
Side Hustle Spark 304: Audience-Driven Summit Replays

Jillian Benbow of Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income checks in with Five Tips to Ruin Your Membership Community. [March 1, 2021]
In other words, definitely attend to the following:
Thought I would follow up on yesterday’s post…
No matter that this was published in 2017, these tips from Smart Passive Income are still valuable.
NOTE: I found some contradiction between those who advise diving in with passion and building vs. validating first.
Maybe the solution is: Put some of that passion into your ‘pre-building’ promotion. [sales pages, lead pages, social media posts].
You might even repurpose some of that same content. Hey, just a thought.
Here are a few favorites…
1. Whatever topic you have in mind right now, make it 5 times smaller. The biggest mistake is to think you have to cover everything in one step. – Kerstin, Fluent Language School
2. Find one person and walk them through your exact process of the course you’re considering creating. – Jeff Rose, The Online Advisor Growth Formula
3. Stop reading about it. Taking action is the best teacher! …The more I studied, the more overwhelmed I became. I finally stopped worrying about it… – David Wallimann, Guitar Playback
4. The number one tip I would give to course creators is start building your list immediately.
– Fleur Ottaway, Venture Digital: Get Results from Your Facebook Ads
5. Do not prepare an online course for selling. Create an online course for what you love to do and then sell it. You will earn a lot if you tell a topic that you love to do. – Resit, Master of Project Academy
Many thanks to Pat Flynn and SPI for mining a wealth of advice and expertise.
A rare Sunday post…Just thought I’d get this out to you in case you have some free time to run a session in the background.
This no-cost, online event is happening right now…
Sign up here: https://discover.teachable.com/discover-fest
Even better, you can sign up right on the schedule page. You’ll notice that a fair number of the sessions cover non-business topics.
Replays will be available until November 30 at midnight EST.
Quote from the Discover by Teachable FAQ page: “The promotions and bonuses from participating creators will be available from November 17 to November 30 at midnight EST. We will be sending out the link to the promotions to registrants of any of the workshops.”
Hope you get something helpful from Discover by Teachable.
I’ll try to take some notes from sessions. If you have a specific request, email me at:
sidehustlecurator at gmail dot com
Another reminder: No affiliate links. Just want to pass along good stuff for side hustle-preneurs. [Again, Tim, soooooo weak. I’m sure someone has already ‘hybridized’ those terms.]
Pat Flynn calls them ‘guides’. I’d call them text-and-relevant-audio based online courses.
Below are the links…
to Branding
More SPI online course resources here
If you want to add value to these guides, and if you have capable software**, consider recording the screen as you cruise through your favorite content so you can conveniently replay it on your device of choice.
**Filmora, Camtasia, Snag-it, Screencast-O-Matic.. OBS Studio, Screencastify, ScreenFlow
206 straight episodes of his The Income Stream YouTube channel
and counting for Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.
On the weekends, he does live reviews of websites and YouTube channels submitted by visitors.
In fact, for a more detailed, informative shortcut through this model of a consistent ‘value-added’ approach, let’s take a look at his The Income Stream Clips channel .
If you haven’t tried podcasting for any number of reasons [time constraints, ‘my voice sounds geeky’, ‘I don’t have enough to say’, paralyzing fear of failure and embarrassment…okay, okay, not exactly talking it up, am I?], give this a try tomorrow.
Yes, there will most likely be a pitch to join a paid program, but Pat Flynn always shares plenty during his free sessions.
From his weekly The Smart Digest (Oct. 2): “Learn how to create a podcast that gets found and helps grow your business! In this free webinar on October 6 at 11:00 Pacific, Pat will share strategies he has used on his award-winning podcasts, the Smart Passive Income Podcast and the AskPat Podcast, as well as methods used by his hundreds of podcasting students. You’ll get advice on: