Million Dollar Instructor

About the Course

Million Dollar Instructor is the comprehensive set of video lessons that takes you behind the scenes of the best practices and tactics of "teacher entrepreneurs," a growing segment of internet entrepreneurs.

With the shift to online education, these ordinary people, are converting their knowledge on almost any topic into $10,000's or in some case over a $100,000's of dollars in income every month.

In this course, you'll be led by John Nichols and Eliot Arntz, Founders of the independent online school Bitfountain.io. They'll take you from their humble beginnings to enormous success – since April this year, John and Eliot have produced courses which have generated over $2M in revenue:

They will be joined by Ankur Nagpal and Conrad Wadowski, Founders of the online course-hosting platform Fedora who in the past year has helped over 1,000 instructors sell online courses. Having seen 4k+ courses on their platform, they break down what makes a best-selling course stand out from the noise.

You may have a variety of goals before coming into this course – to help grow your audience, make income in your spare time, or dive into becoming your own "teacher entrepreneur."

In this course you will learn

Every step you need to launch your course - you'll define your course concept, test your concept, develop content and bring your course to the most primed markets. We'll focus in on the problem holding you back. We'll dig into:

Phase 1: How to narrow into your course value proposition and test demand

How to come up with and define a killer course idea based on your expertise. Then, the exact steps to take to test if there's demand for what you'd like to teach.

Pre-launch marketing. You'll learn how to evaluate the success of your topic before investing time and energy much into actually producing any content.

Phase 2: The step-by-step process to develop compelling content

These lessons will also detail how to create content that's so valuable others will gladly pay for it - including video and audio content, without the need for expensive tools and software.

Just the research and scripting techniques you learn here will save you a ton of time. Afterwards, you'll learn how to create a insanely happy experience for your students.

Phase 3: How to price, launch and grow your course

This section will take you into topics such as pricing and ultimately getting your course to people who need it most. We'll go into the details and include specific pre-launch and launch landing page templates, successful email copy and lists of people and companies who can help you bring your course to an even larger audience.

This course will help you focus your marketing on the activities that have proven to be successful - we show you how to get the most out of your Blog and Email, SlideShare, Youtube, Online Forums, Deal Websites, Offline Events, Kickstarter and many more places. This exhaustive list of places is all prioritized by impact and can help instructors with or without an audience launch or expand their reach.

Later, John and Eliot, Founders at Bitfountain, reveal all the strategies which have been vital in helping them ramp up to revenue goals which include over $2M in revenue in 2014.

Phase 4: Interviews and case studies with leading teacher entrepreneurs

To round the course off, you'll get 12+ expert and over 6 hours of interviews with a hand-picked selection of successful instructors – each with their own unique approaches, strategies and tactics. Some highlights include:

• Learn how Paul Solt and Justin Mitchel used Kickstarter to presell 6 figures worth of online courses that had not been developed.
• See how successful author David Kadavy converted a best-selling book into a best-selling online course.
• Watch Mattan Griffel explain how he created the #1 best selling course on Skillshare and then leveraged that into building a Y-Combinator backed company.
• Noah Kagan set an audacious goal to make $1M from a single online course. And then beat it comfortably. Learn how he did it.
• 30x500 co-creator, Amy Hoy who's made $1.5M helping people create online courses. Even more impressively, her students have made over $3M following her advice.