Do the Work You Love by Joe Barnes

Author:Joe Barnes
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781786783882
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2020-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

Teach a Course on Skillshare/Udemy or Blogging

If you already have specialist knowledge in a popular field, this could be a feasible and exciting option. People are always looking for solutions to their problems and fast ways to learn new skills. You can provide this, and get paid to do so, by uploading a course onto Skillshare or Udemy.

Of course, this requires a substantial initial time investment. You must plan and structure your course in a manner that’s easy for the purchaser to understand. Then, you must either write, or film, the content you are offering. Finally, you’ll need to market your course – it would be unwise to assume that, without a substantial pre-existing audience, it will automatically sell.

Courses available on these two platforms encompass a wide variety of subjects. Depending on your area of expertise, you could create a course teaching people about photography, music, learning a language, website design, or softer skills such as personal development or leadership in the workplace.

Courses based on teaching career skills (Excel, Photoshop, web development) tend to be more successful on Udemy than courses teaching soft skills. Courses teaching more creative subjects tend to do better on Skillshare.

Udemy is the larger and more popular platform. You won’t be permitted to price your course at over $50 but, in practice, most courses are heavily discounted with the customer rarely paying over $15 to purchase your material. As with writing a book (although you’ll likely make more money per unit selling a course), the great benefit is that you’ll be earning a continuous passive income. Of course, there is the time investment to create the course (although this needn’t be too long if you already have the expert knowledge), but once over, and if the course is popular, you’ll have an income stream that requires very little of your time to maintain.

Corbett Barr, co-creator of Fizzle (a website that gives readers the technical tools and support to make a living from their passion), recommends creating an online course as the best option when looking to fund your passion through a side project. In a Fizzle podcast show titled, “Can a Side Project Fund Your Big Idea?” he had this to say:

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