Courses are a high ROI way to help monetize already existing content and audiences.
We’ve seen thousands of instructors with followings on YouTube, Facebook, Podcasts and published authors convert to online courses so they can make a more substantial income from home.
Take Nick Stephenson. he created an online course, Get Your First 10,000 Readers. for writers and authors to help them build their email list and make money off of, what I feel, is a very undervalued talent.
"Get the EXACT System I use to Generate a Six-Figure Income Selling my Books Online - and find out how to attract Your First 10,000 Readers."
A course works for this because they utilize already existing content, keeping initial time investment small.
Simply take your chapters to an ebook and put them into course sections. Take your watercoloring tutorials from YouYube and create a course (like Angela Fehr ). Courses allow you to gate and charge for your content, which works extremely well.