Don't just learn, CREATE! Business Building for Mavericks

If creating an online course is on the horizon for you, or if you'd love to have more success with the one(s) you already have, this is for you. We cover how Jane came to do the work she does the difference between a great and a crappy online course practical tips to ensure an amazing user experience more content does NOT equal more value Jane's top tips for marketing your course so the right people sign up how to entice people to sign up to an evergreen course her favourite online learning platform .. and a lot more. Plenty of golden nuggets stuffed into half an hour of fun. Find out more and get in touch with Jane here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

My guest for this episode is a risk management professional, podcast host, endurance athlete and martial artist. He currently works as Chief Risk Advisor for a major telecoms company in the UK and has over fifteen years of professional experience in risk management. But .. his passion for risk and uncertainty goes beyond this... and that's what we talk about in this conversation. Welcome Ben Cattaneo. To find out more about Ben http://www.allthingsrisk.co.uk/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

Welcome to Don't just learn, CREATE! Business Building for mavericks. This is the Exploring WildIdeas series where my guests share an idea they can't get out of their mind, something they'd love to create for their business if they just knew if and how to move forward. Together we explore it and flesh it out to give it enough shape for the way ahead to become obvious. If you have an idea like that and would love to play to go https://www.ankeherrmann.com/wildideas/ to get the details. My guest for this episode is a Senior Project Manager in IT and Business projects, working in Sweden. She's been a Toastmaster for over 25 years (www.toastmasters.org) and helped to get Toastmasters going in Europe. She is also a certified Coach and weaves in coaching, training and project management in most things she does. Welcome Elizabeth Nostedt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

Welcome to Don't just learn, CREATE! Business Building for mavericks. This is the Exploring WildIdeas series where my guests share an idea they can't get out of their head, something they'd love to create for their business if they knew how. Together we explore it and flesh it out to give it enough shape for the way forward to become obvious. If you have an idea like that and would love to play to go https://www.ankeherrmann.com/wildideas/ to get the details. My guest for this episode is based in Ireland and runs the Irish Online Counselling and Psychotherapy Service. She has an idea for integrating mindfulness into her counselling practice, or are we really talking about retreats in wild, untouched Irish nature? Welcome Mary McHugh. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

When I talk about my sewing business I usually share the part where I feel torn apart by client demands and work myself into burnout, and the insights that led to a massive turnaround (and ultimately to me becoming a coach). In that story the early days sound like, "Orders just started to come in .." and today I want to talk about what that really looked like. If you're in the early stages of your business and feel like you're pushing a huge boulder up a hill this episode is for you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

How much effort are you prepared to put into your business before you expect a return in the form of some type of recognition? How long before you feel disappointed and discouraged when you don't get the support or validation you hoped for? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

Most of my guests on the Passion Business Podcast share how they started in one direction and then something happened, they met someone or learned something that put them onto an entirely different path. So I want to remind you that you won’t be able to see the entire path ahead of you. The path isn’t straight and you can only see the next corner. You have to walk to that corner to see what’s behind it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

Are you looking for ways to sell more? Are you looking for ways to get your message or product or service out there, in front of more people? This episode is for you :-) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

How long it takes to build a business depends on a lot of different factors. What if getting to a certain level of success faster wasn't necessarily better? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

Building your business isn't a series of steps to follow to reach your goals. It's more beautiful and exciting than that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

There is one thing that winds me up every time I open Facebook and come across an ad aimed at people building their own business ... Here are the links I mention in the episode: Tim Urban’s TED Talk “Inside the Mind Of a Master Procrastinator“ The video about how long it really takes to make a living from your sewing (or whatever) business --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

7 myths about business building that set wrong expectations and make life as a business owner unnecessarily difficult --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dont-just-learn-create/message

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