Working From Home as an Online Trainer or Consultant

  • Date: 4 September 2020
  • reading time: 5 Minutes
  • Blogger: Francisca Zimmermann


Are you spending most of your days at home at the moment? Are you struggling to keep your business going without being able to leave the house? You are not alone. In most countries, the majority of people are currently in lockdown. Working from home, if they are lucky, or contemplating ways to stay productive in this strange time.

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For some people, working from home is relatively easy. Luckily, we have access to many amazing online tools that allow us to set up our online workspace as if we were at the office.

However, what if you can't take your job home that easily? What if you offer offline services and can't see your clients during these months? Or what if you offer an online product, but need more income and a more extensive client base?

Offering online training or consultancy in your expertise can be a great short- or even long term solution. And you will be surprised; many people will be able to offer online training in what they do offline.

In this blog, we will discuss a few creative ways to set up a short- or long term online training program.

Get creative

Whatever your profession is, you most probably have some excellent knowledge to share. And with some creativity, you can most likely use this knowledge to share this knowledge online.

How? That depends on your profession and ambitions.

Moving your offline job online

Let’s look at a few jobs that usually take place offline, but can easily be combined with online activities.

As a coach or personal trainer, for instance, you can set up an online training program. Do you normally work at your regular gym? Then you depend on visitors from your neighborhood, town, or city. Online, however, your opportunities are endless. You can teach people from all over the world by sharing both pre-recorded videos and live classes.

Are you a chef at a restaurant? Consider offering online cooking classes. Since people are spending all their time at home, they love learning new recipes and enjoying a nice meal. You could even combine a cooking class with a restaurant voucher that can be used once your restaurant opens again. This brings in some income in difficult times and ensures a busy restaurant once things are slowly opening up again.

Are you a hairdresser or beauty specialist? Then you could offer online consulting sessions or beauty tutorials. And just like the chef, these could perfectly be combined with vouchers to use in the future.

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Expanding on online services

Not only offline experts, but also those who already work online, can benefit significantly from turning their service in an online course.

A course is an excellent way to interact with your audience and can make a perfect combination with other online services or products.

  1. online industries would benefit from offering online courses? Actually, almost every industry. Think of consulting, marketing, computer sciences, design, languages and translation, lifestyle, photography, and way more.

Offering online training as a short-term solution

Setting up an online training program could either be used as a temporary solution to overcome the corona months, or as a long-term strategy.

For those usually working offline, offering temporary classes would probably be the best solution. Unless, of course, the offline work can be combined with some online work in the future.

Setting up a temporary online training program can be very simple and completely free.

You can, for instance, choose to:

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To have people sign up for temporary online training sessions, we recommend you to:

Offering online training as a sustainable and profitable set-up

Are you interested in setting up an online training program that will attract a larger audience and make your business grow - instead of just sustaining it until we can leave the house again? Then we suggest a more strategic and long term setup.

To build a consistent customer base for your online training business, you need to find a way to attract customers. And not only those that are interested in an online session during corona times.

How do you do this? How do you reach new people and lead them towards a course registration?

Most importantly, you need to decide:

To make all these steps as easy as possible, we suggest using pre-designed funnel software. In partnership with Kartra, we offer software that is specifically built to host and promote online courses.

The software offers everything you need, including:

And the best thing? It’s pre-designed already, which saves you a lot of time. The time you can spend on creating a high-quality course that people will love.

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Interested?

Are you interested in starting your own online training program? Short-term, to help you through the corona times, or long-term as a sustainable and profitable business?

We would love to help you getting started. Feel free to contact us for a FREE strategy call so we can get to know your business and discuss what we can do for you.

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  • Blogger: Francisca Zimmermann
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  • Francisca Zimmermann is a social media expert with a background in research and a love for learning new things. She travels the world looking for beautiful places and interesting cultures, while she dives into the world of her clients to be able to write about them and their interests as a real 'insider'.
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