Online Course Strategy + Creation
You’re ready to be the most fearless and selfless educator in your industry. We’re the online course partners you need to make that dream a reality.
Empowering Educators: Comprehensive Online Course Strategy and Creation
Sidekick Strategies provides a specialized online course strategy and creation service to empower educators and professionals. They adopt a holistic approach, tailoring courses to your brand's identity, audience needs, and educational goals. Whether part of a larger content strategy or a focused educational initiative, they collaborate with you to craft transformative courses that engage and resonate with learners, utilizing their expertise in audience analysis, course development, and video production.
Why Online Courses Are a Win-Win
Engaging and entertaining online courses that empower and educate are a win-win — for the humans you serve and your company’s vision for the future.
Showcase Your Expertise
When you’re a selfless educator who makes your audience feel truly seen, heard, and understood, you become more than a “thought leader” — you’re an indispensable industry expert they can trust.
Increase Brand Awareness
You know content helps your company get found by the right people at the right time. Online courses do the same, except you’re providing even more value in a wildly memorable package.
Become a Customer Hero
With the right strategy, an online course can help your customers solve their most frustrating problems – positioning you as the superhero who showed up when they needed you most.
More Leads + Sales
Purposefully built online courses that are genuinely helpful, creative, and engaging are insanely effective at not only educating your customers, but also driving qualified leads and sales.
Solve Service Challenges
When you build online courses that educate your customers on their most pressing questions – before and after buying – you reduce the number of questions your service team needs to field.
Audience Intelligence
How your audience interacts with your online courses can provide actionable intelligence for marketing, sales, and service. What are the most popular topics? Where do buyers struggle most?
Online Course Creation, the Sidekick Way
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Discovery
What makes your brand unique? What is your current position in your industry, and how are you looking to change it? What are the singular perspectives and ideas that you bring to the table? What are the short- and long-term objectives you’re looking to achieve through online education? These are the questions that guide our initial conversations.
Audience Intelligence
Next, we focus on your audience. Who are the humans you seek to empower and influence with selfless education? What are their goals, dreams, and aspirations? What is standing in their way? What are their content consumption habits? What are their declared and undeclared preferences? In online learning, their needs always come first.
Course Development
We believe online courses should be so much more than a source of information. They should also promote transformative journeys of self-discovery and growth. From learning objectives and course outlining, to creative direction and participant testing and engagement, our education experts will help you create interactive education magic.
Filming + Coaching
Our online education experts, who have starred in and developed many of their own successful courses, will be on-hand for your stakeholders and talent at all stages. From script outlining and scripting, to on-camera performance coaching, you’ll never feel adrift or alone at any step in the online course process. We’re your partners from start to finish.
Video Production
Our video editors are seasoned professionals when it comes to producing highly sophisticated, modern, and fresh online education content. Calling upon years of experience with online course production and cutting-edge video editing technology, you can rest assured your expertise and creative vision are in good hands.
Why Choose Sidekick Strategies?
As a certified HubSpot Agency Partner, our team of inbound experts have decades of collective experience in developing powerful, revenue-driving HubSpot lead scoring strategies for organizations just like yours.
HubSpot Certified
We possess almost 100 HubSpot certifications (and counting!) among our team members.
Results-Driven
We’re not paper-pushers. We work tirelessly to drive measurable results for our clients.
Fun + Professional
Yes, we work hard and are passionate about what we do. But we also love to have fun!
Your Online Education Journey Starts Here
If you’re looking for a strategic, experienced online education partner who can help you create courses that make a genuine difference, schedule a time to talk with us. We can’t wait to see how we can help!
LET'S EDUCATE HUMANSOnline Course Strategy + Creation FAQs
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What is an online course strategy, and why is it important?
Powerful online course strategies involve planning and designing a course with clear objectives, understanding the target audience, and choosing the best delivery methods. It also requires targeted, strategic approaches to engagement, course creative, and visual design.
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Why is a course strategy important?
It’s easy to create educational videos or take a stab at creating an online course. But if you want to create a course that actually makes a difference (for your business and in the lives of others), you need a strategy, because your success depends on much more than simply possessing expertise.
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How does creativity influence course creation?
Creativity makes the course more engaging and interactive, enhancing the learning experience. However, creative “outside of the box” thinking should always be rooted in your business objectives and deeply aligned with the needs of your audience.
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What makes Sidekick Strategies unique in course creation?
Our blend of traditional and innovative methods, coupled with HubSpot expertise, ensures courses are both informative and engaging. Also, our in-house experts are seasoned online instructors themselves.
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How do you determine the content of a course?
By analyzing the target audience's needs, industry standards, and the course's learning objectives.
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Can you customize courses for different industries?
Yes, we tailor courses to meet the specific requirements of various industries. Many of the principles of great online course strategy are completely industry-agnostic.
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What types of multimedia elements do you use in courses?
We use interactive videos, quizzes, infographics, and other engaging formats.
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How do you measure the success of a course?
Through learner engagement metrics, feedback, and the practical application of learned skills.
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What platforms do you use for course delivery?
We utilize a range of platforms, including learning management systems and web-based
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Can you help with course marketing?
Yes, we offer strategies to effectively market your courses to the target audience.
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How long does it take to create a course?
The timeline varies based on course complexity and content requirements.
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Do you offer support for course updates?
Yes, we provide ongoing support for course revisions and updates.
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Can courses be made mobile-friendly?
Absolutely, we ensure courses are accessible on various devices, including mobile.
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How do you ensure course accessibility?
By adhering to accessibility standards and including features like subtitles and screen reader compatibility.
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What is the role of learner feedback in course creation?
Learner feedback helps us refine and improve the course content and delivery.
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Can you integrate courses with existing training programs?
Yes, we can seamlessly integrate new courses with your existing training modules.
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How do you handle different learning styles?
Our courses are designed to cater to various learning styles through diverse content formats.
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What’s the process for course evaluation and quality assurance?
We conduct thorough evaluations and quality checks to ensure the course meets high standards.
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Can courses include interactive and live elements?
Yes, we can incorporate live webinars, interactive sessions, and real-time quizzes.
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How do you keep course content up-to-date with industry changes?
We regularly review and update content to reflect the latest industry trends and developments.