How to validate a course idea: a guide
Guide for course creators
For course creators and coaches who want first time creators on their list.
Waitlist
Join the waitlist for the next course intake
How to use this waitlist
Link it from free lessons and your profiles. Interested people raise their hand before launch.
What is inside
What the course covers
Who it is forYou are: [REPLACE: who the course suits best].
What founding members getFirst places
What happens nextNothing more to do today.
How to get readyBlock the time: [REPLACE: hours a week] in your diary.
Three title ideas for your own version
Join the waitlist for the next course intake
The course waitlist
Be first in when the doors open
Where to promote it
Your newsletteryour social profilesthe end of every free lesson
What goes on a course waitlist page?
What the course covers, who it is for, founding member benefits, what happens next and how to get ready.
Make this waitlist your own
The sample above is a real page. Press Use this template, sign up, and it appears in your account with this text and look, ready to edit. Change the words, add your own details and publish it.
Built with Gatedleads, the quickest way to turn a page like this into a lead magnet that collects emails.
More for course creators
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Course launch checklist
Checklist for course creators
For tools and coaches that serve course creators before a launch.
How to structure a lesson: a cheat sheet
Cheat sheet for course creators
For course creators who want new creators learning from them.
Course launch email templates
Email scripts for course creators
For anyone who serves course creators and wants them on their list before launch.
Course outline template
Template pack for course creators
For tools and coaches that want course creators planning with their template.
Student messages swipe file
Swipe file for course creators
For course creators who know they should keep in touch with students and never find the words.
Buyer's guide to choosing a course platform
Buyer's guide for course creators
For course creators who are about to pick a platform and do not want to move their students later.
Self paced, cohort or membership decision guide
Decision guide for course creators
For course creators who know what they teach and have not yet decided how to deliver it.
Why students do not finish your course: a mistakes list
Mistakes list for course creators
For course creators whose students buy and then disappear.
Cohort course roadmap
Roadmap for course creators
For course creators who are about to run a first live cohort and want a plan for every week.
Course launch case study
Case study for course creators
For course coaches who want to reach experts thinking about their first course and afraid of building something nobody buys.
Course idea scorecard
Scorecard for course creators
For course coaches who want to meet experts at the moment they are deciding whether to build a course.
Course sales target worksheet
Worksheet for course creators
For course coaches who want to reach experts who are working out whether a course could be worth their time.
Five day first lesson challenge
Challenge for course creators
For course creation coaches who want would be creators to make real progress before they book.
Course pricing mini course
Mini course for course creators
For course creation coaches who want new creators to price with confidence.
Free book chapter page for course creation coaches
Sample chapter for course creators
For course creation coaches with a book, who want creators to sample their thinking.
More waitlists
The same format, written for 2 other niches.
Coaching group waitlist page
Waitlist for business coaches
For business coaches who want to fill a group programme before it starts.
Coaching programme waitlist page
Waitlist for life coaches
For life coaches who want to fill a new programme with people who are ready.
Pick one, change the words, publish.
Free to start. No credit card.