Fake check scams have existed for decades, and most people are savvy enough to spot them. If you’re selling an item for $10 and the buyer gives you a check for $100 and asks for $50 back, you’d probably guess it was a con and the check would bounce, leaving you out your item and …
How to Take Your Seminar Business Online
[Updated April 24, 2020] Running a successful seminar has, traditionally, been a great business model for edupreneurs. Successful seminars can be extremely lucrative and give you the opportunity to grow your authority while traveling around the country (or world) teaching an enthusiastic and engaged audience. But there’s an obvious catch. Even the most popular seminars …
The Top 7 Ways To Monetize A Podcast
Podcasting is a great way of repurposing content, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your ongoing relationship with your existing audience. Statistics show that the number of podcast listeners is on the rise, and this year the number of Americans who listened to a podcast in the previous month crossed 50 percent for the first time. …
Is it Worth Starting a Podcast in 2020?
Whether you’ve only just heard of podcasts or you’re one of the 6% of U.S. adults who class themselves as an avid listener, podcasts are worth learning more about. As an edupreneur, the popularity and growth of podcasting is an exciting development that you can harness to build your audience, expand recognition of your expertise, …
How to Run a Seminar on a Budget
Hosting your own seminars can be a great way to get started as an edupreneur or to expand your revenue streams by offering offline as well as online options to your students. The upside to seminars is that they can be whatever you make them, from hour-long lectures to a series of events held over …
The Power of Naming
A book I occasionally re-read is Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. If you are an artist of any sort – and edupreneurs are artists – it is an essential read. I can’t think of another book that brings such clarity to the fundamental challenges of being an artist or that provides a comparable dose …
How to Start Your Own Seminar Business
Seminars and workshops are big business, with thousands being run every year across the U.S. A quick search of Eventbrite, for example, reveals around 35,000 upcoming seminars, and that’s only on one platform. With attendees in the hundreds and/or admission fees in the thousands for the largest and most successful seminars, they can be a …
5 Paths to Empower Lifelong Learners
I’ve written before that the core of the business model for successful edupreneurs is empowerment, which basically comes down to asking – and answering – questions like “How will I make life better for my learners?” and “How will I empower them to do what they want to be able to do?” If you don’t …