Build and Sell an Online Course

Free Workshop Run Sheet

Companion to the lesson "First students without an audience"

The engine of the presale: a free live workshop, forty-five to sixty minutes, teaching the core of the transformation. Run it once, recorded. Twenty to forty attendees from an eighty-name list is a strong result. Date: Platform:

Minute-by-Minute Agenda (60-minute shape)

BlockMinutesWhat happensDone
Open0–5Welcome; what they will leave with; the worksheet in hand
Teach5–50Teach one thing completely: the single most common failure from your five conversations, fixed live, with the one-page worksheet
Offer50–55The course continues what the workshop started; founding price and deadline on the screen; stated plainly, once. No repeating it four times. Adults heard you
Q&A55–60Questions; replay link announced for registrants who missed it

The One-Page Worksheet Spec

Replay Email (the recording is a product)

ElementYour wording / link
Subject and replay link
Same founding window restated (seven days from the workshop)
Founding price and future price, plainly

A single workshop usually produces a second wave of presales from replay watchers.

Mid-Window Checkpoint Tally (day 5 to 6 of the founding window)

MetricCount
Guest list names
Registered
Attended live
Replay sent to / opened
Founding members so far
Gate reading (10+ build / 3–9 diagnose / 0–2 refund)