Alison online courses

In June, we teamed up with Alison Faulkner of The Alison Show to teach a workshop at Alt Summit, a business conference for bloggers and creatives. Alison’s topic? Creating an Online Course That’ll Make You Money and Blow People’s Minds. Sounds pretty great, right?

In addition to her funky dance moves and her ability to light up a room, Alison has been blogging and building her business since 2007. During that time, she’s created physical and digital products, taught on YouTube, hosted in-person classes, run live workshops online, and, most recently, launched two online courses.

In October 2014, Alison launched Alison’s Cookie Party, an online course for making the perfect sugar cookies with royal icing. And just last week, Alison newest course, Party with Alison, a step-by-step guide on how to throw any kind of fun party, went live.

Since first launching, Alison has become quite the online course advocate, encouraging her fellow bloggers to create and sell online courses as a means to connect with their audiences, build their brands, and make money.

During Alison’s Alt Summit workshop, she walked attendees through the basics of creating a successful online course, from picking a course topic to marketing the finished course. While we couldn’t possibly include Alison’s full workshop here (that’s an entire course in itself…), we do want to share some highlights.