June 13, 2023

What Is Your Problem? Focus on solving the biggest problem for your audience

What Is Your Problem? Focus on solving the biggest problem for your audience

In this episode, Tara breaks down how to start putting together an AWESOME online course experience. Want to know why people will pay you? To help you solve the biggest problem they are having in their journey...tune in to learn more.

About Me:

My name is Tara Bryan. I help business owners break into the next level of success by packaging their expertise into an online course experience. It's my passion to help to find the fastest path to results to create a greater impact and income for you and your tribe.

This podcast is 100% focused on support, knowledge and example sharing, and building a community of online course builders who are passionate about building awesome learning experiences.

We do that by building engaging, motivating, gamified, and learner-centered online course experiences. We come up with ideas and strategies to ensure that our learners can thrive and succeed using our packaged products.

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Transcript
Tara Bryan:

Hey, everybody, it's Tara, Bryan, and you are

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listening to the course building secrets podcast. Whether you're

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a coach or a CEO, the success of your team and clients is based

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on your ability to deliver a consistent experience and guide

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them on the fastest path to results. This podcast will give

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you practical real life tips that you can use today to build

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your online experiences that get results and create raving fans.

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Why? So you can monetize your expertise and serve more people

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without adding more time or team to your business? If you're

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looking to uncover your million dollar framework, package it and

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use it to scale you're in the right place. Let's dive in. Hey,

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everybody, welcome to today's episode of the course building

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secrets podcast. In this episode, I'm going to talk about

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what is your problem? Alright, so, so often when people are

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coming to me to talk about building an online program,

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really starting to claim their expertise, the biggest, the

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biggest place where people struggle is what and how to put

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their course together, right? Like, so how do you go from

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being really good at something, maybe helping some customers

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with it, to turning it into a packaged online experience?

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Right, because there's a big shift there that needs to

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happen. And one of the the foundational pieces to think

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about is what problem you're trying to solve. So when you

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look at your expertise, what you're really excited about what

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you're really good at what you're passionate about, usually

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people don't have a problem, you know, kind of saying, This is my

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thing, right? Like, this is what I love to do. This is how I help

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people, all of the things that the the shift happens in like,

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Well, why would somebody pay to learn that from me? Why would

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somebody pay to to have me help them? And there are so many

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different reasons or so many different answers to that

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question. But foundationally, the most important answer is

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what problem is it that you can help them solve? Right? So as

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you start shifting from like, this is my thing. And this is

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what I'm an expert at, to helping other people, it's

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really looking at that target market, that you are going after

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that target audience and saying, okay, so what problem can I

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solve for this audience. And then that is the the actual sort

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of focus that you have from there on. And it's not just

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like, I'm going to teach you all of the things that I know, or

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I'm going to give you all of the information or god forbid, I'm

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going to, like literally give you everything that's in my

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head, right, that's not going to actually lead you to success.

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Surprisingly, the more focused you can be in more targeted, you

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can be on what the actual, like, micro challenges that that

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person has, in order to get to the next phase in order to get a

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transformation in order to get to where they want to go, the

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more focused you can be, the more successful your program, or

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your approach will be. Sometimes people think that's kind of

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intuitive, right? Like, if I give them everything, then that

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demonstrates my knowledge and is more helpful for people. And

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actually, it's the opposite. It is it is if you can get that

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sort of micro result for someone, help them focus in on

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how to solve that one problem. How to get past that one

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challenge that they have. That's actually where you're going to

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be most successful. You may have heard riches are in the niches.

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Right. And that's very, very true, not only niching down and

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not helping everyone, right. That's the other challenge that

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we have is usually when we say it's for everyone, it's actually

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for no one because you're not specific enough. And so you have

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to fight that need to want to help everyone you want to help a

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very specific person solve a very small, very specific

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problem that they have. And I say small, but it has to be

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significant, right? It has to be something that they need to

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solve. Not that they just kind of want to solve or they're sort

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of interested in right. Those aren't going to be the program

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ones that are gonna take off. So as you look at your expertise,

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the very first thing is, what do you want to focus on? Right?

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You, you probably are an expert in your topic, and you could

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talk about it for days and weeks and months. And you're so

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excited about it, and you love it. And it's all the all the

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things that you want to talk about. But again, it's got to be

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now when you look at who it is you want to work with, you need

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to look at like, what is the problem that they are trying to

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solve? Not? How do I give them all the things but the problem

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that they want to solve, then that problem is where you start

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focusing in on building your signature framework. So how,

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what are the steps that they need to take to solve that

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problem? And that is where you actually start to frame out what

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you're going to put in your online program? And then from

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there, it's how do you going to how are you going to teach it?

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How are you going to show up? How are they going to show up?

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How are you going to get them to that place of transformation?

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Right? So that's sort of the big picture progression of how you

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go from being an expert to actually having a program that,

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that helps people, right. So you can start charging for that you

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can start packaging it in a way that gets people a

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transformation. And the progression starts with, what

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are you really good at? And then who is it that you can help? And

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what is that problem that they're trying to solve? And,

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and once you identify that problem going as small as

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possible, going as specific as possible, and then building your

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framework, sort of your proprietary methodology, the way

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that you show up, the way that you look at it, and you teach it

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is is unique, 100% unique, even if the topic isn't unique, the

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way that you show up and teach it is unique, your framework,

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nine steps, seven or nine steps, however you want to do it. And

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then you take that and that is then where you can start

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building an online program to help serve your people. And

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incidentally, when when you create that proprietary

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methodology, it can be used all over your business, right? It is

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your, your method that you use to help people become

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successful. So you can use it in consulting services, you can use

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it in a workshop, you can use it in an online program, you can

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use it in a product, you can use it in, you know, whatever else

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you can dream up, right? Because it foundationally becomes the

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way that you help somebody solve that problem. And so definitely

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use that, as you are framing out all of the different parts and

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pieces of how you help someone. So we'll dive into specifics of

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that. But in this podcast, what I wanted to just cover was how

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do you get from sort of expert to an online program? What does

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that look like? And the big picture is what I just mapped

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out. So if you're new to this game, and you're thinking like,

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Well, everybody's, you know, telling me I should package my

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expertise, and I should do something with this. That's how

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you get from sort of that concept of I'm going to, I'm

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going to create a side hustle, I'm going to create a business

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around this, I'm going to just help people with my expertise.

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That's how you get there is you you first determine what your

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expertise is. Then you find that audience you want to work with

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and then what's the problem that they have that you are uniquely

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qualified to solve. You identify those things, and you are in

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business. Alright, there you go. That is my just small tip for