Real stories from one of a kind business owners who started with courage and ended with successful digital courses.
This is Patty’s
Digital Course Academy Success Story
Patty Laushman Founder & Head Coach, Thrive Autism Coaching
“In less than 2 years, I grew my nonexistent email list to more than 3,600 subscribers AND I just made $55,013 with my first-course launch! Adding a course to my business is helping me impact more lives than just one-on-one coaching.”
Results are not guaranteed. Please see earnings disclaimer for more detail.
It only takes a few minutes of Googling to realize that there’s LOTS of information out there for parents of young children diagnosed with autism — but there’s very little for parents of autistic teens and adults who are trying to make the next developmental leap, like succeeding in high school, college, career, or just independent living.
When I started coaching autistic teens and adults, I spoke with many of their parents and discovered that the information, tools, and strategies that enabled me to help my own son thrive were the knowledge that parents of teens and adults desperately needed.
I made it my mission to share it with as many families as possible, as quickly as possible. My one-on-one coaching has been wildly fulfilling and successful, but I can only take so many clients at a time. I was also quickly burning out, which meant I would soon be helping no one.
Creating a digital course felt like the next best step to helping more people.
I knew I needed an audience to sell my course to (my email list was nonexistent), so I started with List Builder’s Society and followed its framework exactly.
I committed to writing weekly blog posts and my list started growing steadily. In less than a year, I had 2,500 subscribers — and I did it 100% organically through SEO!
I now had an engaged audience to sell my course to, PLUS I had proof that if I just implemented Amy’s step-by-step plan, I would see results. So when Digital Course Academy® opened, I signed up.
I was terrified!
I had never done a webinar (let alone try to sell a $2,000 product directly from a webinar) and just the thought of being on camera gave me anxiety.
But I take my responsibility to these parents so seriously because I know this information can change their lives.
So, I persisted. I followed the DCA formula to a tee, even when I wasn’t sure it would work for my specific niche (spoiler alert: it did!).
I also continued building my email list (by the time I launched, I had just over 3,600 subscribers!).
I pushed past many moments of fear and doubt with a lot of support from my amazing accountability group.
I am so humbled and honored to share that 30 families joined my course, Parenting for Independence, generating $55,310 in revenue from my FIRST launch!
There is a zero percent chance I would have done this without DCA. And the best part is, now that I've done it once, I know I can do it again and again!
Thank you, Team Porterfield, for helping me bring this course into the world.
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Every journey starts with one step. If the questions “who am I to create a course?” or “where do I even start?” are coming up for you, know that they came up for every single successful course creator you see on this page.
Whether you’ve never owned a business before, you have no idea what your course would be about, or you’re totally allergic to tech — we ALL start somewhere. What matters most is your willingness to put one foot in front of the other.
Each of these course creators started with one thing: THE COURAGE TO TRY
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