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Build an Online Business
The companion course to Build an Online Business In 24 Hours
Explore business ideas, design your business model, build your online presence, and automate and grow your business. The course follows the chapters of the book and goes deeper where the book refers to it.
9 modules · 136 lessons · self-paced
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Course outline
01
Preparations and Guidance
2 lessons
- Welcome!
- Downloads
02
Resources
2 lessons
- Online Business Knowledge Bot
- "Build An Online Business in 24 Hours" Book
03
Introduction: Become A Digital Entrepreneur
14 lessons
- Your Mission: Become a Digital Entrepreneur
- Why You Need To Be Careful
- Passive Income, Myth or Real
- Managing Risk
- Expanding Your Competence
- Enhancing Your Network
- Seeking Meaning and Impact
- Why Build An Online Business
- Why Build An Online Business Now
- Start Shaping Your Online Business
- Managing Impartiality In a Portfolio Career
- Project Management
- Lindt goes online in 5 days!
- Building a drop shipping business in 24 hours
04
Shaping Your Business Idea
28 lessons
- Intro
- What If You Have No Business Idea
- Identifying The Options You Have
- Ideating Your Product or Service
- Growing Your Own Business
- Finding Your Golden Opportunity
- Making It As Online As Possible
- Estimating How Much It Is Going To Cost
- Common Business Models and Strategies
- Growing Businesses of Others
- Selling Products of Others
- Online Stores and eCommerece
- Affiliate Marketing
- Drop-Shipping
- Considerations On Drop-shipping And Affiliate Marketing
- Selling Information Products
- Online Courses
- Advising and Coaching
- Membership Sites and Programs
- Digital and Social Media Marketing
- Freelancing and Virtual Assistant Work
- Influencer Marketing
- Producing and Selling Goods
- Selling Handcraft Products
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Growing an Existing Business
- Data Privacy and GDPR
- Growing In Your Career
05
Architecting Your Business
17 lessons
- Intro
- From Idea To A Business Plan
- What Does 'Online Business' Mean
- Online As A Business Strategy
- Creating A Customer Persona
- Defining Your Value Proposition
- Navigating The Value Chain
- Using Your Unfair Advantage
- Defining Your Micro Niche
- Deciding On Your Geographical Reach
- Language, Location and Logistics
- Building Your Customer Database
- Defining Your Sales Channels
- Shaping Your Revenue Models
- Additional Remarks
- Business Model and Business Model Canvas
- Digitalizing of Business Models
06
Building An Online Business
50 lessons
- The Components of An Online Business
- Web Presence Via A Great Website
- How You Should Build A Website
- Website Builders and Content Management Systems
- Wix
- WordPress
- WordPress Plug-Ins
- Bespoke Websites
- GroovePages and GrooveBlog
- Responsive websites
- Conclusion
- Using a partner to develop your website
- Creating Traffic Through Social Media
- Social Media Basics
- Facebook for Business
- YouTube
- How to choose the social media platforms to use
- Selling Products and Services Throughout A Web-Shop
- Shopify
- BigCommerce
- WooCommerce
- GrooveKart, GrooveSell and GrooveAffiliate
- Setting Up Your Payment Gateways Using A Merchant Account
- PayPal
- Stripe
- Accepting Credit Cards
- Accepting Debit Cards
- Apple Pay and Google Pay
- GroovePay
- Creating Conversions Funnels Through Marketing Automations
- ActiveCampaign
- Groove CRM
- GrooveMail and GrooveFunnels
- GrooveVideo
- Other CRMs and All-in-one Solutions
- Solutions For Selling Information Products
- Zoom webinars
- GrooveWebinars
- Teachable
- GrooveMember
- Designing Your Content And Visual Elements
- Canva
- E-Book and Brochure Creators
- Building Your Own Mobile App
- The Enterprise Grade Solutions
- Using Digital Agencies
- How To Move To The Next Step
07
Automating Your Online Business
15 lessons
- Intro
- Automating Your Business Further
- Automating Calendars and Booking Systems
- Calendly
- WooCommerce Booking
- Advanced Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- AI powered predictions
- Learn from Email Solutions
- Translations and Transcriptions
- Chatbots
- Voice Assistants
- Robotic Process Automation
- There Is More
08
Growing and Developing Your Business
5 lessons
- Diversifying Your Portfolio
- Stretching Along And Beyond The Value Chain
- Revisit Your Business Model.
- Franchise Business Model
- Creating Affiliations
09
Conclusion: Become an Entrepreneur
3 lessons
- Intro
- Automation And Future Of Work
- What Can You Do Next