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Online Course Elevator

Hosted by Joshua Lyon (Online Course Growth and Marketing Mentor)

Every successful course creator has an unlock (or several) that catapulted them into the next level of their business. This podcast is about finding yours.

39 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2024-11-14 · ~28 min/episode

Rank

#5476

Substance

42.0

/ 100

Breakdown

Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly

Startups & Founders rank

#790 of 922

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Across the index

#5476 of 6182

Substance

Top 89%

outscores 11% of the index

Why it scores where it does

Online Course Elevator ranks #5476 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 42.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on originality and specificity & evidence. The mild contrarian argument - prioritise a January launch over scrambling for Black Friday - is the one genuinely non-obvious take in the episode. The coaching-packaging framing (discount the course, not the coaching) is a useful nuance, but everything else is recycled generic advice.

The five-dimension breakdown

Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.

Insight Density

8.0 / 20

The 23 minutes yield only a handful of actionable points (use Zapier, Calendly, focus on January over Black Friday, bundle products), most of which are already well-known to any online business operator. The majority of the runtime is personal anecdote, holiday sentiment, and filler padding.

“I am thankful that you are joining me today, y'. All. We are getting into the holidays, and as much as I love them, and I'm sure you do, too, they are when I feel the most stretched”

“Zapier is basically like your own API. And an API is just a connection between softwares.”

Originality

10.0 / 20

The mild contrarian argument - prioritise a January launch over scrambling for Black Friday - is the one genuinely non-obvious take in the episode. The coaching-packaging framing (discount the course, not the coaching) is a useful nuance, but everything else is recycled generic advice.

“instead of waking up and being like, holy crap, I need. I need Black Friday sales. I need Christmas sales. Focus on 2025, focus on January”

“hey, buy this thousand dollar coaching package and get the course half off or something”

Guest Caliber

7.0 / 20

This is a solo episode with no guest. The host references experience working on a multi-million-dollar course business, but speaks vaguely and from a clearly junior vantage point; there is no demonstrated deep practitioner expertise in the transcript.

“this was a team of, like, six to eight people, uh, running a company, making a couple million dollars on online courses”

“I'm trying to keep my mind in this place of not everybody knows what I know”

Specificity & Evidence

10.0 / 20

There are a few concrete numbers ($10,000 Black Friday revenue, $3,000/$3,500 course-plus-coaching price points, six-to-eight-person team), but they are loosely referenced illustrative examples rather than rigorous data, and the rest of the episode is almost entirely abstract.

“we made, you know, $10,000 off of it...this was a team of, like, six to eight people, uh, running a company, making a couple million dollars”

“you can get the course for $3,000, or you can get the course and six weeks of coaching for 3,500”

Conversational Craft

7.0 / 20

This is an uninterrupted solo monologue with no interview, no probing questions, and no follow-ups. The delivery is rambling and frequently derailed by personal asides, which actively reduces the substance-per-minute ratio.

“I hope that you guys have some family that you're going to be spending Thanksgiving with or any of the holidays you celebrate with”

“And I don't know, for some reason time zones really like F with me”

Standout episodes

  • Make More, Do Less: Automation and Sales Strategies for the Holidays

    2024-11-14

    42

Rank over time

First period on the Index - history builds from here.

Episodes

1 scored on substance · 39 tracked in total.

  • Make More, Do Less: Automation and Sales Strategies for the Holidays

    2024-11-14 · 23 min

    42 / 100

Frequently asked

What is Online Course Elevator's substance score?
Online Course Elevator scores 42.0 out of 100 for substance and ranks #5476 on The B2B Podcast Index. That puts it ahead of 11% of the B2B podcasts we rank and #790 of 922 in Startups & Founders. The score reflects insight density, originality, guest caliber, specificity and conversational craft across recent episodes - not downloads.
Is Online Course Elevator worth listening to?
Online Course Elevator is ranked on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 42.0/100. See the five-dimension breakdown above to judge whether it fits what you're after.
Who hosts Online Course Elevator?
Online Course Elevator is hosted by Joshua Lyon (Online Course Growth and Marketing Mentor).
How often does Online Course Elevator publish?
Online Course Elevator publishes weekly, has 39 episodes, released its most recent episode on 2024-11-14.
Which Online Course Elevator episode should I start with?
Our highest-scoring recent episode is "Make More, Do Less: Automation and Sales Strategies for the Holidays" (42/100) - a good place to start.

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ZapierGoogle SheetsCalendlyQuickBooksWordPressSquarespaceKajabiThinkificMotion AI CalendarBlack Friday sales strategy

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