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No fluffy content. If your goal is to build a $100m ARR business, this is not the right post. Here I am are NOT going to talk about building the next Facebook or Twitter. If your goal is to make a $1K to $10K MRR, continue reading.

This post will cover one SAAS area and talk about multiple niches in this space. This post also explains how to do tech implementation, do market analysis, how the current players are doing, and ends with a cost analysis to understand the overall cost for 100 users.

Let’s see some of the successful Cohort based learning courses/workshops. This is Part-1.

100DaysofNoCode: Bring your ideas to life in 100 days. No coding is required. 100DaysOfNoCode is an online community connecting you with the people, content, and habit-fueled system to build great things. Received 7 figure acquisition offers.

Ship30For30: Ship 30 for 30 is a cohort-based course teaching you the fundamentals of writing on the internet. But unlike other writing courses, you will put your learnings into practice by writing and publishing online every day for 30 days. Crossed $500,000 in total revenue in under 12 months.

A Portfolio Of Small Bets: Cohort based course on designing your own lifestyle and make it risk-free with small bets and improve the overall outcome. Made more than $60K in sales (estimated).

Maven: Where top creators teach cohort-based courses. Cohort-based courses are the perfect combination of high scalability with a premium price. Cohort-based courses are the next opportunity for thought-leaders to emerge and build a personal brand in education. Raised $20 million in funding.

GrowthSchool: Learn from Top 1% Live. GrowthSchool partners with the top 1% of instructors to create high-impact CBCs on personal and professional growth for learners all over the world. Received $5M in funding.

Shadowing: Connect with employees and mentors in any company. Expand your network. Join cohorts. Ask questions and share knowledge.

CryptoAcademy: Fundamentals of Bitcoin & Crypto with Anthony Pompliano. Learn in a cohort. Join a community. Invest in your career. Made thousands of dollars by teaching crypto fundamentals in cohort-based courses.

TheMinimalistEntrepreneur: Join the live, six-week online course for founders who want to learn to do more with less. The estimated revenue is $100K in less than a year.

AscendLeadershipProgram: Ascend's Leadership Program is a 6-week online program for women to empower them with the skills, frameworks, and tools required to influence at all levels, accelerate their career, and have a voice at the table.

WriteOfPassage: Cohort-based course to learn a step-by-step method for publishing quality content and distributing your ideas to your professional network, leading to unexpected opportunities and increased serendipity in your work and life. Made thousands in revenue with cohort course costing $4000 per person.

YoutuberAcademy: Cohort-based training on how to grow your YouTube channel from 0 to 100,000+ subscribers and transform it into a sustainable, income-generating machine without quitting your day job. Makes more than $30K per month with Youtube and related cohort-based courses.

Enlight: Enlight is the educational platform for cohort-based courses focused on development. Provide the best-in-class education paired with a supportive community and accountability.

PathwrightCohorts: Invite online learners to learn together with Cohorts. Because the best learning happens when people are exchanging ideas, asking questions, and interacting with people.

UpCoach: The professional coaching platform to help you deliver transformational results for cohorts. With the click of one button, you can clone an entire, one-on-one program, a group coaching program for a new cohort, or set up a new mastermind in seconds.

CourseNest: Finding the perfect Cohort Based Course has never been easier. Browse through handpicked CBCs from across the web, for free.

Fruitly: Build and grow your cohort-based course and an event-based community from one place.

Negative Nancy says - “I can just record my course and ask people to pay for it instead of running a cohort-based training”

Me - Cohort-based training/learning will give a tangible touch to the training and keep people connected/accountable.

Negative Nancy says - “I don’t have time to run a cohort-based training for months together”

Me - Cohort-based training/learning can be as short as 4-6 hours as well usually spread across 2-3 weeks.

Negative Nancy says - “I still prefer to do my own video course on a topic. I would want to bet more on that”

Me - Video courses and cohort-based training courses are not mutually exclusive. You can convert your first recorded cohort training workshop/session into a static video course that can still give you money and an audience. It could be the other way round too. You can first create a video course and use that as a lead generator for cohort-based courses.

Deep-dive

Teach what you know but in groups.

The average price of cohort-based courses is always several times higher than the self-paced courses. Name it a boot camp, workshop, cohort-based courses, mastermind groups - all are nothing but learning together with a predefined timeline/schedule.

Cohort-based courses vs Self-paced courses - While self-paced courses are more towards passive learning and low engagement, cohort-based courses are more towards active learning and higher engagement and are often time-bound. By making things time-bound, the audience is forced to perform better with limited timelines.

With a group of people learning together, cohort-based courses bring in implicit accountability. Also, cohort-based training is not just video courses, sometimes they involve workshops, assignments, tasks, etc too to make it more interactive.

Some niches

• NoCode Cohorts: The concept of no-code tools has been growing exponentially for the last couple of years and we have been seeing a lot of Enterprise customers too using NoCode tools. There are hundreds of no-code tools and there are hundreds of video courses to learn about these. Create a cohort-based course around ‘no-code’ tools and show people how they can build applications using these no-code tools. See 100DaysofNoCode as an example that received 7 figure acquisition offers.

• Bubble Cohort-based courses: Bubble is another tool that has got a lot of growth in the last couple of years. It’s a no-code tool where users can pretty much build any application without actually writing code. Companies started looking for Bubble developers and this has led more people to learn Bubble courses. Many productized companies started to serve Bubble based requirements. The Bubble has become a much bigger ecosystem by itself where people have been creating Bubble templates, Bubble Apps, and selling to others. But Bubble also comes with its own learning curve. Create a Cohort based learning where you teach people how to build apps using Bubble. At the end of the course, also show pointers on how people can look for Bubble related outsourcing work or jobs related to the Bubble ecosystem. Show users a way to make money using the Bubble ecosystem or to get a job with Bubble skills. BuildingWithBubble makes $5K - $7K MRR with Bubble courses.

• Notion Cohort: Notion has almost become a go-to tool for all companies. There is a much bigger ecosystem growing around Notion. People are making thousands of dollars by selling Notion-related tools, Notion form builder’s Notion based website builder, Notion based headless CMS APIs, etc. For example, Potion makes more than $5K MRR by building tools around Notion. NotionMastery makes $42K per month by teaching about Notion. Super is making 12K MRR just by connecting Notion docs to a custom domain with fonts and analytics. All this in 6months since the launch. Note that there is a high growth of Notion usage with almost every company trying to use Notion. Many PMs, Engineering managers started using Notion. Create cohort-based learning for Notion users where you teach tools around Notion and its ecosystem. See the growth of ‘Notion’ searches. There are 2,240K searches for a month for 'the keyword ‘Notion’ and that’s huge.

• Content Writing Cohorts: Though writing seems easy for most people, the ‘habit of writing isn’t easy. That is where cohort-based writing courses can help you stick to a schedule and commit. By committing with other learners in the cohorts, you feel accountable and make others accountable. Create an ecosystem for writers. You can further segment these under various categories like ‘ebook writers’, ‘content writers’ etc. Ship30For30 in a similar niche hascrossed $500,000 in total revenue in under 12 months with cohort-based courses for writing. To make courses like these successfully, create an inbuilt community where people can support each other. For example, every time a post is written, people can share it with the community to get some visibility and feedback at the same time.

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