Business Idea Generation: How To Come Up With Business Ideas

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Warm welcome and introduction to this business ideas course

Lecture 1: Business idea course overview and instructor introduction

Lecture 2: Starting an agency business…in 4 different valid ways

Lecture 3: Practical approach to starting an online business

Lecture 4: Local business – bookstore

Lecture 5: Few more thoughts on the previous video

Lecture 6: How to come up with a business idea from scratch

Chapter 2: Business idea fundamentals

Lecture 1: 5 Common business challenges

Lecture 2: Three types of business ideas

Chapter 3: Should you follow your passion?

Lecture 1: Should you follow your passion?

Chapter 4: Picking and narrowing down on the industry

Lecture 1: Picking an industry – any large industry can make money

Lecture 2: Your business goals

Lecture 3: Combining Industry and goals for unique & personalized business idea beginnings

Lecture 4: Adding demographics and psychographics to your idea

Lecture 5: Bigger checklist: 18-item business idea checklist

Lecture 6: Putting the ideas through a quick test

Chapter 5: Case study

Lecture 1: Case study of one of my own ideas I tried that failed

Lecture 2: Client case study: Choosing an affiliate influencer niche and monetizing it

Chapter 6: More idea generation

Lecture 1: EXERCISE: Get unique and creative business ideas

Lecture 2: Let's compare results from previous exercise – if yours are different, tell me

Lecture 3: How to come up with physical product ideas

Chapter 7: Business idea brainstorming and evolution

Lecture 1: 3 paths to business idea evolution

Lecture 2: How to get feedback from industry experts

Lecture 3: How to get paid expert feedback

Lecture 4: How to tell if an idea is good & cheap market validation of business ideas

Lecture 5: What to do if you have too many business ideas

Lecture 6: Brainstorming and stormwriting

Lecture 7: The Marshmallow test – Stanford study of the best predictor of future success

Chapter 8: Monetization for your ideas

Lecture 1: Monetization and revenue strategies

Lecture 2: Exercises and examples of how to boost monetization

Chapter 9: Additional help in planning

Lecture 1: S.W.O.T analysis

Chapter 10: How to create your website

Lecture 1: What technology to use to create your website and should you do it yourself?

Lecture 2: How to choose a domain name

Lecture 3: How to get a good business name

Chapter 11: Protecting intellectual property and your ideas

Lecture 1: Six ways to protect your intellectual property

Lecture 2: Creating a moat around your business

Lecture 3: For first-time entrepreneurs: More on moats, barriers, and long-term competition

Lecture 4: Case study of my decision of whether to get a trademark

Chapter 12: Business registration

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Company registration and formation decision (LLC vs. S Corp vs. C Corp)

Lecture 3: Doing business as yourself

Lecture 4: Business bank account and maintaining other business formalities

Chapter 13: Launching

Lecture 1: Three different ways to launch

Chapter 14: Business ideas course conclusion

Lecture 1: Decisiveness: Start and stop planning & key to success from business literature

Lecture 2: We are nearing the end of the course

Lecture 3: Bonus lecture: Next steps