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Licensing can be a powerful way to grow your business by allowing other companies to distribute your courses, training programs, and curricula. If you're a coach, speaker, consultant, or expert looking to expand your reach, generate passive income, and build your brand, licensing might be the perfect solution. In this article, we'll guide you through the six essential steps to successfully license your content. And remember, our team at Licensing Launchpad is here to support you every step of the way.

Step 1: Identify Your Unique Intellectual Property

To begin, take inventory of the valuable resources you've already created, such as lessons, videos, quizzes, systems, processes, methods, SOPs, steps, trainings, and written content. Identify your long-term goals and consider how licensing can help you achieve those objectives. Need help pinpointing your unique intellectual property? Reach out to us at Licensing Launchpad for personalized guidance.

Are you an expert, coach, consultant, or speaker looking to take your business to the next level? Have you considered licensing your course or training to other companies, organizations, or even school districts? If not, you may be missing out on a massive opportunity for scalability and growth.

In a recent episode of the SweetLife Entrepreneur™ Podcast, April Beach, breaks down the steps to take your course from selling for $99 to $9,000, or even from $999 to $99,000.

The key to this transformation, she says, is not changing the course or the training itself, but rather changing the buyer.

April says that the first step towards licensing your program is understanding its value: 

• What problem does your course solve?
• What is the benefit to the consumer?

Knowing the answers to these questions will help you identify potential buyers for your program.

Next, determine what parts of your program are available for sale:

• Can the entire program be licensed, or just certain...

• Straight as is with your ™ - Clearly presented with your name and logo with no doubt as to whose content it is.
• Co branded - Licensing with partnership meaning the content is yours but the licensee also adds their brand to the content being used.
• Editable or white...

If you are considering licensing your content or courses from your online business for others to use, you probably have questions. Lots of them.  But let's begin with the most obvious:

What kind of content do companies want to license from an online business owner?

There are three types of content that companies will be interested to license from you. Let's dive in.

1: Actual Content

This is content that feeds every distribution channel.

Blogs, articles, newsletters, emails, images, and videos are all examples of this type of content; anything that another company needs to build its content distribution channels.

It is time-consuming and exhausting to constantly create new content so if you can ease that process by delivering amazing content for other companies to distribute on their channels you have a potential licensing opportunity.

2: Assets

Assets are anything that other companies need to support an end result or to add to their...

By April Beach 

Licensing your online courses, programs, and content is one of the best ways to exponentially increase profit and revenue in your online business.

But you may be wondering what licensing actually is.

Licensing is creating content for other companies to use so that they can grow faster, make more money, or provide better services and training for their people.

The Benefits of Licensing Your online Course, Program, or Content

1. Licensing can help to establish you as a leader in your industry/niche/area of expertise.
2. Licensing increases your credibility with your own audience - when your audience knows that other companies are buying your content they are assured of your ability to get them results.
3. Licensing enables exponential scalability - you are now able to reach more people more easily as your name and expertise spread in new circles.
4. Licensing enables an easy transition into new target markets without starting from scratch - you have the backing of existing...