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8. Get feedback from your students. They'll tell you how to make course better.
9. Use one course to promote other courses you offer. There will be plenty of opportunities within course to tuck in suggestions for further learning opportunities through you.
10. Once your courses are done, they'll be self-running and this is a great source of passive revenue. Turn logistics over to a VA. You'll answer responses yourself, which may sound overwhelming, but here's a fact--adult learning being what it is, many of students don't make responses, so it won't be as taxing as you think.
11. Use your correspondence with students to promote other things that you do. I send URL each week with an e-note containing further information, notice of other products, and geto-to-konw-you chats. In this way I get many clients for my coaching business.
12. Love it or don't do it. It shows. A distance learning course can be a very personal experience--or should be--for student. Your enthusiasm for your subject, and for your learners must show.
13. Fiddle with pricing until you've built a faithful clientele base. There's a lot out there for free that you have to compete with. Until they understand how exceptional and different your learning opportunities are, you may have to give away or deeply discount your courses.
It's a great new field. Jump in and have fun!
Susan Dunn is a personal and professional growth coach. In addition to private coaching, she offers many distance learning courses on self-development topics. Email her for free ezine.