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6 Crucial Success Tips For Online Teachers

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Wilko van de Kamp
Jun 23, 2022
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Have you ever thought about creating an online course? Do you have one (or more) created already? My online teaching business has grown and changed a lot. I’ve made some initial mistakes by giving up too much control and participating in somebody else’s platform. It was great to help me get started, but in the end I lost on a lot of revenue, and I caused me additional trouble to further expand my business when it started to grow. In this post I’ll share my my x most valuable lessons. In true Living by Experience value I learned most of these the hard way – so use them to your advantage!

Build your own platform

I’ve moved around a few online training sites, but I eventually ended up with my own site Liberty Training Academy. If you’re just starting out it’s great to rely on the structure provided by a third party platform, as they’ll often provide a marketplace for some initial sales. But for most instructors the guidelines that initially helped them, will become unnecessarily restrictiv…

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