David Siteman Garland is the creator of The Rise To The Top & Create Awesome Online Courses. David helps people create & sell online courses with thousands of students in over 100 countries who have created successful courses on everything from kindergarten teaching to snowboarding.

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Resources Mentioned:

• Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
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• The 5 Secrets to a Successful Online Course – JLD and David’s FREE Masterclass.

3 Key Points:

1. Having freedom in business is about creating your own schedule—this way you work on your own terms and are not a slave to your business.
2. Courses are already a product; you can update it and sell it over and over again.
3. One buyer a day for your course will sustain you, and you don’t necessarily need a lot of buyers for it to work.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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• [01:55] – David is a father of 2
• [02:23] – Whatever you do with your business, you have to have a good reason for doing it
• [02:33] – When doing courses, you get a lot of leverage and time to put back into your business
  • [02:55] – Time gets more and more precious
  • [02:59] – David is grateful to know that he has the backing of the business model he created
  • [03:11] – It’s also about taking control of your own business
• [04:33] – Today is about Create Awesome Online Courses
  • [05:03] – There’s a free masterclass on July 13^th at 2PM EDT
  • [05:20] – JLD and David are hosting the masterclass which you can check at EOFire.com/course
  • [05:33] – Look carefully at David’s “thank you” video and try to see what’s on David’s shirt
  • [06:37] – The training will be top-notch
  • [07:41] – When you register, there’s also a link to a Facebook group
  • [08:12] – JLD and David are doing training twice a year
  • [08:23] – JLD and David have a private Facebook group just for this training
  • [09:12] – Sign up at EOFire.com/course and click the link on the “thank you” page for the Facebook group!
• [10:04] – If you’re listening to JLD, you probably have a business or are thinking of starting one
• [10:17] – Some of the listeners are maybe from JLD’s Podcasters’ Paradise
• [10:34] – David is about to break $7M in sales for online courses
• [10:55] – David is getting close to 4,000 people who have used his courses
• [11:02] – David now has a 7-figure and a 6-figure club
  • [11:16] – There’s at least 10 people who have crossed the 7-figure mark
• [11:45] – The first benefit of online courses is the ultimate scalable way to help people get results and have a great impact
  • [11:58] – The most successful people in online courses are the ones who get people results
  • [12:18] – You can only help people so much
  • [12:42] – If you want people to transform from A to B, online courses will get you there
• [13:03] – There are some people who are teaching through a course
• [14:00] – The Freedom and Mastery Journals are going to make an appearance on the free masterclass
• [14:32] – There are a ton of reasons to be at the masterclass
• [14:44] – The second benefit of online courses in freedom
  • [15:28] – People get into a business for different reasons, but also want to have freedom
  • [16:04] – David became a slave to his own business
  • [16:23] – When David goes on vacation, he can’t unplug himself from his business
  • [16:28] – With courses, you can create a freedom-based business
  • [17:21] – With courses, you can do whatever you want with your schedule and it’s on your own terms
• [18:10] – The 5 Secrets to a Successful Online Course Free Masterclass will be on July 13^th 2017 @ 2PM EDT
  • [18:23] – Go to EOFire.com/course to sign up!
  • [19:00] – ILT or Invest Learn Teach— Invest in yourself, learn from sources and teach
• [19:33] – David has a team of spies that check out each course
  • [19:45] – There’s a lot of bad advice out there
• [20:36] – “Upfront work gets paid for years”
• [21:06] – Put effort into your course and become an asset
• [22:55] – JLD was about to print thousands of copies of The Mastery Journal when he got a call that he couldn’t call it Self-Mastery Journal, which was The Mastery Journal’s initial name
• [24:17] – “You don’t need a huge amount of buyers to be successful with an online course”
  • [24:33] – Online courses are sold at a premium
  • [24:56] – If you get one buyer a day for a $497 course, that’s $181,405 a year!
  • [25:30] – When David started with his online courses, he had only 4 people to market to
• [26:44] – The 5 Secrets to a Successful Online Course Free Masterclass is critical to your success if you’re interested in creating an online course
  • [27:36] – There will be a massive giveaway!
  • [27:45] – Visit EOFire.com/course even after the masterclass to see about future trainings
• [28:58] – JLD and David get together for the training every 6 months
• [29:36] – If there’s one person you know with a spark, bring him or her to The 5 Secrets to a Successful Online Course Free Masterclass

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