Should I Create an Online Course? The Quiz

Creating an Online Course Isn’t Always The Answer

The standard advice says that once your calendar fills up, or you're tired of trading hours for money, the next move is a course. That advice skips the part where not everything is teachable, and it skips the part where your buyers might not want to learn it in the first place.

This quiz asks the questions I'd ask you on a discovery call. What you'd actually teach. Whether you can name what someone can do at the end. Whether anyone has paid you for this before. Whether your clients would want to learn it or would rather you just did it.

Seven questions, about two minutes.

What You’ll Find Out

It will tell some of you no.

Six possible results, and three of them say a course isn't your move right now. One of them says the thing nobody wants to hear, which is that your clients want the work done rather than taught, and no amount of good course design fixes that.

I'd rather you get a no here than three months into building something that ends up sitting in a folder.

You get your result on the spot and a few emails after that walk through what to do with it. There's nothing to buy at the end.

Who’s It For?

It's built for people who sell their expertise. Coaches, consultants, service providers; anyone who has a business and is hoping to teach folks as another stream of income. If you're two weeks into your business and haven't worked with anyone yet, the quiz will tell you that too.

Who am I?

I'm Dr. Catrina Mitchum. I’m a recovering academic that puts the nearly two decades of instructional design and teaching experience to work for coaches, consultants, and service providers. I'm not selling you a course about courses. I'm telling you whether you should build one.