Ol' Woods here ain't exactly known as an outdoorsman.
But today he got up (ugh, am I going to write this whole thing in the third person?) at 6:00am -- an atrocity in itself -- and drove with his beloved to Lover's Leap Trail in Custer State Park here in South Dakota and...went hiking.
As you can see, I survived.
I have to admit: I kind of dreaded it. Lots of unknowns.
There were plenty of opportunities to delay or back out.
But I just went ahead and did it -- with excellent results. It was great.
You already know where I'm going with this, dear reader.
It goes like this:
(1) The bastards have just shown that they'll shut your business down at the drop of a hat without giving it a second thought.
(2) You should start building something to protect yourself against these evil people.
(3) It's really easy to keep putting this off, or not doing it.
(4) But, like my hiking, you should just go ahead and do it.
Oh, and (5) Video courses are where it's at, especially at a time when everyone is sitting in front of a computer.
And since websites likes Udemy and Coursera generate the traffic for you, there's no need to run ads or generate traffic for video courses.
Since a lack of traffic is the number-one reason people tell me their online businesses fail, you can see what an advantage this is.
All you have to do is copy and paste some text or simply record some audio, and CourseReel -- a brand new cloud-based platform -- converts it into a video.
You can use your phone to record yourself speaking about whatever topic you choose. Once you upload that audio, CourseReel can convert it into text, break it down into slides, add styling, add images/video clips, and the first chapter of your video course is ready.
Then repeat as necessary, and you're done. Talk about an unfair advantage.
Software like Camtasia, which we used to create the courses at Liberty Classroom, costs over $300 and require a powerful computer. CourseReel is available during this brief launch window for a tiny fraction of that price and works from any device, even your iPad.
If a geek like Woods can hike, then you can do this:
Tom Woods