How to launch a digital lifestyle business

Learn how to start, validate, and manage a profitable online business in 100 lectures

4.65 (328 reviews)
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How to launch a digital lifestyle business
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11 hours
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Oct 2015
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$59.99
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What you will learn

Have a solid foundation to start and run a profitable online business

Learn how a $500K/year online business is run from the inside

Learn proven strategies to grow revenues, marketing, sales, hiring, accounting, and project managing

Why take this course?

If you are thinking to start your own online business I'm sure you will find this course extremely helpful.

My name is Miguel Hernandez, for the last 6 years I've been making a living exclusively from the Internet.

In 2010 I started an online animation studio called Grumo Media and have been very fortunate to work with hundreds of clients world wide, including big Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and Walmart, to even hollywood stars like Ashton Kutcher.

I also make money by selling courses online like this one through my sites and on platforms like Udemy where I have now over 20,000 paid students.

I've learned so much in these years by talking to other successful online business owners, by reading countless books and articles, by continuously building systems to optimize my online businesses and of course by making lots of mistakes along the way.

I really enjoy teaching online and find extremely rewarding when I hear from students that have learned valuable skills through my courses.

I have courses on animation, website development, course creation, and even online dating.

Now I've settled on creating a very comprehensive course to help people create and run a successful small businesses online.

Any business, whether online or offline is made of a large number of moving parts that need to work well together for the business to grow, be profitable and last.

For a first time business owner, even to someone with experience, learning how to build and orchestrate all these parts can be truly overwhelming.

In this course, I want to help you learn about all those parts and build systems around them to simplify and in some cases even automate a lot of the tasks required to keep them all working nicely together.

The good thing is that all businesses have many parts in common. All businesses need a product or service that provides value to a specific audience. They all need a way to attract customers through marketing, to convert prospects into buyers through sales, to hire talent, to keep their finances in order through accounting, and they all need systems to manage all these parts, to track metrics, traffic, leads, sales, conversions, followers, to manage communications, etc.

My goal in this course is to provide you with a solid understanding of how to run your own online business by sharing all the tricks, tools, and advice I've collected over the years.

If you are already running an online business I think you will love to have an insight into the systems I've developed, get some ideas, and apply them to help your own business.

I don't intend to be one of those "gurus" that promise "secrets" to making easy money online.

It pains me to see how many people claim to be able to provide these fool-proof one-button turn key systems that for only $49 a month they will provide you with the life style of a rockstar.

This course is a down to earth account of what it takes to run a small online business. Let me tell you right now, making money online in a honest way it's not easy and it takes a lot of work and patience.

It surely beats many 9-5 boring corporate jobs and if you are lucky and work hard and smart you'll be able to both quit your dreaded job and work from home or anywhere in the world (with Internet) like I've been doing for so many years.

There are many types of businesses you can create online. I'm sure anyone running any kind of online business will find parts of this course valuable. However, in this course I'm going to concentrate on the type of business I have experience with which is mainly a service type business with some products on the side.

Grumo Media is an online digital media agency. We specialize in producing promotional videos or explainer videos for companies of all sizes. Our videos cost an average of $10K and in some cases we've produced videos as costly as $50K.

I believe this course will be very useful for anyone getting started today with zero revenues to online businesses generating up to 1 million dollars a year in revenue. (I'm focusing on that revenue bracket because the structure of most businesses change quite a bit after revenues are over a million a year. A 1MM+ business needs to hire people dedicated to each department, rent a space, maybe have a legal team. It gets more complex and it stops being a life style business to become a bigger corporation with all the headaches that entails.)

I've really enjoyed building a business that supports me and my family and provides me with the necessary income and free time to enjoy a balanced and happy life style. I want to give you an in depth look a what a business like that looks from the inside.

This course is not for you (although you may still enjoy watching it like someone that watches Netflix for fun)

if your goal is to raise tons of money, build a startup with the goal to exit and sell the company in 5 years. This course is like a blueprint of a fun small bootstrapped life style business that will be able to support a medium size family anywhere in the world.

If that sounds like you then I'd love to have you on board for this journey.

You will learn about marketing, sales, client relations, hiring, accounting, social media, business systems, contracts, and much much more.

If you are a freelancer, a consultant, a speaker, or even a mom stuck at home, this will be like going to business school from the comfort of your home, like getting an MBA on how to have fun and make a comfortable living online doing what you love.

It won't be easy but I think you will enjoy the learning experience regardless of how successful you are.

I remember when the Internet started to become popular around 1996. Just fresh of the airplane as a new landed immigrant in Vancouver, Canada. I always wanted to be able to leverage this wonderful technology called the world wide web and be able to live on my own terms, without bosses, without commuting.

Honestly, it took a lot longer to get to where I wanted. I built my first website back in 2001. It took me another 9 years of tinkering online before I could quit my job and live 100% of my Internet income.

I know, I was slow compared to many self made Internet multimillionaires. I wanted to be Mark Zuckerberg but I was not smart enough to got to Harvard or ambitious enough to pursue building a multi billion empire.

I just wanted to enjoy life, to have time to spend travelling, going back to Spain every year, playing soccer with my friends. A simple life without huge responsibilities or liabilities.

I'm no Tim Ferris or Gary Vaynerchuck either, no Seth Godin or Paul Graham. People like them have been an inspiration and my indirect mentors. I'm just Miguel Hernandez from Bilbao, Spain and very slowly I carved my own niche in the vast new world of zeros and ones.

I've learned a lot in this time and I think now is a good time to share some of the lessons so when you build your own successful business you can speed up through the learning process.

In the end, I'm creating the course I wish it existed 10 years ago when I decided I wanted to make a living online.

Let's do it!

Zero Risk -  Like all Udemy courses remember this course also comes with 30-Day refund policy.  It's time to build your own profitable digital business!

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Reviews

Mary
June 15, 2022
Thank you for creating this course. I learned a lot. I actually have an MBA, but you covered practical every day issues not covered in the curriculum of my coursework. Thanks, again.
Yao
June 28, 2021
A very grounded and practical course on starting and running an online business. Miguel is honest and transparent especially on the part of reviewing his workflow, processes and tools in running his business.
JP
January 24, 2017
Excellent course with LOTS of great content. Miguel is a great instructor, a fun guy and with lots of great stuff to teach. Thumbs up!
Katie
January 14, 2017
An incredibly inspiring and practical course. I have everything I feel I need to set up my online business, I'm super impressed with this product. Miguel is highly entertaining, has a fantastic depth of knowledge and I love how he really shares in detail how he runs his business. Miguel, thanks so much!
Dorothy
November 28, 2016
All of the information being shared by the Professor is very valuable. He walks you through the process of creating a basic website. He guides you through great example sites and makes it easy to follow.
Rascal
October 7, 2016
Already satisfied with this course. The instructor is a delight to watch and listen to. Looking forward to the rest of this great course!
Juan
September 27, 2016
Clarity, well documented and backed up by experience, this course is a great guide for starting your online business. Miguel nails it down!
Luca
July 14, 2016
Wow. What a course. I stumbled across this on Udemy and snapped it up after seeing the rave reviews. Rest assured, you're getting an entire programme which could easily sell for 10X the cost... and a lot of similar online courses are even 100X + the cost of this one! The content is incredible and there is SO MUCH of it! Miguel has a lovely, engaging personality (he even made accounting fun) and that makes all of the lectures super enjoyable to watch. The bottom line is, Miguel is living what he's teaching. He's in the thick of running a real, ethical and profitable online business - and is not just a "guru" spewing out generic advice. I was genuinely surprised at how much Miguel actually revealed about the inside of his business - balance sheets, systems, the lot. This openness helps immensely in understanding how the content applies to a real business. All-in-all - exceptional. This course was just what I needed. Miguel, you're awesome. Thank you!
Denise
June 9, 2016
Miguel's delivery is engaging and entertaining. He emphasises that an online business can be profitable with the necessary hard work. He also insists that the business be ethical and deliver value, not a "get-rich-quick" scam. This course is teaching me what I need to know to get started.
Nick
May 10, 2016
You ROCK! You're down to earth, real, believable and easy to understand. Thanks for making this course.
Janet
April 16, 2016
Miguel by far produces some of the best online courses. Embedded within this class are lots of "Pearls of Wisdom" and information that would have taken me months, if not years to learn on my own. This is definitely a "Buy Now" class for folks who want to start their online businesses. Gracias Miguel!!!! Janet
Photojv
February 22, 2016
good .proof useful .want more examples of your work to learn ,inspire, and need tips and trick and hurldes as freelancer media co.
Stan
February 20, 2016
I just finished Miguel's course and I love it! I've learned a bunch of new things or got things/theories confirmed in a very fun and passionate way (Miguel is very passionate, it shows from this course, articles and website). I'm in the process of to go from freelance UI/UX designer/developer to an online web and app design/development studio and did a lot of research. Sometimes all the articles, books, webinars, etc. can get very overwhelming and are very time consuming... until I found this course! It really has a lot of very valuable information and I received great and valuable answers to questions I had. Now getting ready to start the course again and apply the newly learned knowledge where I haven't done so already :) Great course, great value and motivation! Gracias Miguel!
Lauren
February 14, 2016
This course is filled with lots of great info that is presented in a clear and interesting way. The instructor is engaging, authentic, and very passionate about what he is teaching. You can't go wrong with this course!
Jonathan
November 4, 2015
I have always wanted to try my hand at being an indie dev so after graduating with my masters I decided to try for at least a year. Currently I am on a mission to learn as much as possible about how to create my own indie company to succeed and this course was honestly a blessing and arrived at the right time in my life. There is so much information in here that its amazing. Plus you get to see how miguel successful runs his own business. These aren't textbook or theories but real world actionable knowledge. You might be put off at the investment of 11 hours. But honestly, the fact miguel could compress so much information and quality into the 10 hours is impressive. It will be content that you will use for the months ahead in building your business. This course is really worth the most valuable thing you own - time. I hope future students gain as much as I have from this course. I also hope they keep learning and growing. There is always more to do and learn - miguel offers some books in this regard to help guide you. But this is an awesome starting place - take it from someone who has invested the full time in this course as well as countless hours in other business products - books, videos, webinars etc <-which are still valuable. 6/5 stars Well 6 and a half

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