10 Ways to Market Your Course as You Create It

Course creation is a great way to connect with your customers, build your authority within your niche, and increase your sources of income for your business. Courses tend to go more in-depth than your blogs, and if you do it right, your clients will keep coming back for more to learn from you. Now that you've finished (or almost finished) creating your online course, it is time to let your people know about it. It took several weeks (maybe even months) to create, record, and edit, so it is only right that you also put in some time and effort to promote your course. Here are 10 ways to market your course while you're creating it: •Offer a sneak preview of your course. You might release a short video, a handout, or a checklist. This addresses the "what's in it for me" question so give people some insights on what is inside your course. •Let people see what's behind the scenes. This is a good way to show people how you're creating your course. If you're recording, you can go off-camera to show some behind the scenes footage so that you can build some excitement around your course, and you can take people to a pre-sale page. •Offer a tip from your course. One way that I love to work with first-time course creators is to create a series of tips from the course that they are about to launch. Your course is packed full of tips, so why not create them into social graphics on Canva that you can release in the days leading up to your launch. This is also a great way to build your evergreen social bank as well. •Tap into questions that are being asked about the topic. What are the questions being asked about your topic? If you've done your research using tools like Answer the Public and DisplayPurposes, you've already tapped into questions that your clients are asking. You can call for questions on your social media. This allows you to establish a meaningful conversation with your audience. •Answer questions on Facebook Groups and Quora. Start adding value by answering questions on your topic and mentioning that you're covering more about the topic in your upcoming course. •Go on live video to connect with your audience. People want to get to know the person behind the course. So going on a live video gives you a chance to connect with your audience more personally. You can share about the topics that will be covered in your course and what's in store for them when they sign up. •Do some guest blogging. Guest blogging is a great way to get in front of other people's audiences and it's a powerful way to build your profile and authority. Start looking for opportunities where you can write guest blogs. Just be sure that their audience also shares your target audience for your course. You can share ideas and tips, and then share information about your course topic. •Optimise your email signature. Your email is a goldmine when marketing your course. You send an email almost every day to people. Make sure that your signature includes a link to your course. You can use a tool like Wisestamp to get the most out of your emails with a professionally designed email signature. •Be interviewed. Do some research on podcasts or websites where you can be interviewed around your course topic. The most important thing when you are being interviewed is to add value to their listeners or viewers. Be sure to share a helpful tip then promote your course after. And...