{"id":8738,"date":"2023-10-03T03:52:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T03:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:21:56","slug":"how-to-start-an-online-business-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The skills required to be competitive in business are constantly evolving. Most professions are impacted in some way by new technologies, programs, and methods that change the way things are done from one year to the next. This makes ongoing learning an essential part of being in business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E-learning has emerged as a large and rapidly growing industry that makes education more accessible and customizable than ever before. If there\u2019s an audience for your particular skills or knowledge, you can make money by starting your own online course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increased opportunities for first-time entrepreneurs made possible by the internet, Shopify, and other<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/best-ecommerce-platform\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eCommerce platforms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> means there is no shortage of people trying to learn how to run a business on their own.<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/6-simple-steps-for-starting-your-online-business\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online business<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> courses offer an appealing and practical alternative to full-time entrepreneurship programs or MBAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, entrepreneurs or people who are just curious about a particular subject can find an online business course that covers exactly what they&#8217;re interested in, enroll for a price that is usually much less than a college course, and learn at their own pace from the comfort of their couch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s no wonder the global online e-learning market is<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1130331\/e-learning-market-size-segment-worldwide\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">worth over $100 billion USD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is projected to reach $370 billion by 2026. Since e-learning is borderless compared to more traditional types of education, you can start an online business course in Canada and access students all over the world.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Determine the subject matter of your online business course<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to be a part of the huge projected growth of e-learning over the next few years, your first step should be to determine what, exactly, your course will be about. There are a few things to keep in mind as you decide the subject of your course:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Be an expert on the topic<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For your online course to be of value, it&#8217;s important you actually have the expertise to teach it. Since reviews are an important marketing tool for online business courses, selling people a course in which they don&#8217;t really learn what they expect isn&#8217;t going to be an effective <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/ways-to-make-money-online-in-canada\/\&quot;">way to make money with an online<\/a> business course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People interested in buying your course will want to know why they should choose your particular course over all the others available on the same topic. You don&#8217;t necessarily have to have a formal education in the subject, but you should have real expertise and experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can demonstrate this by describing the professional experience you have using the skill you&#8217;re teaching or providing testimonials from people you&#8217;ve worked with.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Determine the scope of your course<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online business courses can vary from being very specific to broad in scope. For example, if you want to create a business course about marketing, you could create a broad course called &#8220;Fundamentals of Small Business Marketing.\u201d Alternatively, you could create something specific like &#8220;How To Master the Facebook Ads Platform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Determine your unique selling feature<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research the online business courses currently available on your subject, and determine how your course will be different from the most successful courses currently available. You may want to purchase and go through some of the courses you&#8217;ll be competing with, taking note of the areas you think those courses are lacking in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe your content will be more up-to-date, divided into more easily digestible segments, or offer more supplementary content, such as workbooks and case studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples of topics you could cover in your online business course include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to manage business finances<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A guide to business branding<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything you need to know about business administration<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to create a business plan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming up with an effective business model<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are just ideas, and your online business course can cover any business area where you have expertise and for which there\u2019s an audience of people who want to develop their skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Determine your target customer<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should approach starting an online business course just like you would approach starting any other business. Identifying the<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/business-target-audience\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">target audience<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for your product is an essential step because it will guide your course\u2019 creation as well as your marketing efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What is a target customer?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your target customer is the ideal customer for your product: in this case, your online business course. They are the dream client who needs exactly the expertise you can offer through the course, loves your teaching style and the way your course is structured, and walks away from the course feeling like they got excellent value.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This customer both:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Needs the information in your online business course.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is happy to pay your asking price, and would even be willing to pay again for more courses from you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your target customer can be defined relatively broadly, or very narrowly. How you define them will end up guiding how you create the content of your course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, if you create a course about<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/business-branding-guide\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">small business branding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for product-based businesses, your target customer could be just about anybody with a small business who doesn&#8217;t have a big budget to outsource their branding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, you might have expertise in the jewelry industry specifically, and you could instead create a course about jewelry business branding. In this case, your target audience would be narrowed down to<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/jewellery-making-business\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jewelry entrepreneurs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Benefits of defining your target customer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing your target customer is essential to creating a valuable course for them. By defining that dream customer, you can make sure that you create a course of the most possible value to that type of person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the example above, if you are an expert in launching jewelry brands, defining your target customer as a small jewelry business entrepreneur gives you the opportunity to tailor all of the topics within your course to the specifics of jewelry brands. A general branding course may t talk about the fundamentals of logo design, but a jewelry branding course may go into detail about what types of logos perform well for jewelry audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, if you&#8217;re targeting a broad audience, it&#8217;s important to keep general small product-based entrepreneurs in mind so you can provide course material that is applicable to businesses of all different types.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to helping guide your course creation, knowing your target customer will make it easier to market to them. If you know your target customer spends more time on Instagram than LinkedIn, you can focus your marketing efforts there.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Plan and design your online business course<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With your target customer in mind, you can get started on the creation of your online business course. If you&#8217;ve never taken an online course before, you may want to consider going through one or two yourself to get a sense of how they differ from traditional courses and to identify what you like and don&#8217;t like about different instructors\u2019 approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Determine the scope of your course<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before getting into the details of your course design, it&#8217;s important to determine what exactly you plan to cover. This will save you time in the long run, because you won&#8217;t waste time creating content you don&#8217;t end up using or having to recreate parts of your course because you missed something important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A good way to go about this is by<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.thinkific.com\/blog\/elearning-storyboard-templates\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">storyboarding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your business course. Storyboarding is a technique used in film products to plan the development and plot of a movie. It lends itself well to online course production too, because most courses have a large video component.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Define your learning outcomes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you know what you plan to cover in your course, you can identify what a student will learn by the time they complete it. These are called learning outcomes, and they&#8217;re an important selling feature for your business course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A potential student may first be drawn in by your course title, but the next thing they&#8217;ll look for is a quick summary of what they will actually get by purchasing it. If the outcomes aren&#8217;t clear, they&#8217;ll likely keep scrolling and looking for a course that\u2019s more clearly a good fit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning outcomes are things you can plug into the phrase,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;By the end of this course, you will&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an effective way of describing learning outcomes because it encourages your potential customer to imagine themselves, having taken your course, armed with the skills they need to take their own business to the next level.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Keep micro-learning in mind<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the major benefits of e-learning is the ability to fit education into a busy schedule, so completing a course full of two hour lectures can feel daunting. You should aim to convey your course material in bite-sized portions whenever possible, so students can progress bit by bit whenever they have the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Offer a high production value<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating a course that feels well-produced and is enjoyable doesn&#8217;t have to be expensive and can make a big difference in the experience your students have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video quality, lighting, and audio quality are the three most important components of production quality. You don&#8217;t need the top of the line microphone and camera, but choosing an option within your budget that has good reviews is an effective way to offer a polished course with higher perceived value.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Choose a platform<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Popular e-learning platforms include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Udemy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is a great platform for first-time instructors because it offers support for every stage of the process, from creating to marketing your course. It also has a huge base of active students who can search their database of courses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.skillshare.com\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skillshare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is more geared towards creative skills, but business courses that would appeal to creative entrepreneurs can do well here. It has a different pricing model, since students pay a monthly subscription to access the complete catalog of courses. As an instructor, you can earn more based on the number of minutes your course is watched<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/teachable.com\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teachable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is a great platform if you want to grow and nurture your own audience, which is especially helpful if you plan to sell more courses in the future.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also create and host your online business course from scratch, but with such great course-building tools available, this is a much more difficult route.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Promote your online course using different advertising channels<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most exciting aspects of starting an online business course is the earning potential. Since it&#8217;s a digital product you can potentially scale it to thousands of students without producing any more content. You may have to offer some customer service or other support, which a<\/span>\u00a0<a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/know-everything-about-virtual-assistant\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">virtual assistant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can help out with, but otherwise, there is no ceiling on how much you can make from selling your online business course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once your course content is created, your focus should shift to promoting it. Like any other online business, there is a range of platforms and approaches you can use to market your business. You can try a combination of them, or focus on the ones where your target customer is most likely to see your promotions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>SEO<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/seo-checklist-for-your-business\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search engine optimization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SEO) will improve your chances of showing up in search results for terms relevant to your course material. You can optimize your course description and any copy that appears online promoting your course. If you can get other websites to link to your course, that can offer a major SEO boost as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Email marketing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building an email list of people you can market your course to is one of the most cost-effective marketing techniques in terms of return on investment. One way to build up your<\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-email-and-your-business\/\&quot;"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">email marketing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> list is to offer a freebie of some sort in exchange for an email sign up. For example, you could offer the first video of your course for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Social media marketing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your target customer is on social media, getting involved and improving your visibility with the community relevant to your course can help get more eyes on your content, and ultimately, more purchases of your course.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Paid ads<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paid ads may not be the cheapest promotional tool, but an effective campaign can make up for the cost. Google, Instagram, and<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/facebook-ads\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook Ads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are popular platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Influencer marketing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are there entrepreneur influencers with an audience that might be interested in taking your course? If so, offering the course for free to some influential people and giving them a discount code to share with their audience can be an excellent, low-cost way to promote your course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Affiliate marketing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affiliates earn a percentage from each sale of your course made through their unique affiliate link.<\/span> <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/affiliate-marketing\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affiliate marketers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tend to be skilled digital marketers or have a large audience either on social media or in the form of an email list, so paying them a portion of the sales they bring in can be well worth it if they get your course in front of lots of new potential buyers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Blog posts<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintaining a blog with content relevant to your target customer is great for SEO and can also help establish you as a trustworthy, competent resource. If people enjoy your blog content, they&#8217;re more likely to enjoy your course content as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Launch your online business course<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With your course created and your promotion plan ready to go, it&#8217;s time to go live. With so many course choices available online, building up some positive reviews can help you get the ball rolling and encourage more people to purchase your course over others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A good way to get reviews when you&#8217;re brand new is to give away access to a number of people in exchange for reviews and testimonials. You can give access to people in your network or create an opportunity for people online to sign up for free for a limited time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember, your online business course can create ongoing, scalable revenue for a long time to come. Creating some excitement around your course when you launch is important, but it&#8217;s more important that you have a strategy in place for generating ongoing sales.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E-learning is forecasted to more than triple over the next four years, so there\u2019s no time like the present to start your online business course and grow it into a sustainable<\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/side-hustle-ideas\/\&quot;"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">side hustle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or full-time job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[998],"tags":[143,644],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-you-start","tag-business-course","tag-side-hustle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada | Ownr Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada | Ownr Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ownr Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OwnrCo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-03T03:52:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-01T14:21:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ownr Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@OwnrCo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@OwnrCo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ownr Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"11 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ownr Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d3a90f4777763d5abc49866c1f4f694\"},\"headline\":\"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-03T03:52:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-01T14:21:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":2398,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr-blog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"business course\",\"side hustle\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Before You Start\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/\",\"name\":\"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada | Ownr Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr-blog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-03T03:52:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-01T14:21:56+00:00\",\"description\":\"Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr-blog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr-blog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1333,\"caption\":\"A young man uses a laptop to participate in an online business course\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/start-online-business\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Ownr Blog\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ownrship 101\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/ownrship-101\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Business Stages\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/ownrship-101\\\/business-stages\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Before You Start\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/ownrship-101\\\/business-stages\\\/before-you-start\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":5,\"name\":\"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ownr Blog\",\"description\":\"Helping Canadians Register &amp; Incorporate Their Business\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ownr Co\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ownr-blog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/ownr-logo.svg?w=1024\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ownr-blog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/ownr-logo.svg?w=1024\",\"width\":\"1024\",\"height\":\"1024\",\"caption\":\"Ownr Co\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/OwnrCo\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/OwnrCo\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/ownr.co\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/ca.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/ownrco\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ownr.co\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d3a90f4777763d5abc49866c1f4f694\",\"name\":\"Ownr Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f25abadb65e3656ea6142f6d5a3d046d505765d0b46c9cf3f28063ba053f4bcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f25abadb65e3656ea6142f6d5a3d046d505765d0b46c9cf3f28063ba053f4bcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f25abadb65e3656ea6142f6d5a3d046d505765d0b46c9cf3f28063ba053f4bcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ownr Team\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada | Ownr Blog","description":"Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada | Ownr Blog","og_description":"Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/","og_site_name":"Ownr Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OwnrCo\/","article_published_time":"2023-10-03T03:52:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-04-01T14:21:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":1333,"url":"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ownr Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@OwnrCo","twitter_site":"@OwnrCo","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ownr Team","Est. reading time":"11 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/"},"author":{"name":"Ownr Team","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2d3a90f4777763d5abc49866c1f4f694"},"headline":"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada","datePublished":"2023-10-03T03:52:30+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-01T14:21:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/"},"wordCount":2398,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg","keywords":["business course","side hustle"],"articleSection":["Before You Start"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/","name":"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada | Ownr Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg","datePublished":"2023-10-03T03:52:30+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-01T14:21:56+00:00","description":"Want to share your business skills with an online audience and make money doing it? Starting your own online business course is easier than ever. Here\u2019s how.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg","width":2000,"height":1333,"caption":"A young man uses a laptop to participate in an online business course"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/start-online-business\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Ownr Blog","item":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ownrship 101","item":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/category\/ownrship-101\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Business Stages","item":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/category\/ownrship-101\/business-stages\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Before You Start","item":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/category\/ownrship-101\/business-stages\/before-you-start\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"How to Start an Online Business Course in Canada"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/","name":"Ownr Blog","description":"Helping Canadians Register &amp; Incorporate Their Business","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#organization","name":"Ownr Co","url":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ownr-logo.svg?w=1024","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ownr-logo.svg?w=1024","width":"1024","height":"1024","caption":"Ownr Co"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OwnrCo\/","https:\/\/x.com\/OwnrCo","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ownr.co\/","https:\/\/ca.linkedin.com\/company\/ownrco"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2d3a90f4777763d5abc49866c1f4f694","name":"Ownr Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f25abadb65e3656ea6142f6d5a3d046d505765d0b46c9cf3f28063ba053f4bcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f25abadb65e3656ea6142f6d5a3d046d505765d0b46c9cf3f28063ba053f4bcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f25abadb65e3656ea6142f6d5a3d046d505765d0b46c9cf3f28063ba053f4bcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ownr Team"}}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ownr-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_1940410141-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14213,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions\/14213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ownr.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}