You may have a dream or vision for passive income. Perhaps you yearn to reach more people with your mission and teachings. Maybe you feel you’re reaching an up-levelling in your biz and you want to scale your offerings.

In an online-centric world, opportunities abound for scalable, impactful, game-changing offerings that can turn your passion and knowledge into profit.

To help you move your biz offerings into this space, here’s my idea generating tips:

1. Grab a notebook, trello board or excel spreadsheet if that’s how you roll.

2. Now brain-dump by dissecting all the working parts of what you love to do.

• Which exact parts are you exceptionally great at?
• Which exact parts do people ask for your help, guidance or advice on?
• Which exact parts are unique to you or the way you do it?

Aaaaannnnd there you have your topic ideas.

While you can obviously sell the output of your hobby or passion (such as a physical product you create) what is scalable is your knowledge.

I work with clients on automating and systemising their business so it gives them the freedom and flexibility they crave and my advice would be to package your unique knowledge into online offerings such as eBooks, Downloadable Guides, Online Courses or Masterclasses.

Think automated, passive income alongside you continuing to create and live your passion!

Looking to jump right in? Here’s a round-up of current systems that can get you started today:

SELLING ON YOUR OWN SITE

(A bit more faffing configuring things on your own site and potential issues with file size limits and payment gateways but you’ll be in complete control of the look and feel of your courses and products)

• AccessAlly: A wordpress compatible online course software
• ActiveMember 360: A wordpress plugin that works exclusively with all the ActiveCampaign automation and tagging fancy-ness
• Digital Access Pass: A membership plugin for wordpress that protects & drips content + has a built-in shopping cart
• LearnDash: Another wordpress “Learning Management System” plugin
• LifterLMS: An online course software add-on for wordpress
• Memberful: A plug-in that lets you sell memberships to your site
• MemberMouse: A membership plugin that allows you to accept payments and manage password protected content
• MemberPress: WordPress compatible membership software built in to your site
• Paid Memberships Pro: Create protected member content and schedule recurring payments
• Restrict Content Pro: Create subscription levels, manage content access and payments
• Sensei: A woocommerce online course product
• Wishlist Member: Create a membership site by protecting certain content on your site
• WP Courseware: Another wordpress compatible learning management system

SELLING ON A THIRD PARTY SITE

(Easier to set-up, hosting of content sorted by someone else but limited control over the look and flow of your offering PLUS they may take a fee from your sales on-top of a monthly cost)

• Kajabi: Create online courses and membership sites
• Skillshare: Set up so you can earn every time a student takes your class
• Teachable: A dedicated teaching platform for building online courses
• Thinkific: Quickly and easily create online, trackable courses
• Udemy: An online learning and teaching marketplace

Hope that helps you focus your research into finding the best solution for you!

If you’re wanting to bounce ideas off someone or are just a bit cross-eyed with the amount of options, find out how we can work together here >>

Claire