I watched an Olivier Roland’s video  and I learned good stuff.

Free Content

People when they start to create content on their blog, YouTube channel or Facebook page, they’re afraid to give good quality content for free. Now, it’s normal to give free content so that people get to know you and analyze your expertise. Lets people decide if they like or not your expertise. This is how you build your audience by sharing your knowledge and your expertise. Give something free is the first step to give something to pay.

Don’t hesitate to give the best of your content. If you keep the best for you thinking you can sell it later, you make a huge mistake. The only way to show to the world that you’re one of the best in your field is to show for free what you can do.

There is a lot of free content on internet, the competition is so aggressive that it’s quality that makes the difference.

Paid Content

The free content you have, you can use it in a different format by adding value. Here are some example :

eBook

You can sell a digital book with the best content of your blog/youtube channel (free content). The main thing is that you have to be transparent about the content of this book. The value that this eBook has compared to your blog/youtube channel is that it gathers content of your blog/youtube channel in relation to a theme in a format easy to read (PDF or Kindle). You can also add exclusive content.

Grouping content around a thematic in on place can have an added value of $10-$15. For many people, it’s more convenient to pay for this eBook than spend several hours looking for content in your blog/youtube channel.

Online training

It’s the same thing, you use the free content you have but you present if with videos. The video’s value is greater than the text’s value. Oh yeah, podcast audio is between the 2. It’s better than a text and less than a video.

Look, a Harry Potter’s book is cheaper than a Harry Potter’s DVD/BluRay. It’s the same content but formats are different.

In an online training, people don’t want only content well presented, they want an efficient tracking, an interaction with the community and a network to meet other people with similar interests. An online training also has a pedagogical curriculum that is nonexistent in the free content.

Olivier Roland have an online training of 9 months with more than 140 videos organized in 7 modules. By example if it’s a blog’s training logically blogs participating in training are evolving during online training. This is not just theory, at the end of the training, each blog will have achieved its goals. This is the true value brought to people.

Content

Content is just a part of the equation of what people want. We can recycle content in different ways. But beware, nothing prevents us from putting exclusive content in our eBooks or in our online training.

Yet another way of giving content. Make a workshop in « LIVE » with Facebook, Youtube or Instagram. It’s a way for you to meet your audience and make people meet.

Different format

Did you ever see a movie at the cinema and after you bought the DVD/BluRay ? I think « yes » (I also do this). It’s the same content but in 2 different format.

Did you buy an album from a music group that you like and then you go to see their concert ? I think « yes » (I also do this).

We do that because the experience is different. So don’t be afraid to give free quality content. This is the only way people have to see if your work is of good quality.

An example with 2 entrepreneurs :

• Entrepreneur A : He said : « Hello, I’m the best personal trainer of the world, it’s me the best ! ». On his website, we can watch only one trailer of his training program that lasts 3 minutes.

• Entrepreneur B : He said : «  Hello, I’m a personal trainer. I have a blog and a youtube channel, you can see my programs ». On his blog and his youtube channel, there is a lot of free content to lose weight and gain muscle.

Which entrepreneurs will have a growing audience ? Entrepreneur B because he share his knowledge and his expertise.

Give free content means that this content doesn’t have a pedagogical curriculum. People who come to see free content have all different goals and this allow to the content creator to have a lot of freedom of expression.

A paid content need to have a pedagogical curriculum to reach a specific goal. The organization and consistency of content must create a value that goes beyond simple content.

-Steph