Lifestyle Business School

Lifestyle Business School

Lifestyle Business School — The Podcast is hosted by online business strategist Stevie Dillon. It's dedicated to helping current and aspiring expertise-based online business owners achieve the “Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot”: A simple, leveraged lifestyle business with one to two core offers, high profits, working 5-hour days with a lean, remote team (or no team at all!) Lifestyle Business School — The Podcast is for new and established course creators, coaches, consultants and online service providers who want the behind the scenes strategy on how to how to package and market your intellectual property to build a lifestyle business where your value is divorced from your time and you can build a business with deep impact — without relentless scale! Over one million downloads, subscribe and tune in to new episodes every week.

Episodes

September 23, 2024 37 mins

Want to retire early in 10 years, and live on $80k forever?

With a lifestyle business, you can.

 [Read the full blog post here].

People want a quick win, and the industry sells the pipedream of a gazillion dollars in two seconds.. but if you’re willing to develop the skill of being a course creator?

A LOT can happen in 10 years ⌛️

A. LOT.

Here’s the cliff notes:

Inves...

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In the past 12 months, I’ve created 8 online courses. 

That’s 680 lessons, according to my course platform.

[Read the full blog post here].

It’s all been part of a grand master plan I hatched in mid-2023 to build out the complete operating system for building a leveraged, expertise-based lifestyle business.

The eight courses are designed with that specific endgame in mind. 

Here’s a summary: 

  • Lifestyle Business School Road...
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To get sales, you need leads!

To get leads, you need traffic! 

So, how do you get it? 

What’s working now? 

[Read the full blog post here].

The truth is, times have changed. 

The landscape is crowded. 

Ads are costly. 

And getting attention feels about as easy as screaming to a band to pull you up on stage in the middle of a rock concert. 

So let me lift the lid on how I do it, and what’s working right now. 


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So, you have big business goals – incredible!

What’s your plan to achieve them? 

Q4 is sneaking up on us, and as anyone in online business would know that means prime money-making season!

There is a lot of opportunity in the final three months of the year.

[Read the full blog post here].

Whether you’re well behind on your annual sales goal or you’re simply looking to maximise the opportunity that this time of year brings, pre...

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You know the whole “money in your sleep” thing? 

“Build a funnel and watch the money roll in whilst you’re catching z’s”

The truth is, it’s real – but not in the same way it’s been taught, sold and done online for the past few years.

[Read the full blog post here].

The standard advice is that you set it up once, flick the switch to “on”, and watch the sales start rolling through the door. 

As much as I’d love to sell you th...

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Active income is never passive. 

Work is work.

But the income from your work can be funneled into assets that CAN be passive – and that, ultimately, is the game.

[Read the full blog post here].

These days, I am passionate about sharing that message with others. 

Even moreso in this online business world, where we have the capacity to build high profit margin businesses.

And, where a little know how on what to DO with that inco...

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Truthbomb: The ONE metric just about every single person underestimates is the amount of traffic they are able to deploy for their online course or group offer launch.

[Read the full blog post here].

They put BIG effort into a launch, and maybe secure a handful of sales. 

On “paper”, it performed great and achieved all of the benchmarks for success. 

But still, THEY consider it a flop. 

The culpri...

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Building a successful online course business in 2024 requires an irresistible, hell-yes core offer.

[Read the full blog post here].

Here’s the kicker, though.

Whilst making sure your offer is irresistible to the person you’re selling it to is non-negotiable (something we covered in detail in last week’s piece, and this one too), it’s only step one.

Building an offer ...

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Recently, I embarked on an extended Euro-trip.

[Read the full blog post here].

EXCITING, of course – but, with a catch. 

The flight to Dubai en-route to Europe departed from Brisbane at 2am. 

Tricky in any event, but even moreso with a two and four year old to contend with. 

I did the sleep math olympics trying to figure out how to cope. 

My realisation?

From a toddler...

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Simple scale, complex fails.

Has a catchy ring to it, right.

And, a whole lotta truth.

Here’s how I know.

[Read the full blog post here].

As a person, I am naturally someone that tends to overcomplicate things. 

Give me a task to complete, and I will somehow singlehandedly find the most complex, convoluted way of completing it. 

Back in my corporate days, I worked as...

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This isn’t a piece on passive income. 

It’s not a piece on the freedom to work from anywhere. 

Or, to pick up and travel the world. 

Instead? It’s about building a drop everything business and how I built it.

[Read the full blog post here].

You see, when most of us think of course or digital-product based businesses we think of the fun freedom that it may one day give us the opportunity to enjoy. 

We aspire to build the “bucke...

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To sell an online course or leveraged offer, you need people to sell to.

[Read the full blog post here].

The problem? 

Those looking to build an online course business from scratch usually fall into one of two camps. 

1) They are existing content creators looking to leverage their extensive audiences by building a course based business around it; or

2) They are service providers seeking to take their skillset and build someth...

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Have you ever dreamed of jumping on a plane and running away?

[Read the full blog post here].

Wanting to live the laptop lifestyle and work from anywhere but unsure how to *actually* do it without your business burning down? 

Wonder how all of those people on Instagram every European summer actually afford to do it? 

In a week, I am jumping on a very last minute plane to Eurosummer, family (including a wild 2-year old and li...

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This is a story about grief, loss and how to navigate it as a personal brand.

[Read the full blog post here].

Almost six weeks ago now, I lost my beautiful mum. 

(It hurts to type that). 

It feels like my security blanket has been ripped from under me.

I feel alone, exposed and honestly? Just so very sad. 

Here’s the thing as a personal brand business. 

Personal things happen. 

They bleed into business. 

And as a result, running a...

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Pre PS  We've currently waitlisted our Lifestyle Business School program and we'll be reopening soon. Join the waitlist here if you want to get updated on the best deal and the special VIP bonuses soon as we re-open doors.

Last episode I talked about some of the cons of having a membership site as your offer. 

Now, let's switch sides and talk about the pros of building a membership site. 

A...

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Pre PS  We've currently waitlisted our Lifestyle Business School program and we'll be reopening soon. Join the waitlist here if you want to get updated on the best deal and the special VIP bonuses soon as we re-open doors.

Should you create a membership site? 

So often, it's sold as the ultimate dream:

"Create a membership site and you too can enjoy recurring revenue - forever", t...

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I am taking a short break of one to two weeks from new podcast episodes. Here’s a ‘best of’ episode from the vault until I’m back!

Last year, I spent in excess of about $35,000 on a huge rebrand. 

The thought process was this —> 

I want to build a company. 

I have a team and I don’t want it to feel like it’s just about me. 

Stevie Says Social no longer aligned. 

And, at the t...

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How do you create an online course that sells right now?

The truth is that times have changed, and what worked even just a few years ago no longer does. 

The online course market is maturing, and with the growth many are starting to wonder:

"Are people still buying online courses?"

Here's my two cents: 

Yes they absolutely are, but it’s uneven at the moment.

Some people are killing it and some are finding it tough. 

If you&...

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April 1, 2024 34 mins

In 2007, I spent six weeks in a hostel in the middle of Guatemala just “because”.

Truly, I’d never felt so free.

The two years prior had been spent working like a donkey, with good people but in a field I hated.

The endgame? Admission to the Supreme Course of Queensland as a lawyer.

It was an accolade I spent 7 years working towards..

Only to quit, 6-weeks to the day later.

And...

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🍑 Rinse and Repeat has just been added to Lifestyle Business School!  This is the ultimate collection of every live launch and promotion under the sun. Join now for $149/m. 

I’ve had 17,400 Instagram followers for YEARS now.

Sure, it tracks up a bit.

Down a bit.

But overall, it HOVERS around that number 🛸

Same with my trusty email list.

A few subscribers up.. then a few down.. and repeat.

But, what can I REALLY expect?

I HAVEN’...

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