Marketing an online course for psychologists part 4: Do you have the authority to launch an online course?Hello and welcome to a slightly different episode of the Business of Psychology Podcast. 
Today I'm excited to share with you a very brief clip from one of our lessons in our upcoming course all around course creation for psychologists and therapists. So yes, it's a bit meta, I have created a course about online course creation, and I'm so excited to bring it to you guys. 
So this is an affordable option if you are somebody who is wanting to reach more people and help more people through an online course, but you haven't quite got the budget to go and spend £2000 with some of the coaches that are out there at the moment. Or if you have got that budget, but you just want to do it in the company of other psychologists and therapists and people who share your kind of ethical marketing background, then I'm really excited to be bringing this course to you. And I thought what better way of giving you a sense of what we've got to offer in the course than letting you take a little sneak peek at one of our lessons. 


So just to let you know, the course is going to be offered as a regular part of the Do More Than Therapy membership. That's our monthly membership that costs £47 a month at the moment. And it was really important to me to offer this course as a core part of that membership, as a roadmap actually running through the centre of that membership, so that rather than putting a big price tag on this course, which I could have done (and there are lots of really high priced courses about online course creation out there) but I wanted to make this really accessible so it's free for all of our existing members. If you're already a Do More Than Therapy member or a Psychology Business School student, you will get access to this at no additional cost whatsoever. And I've kept it at that low price point so that as many of you as possible who have a passion for reaching more people can jump on board and do that with us. I’m really excited to bring it to you and I know that today's content around building your authority is going to get you off to the best possible start.


I also wanted to share this particular lesson because I think it's something we don't talk about enough; and that is building authority. You can't expect the public to just understand that you know what you're talking about based on your years of experience and your qualifications. It makes me so angry, but it is true that the public generally don't have a good understanding of who we are and what we do. We've got a bit of an identity problem at the moment. So because of that, it's super, super important from the minute that you conceptualise the idea that you might want to build an online course, to start building up the authority you need with the public in order to sell that course. So if there was one thing I was going to say you need to get started right now on this, it would be building your authority. So this is just a really quick snippet of that lesson. You will probably hear me referring to resources that you don't have access to a couple of times during the lesson. That's because the people taking the course will get access to a workbook and they'll also have access to all of our Do More Than Therapy master classes. So I apologise for that, but I thought the content was so good and so worth sharing that I wanted to put it out in this format. So here we go, without further ado here is a little snippet of our lesson on building authority.
Building Authority Lesson ClipBuilding Authority is absolutely essential if we're going to put an online course out into the world. People have to understand why they should choose to invest time and money with you. So today we're going to look at why you need to build authority even if you have loads of experience already. We're going to look at ways of building authority within your specialism,