05 – Collecting Course Content
Gathering your course content might seem like a daunting task, especially if you believe you have to create it from scratch. But there are easier and faster ways to collect the content for your ecourse. Of course, your number one goal for your ecourse should be good content that transforms or helps your customers in some way.
If you will be doing videos, you can use bullet and sub-bullet points to prompt you as you’re creating your video. In fact, when creating your video, you want to be as natural as you can so reading a script, word for word isn’t the best idea.
Here are some ideas to find good written content for your ecourse.
1. Purchase private label rights (PLR) content you can personalize and change to fit your audience, topic and needs. Private label rights content is pre-written content that allows you to make changes to the copy to use and claim as your own content.
Some PLR providers offer complete done-for-you course materials so all you have to do is personalize it.
Personalize it, add or take away content or reorder it to work for your course. Search online for PLR (your topic). There are a lot of PLR sellers out there and many of them offer poor quality content. Do your homework and actually read the content before you use it.
Here are a few that offer high quality PLR
If you’re in the health and wellness niche, check out:
• Buy Health PLR
• Content Shortcuts
• White Label Perks
• PLR Pump
• Buy PLR Today
If you’re in the business and marketing niche, look on:
• Piggy Makes Bank
• White Label Perks
• List Magnets
If you’re in the faith and inspiration niche or need self-development content, take a peek at these sites:
• Daily Faith PLR
• Publish for Prosperity
• Tools for Motivation
• Piggy Makes Bank
Other PLR providers who have high quality content on a variety of topics include:
• HomeFreePLR
• PLR Mini Mart
• All Private Label Content
2. Hire a ghostwriter/writer. Hire someone to create the content for you. You can find good writers by doing a search on Google or on sites like Upwork.com or Fiverr.com. A writer will cost you more than private label content but may be worth it to get the content you want. When hiring a writer, it’s a good idea to give them a copy of your outline with any ideas you have for the way you’ll be teaching the course. You can use sites like Fiverr to create content, videos, and graphics.
3. Repurpose your existing content as an online course. If you’ve already got a lot of content on your blog or you’ve used in your business, you may be able to repurpose some of it in your course You can turn your blog posts, workshops, webinars, trainings or Facebook lives into a course. Browse through your old (and newer) files to see what you can reuse. Tweak it if you need to so it works with what you are teaching. Repurposing content for an online course will save you a lot of time.
4. Curate content from others. Curated content is the process of adding your opinions or ideas and other value to a selection of other people’s content you find online or elsewhere.
Find the most suitable content from different sources that relates to your topic. Share only what is relevant to your learners. Don’t forget to add value to the content with your own input and commentary.
Content curation is a great way to build your authority. You’re bringing the information of others, their expertise, together in one place so your readers don’t have to go searching for it all over the internet. This helps you be seen as the go-to source for your audience about all things in your niche.
Note: Curation is not copying someone else’s ideas. It is referring to them and commenting on them.
You can use tools to help you find curated content more easily.
• Buzzsumo.com
• Pocket.com
• Scoop.it
• Feedly.com
• Hootsuite.com
The idea of creating the content for your course might be intimidating or overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be though. I’ve shown you four ways you can get good quality content written for your course without having to write it yourself from scratch.
Shop HomeFreePLR eCourses for ready made courses you can license and use to build your own courses quickly and easily!