Really! You don’t need any certifications to sell online courses, but what helps in selling faster is a pre-existing audience and credibility about your niche skills or expertise. A well-designed landing page can easily help you do that.

However, with the growing popularity of video-based online courses, you don’t have to depend on the text-only course. Online courses sell more than offline courses due to the incorporation of multiple media like video, PDF, Prezi, and text, which engages learners more by helping them visualize the learning and apply the knowledge compared to traditional classroom-type learning methods.

Landing Page: Your Sales Enabler

One of the key benefits of using Knorish’s platform is that it allows you to create a perfect landing page for your course. What that means is that you get to use the landing page to promote your brand and academy. A landing page is crucial as it shared with the audience a clear description of the course and why it’s important for prospective learners to take it.

It can be used to directly share the most important information with prospective customers. It will help them learn more about your course and decide if it will be worth their time and money. Besides, when done correctly, landing pages can also be great for generating leads for email marketing.

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Next Up: How do you sell online courses?

So once your online course and the landing page are ready, the next step is to start selling. Contrary to popular belief, selling online courses is simple once you understand the nitty-gritty of it. Once your course content is ready and uploaded on knorish’s platform, you must complete the steps listed below to sell online courses. While some are obvious, others are unique and may take time to set up, but once you get going, there’s no looking back:

Promote your course on your blog

If you don’t have a blog, create one. With a blog in place, you can do a lot of content marketing and push your content with organic marketing. Plus, regularly engage your target audience through well-written content that will also help you increase your SEO rankings. You’ll also be able to engage your audiences better by sharing this content in various formats on your social media handles and reposting it on multiple designs.

Start a YouTube channel

To prepare the course content, the number of hours spent in front of a camera now should have made you comfortable with it. Use this new-found ability and create a YouTube channel where you share smaller pieces of content with your audience. Backlink it to your course every time. Those who like your videos can sign up to take your course.

Create a dedicated FB, LinkedIn, and Instagram Page

A dedicated FB Page is great for acquiring prospects all on one page. It makes it a lot easier to target, it’s cheap as it’s free, and it allows for direct messaging to your page followers to help them get the latest updates about your course. Additionally, the social media-related steps mentioned below can be easily directed toward increasing traffic on your page.

Promotional Videos

Nothing gets clicked on more than a video. The most-watched content on social media is, for that reason, video content. Hence, it makes sense to promote your online course via promotional videos. If your promo video does well, then you can also use social media channels like FB, which allow targeted marketing, thereby ensuring that your content gets viewed by the right demographics.

Share Live Videos

Internet data consumption is highest with Video. Knorish can conduct a webinar straight from your online course site. Similarly, Facebook and other popular platforms have added Video and live video interfaces to their platforms.

Once you have built a reasonably strong audience, you could also start sharing live videos about your course. These could be conversations with other peers about your course, unrehearsed student testimonials, expert comments about your course’s value, etc.

Build an Email List

Emails can be a powerful tool for capturing leads and selling more. Several courses have done extremely well due to the optimal use of email marketing and remarketing. So how do you build a list?

A direct benefit of joining online communities and creating social media handles that generate traffic is that it helps you build an email sequence that you could utilize to market your course.

These are valuable emails of people with similar interests and hence have a high probability of converting to customers who buy your course.

Student Testimonials

Student testimonials are a great way of influencing prospects to purchase your course. Plus, video testimonials do better than text-based testimonials. However, If you don’t have any available, you could release the course to a select few, ask for feedback, and tweak the course accordingly. For those who like the course, you could collect their testimonials and use them for the landing page.

You could also ask for testimonials from ideal customers, clients, peers, or other similar professionals who may have worked directly with you. This can be used to showcase your expertise in the subject matter. Make sure the participants understand the purpose of the testimonials.

Become more active on social media

Get more active on social media pages and groups discussing your subject matter. Give free advice if you need to. YouTube, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, and even LinkedIn are great channels for promoting your course for free. Share advice, and ask people to leave a comment. 

Those who do leave comments behind, you can capture their email ids for marketing later. A large following on social media is key for success in online course sales. It makes it just that much easier to market your course since you already have a target audience ready. Plus, this direct marketing to your target audience will be available free of charge and more responsive than a larger target audience size that ads can get.

Discounts for your course

Another way of promoting your course is to offer discounts on the price. Under your Knorish account’s publisher dashboard, you have the option of creating coupons for discounts, plus you have the option to limit the number of times the coupon can be used and assign a time limit for it too.

Everyone loves to save money, and running limited-period discounts is a great way of generating attention toward your content. These discount coupons can be distributed on various social platforms under dedicated campaigns or generally.

Guest blogging

Besides social media promotions, writing as a guest blogger for popular blogs can be a great way of increasing a fan following, plus that’s free promotion for your course. Many blogs allow promotional content as long as it’s centred around the blog’s overall theme and is not spam.

Hence, it is key that before you start writing, research the blog’s outreach and guest writing policies, and only then should you go ahead with it.

Social media groups

Starting a dedicated Fb/LinkedIn group is another great way of building a community of similar learners. Facebook can be great for a general audience or specific demographics, and LinkedIn, on the other hand, is great for acquiring professionals in your community.

Besides, LinkedIn is a great platform for networking with professionals and can lead to exposure to speaking events, conferences, and the LinkedIn learning platform. Another group can also be created for the students who are already taking your course to engage them further and address their queries and build a community around your course. Ideally, this group should be closed, where you only approve requests of students enrolling in your course.

So far, all the steps listed above are actionable tasks that can be performed from the comfort of your home. Not only are they easy to set up and launch, but these would also probably require you to invest a maximum of 3 hours daily for fruition. However, an organic increase in traffic needs time. Time means patience. If you would like to increase the outreach of your course faster, you need to look at one more step.

Promote your course with Ads

Suppose organic outreach of your course takes more time than expected, and you have the funds needed. In that case, you could also look at advertising the course on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube and blogs with similar target audiences.

Make sure to research your target audience well and how to target them on these platforms to ensure optimal returns on your investment. While there are no fixed prices for pay-per-click ads on social media, an approximate budget can be identified depending on the specifications like age, location, interests, hobbies, & the number of days. Remember, the larger the number of specifications.

Google Adwords & Display Ads

Google AdWords & display ads are a great way to accelerate sales faster than organic growth. Google AdWords primarily work in two ways – Search Network and Display Network. Both are set up differently however are easy to master.

Google has even released a free digital marketing course that one can take to understand AdWords better. The key for the ads to be effective is to ensure that the overall ad spends on customer acquisition should be lower than the course’s breakeven price.