You might ask: Why should I create and sell courses online? I already teach offline.
If you are already making money from your offline coaching institutes, Congrats! You are probably doing great.
But, here is a question for you: Are you capping the profits from your coaching institute?
Let’s check this out, by taking a look at the average expense required to run a coaching center of 500-1000 students.
Rent – 1.5 lakhs
EB bill for the entire month – 10K (6rs per unit )
Salary for 10 faculties – 4 lakhs
Water bill – 40K
Marketing Expense – 1 lakh
Other Expense – 50K
So, on average the monthly expense will be ~7.5 lakhs
Let’s say you are teaching 500 students every month and per student price is 4k rs per month
So, on average the monthly revenue will be ~INR 20,00,000/- (500*4000)
This is really great. But here is the catch. The more you try to increase your revenue, the expense increases as well.
If you want to teach 1000 students instead of 500, you will have to:
Double up your marketing expenses
Hire New staff & resources to accommodate this new change.
So, instead of spending INR 7 lakhs per month, you will be paying 15 lakhs a month to get a revenue of 40 lakhs per month income.
Create and Sell Courses Online: Cap your Expenses & Not your Revenue
If you are running a traditional brick and motor enterprise, you can increase your revenue by increasing your course price or course numbers.
You don’t want to keep the prices too steep, that it puts off students from joining your coaching center.
What if, there was a better way to optimize your earning?
What if you can teach students online from your own branded learning platform? The best part is, you can do this without spending an extra dime.
By simply optimizing your expenses (eg: Other Expenses), you can start teaching courses online starting at INR 36k per year and teach nearly 250 students from around the world.
By spending the same effort and time, at no added cost, you can make nearly 50% more profit from your business.
Once you start getting the results, you can easily switch to a completely online platform approach.
What is the biggest advantage? The biggest advantage is: Your profits won’t be capped. But your expense is capped.
By creating and selling courses online, you are slashing your expenses by half and nearly doubling your profits every month.
Creating and Selling Courses Online – The Market now
As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, let us see the truth by looking at the market for online teaching.
As per the current trends in the Indian market, online teaching is bound to reach figures of USD 1.96 billion by 2021.
Students willing to learn online are also set to increase to 9.5 million by the end of 2021.
These are 5 categories that have a huge potential for online growth. So, if you cater to any of these markets, you can hugely benefit from this trend.
Many coaching institutes and individual trainers are already making millions from their online academy.
Below is an article of how Purna Duggirala (who teaches excel from his website https://chandoo.org/) made USD 1 million from his own branded online platform
If you are a coaching institute, you can make 10X times your offline revenue with branded web and mobile learning apps.
Here are some customers who have made this possible.
At the moment, over 350+ customers are making use of this amazing market and making amazing profits
This is exactly why you should create and sell online courses if you have the expertise.
Create and Sell Courses Online: How to
The very first step to create your online course is by
Solving student problems
“People buy courses because they’ve got a problem and want a solution. Your course is the bridge between the problem and the solution”
The first thing you have to do is to simply listen to their problem. Think of the problems your students come with you, and then see if you can create a course that helps them solve it.
Using FB ads and for as low as INR 40 per day, you can reach out to students across the globe. Based on your budget and time constraints, promote your courses using a mix of FB ads, Google AdWords and SEO.
If you have any doubt or question feel free to drop your comments below.
So, what are the next steps?
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