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COURSE Operate

Run and Grow Your Education Business Without Building the Team Yourself.

Once your program is live, COURSE provides the ongoing curriculum, production, platform, enrollment, and operational support required to keep it improving—without every task returning to you.

Ongoing capacity

Dedicated work every month

Clear priorities

Focused operating roadmap

Connected systems

Content, platform, & enrollment

Continous upgrades

Measure, learn, and refine

Launch Is Not the Finish Line

A Live Program Still Needs an Operating Team.

Building and launching the program creates the foundation. It does not remove the ongoing work required to keep the education business useful, current, and commercially active.
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    Content becomes outdated: Lessons, resources, examples, and offers need to evolve as the market and customer needs change.

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    The platform needs attention: Access, automations, onboarding, content organization, and student experience require regular maintenance.

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    The product must improve: Curriculum, resources, onboarding, and delivery need to evolve as customers and the market change.

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    Enrollment slows down: Without consistent campaigns, communication, and optimization, even a strong program can become invisible.

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    The founder becomes the system: Every update, launch, student issue, and growth initiative returns to the expert.

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    The right people must be in place: Editors, marketers, closers, community managers, agencies, and internal employees need clear roles and accountability.

COURSE Operate creates the direction, operating rhythm, and accountability required to keep the entire education business moving forward.
One Connected Operating System

COURSE Owns the Education System.
Specialists Operate Within It.

COURSE Operate is not positioned as your entire marketing, sales, customer-service, and production department. Instead, COURSE acts as the experienced education department responsible for making sure every function supports the same customer, offer, curriculum, enrollment strategy, and performance targets.

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$5M+ Lifetime Sales"Seamlessly came into my team and helped with messaging and thinking through the story and pain points that my audience have."

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"Working with COURSE was a game-changer for our business. Their expertise in course creation helped us generate $64,000 in sales with a program that not only engaged our team but also drove measurable results. The process was seamless, and the final product exceeded all expectations. We're excited to partner with them again!"

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CEO at VID (formerly Video Supply)

"1.8+ million views, 627+ comments, 228 shares and thousands of impressions — so happy with the performance and results!"

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What You Gain

Build Momentum Without Rebuilding the Team Every Month.

With COURSE Operate, you gain:

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An experienced leader for the education business

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A quarterly product and growth roadmap

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Clear monthly priorities and active workstreams

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Ongoing curriculum and program improvement

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A maintained LMS and learner experience

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Coordinated enrollment initiatives

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Performance reporting and decision support

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Clear roles for internal employees and external specialists

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Accountability across agencies, contractors, and partners

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A plan to remain managed, operate through a hybrid team, or transition internally

The result is not simply more content. It is a functioning education department with clear priorities, owners, processes, and performance targets.

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Done-For-You Service
COURSE Operate

COURSE Operate gives you an outsourced education department that keeps your program organized, improving, enrolling, and moving forward.

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An ongoing engagement that provides clear direction, operating rhythm, and accountability across your education business.
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You'll get: a quarterly roadmap, monthly priorities, curriculum and program improvements, LMS oversight, enrollment coordination, performance reporting, and management of the specialists and team members supporting the program.
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Best for: Experts and organizations with a live, proven education program that need ongoing leadership and execution without building an entire internal department.
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Investment: From $3,000 per month
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Choose Your Operating Model

Choose How Much of the Education Department COURSE Should Own.

Start with strategic leadership, add hands-on execution, or give COURSE responsibility for operating the department across multiple workstreams.

COURSE Operate

Advisor
We lead. Your team executes.
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Start With Advisory
Best for an established education business that already has capable employees, contractors, or agencies but needs experienced leadership, clearer priorities, and accountability.
Advisor includes:
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Quarterly education-business roadmap
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Monthly priority plan
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Two operating meetings per month
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KPI and performance scorecard
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Offer, enrollment, and funnel review
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Curriculum and learner-experience oversight
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Team roles and accountability
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Hiring plans and role scorecards
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Vendor and specialist recommendations
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Review of major campaigns and assets
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Asynchronous strategic support
Does not include: material production, LMS administration, campaign execution, or daily project management.

COURSE Operate

Department
We operate the education department.
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Choose Department
Best for mature academies, memberships, certifications, and multi-program education businesses that need ongoing leadership and execution across multiple functions.
Includes everything in Managed, plus:
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Dedicated strategy and project leadership
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Weekly operating meetings
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Multiple coordinated workstreams
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Multi-program product roadmap
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Ongoing curriculum and production
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LMS and learner operations
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Enrollment campaign coordination
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Community operating system
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Sales enablement
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Agency and contractor management
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Hiring and department-install support
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Executive reporting
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Quarterly business reviews
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Internal-team training and responsibility transfer
External paid-media spend, agency fees, closer compensation, software, employees, and other specialist costs remain separate.
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What COURSE Operates

The Work Required to Keep an Education Business Moving.

Direction

COURSE determines what the education business needs next.

This may include:

  • Quarterly education-business roadmap
  • Monthly priority plan
  • Offer and product-portfolio decisions
  • Enrollment-channel recommendations
  • Learner-experience priorities
  • Revenue and enrollment targets
  • Completion and retention targets
  • Identification of operational bottlenecks
  • Capacity and resource planning

Direction is the strategic core of COURSE Operate. It keeps the team focused on the highest-value work instead of reacting to random requests.

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Production

COURSE continuously improves the education product.

This may include:

  • New modules and lessons
  • Curriculum updates
  • Workbooks, guides, and resources
  • Assessments
  • Certification components
  • Onboarding content
  • Program refreshes
  • Launch assets
  • Sales-enablement content
  • New instructor support
  • Additional learning paths

Video-heavy production may be completed through the COURSE production bench or expanded through VID Supply when appropriate.

Platform and Learner Operations

COURSE keeps the learning experience organized and functioning properly.

This may include:

  • LMS administration
  • Content uploads and organization
  • Onboarding automation
  • Access and permission management
  • Learner communications
  • Student-journey improvements
  • Completion tracking
  • Reporting
  • Quality assurance
  • Platform documentation
  • Escalation and support workflows

Daily learner support may be performed by your employee or VA, while COURSE defines, improves, and manages the system.

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Enrollment Coordination

COURSE leads the enrollment plan without pretending to be every channel specialist.

This may include:

  • Campaign calendar
  • Offer and messaging refinement
  • Email campaigns
  • Webinar strategy
  • Partner campaigns
  • Social-selling scripts
  • Sales enablement
  • Lead tracking
  • Funnel optimization
  • Sales-call review
  • Objection analysis
  • Conversion reporting
  • Agency briefing and accountability

When paid media is required, COURSE equips the selected partner with the validated offer, audience targeting, positioning, funnel assets, creative briefs, sales feedback, conversion data, and commercial targets.

COURSE coordinates the system. The specialist manages the channel.

Team and Partner Orchestration

COURSE identifies which people are required and makes sure their work fits together. Roles may include:

  • Paid-media agency
  • Sales closer
  • Appointment setter
  • Community manager
  • Virtual assistant
  • Customer-support representative
  • Copywriter
  • Editor
  • Funnel specialist
  • LMS administrator
  • Partnerships manager

COURSE can develop the role scorecard, job description, interview process, onboarding plan, KPIs, briefs, workflows, and accountability structure.

COURSE does not need to directly employ or permanently provide every specialist.

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Operate. Measure. Improve.

A Repeatable Monthly Rhythm to Run and Grow the Education Business.

COURSE Operate works in recurring monthly cycles. Every 30 days, we identify the highest-value priorities, coordinate the people and systems required to execute them, review performance, and use what we learn to set the next cycle.

Week 1 — Review and Prioritize

COURSE reviews the current state of the education business across the offer, curriculum, learner experience, enrollment, platform, team, partners, and available performance data.

We identify bottlenecks, opportunities, and the one or two workstreams that deserve attention during the next 30 days.

Monthly Output: Operating Priority Plan

This includes:

  • Performance scorecard review
  • Enrollment and revenue performance
  • Learner engagement and completion signals
  • Current operational bottlenecks
  • Priority workstreams
  • Owners and responsibilities
  • Specialist or staffing needs
  • Key targets for the month

Week 2 — Build and Coordinate

COURSE moves the approved priorities into execution.

Depending on the roadmap, this may include improving curriculum, producing new content, updating the LMS, developing enrollment assets, preparing a campaign, refining the sales process, or onboarding an outside specialist.

COURSE coordinates the internal team, contractors, and partners required to make the work happen.

Monthly Output: Active Workstreams in Production

Every initiative has a clear scope, owner, timeline, approval process, and expected outcome.

Week 3 — Launch and Operate

The approved improvements go live.

COURSE coordinates the campaign, product, platform, or operational activity while making sure each contributor is working from the same offer, audience, priorities, and performance goals.

This may include:

  • Launching an enrollment campaign
  • Publishing a new module
  • Improving onboarding
  • Activating a webinar
  • Updating the sales funnel
  • Implementing a learner-retention initiative
  • Coordinating a paid-media partner
  • Supporting a closer or sales team
  • Rolling out a new operating workflow

Monthly Output: Implemented Education-Business Improvements

The work moves from planning into the live business.

Week 4 — Measure and Improve

COURSE reviews what happened.

We evaluate commercial results, learner behavior, campaign performance, team execution, customer feedback, and operational effectiveness.

From that evidence, we determine what should continue, change, stop, or become the next priority.

Monthly Output: Performance Review + Next-Cycle Recommendation

This includes:

  • What was completed
  • What changed
  • What performed
  • What did not
  • New customer or learner insights
  • Team and partner performance
  • Emerging bottlenecks
  • Recommended priorities for the next 30 days

Then the cycle begins again.

The System Underneath

COURSE Operate Keeps CourseOS™ Connected.

Every education business depends on five systems that must continue working together after launch.

COURSE owns the operating system. Your employees, contractors, and specialist partners execute within it.

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Market

COURSE reviews buyer behavior, objections, enrollment performance, and market changes to refine the offer and positioning.

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Learning

COURSE maintains the curriculum roadmap, improves lessons and resources, and expands the product when the evidence supports it.

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Experience

COURSE manages the LMS, onboarding, learner journey, content organization, and quality standards.

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Enrollment

COURSE coordinates the campaigns, channels, specialists, sales process, and conversion reporting required to keep the program commercially active.

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Operations

COURSE establishes the meetings, scorecards, roles, workflows, priorities, and accountability required to run the department.

A Department, Not a Request Desk

Every Initiative Has a Priority, Owner, and Expected Outcome.

COURSE Operate follows several operating principles:

  • Direction before activity: The roadmap determines what gets built or improved next.
  • Capacity before promises: The selected tier determines how many workstreams can move at once.
  • One connected system: Curriculum, enrollment, platform, sales, and marketing support the same offer.
  • Specialists stay specialized: COURSE coordinates channel experts rather than claiming expertise in every function.
  • Evidence guides decisions: Revenue, enrollment, completion, retention, customer feedback, and conversion data shape the roadmap.
  • Accountability is explicit: Every task and performance target has a named owner.
  • Internal capability increases over time: COURSE can remain the operator or help transfer responsibilities to the client.

The value is not an unlimited list of monthly deliverables. It is knowing what needs to happen, who should do it, and how success will be measured.

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Capacity Creates Clarity

Operate Is an Ongoing Department, not Unlimited Labor.

Once the program is live, you have three primary paths.

Operate With COURSE

COURSE continues as your education production, platform, and growth team through an ongoing Operate engagement.

This may include content updates, new modules, LMS administration, enrollment campaigns, performance reporting, and program expansion.

Operate Internally

Your team takes ownership of the program using the assets, platform, workflows, and roadmap developed during Build.

COURSE can provide a structured handoff based on the agreed scope.

Expand the Program

Once the core offer is performing, the business may add advanced modules, certifications, additional learning paths, corporate versions, new instructors, or related offers.

Expansion should follow actual customer behavior and operating evidence rather than assumptions.

COURSE Operate FAQs

What is COURSE Operate?

COURSE Operate is an ongoing education-department engagement for businesses with a live program.

COURSE leads the product roadmap, learner experience, platform operations, enrollment coordination, reporting, and team accountability required to keep the education business organized and moving forward.

Who is COURSE Operate for?

COURSE Operate is designed for:

  • COURSE Build clients moving into ongoing operations
  • Experts with a live course, cohort, membership, academy, or certification
  • Education businesses with a strong program but inconsistent execution
  • Founders who remain the primary point of coordination
  • Teams with contractors or agencies but no education leader
  • Programs needing ongoing curriculum and product improvements
  • Businesses with an LMS but weak learner operations
  • Teams preparing recurring launches or enrollment campaigns
  • Companies that need a clearer operating rhythm and reporting system
  • Academies expanding across products, instructors, or audiences
  • Organizations that eventually want to install an internal education department

Operate is most effective when the offer is proven and a real education program already exists.

What is not included in COURSE Operate?

COURSE Operate is an ongoing education-department engagement built around defined monthly capacity—not unlimited labor. Your selected tier determines how many workstreams COURSE can actively manage at one time, so new requests may replace an existing priority, move into a future operating cycle, require additional capacity, or be assigned to an outside specialist.

Operate does not automatically include unlimited requests, unlimited active workstreams, guaranteed enrollments or revenue, paid-media management or advertising spend, full-time sales closing, daily social selling, daily community moderation, unlimited customer support, unlimited content production, hiring guarantees, employee payroll or employment management, legal, accounting, tax, refund, accreditation, or compliance responsibility, work across unrelated businesses or brands, custom software development, or third-party subscriptions and specialist fees.

The purpose of these guardrails is to keep the department focused on the highest-value priorities each month while ensuring every initiative has a clear owner, scope, and expected outcome.

How does COURSE work with specialists and outside partners?

COURSE is responsible for coordinating the education business, but that does not mean COURSE personally performs every specialized function. We own the strategy, priorities, systems, briefs, KPIs, quality standards, and accountability that keep each contributor aligned to the same offer, learner experience, enrollment plan, and business goals.

For example, COURSE may define the offer, funnel, creative direction, economics, and performance expectations for paid advertising while an approved media partner manages the campaigns. We may develop the sales process, call framework, objection handling, and KPIs while a client-employed closer conducts the calls. COURSE can establish the community strategy, programming, onboarding, SOPs, and metrics while a community manager or VA handles daily engagement. Organic content may be produced by VID or the client’s content team, while COURSE ensures it supports the education strategy and enrollment priorities.

COURSE can directly support areas such as curriculum direction, LMS architecture and quality assurance, email strategy, campaigns, and selected production. For recruiting, learner support, social selling, and other specialist functions, we define the role, systems, expectations, and handoffs while the appropriate internal team member, contractor, or specialist executes the day-to-day work.

The goal is simple: COURSE owns the operating system and makes sure the right people are executing inside it—without pretending to be every agency, employee, or specialist your education business may need.

Is COURSE Operate a marketing agency?

No.

COURSE may develop campaigns, emails, enrollment assets, creative briefs, messaging, and funnel improvements, but it does not claim to personally perform every marketing channel.

When specialist execution is required, COURSE coordinates the appropriate partner and ensures their work supports the education-business strategy.

Does COURSE hire and employ every required role?

No. COURSE can identify the role, create the scorecard and job description, assist with interviews, recommend partners, support onboarding, and establish accountability. The client remains responsible for approving and paying external agencies, contractors, employees, software, and other specialist costs unless the agreement specifically states otherwise.Exact owners and approval windows are confirmed during onboarding.

What will outside specialists own?

Specialists perform the channel-specific execution they were hired to provide.

A media agency may manage advertising. A closer may conduct sales calls. A community manager may handle daily engagement. A VA may manage learner support. VID may produce recurring founder content.

COURSE defines the goals, briefs, workflows, KPIs, dependencies, and reporting required to connect those functions.

What will my internal team own?

Your team will provide the expertise, context, data, approvals, access, budget, and major business decisions required to operate the program.

Depending on the selected operating model, your employees may also execute daily marketing, sales, community, learner support, production, or platform activities under the system and roadmap COURSE establishes.

What will COURSE own?

COURSE will lead the education-business roadmap, establish priorities, manage the approved workstreams, oversee curriculum and program improvements, maintain the LMS and learner experience, coordinate enrollment initiatives, review performance, and hold internal and external contributors accountable.

COURSE also helps identify capability gaps, define roles, prepare specialist briefs, create scorecards and workflows, and make sure every contributor is working toward the same education and commercial goals.

Does COURSE manage paid advertising?

Paid-media strategy, audience direction, offer alignment, funnel assets, commercial targets, and agency accountability may be part of Operate.

Direct media buying and campaign management are handled by an approved paid-media partner unless separately included in the agreement.

Advertising spend and partner fees are separate.

Does COURSE provide a sales closer?

COURSE may develop the sales process, call framework, objection responses, KPIs, and review system. The closer is typically employed or contracted by the client. COURSE can help define the role, evaluate candidates, support onboarding, and review performance.

Does COURSE manage the community?

COURSE can develop the community strategy, programming calendar, onboarding process, SOPs, escalation rules, and performance indicators.

Daily moderation and member support are typically performed by a client employee, VA, or community manager.

Does COURSE handle learner support?

COURSE designs and improves the learner-support system, including the knowledge base, workflows, automations, escalation rules, and ownership.

Daily inbox and customer-service coverage remain with the client or an assigned support representative unless specifically included.

Which operating model is right for us?

A COURSE-Managed Department is best when you have little internal capacity and want COURSE to remain the primary operator.

A Hybrid Education Department is best when you already have capable people but need leadership and coordination.

Department Install is best when you want COURSE to create the system and gradually transfer responsibility to an internal owner.

The recommendation is made during the first 30 days.

What is an active workstream?

An active workstream is a meaningful initiative that requires coordinated strategy and execution.

Examples include updating a module, improving onboarding, building a webinar campaign, reorganizing the LMS, recruiting a community manager, improving the sales process, or creating a new partner-enrollment system.

Can COURSE help us hire the people we need?

Yes.

COURSE can identify the required role, create the scorecard and job description, establish KPIs, design the interview process, recommend partners or candidates, support onboarding, and integrate the person into the operating system.

COURSE does not guarantee a hire or become the permanent employer of every specialist.

Can COURSE work with our existing team and agencies?

Yes. This is one of the primary uses of COURSE Operate. COURSE can act as the fractional Head of Education, establish the roadmap, clarify responsibilities, manage the operating calendar, prepare briefs, review performance, and coordinate the people already working inside the business.

Does COURSE guarantee enrollment or revenue growth?

No. Results depend on the offer, audience, market, pricing, traffic, sales execution, customer behavior, team performance, and available investment. COURSE provides strategic direction, implementation capacity, coordination, accountability, and performance analysis. It does not guarantee outcomes nobody can fully control.

Can COURSE eventually hand the department back to us?

Yes.

Department Install is designed to create the roles, scorecards, SOPs, dashboards, workflows, and operating rhythms required for internal ownership.

COURSE can train the internal owner and transfer responsibilities gradually before reducing into an advisory role or exiting.

COURSE Plans

Validate the opportunity.
Build the program.
Operate the education system.
Each stage earns the next.

There are three clear ways to validate, build and grow an education business with COURSE, depending on where you’re starting and how much support you want.

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Give the Education Business an Owner

Stop Holding the Entire Operation Together Yourself.

COURSE Operate gives you the direction, production capacity, operating rhythm, enrollment coordination, and team accountability required to run and grow a serious education business.You no longer have to determine what should happen next, which role to hire, how every specialist fits together, what to measure, or who should be accountable.