How the best course creators get started

Benefits of a course interest survey
- Find out if there’s demand for your course idea.
- Get your first leads in your waitlist
Customizing your survey
- Navigate to the Surveys tab
- Click "Edit" to customize the questions
- Hit "Publish" to save changes
- Click "Share" to copy the URL
- What’s your first name? [Short answer]
- If this course could help you accomplish one thing, what would it be? [Short answer]
Sharing your survey
- Email your personal network. Pro tip: export a list of your personal contacts from your email
- Post it on every channel—social media, communities, email, newsletters
- Ask your friends to comment and like your post on social media
- Ask your personal connections to forward your blurb + survey to people who might be interested
📌 Use this template to share your survey with friends or on social media:
I'm thinking about building a live, [X-length] cohort-based course for [target student] on how to [course outcome]. You’ll learn [outcome 1, outcome 2, outcome 3]. I’ve taught/consulted on this topic for X years working at Y company [insert your credibility as a leader, operator, coach, consultant, and/or teacher]. Now I’d love to teach you. Fill out this survey to get on the waitlist & be the first to hear when enrollments open: [Maven form link]
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