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Caroline Middlebrook's latest post (as at the time of writing) is a brief review of the online course Teaching Sells. I haven't tried it myself to know, however I believe both Caroline and commenter Evan hit the nail on the head with the message that this course (and others like it) don't teach you how to do anything other than technically set up and market your own ideas/skills for profit. Early in her post Caroline says, "The reason I have not finished working through the Teaching Sells material yet is because I keep stumbling at the first hurdle trying to find a good subject. I have toyed with around half a dozen ideas and all of them were flawed in some way." Evan comments that "This course is NOT for you if you expect them to teach you anything about teaching. ... But it does have some good stuff on marketing." To me this sums up the whole problem with the make-money-online genre - they are all about the technical and marketing aspects of serving your ideas and skills to the masses for profit. The biggest problem is (as Caroline found out), none of them help you choose the topic of your site or the skills you possess that could make you money. While I've only subscribed to and then ignored Andrew and Daryl Grant's online marketing emails, I seem to recall part of their offering being mentoring on how to find potentially successful niches for their money making technique, which in my mind makes them stand out from the pack. On the flip side I seem to recall that their method required a lot of time, work and a flair for writing - so not really a get-rich-quick scheme for most people. Just like most of the people we cringe to watch audition for Idol, most people believe they are decent writers when it's often clearly not the case. Clear to everyone but them, that is. Well, that burns it. It's time for me to get off my couch shaped arse and actually make a start. I may be no more talented than those wannabe Idol stars, but like Ernie Dingo says, "you'll never never know if you never never go"
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