As a course creator, one of the trickiest issues you may encounter in developing your course is how to effectively price it.
Set it too low and you run the risk of losing out on potential income and making your course (and by extension, your brand) seem cheap.
On the other hand, if you price it too high, you could turn off even your ideal customers and miss out on the opportunity to genuinely help and serve them.
The good news is that as the course creator, pricing your course is completely within your control — it’s just a matter of actually providing incredible content and communicating its value effectively.
In addition to your core course material (which should be amazingly helpful and valuable on its own), the more and better features, bonuses, or components you add, the easier you can justify charging premium prices.
Here are 7 practical ideas to increase the value of your online course.
1. Course Workbook
If you look around, you’ll find that a typical online course includes some form of video content whether it’s direct-to-camera, slides only, or a mix of both.
While video may be an effective teaching tool, consider providing a custom workbook as an added resource for your students because in my opinion, it’s the easiest way to add value to your course.
A course workbook is simply a document (typically a PDF file) that aims to help your students take action.
You can include your course outline, timeline, framework, checklists, trackers, planners, and other worksheets.
With a well-designed workbook, your students can learn and implement your course lessons much more effectively and therefore get amazing results.
Your students’ amazing results = Proof your course is effective = More course sales
Then if your students decide to print out your workbook, it can become something real and tangible — a great addition to an online course which is a digital product.
Now, you should know that it will take some time to create your course workbook yourself from scratch or it could be pricey if you hire a designer to create it for you.
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2. Coaching or Consulting
Another way to add value to your online course is to provide an opportunity for your course students to learn from you directly via coaching calls, consultations, office hours (email access), audits, assessments, or live or recorded Q&As (released via webinar or membership site).
This is particularly helpful if your course topic is much more in-depth, technical, or complex and learning the lessons may require more support.
Since you’re offering to give your time and energy (which might cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars separately per session if it weren’t part of your course) to help each student on a one-on-one or one-to-many method, your course could then seem more valuable because of exclusive access to you and your expertise.
3. Community
Another way to provide value is to offer a community aspect to joining your course.
It would depend on your course topic of course but students often love the idea of connecting with, motivating, and supporting fellow students as they go through your course material all at the same time.
Though you’ll need to pull resources to maintain and manage the group, the rewards can be worth it as you build a community of active students, fans, and followers who engage with and talk about you and your brand on an ongoing basis.
Common examples are a Slack or Facebook group, mastermind, or a separate membership site.
4. Additional Resources
More than what you have in your core course material, you could offer additional resources to aid your students’ learning.
Some examples include transcripts, downloadable slides, expert interviews, eBooks, an email sequence, case studies, design assets, systems and processes, tech tutorials, etc.
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5. Discounts
Another way to increase the value of your online course is to offer discounts or exclusive trial periods for your other products and/or services.
This is particularly helpful if your other offerings are directly related to your course topic and if it makes sense to purchase those items while completing your course or even after.
You could also provide exclusive discounts or trial periods to partner companies’ products and/or services, again if it makes sense as a complementary tool or resource for your course topic.
This can not only help increase your affiliate income but also strengthen your relationship with your current partner companies and attract potential partners, sponsors, and collaborators too.
6. Templates
A straightforward way to increase the value of your course is to provide solutions that can help your students save time and energy as they get work done.
Examples include templates, swipe files, spreadsheets, scripts, and many more.
Because of the “done-for-you” or “plug-and-play” nature of templates, students don’t need to start from scratch when completing a task so all that saved time may also provide more freedom, less stress, and less overwhelm for your students.
7. Exclusive Invite
Last but not the least, you could offer an opportunity to attend or join an exclusive event, workshop, meet-up, seminar, or conference as part of joining your course.
The idea is that people won’t have access to or be able to purchase tickets to any of these events separately or at a different time. So if they’re very interested in an in-person event with a particular guest or group of people, then the only way for them to participate is to join your course.
Over to You
Pricing an online course may be a tricky task but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. One of the easiest ways to do it is to provide a couple of added features or bonuses and communicate each one’s value to your potential course student. Remember, in addition to your core course material, the more and better things you add, the easier you can justify charging premium prices.
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