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Where/how are you selling your course? Is this strictly a DYI thing or are you utilizing some kind of framework?

I put it on gumroad and sell it as a digital download. 100% DYI. The sales come mostly from my social media audience.

How long were you building your audience before releasing the course? (I ask this with respect, building an audience is hard.)

It is! And especially when you’re the dev type and not necessarily a natural at promoting yourself…

Building the audience took about a year and a half. But what made it easier is that I didn’t set out to build it just to sell the course, it was mostly a byproduct of trying to form connections and get more awareness for my startup. Then the course was just a way to capitalize on it even more.

Thanks for the details, sounds like a right way to do it, congrats!

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