Level Up Your Course Podcast with Janelle Allen: Create Online Courses that Change Lives
Janelle Allen: Learning Designer, Online Course Coach, and Entrepreneur
130 episodes
3 months ago
Janelle Allen from the Zen Courses blog interviews successful online course creators, sharing their stories, successes, and struggles. On the podcast, she also reveals her strategies for creating and growing an online learning business, based on her 9 years as an Instructional Design consultant. Discover how you can build a profitable online course that improves learning, increases revenue, and boosts your authority. Learn how to take your existing learning platform to the next level so you can better serve your audience. Hear stories from agencies, consultants, CEOs and founders who felt called to transform lives through education. Although a lot of podcasts focus on online courses as a means to passive income, you won’t find that here. Instead, you’ll hear from people driven to democratize education and deliver results. Instructional Design, video and audio, engagement, on-boarding, workshops, group programs, marketing your course, launching your course, automation, building authority and trust, social media, getting things done, outsourcing and everything that works (and doesn't work) to help you create a profitable online course that changes lives--including your own!
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Janelle Allen from the Zen Courses blog interviews successful online course creators, sharing their stories, successes, and struggles. On the podcast, she also reveals her strategies for creating and growing an online learning business, based on her 9 years as an Instructional Design consultant. Discover how you can build a profitable online course that improves learning, increases revenue, and boosts your authority. Learn how to take your existing learning platform to the next level so you can better serve your audience. Hear stories from agencies, consultants, CEOs and founders who felt called to transform lives through education. Although a lot of podcasts focus on online courses as a means to passive income, you won’t find that here. Instead, you’ll hear from people driven to democratize education and deliver results. Instructional Design, video and audio, engagement, on-boarding, workshops, group programs, marketing your course, launching your course, automation, building authority and trust, social media, getting things done, outsourcing and everything that works (and doesn't work) to help you create a profitable online course that changes lives--including your own!
LUYC 125: Get Stronger with Python with Reuven Lerner
Level Up Your Course Podcast with Janelle Allen: Create Online Courses that Change Lives
45 minutes 14 seconds
5 years ago
LUYC 125: Get Stronger with Python with Reuven Lerner
What’s up everyone! This week’s guest is Reuven Lerner, full-time Python trainer, computer scientist, and author of Python Workout.
If you are doing courses because you have expertise and enjoy sharing it with other people, let that show.
Reuven teaches developers and corporate engineers around the world to become fluent in Python. In his corporate training, he serves top tier tech companies like Apple, Cisco, IBM, and Intel, but he also offers Weekly Python Exercises, a set of 15-week courses to help learners become better Python developers. His online video courses consist of hands-on labs that empower his students to understand Python at a deeper level.
Tune in to hear Reuven’s Python journey, plus how he creates engaging online trainings, creates his evergreen newsletters, and drives traffic to his website. Let’s dig in!
Episode Quotes
"There's a bunch of different ways to drive website traffic, so it's important not to put all of your eggs in one basket."
"Narrowing down the service offerings on my website has been more effective."
"If you are doing courses because you have expertise and enjoy sharing it with other people, let that show."
"Informality is no longer seen as a bad thing, so be yourself and keep experimenting."
Listen to Learn
01:28 - Rapid 5 Questions, Reuven's business journey
10:45 - Converting in-person to online training
14:40 - Tips for creating engaging online training
18:24 - How to build an evergreen newsletter
22:26 - Ways to increase website traffic
26:37 - Sales funnel and lead nurturing
29:25 - Importance of a customer-centric website
34:47 - The power of online courses during COVID-19 crisis
41:10 - Advice for online course creators
42:22 - Exciting things coming up from Reuven
Connect with Reuven
Check out Reuven’s Weekly Python Exercise
Read Reuven’s book, Python Workout
Lerner.co.il
Follow Reuven on Twitter!
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Level Up Your Course Podcast with Janelle Allen: Create Online Courses that Change Lives
Janelle Allen from the Zen Courses blog interviews successful online course creators, sharing their stories, successes, and struggles. On the podcast, she also reveals her strategies for creating and growing an online learning business, based on her 9 years as an Instructional Design consultant. Discover how you can build a profitable online course that improves learning, increases revenue, and boosts your authority. Learn how to take your existing learning platform to the next level so you can better serve your audience. Hear stories from agencies, consultants, CEOs and founders who felt called to transform lives through education. Although a lot of podcasts focus on online courses as a means to passive income, you won’t find that here. Instead, you’ll hear from people driven to democratize education and deliver results. Instructional Design, video and audio, engagement, on-boarding, workshops, group programs, marketing your course, launching your course, automation, building authority and trust, social media, getting things done, outsourcing and everything that works (and doesn't work) to help you create a profitable online course that changes lives--including your own!
