How to make a living by selling courses

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This is actually a lot easier than it sounds.

First however, the benefits:

1 You don't need any qualification. The only skills you need are a thick skin, some common sense and a nose to figure out what people want.

2 Once you have set it up, i.e. prepared the material, set up the web site and the payment system, it's a great passive income.

3 Even people who fail in trading (which is, errm, pretty much everyone) can do it. You certainly don't need to be a trader to sell trading courses. God there'd be ahem no course left then...

4 It's far far easier to earn money this way than having a 9-5 job and putting up with a d1ckhead boss. You are in control all the time. what's more, you are not even at the mercy of the market. what could be better?

5 You can even make it anonymous, i.e. set up the website for a company as a front without ever having to mention your name anywhere. If your website sinks, simply start a new one with a new name and a new logo.

6 Nobody can ever sue you for selling crap systems. Simply put up those disclosures 'this is only educational... past performance is no guarantee.. all results are simulated...' etc and you are safe. That's the beauty of selling things that claim to teach other people how to make money. You build a dodgy house and sell to a customer, they'll sue your ar*e off. You sell crap trading systems, you say 'past performance... ' and walk away.

Now some basic facts:

1 Yes there will be some people who will kick and scream and ask for a refund (which you'll simply ignore, see below), but the vast majority will happily pay you and you'll never hear from them again, cos they have never bothered to follow it up anyway and are probably busy buying something else. I mean come on, if they were that diligent they wouldn't be losers then would they.

2 Remember also that people who are coming to you actually are desperate to believe that their life will change forever from this point on and they will richer than Bill Gates by this time next year. Your job is to simply give them what they want, i.e. a piece of dream they can keep themselves busy with for some time.

3 if someone comes back hassling you then tell them either a. the markets have changed (if you sell a mechanical system) or b. that they are not following your system in its true spirit (if you are selling a discretionary system), or simply c. all systems go through bad periods. You may even wanna throw in some semi-spiritaual crap e.g. 'stop wanting and you'll get it', 'don't let this lower your self image' or that kind of sh1t. They work like magic.

4. Finally, remember that at the end of the day the sheep want to pay you. they can't wait to open their wallet. your job is to simply help them in their endevour, i.e. to lighten the burden on their pocket and make them feel happy. you are the pro here, and you are dealing with a bunch of clueless amateurs. and don't forget there is no shortage of them in the world and there will never be.

In the next instalments, I'll cover more details. Please bear with me cos I am also learning as I go along.
 
In the next instalments, I'll cover more details. Please bear with me cos I am also learning as I go along.

Are you learning to trade or sell courses?
 
Don't forget you need a really long webpage with words like:

Guaranteed
Bahamas
Ferrari
Yatch
Foolproof
Millionaire
Secret
 
1 Yes there will be some people who will kick and scream and ask for a refund (which you'll simply ignore, see below)

The really smart operators will offer and give a refund as it will generate even more business. You will need some good marketing skills to do this effectively as the internet is now awash with so many of these types of offering that it is no longer sufficient to just set yourself up and expect people to give you business.

If you know how to market your product though then you are right there is an enormous amount of money to be made doing it which I have posted previously about.


Paul
 
The really smart operators will offer and give a refund as it will generate even more business.

You're right. the really successful vendors come across as nice, fluffy, warm fatherly chaps who could do no wrong; the mere suggestion of wrongdoing would deeply hurt their soft and sensitive souls.

That's the way to go.
 
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Don't forget you need a really long webpage with words like:

Guaranteed
Bahamas
Ferrari
Yatch
Foolproof
Millionaire
Secret

Thats the totally wrong way of going about it.

You should say in bold letters 'this is not a get rich quick scheme'. cos you want to come across as a responsible person with genuine concern for the punter in your heart. Then you should put up pictures of dollar bills, yachts and a guy trading with his laptop on a beach. Always the covert, never the overt.
 
Don't forget you need a really long webpage with words like:

Guaranteed
Bahamas
Ferrari
Yatch
Foolproof
Millionaire
Secret

whats a "yatch" ? Is it similar to a bota? :cheesy:

Dont forget...
so easy a five-year-old can do it
find the best trades in less than 5 minutes a day
secrets the professionals dont want you to know

and the usual.....
five years ago I was in debt, lost my house, my wife left me, my dog ran away (sounds like the template for a blues song)
then...
I found a dusty book in an antiques shop made of gold-leaf pages
blah blah blah

there should be a competition for the cheesiest scam-page.
 
Don't forget that the more expensive your course, the better quality and liklihood of achieving results its perception will be.
 
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Idea for true diversification

put up not one but several websites, the more the better and sell completely different systems on them. make sure the sites have completely different look. you might even get the same punters buying more than one of your systems LOL.

boy i'm on a roll.

this is serious stuff by the way, not sure that you guys realise. this is not a tongue in cheek thread. we are talking serious money...

you'll thank me for showing you the way... free of cost.
 
One of the funniest marketing pitch's seen on a forex site recently

"I can teach you how to buy dollars for a penny a pop, and better still, there's an unlimited supply of them"
 
This is so true and incredibly easy, a fool and his money are easily parted and theres no end to fools, ones born every minute.

Also to follow through with this, you could try this Collective2 - System Finder post your system on there as well, have multiple systems, ones short, ones long....one of them will win then you can throw out references to this system for proof or success.

Its a two horse race, how hard can it be, use my tried and tested system and see how much you could earn.
 
How much should your course cost?

ideally between £500 and 1 grand.

any less than that and you are dilutng the value in the eyes of the punter.

much more than that and you'll start getting nutters stalking you to avenge their hurt ego.
 
You can also provide within your pack of 'traders secrets' a premium number that no doubt people will ring to say thanks and most will even use it to complain...fine, i'll listen. See how much you could earn today.

Premium Rate Numbers easy setup
 
This is so true and incredibly easy, a fool and his money are easily parted and theres no end to fools, ones born every minute.

Also to follow through with this, you could try this Collective2 - System Finder post your system on there as well, have multiple systems, ones short, ones long....one of them will win then you can throw out references to this system for proof or success.


Trading really is the perfect vehicle for this sort of scam. You buy a database with say 10 million email adreses of known investors.

Pick a stock at random, send out an email to 5 million people recommending a buy, send out same email to the other 5 million recomending a sell.

Wait a few days, see how the trade pans out.

Send second email to the 5 million who would have benefitted from the trade. This time send email to 2.5 Million people recommending they buy some other stock, send similar email to other 2.5 million recommending a sell.

Wait a few days and see how the trade pans out.

You now have 2.5 million people who recieved 2 good calls

Keep doing this until you've called 5 or 6 winners in a row to 250,000 potential punters, then hit em with the sales pitch, a decent percentage wont have the basic inteligence to see through the scam, and they'll quite happily hand over a decent wedge of cash

Clearly more elaborate marketing strategies could be employed recycling some of the losing trades, no one expects a 100% record.

simple !
 
Another useful ploy is to continually email prospective clients (ie those email addresses you've got from somewhere) with offers of special discounts for registering by (fill in date). It's important to stress that this is a one-time offer only and that there are limited places filling rapidly. It's important not to keep and review your records of sent emails.

I've got one vendor who's been doing this for the last year or so - i even have a special folder in to which his mails go automatically. I can now see his marketing pattern.
 
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This is so easy and very true and most of all...legal.

You can sell multiple systems, no worries.

If you've seen it..Derren Brown's horse racing system. (for those that haven't..google it)

Which is a lot more complex and difficult as theres many horses in any one race but yet still obviously works...with a market that can only go up or down its a no brainer.

Trading really is the perfect vehicle for this sort of scam. You buy a database with say 10 million email adreses of known investors.

Pick a stock at random, send out an email to 5 million people recommending a buy, send out same email to the other 5 million recomending a sell.

Wait a few days, see how the trade pans out.

Send second email to the 5 million who would have benefitted from the trade. This time send email to 2.5 Million people recommending they buy some other stock, send similar email to other 2.5 million recommending a sell.

Wait a few days and see how the trade pans out.

You now have 2.5 million people who recieved 2 good calls

Keep doing this until you've called 5 or 6 winners in a row to 250,000 potential punters, then hit em with the sales pitch, a decent percentage wont have the basic inteligence to see through the scam, and they'll quite happily hand over a decent wedge of cash

Clearly more elaborate marketing strategies could be employed recycling some of the losing trades, no one expects a 100% record.

simple !
 
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