One of Leanpub's CourseAI packages is called CourseAI Max, and it includes the following special service:
About three hours of professionally produced course videos recorded with Leanpub co-founder and podcast host Len Epp. These videos appear at the start of your lessons to explain why each topic matters, motivate learners, and add a human connection — evergreen content that can justify premium pricing and pay for itself quickly.
Think of it like you're doing three long-form podcast interviews.
That sounds like a lot! Which leads authors to ask us:
Is It Worth My Time to Do Three Separate One-Hour Zoom Sessions for CourseAI Max?
Well, we're biased, but we definitely think so.
First, you don't need to prepare anything.
Len will do the work preparing questions he knows you can answer, since you wrote the book! Typically he'll just send you a list of proposed questions for you to skim the day before the scheduled interview; you don't even need to reply to the email.
Second, you can book times that work for you.
Len will send you his Calendly link, and you can just pick three one-hour slots that work for you.
Third, one hour flies by when you're talking about what you wrote your book about.
After some experimenting, we've settled on one hour as the optimum length for these recording sessions.
Fourth, it's just an ordinary Zoom call.
There's no special setup or wardrobe or training or anything required - you just show up and talk.
So, CourseAI Max is basically you betting three hours of your time, and the result is that we create the course and a bunch of videos & video shorts which are
useful in marketing both your new course and your existing book.
What Are the Interview Sessions Like?
These one-hour sessions are a lot like podcast interviews, but they are more structured than our Leanpub Podcast interviews, because we want to make sure we have videos that are specific to each chapter/lesson in the course.
Here are a few short extracts from CourseAI videos:
I Want to See An Example of a Course with These Videos!
If you're interested in seeing a complete course with these videos embedded in the lessons, please email us at hello@leanpub.com from the same email address you use for your Leanpub account.
Learn More
To learn more about CourseAI Max, click here.
You can also watch our Lean Publishing Tip of the Day Livestream video about CourseAI in general by clicking here.
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