Well, I managed to bite off a bit more, but i am still chewing!
I’m taking part in the 10 day Small Products Lab challenge–make and launch a brand new product in 10 days. It’s now Day 2 and I have decided upon my project: And overview of How to Design an Online Course. Yeah, I got this.
For Day 2, we are to make a To-Do List. Here is mine.
#SPLDay2 To Do List
July 26: Course outline, contest rules, and goal setting
July 27: What’s your product?
- E-Course Design Overview
July 28: Plan, research, and outline
- Finish outlining
- Create bullet list from the outline
- Begin writing: 100-150 words for needy points
- Identify cartoons for illustrations
- Set up pre-sell page on Gumroad
July 29: Set up your profile (Twitter chat with Nathan Barry)
- Have Twitter profile already
- Keep writing
- Start drawing
July 30: Start marketing (Mid-Lab challenge)
- Make a pre-sell page on GR
- Send an email to my list w pre-sell page
- Post the pre-sell page on FB.
- List other teachers to email
- Keep drawing and writing
- Wave to my visitors
July 31: Package it up (Twitter chat with Barrett Brooks)
- DESIGN & PACKAGING ugh. Help!
- Design workbook as pdf for printing (will take all day)
- Draft a pitch for the course to follow
- Wave to my visitors
August 1: Work, assess, breathe
- Must… keep… going…
- (eek I have to make a sales page for another course, too!)
August 2: Decoding the pricing puzzle
- Double the price!
- Keep drawing and writing
August 3: Prep for launch day (Mid-Lab challenge winner announced)
- Congratulate winner
- Freak out over design flaws
- Freak out over lack of content
- Keep writing and drawing and emailing and posting
August 4: Partner up (Twitter chat with Jeff Goins)
- Get a partner, I guess
- Keep working
August 5: Reach out
- Email EVERYONE
- Frantically attempt to finish
- Scream hysterically at family and friends
August 6: Launch day!
- Collapse in a sodden, sobbing heap
- Do an interview on a totally other subject, now long neglected
Aaand, we had another sort of list to make, so I did that, too
What exactly does the end result look like?
A 1-2 page overview of elements to consider when designing an online course
How many words/minutes/features is it?
+/- 1K words plus pictures
If it’s a digital good, what type of file is it?
PDF
Does it require input from anyone else (a partner, an interviewee)?
Noooo, but nervous about design
What is necessary to include in it, and what’s nice to have?
Main points need to be there. Extra info about each point is nice. Or a video! With the points a slides and a little chat about each one.
Where do you think you’ll encounter difficulty producing and/or launching it?
Time is tight, of course. It will bloat, of course. I will hate it, of course (at times). But I’ll do it.
Day 3 coming up tomorrow!
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