Course Lab: Lessons from Successful Online Course Creators

No matter the field of expertise, there’s always room for course creators who are willing to raise the bar. Nutritionist, best-selling author and course creator Meghan Telpner shares how she is finding continued success in a highly saturated niche.

Show Notes

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Meghan Telpner is the founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, a nutrition-based culinary certification course. When she was unable to keep up with demand for her in-person cooking classes, Meghan began offering video classes online. Despite the saturated fields of nutrition and cooking, she thrived by continually raising the bar in structure and support.

     In this episode, Danny, Abe and Meghan discuss elements of course building that create real value for students—from enrollment to support to certification. If you’re willing to step up, you can succeed in any niche.

In this episode we discuss:
  • Why more content does not equal more value.
  • High-conversion enrollment sessions.
  • Assignment structures and accountability.
  • Working with organic leads vs. social media ads.
  • Structuring support for high success rates.
  • Raising the bar by being adaptable, resourceful and creative.


“But what I always say is that you're not buying a certificate, you're buying the education, and the certification has to be earned.”
– Meghan Telpner

Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based best-selling author, speaker, nutritionist, and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. Her humorous, engaging and real approach to living an awesome, healthy life has garnered her a world-wide audience.

     Meghan’s Academy of Culinary Nutrition is growing a global community of vibrant living advocates, and her bestselling books, UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook, are creating a revolution in how people think about their health.

     Meghan has been featured in Forbes, ranked as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada and named Best Holistic Nutritionist in 2017 and 2018 by National Nutrition.

     She lives in Toronto with her husband Josh Gitalis, a functional medicine practitioner, and their son Finley. For more visit MeghanTelpner.com.



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Credits:
  • Guest: Meghan Telpner
  • Hosts: Danny Iny & Abe Crystal 
  • Producer: Cynthia Lamb 
  • Executive producer: Danny Iny
  • Assembled by: Geoff Govertsen
  • Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
  • Audio Post Production: Post Office Sound
  • Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
  • Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio



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Episode transcript: Cooking Up Courses (Meghan Telpner)  coming soon

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Creators and Guests

Host
Abe Crystal
Host
Danny Iny
Producer
Cynthia Lamb
Guest
Meghan Telpner

What is Course Lab: Lessons from Successful Online Course Creators?

Want to create a hugely successful online course, one that has a major impact on the lives of your students? If you want to learn how to create online courses from the best, you turn to Mirasee; and if you want to host that course, you can’t go wrong using the powerful platform, Ruzuku.

Ruzuku co-founder Abe Crystal and Mirasee founder and CEO Danny Iny know what it takes to stand out and be successful in the online courses industry. And now they’re teaming up to share this intel with you in their new Course Lab podcast.

In every episode, Course Lab showcases an entrepreneur/course creator who is nailing it with their online course -- and not because they’re teaching people how to make more money. In fact, most of these creators occupy unusual or overlooked niches, like music, writing for video games, overcoming inherent bias, and finding your life purpose.

Turns out, the key to their success all comes down to their online course design. In this podcast, Danny and Abe reveal the most important design tactics that are making all the difference for these online course creators -- and how you can implement them in your own online course. So if you want to create a successful online course that changes the lives of your students, this is your big chance to learn how it’s done from the best in the industry!