Teaching Sells Review & Sneak Peek Video

This looks very promising but right now I am tied into Yaro’s Membership Mastermind program and am still working through the Blog Mastermind lessons. I love that you have put such time and effort into fully explaining this program.

MM I would like to get on your list for Stumble Rush tho so sign me up if you would please.

Thanks and have a great day Caroline.

I never sign up to deals that I need to cancel later. These automatic billing systems make a lotof money for companies because people forget to cancel. For this reason I will not even spen a dollar on this.

Not John Chow’s last blog post..And The Winner Is . . . .

Thanks again for trying to sell me something. Obviously none of these programs help you make money because they haven’t helped you make money.

I popped on for the $1 but will be popping out at the 7 day mark. Not because I don’t think the course is worthwhile, but because I am focussed elsewhere and I was curious as to the content.

A note to Sarah above. Not sure if you are making millions, if you are could you share your journey so that others can learn from you. If not, then how about opening the mind a little to those who are doing it “their way”.

Allison Reynolds’s last blog post..Review: The Immediate Edge

@Joe, I can’t sign you up to the Stumble Rush list as its a double-opt-in list that you will need to confirm. You’ll need to enter your email address at the site: http://www.stumblerush.com/

@Sarah, well I would have thought that was obvious by the comment I made about not having worked through the material yet.

@Allison, yeah this course takes a lot of time. I’ve kept up my membership since October as I got in on a charter offer that was basically a third of the price and I get to stay on that for as long as I am a member but I’m racking up a massive backlog of content to work through!

This course is NOT for you if you expect them to teach you anything about teaching.

I was in the original group that signed up and I left after the original period and I had worked through the material. Fortunately I had the time available to do this.

If you know about teaching and want help with marketing your stuff it could be very valuable. (If you do join you can probably search the site and find my very terse comments on this subject.) They have good stuff on the sales funnel and so on.

[Their notion of teaching is persuasion and selling - in short, their clueless.]

Some of the software they recommend costs money - not free.

But it does have some good stuff on marketing.

I would be interested to know what you see the differences are between Immediate Edge and Teaching Sells?

Guru Bob

Very good idea adding a forum, teaching…..etc. You have thought of some good ways to make money. We all start somewhere and try to grow. You should do local presentation in your town to hewn your skill..Then you would video tape a session and put it on youtube

@Evan, yes that’s a good point - this course is about the infrastructure of setting up a membership site, the marketing aspects etc. You need to know how to develop your own material for the site you create.

@Guru Bob, well I’m pretty sure I don’t need to tell you whats in TIE seeing as you are head of the labs :p Teaching Sells couldn’t be further from TIE in terms of style or content. TS is highly structured, organised and academic, Dan isn’t :-) TS covers one specific topic very well and Dan will always be on top of the very latest trends and techniques. Very, very different beasts.

I think you hit the nail squarely on the head Caroline, when you mentioned your trouble finding a concept, an idea to apply their course to.

With very few exceptions, I think the whole make-money-online courseware genre suffers from this problem - they’ll take away any technical and marketing stumbling blocks, leaving you starkly facing your biggest problem - your own creativity.

It’s like me with Photoshop/GIMP - I can probably technically create anything I can think of with it … but most of the time I just can’t think of anything. And at the moment I’m trolling around the ‘net for ideas to “borrow” for my new site design, as no matter how much I stare at it and know the areas I want to improve, I just don’t know what to put there.

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The Problem With Make-Money-Online Courses

@Ben, the thing is - how can you teach or give somebody creativity? You cannot give somebody an imagination. You can spark it with ideas but that is all. Ultimately each person still needs to put in some thought, do some work, write some words (usually).

First, this is my “first” comment to a blog since I’ve joined the blog world. Your style of writing is very engaging and I actually say to myself when clicking to my rss reader, “What is Caroline talking about today?”. Thank you for sharing your journey with such wit and transparency.

Second, Teaching Sells has great material for a one time purchase, say e-book, but I don’t think they have quite justified the ongoing membership yet. (I did the $1 week review and then cancelled.)

The one thing that I believe they need is a strong community for ideas/support. THAT is worth a monthly membership, in my opinion. Not $97 worth, more around $45.

A suggestion for a different business model would be, a one time fee for materials and then a monthly membership fee that allows you to be part of the “club”. When new material is presented, pay for it when you are ready (like books or a university class). I would have loved to stayed part of the community just to learn from other’s experiences.

For what it’s worth, these are my two cents. But I have been thinking about it for quite awhile and thought it would be a great first post. The reason I choose it to be on your blog is because I learned of Teaching Sells from you.

Thanks again for sharing your journey! Tina

@Tina, I fear that many people do not share your mindset and with that kind of business model would pay for the educational material and not join the club. Many people prefer to work alone.

Processes.

Ben and Caroline. There are processes to assist/release creativity (we all have it - some more than others of course). Edward de Bono is particularly good (and a lot of his stuff is business oriented).

The easiest process for finding what you care about is laddering. At its simplest this is asking why? Eg pick three things you like. Take each in turn. Find what you like and ask why you like this. Then to that answer ask why once again. Keep going until you get to “I just do” or “because that’s me”. You will have three of these. (You can do it for those things you dislike too - and then you’ll have six.) They will hang together in some way. This is what you care about. From there you can move on to the technical stuff.

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NO offense C
But this post looks like one of those long winded sales pages you hate so much

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PS How can I get that little cloud before the comment link on the blog? Is that Haloscan and Blog template?

@Kelly, actually no idea - that came with my new blog theme!

Caroline,

Great blog. I like the article about TS too. Good to see you have divergent opinions in the comments. The TS model and others like it are not to everyone’s taste.

Some like the TS model. It clicked with me so I signed up. And now I am in the process of putting it all together.

I thought I was a good writer until I started writing the copy. Now I can appreciate the work Brian & Tony have put into it. And now I also know why Copyblogger went into guest bloggers so heavily - no time to do justice to both TS and the blog.

Am glad you are determined to make a go of it.

Best regards