Course Building Secrets Podcast

What is the fifth and Tara’s favorite essential ingredient? Obstacles and Challenges! Join Tara as she dives into building your online course while considering all types of obstacles: mindset, limiting beliefs, skill gaps, etc. Think back to your experience of becoming an expert. What challenges did you face? How did you overcome them? By planning out your own obstacles and challenges it will help you guide your learner to those solutions they need. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focuse

How do your clients/customers know where they are and how they are doing in the grand scheme of your course? Tara unpacks what to build into your framework that helps your learners if they start to feel lost.  Setting milestones and creating feedback connections are essential for getting people through the “messy middle”.  It is your role to help them overcome delays and doubts to get them across the finish line. In the end, it will increase your completion and ascension rates. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-b

What is the third ingredient for a successful online course? Practice. Tara shares tips for building practice into your online course as well as automating it. Practice is not a worksheet or a fill-in-the-blank note guide, practice is about creating an activity and repeating it. How do you put your learners into practice? About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about building aweso

On today’s episode Tara shares the second ingredient for a successful online course, feedback. Are you providing feedback to your learners in your online course? It is one of the most essential ways you can keep people engaged and really help lead them down the path to success. Have a look at your course and see where you can recognize and provide feedback to your clients in the form of encouragement, assessment, or practice. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and

What goes into making a successful online course?  Welcome to the first of a series of episodes, where Tara shares the 5 Essential Secret Ingredients For A Successful Online Course. The key is not to only sell your online course but is also about turning clients into returning raving fans. An effective online course should, first and foremost, have a clear Goal/Transformation. As you guide them to that goal, there needs to be built in feedback and recognition, opportunities for them to take action and practice, and clear milestones or targets for them to work towards along the way. Finally, and most importantly, you should be able to know the areas where your customers/students will struggle (we call it “the dip”) and have a plan for helping them move forward. Having a very specific goal or transformation baked into the results of your course is what will move people to pay for your solution instead of just googling the information they think they need. If you are struggling with putting your results int

How to you handle accommodating potential clients at various levels of experience without creating a course or resource for each and every one? In this episode, Tara breaks down the importance of assessing where your clients/customers are coming from and which is the best level for them. By developing various “levels” in your course that still lead towards one specific and measurable result, you are creating a natural ascension for your raving fans. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on

Growing your business or wanting to get hired? In this episode Tara shares the biggest rookie mistake you can make. Everyone can promise outcomes and results but be prepared to explain HOW you achieved them and HOW you are able to achieve repeatable results. Don’t forget to own your process and present yourself as the expert you are. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about b

In this episode Tara dives into the question, are online courses still a valuable and relevant tool? The experience that you create around different methods makes a huge difference in helping people become successful. People need various ways to learn and you can help them succeed by engaging their various senses. There is power and leverage that comes from packaging what you do into something repeatable. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and b

What is the number one thing you need to consider when packaging your expertise (and it’s NOT tech)? Listen in as Tara shares the answer in today’s episode. She breaks down the importance of mapping out your proprietary framework and really understanding who your client is and how you serve them. Focus on what the client experience is that you want to deliver and start automating bits and pieces to make it an awesome experience for everybody involved. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused o

On this episode Tara welcomes Angela Joy Markham an Affiliate Marketing guru. Angela takes us through her own transition from a corporate employee to an entrepreneur. Not sure what affiliate marketing is? Listen as we chat about what kids of affiliate partnerships will work for your business, tips to get you started, and why affiliate marketing paired with your online course is a Game Changer! Angela recommendation: Sarah Blondin - Insight Timer About the Guest: As we navigate the often turbulent waters of entrepreneurship, I want to be able to point you in the direction of ultimate clarity when it comes to branding and marketing in your business! Let’s face it, it can be a little scary. I can help you reduce overwhelm and simplify processes when it comes to the foundational elements of growing and flourishing within your business. Since 2011, I’ve been helping small business owners like you create stellar brand identities, while simultaneously earning a passive income with Affiliate marketing systems and s

In this episode Tara shares the importance of focusing on that one thing. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Being experts, we have the tendency to share everything that we know at once which can be overwhelming for clients. Listen as Tara breaks this episode into the two biggest challenges of how to narrow down what it is you want to help something with and how do you keep that focus on what that clients actually needs. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example

We are excited to bring you this encore presentation of one of our most popular episodes. We hope you enjoy! In this episode, Tara talks about how your ability to succeed is sometimes to "just ride through that snowstorm and keep focused, keep going on your goals. Keep going on whatever it is that you're trying to pursue. And really step into that belief and faith in yourself that you can do it." About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building

We are excited to bring you this encore presentation of one of our most popular episodes. We hope you enjoy! In today's Course Building tip, Tara gives a framework for defining your process. Defining your process is critical for not only successfully helping your 1:1 customers but also essential for packaging what you do into an online course business. Tara gives 3 steps to start to define and communicate your process. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example

This episode Tara welcomes video expert Tracy Phillips. Going from in person meetings to zoom conferences, we’ve all been getting a little too comfy in our work at home clothes. Tracy shares why you should get camera ready every day. Listen as she shares the importance of embracing your “sucking period” and making the desire to reach your audience greater than your fear. Learn how to avoid the sea of sameness out there and some Super Secret tips to ROCKING your Intro! Link to book mentioned: https://amzn.to/37F4l8y (Get Different by Mike Michalowicz) About the Guest: Tracy was thrust into the role of storyteller at a very young age when due to an unfortunate birth order mishap she found herself wedged between an academic sister and an adorable scamp of a brother. In order to stand out, she spent her childhood making up stories… about everything. After a meandering path of unsatisfying careers, Tracy found an outlet for her creative skills in video production. She has spent the past two decades

If your course is focusing on the result but not the solutions, try asking the bigger questions that will lead potential clients to the future state. Listen in as Tara shares what to do when you understand the result but haven’t nailed down the “problem”. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about building awesome learning experiences. In this community, we are passionate about

In this episode, Tara dives into an alternative to the Super Size Me advertising hype out there. When creating your online program (Or any program for that matter), the bigger you make it doesn't only not make it better but is downright dangerous for your customers. Learn what to do instead to make sure you keep your business growing. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about b

Just how important is identifying your ideal client/avatar? In this episode Tara shares questions to ask yourself when thinking about who your avatar is and provides some telltale clues that you are not working with the right clients. Your avatar is about more than just attracting the clients who has the problem you solve, it’s also about matching your energy and excitement to work on their project! About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and buildin

With all the social media platforms out there where should you build your community? Facebook has always had the reputation for community building, but is it the best place? Although it is a great place to start out, Tara explains how it can become an obstacle for growth. Having your conversations in one place and the program in another can cause unnecessary confusion. As a course creator, it is better to keep your clients in one place to engage as much as possible. Remember that the customized community experience within your course platform is the goal! About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.

In this episode, Tara talks all things change. Are you trying to learn something new? Maybe you are starting a new venture, or you're trying to scale the venture that you have, and you're really just trying to figure things out. You're not alone! About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about building awesome learning experiences. In this community, we are passionate about building

In today's episode, Tara explains the Art of Pricing your online product. She gives 5 specific techniques to use as you decide the price of your offer. About Me: My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe. Check out my free Step-by-Step guide to building your online course. In it are the top steps and questions you need to ask before you get started. Check it out here: https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide (https://goto.taralbryan.com/step-by-step-guide) This group is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about building awesome learning experiences. In this community, we are passionate about building learning experiences that produce results for our learners. We do that by building engaging, mo