10 years ago I produced my first video. Voice over screen capture. I was so proud. This lead to the creation of my first online course and 7 years it went live. It was made up of over 7 hours of video. All voice over screen capture. I was even more proud.

It was a lot easier back then, competition was not as rife, and video quality was not as important as video content. I was able to work from home creating online courses and be a full time mum too. How awesome.

But as the competition grew, the quality and standards of education videos and courses online also grew. One of the biggest changes for me was moving from voice over screen capture to talking head and greenscreen videos

I made this video some time ago showing my progress in quality.

When I began this venture, I only had one child, so there was a spare room in my house I could use as a studio. I now however have 2 kids, one age 10 and the other almost 5. I have no spare rooms to make videos and my course production has come to a standstill.

What’s this got to do with Steemit?

How does this benefit Steemit and the Steemit community? Well so far I have given free access to my online courses to many fellow steemains. These courses are on Excel and Power BI and are helping to develop the Blockchain Business Intelligence Community. Although I need to make a living and do charge for my online courses, I also understand that the pricing is not in everyone’s reach. I was given the gift of education from my parents, and I don’t think money should be a barrier when it comes to training and education. That is why I have given away so much of my courses here on Steemit.

You can check out my website and list of courses here

http://theexcelclub.com/

I also have courses not produced because I have nowhere to produce them. One is a data analytics pathway, again very suitable for the Blockchain BI community here on Steemit which I will be letting people take for free.

But I also have a course on Steemit I want to produce. Here is my syllabus draft

Course Title : Cracking Steemit in 28 Days

Overview What is Steemit
What is Blockchain Technology
Steemit 101 Whales minnows and dolphins
How do I post
How do I edit a post
What tags should I use
How do I use markdown
How do I vote or Flag
What is my vote worth
What are permissions
What are the passwords
How do I set up my profile
What is curation
What are curation rewards
Week 1 On steemit What not to do
Undoing what you have done
Introducing Communities
Introducing Contests
People to follow
Why you should comment
What to do week 1
Bonus Hack
Steemit 102 Where does the money come from
What is STEEM
What is STEEM Power
What is Steem Dollars
What is delegation
How do I delegate
How do I make a transfer
What is the internal market
How do I use the internal Market
How do I sell Steem for Other Crypto Currencies
Week 2 On steemit More on Communities
More on Contests
What to do week 2
Steemit 103 What is a witness and what do they do
How do I vote for a witness
What is a proxy
deep dive to curation rewards
Understanding reputation
What are bots
Ethical use of Steemit
Week 3 On Steemit Your Brand
Finding your niche
Promoting your post
Tracking your mentions
Tools you can use
What to do week 3
Week 4 on Steemit More tools you can use
Staying informed
Utopian
Busy
esteem
gamification
Other Steemit Hacks
Growing and developing your brand

This is subject to change, and will also be added to over time.

I gave you a link above to my own teaching website, but I am also a successful instructor on Udemy with +27,000 Students. This Steemit course will be FREE on Udemy and a number of other platforms. With this course, I hope to on-board 2000+ new steemains with in the first 3 months of it going live

You can check out my Udemy profile here

https://www.udemy.com/user/paulaguilfoyle/

Next Steps

So now I need a studio. my family have grow so I have no space, but they are still young so I need to be close to home. My back garden is approx. 7M x 15M. I already have a shed that is 3 x 2

So here is what I am thinking. To rent a green screen studio for regular use will cost me quite a lot, however if I purchase a log cabin for the back yard, I can be set up fairly quickly and within 2 years I will easily have made a saving on what rent would have cost me. I already have good equipment, lights, camera, and audio. I just need the space (and I need it secure).

The other problem with renting is that I can’t just work my own hours per say. Now I would work in the mornings when the kids are in school and again in the evenings when the kids are in bed. When school holidays are on or the kids are sick, I only work evenings when the kids are in bed. If I rented a studio I would have difficulty securing late evenings, and then I could end up paying for days when the kids are sick.

So the plan for the New Year is to get myself a studio. The cabin I am currently looking at is shown in the image below

https://steemitimages.com/DQmTNhGKNisLwsaZAeGRhXVauGNnahERNEjThG95zdj8rCY/4.png

I will need to get rid of the shed as the dimensions are shown below and it has a second room which can be used as a shed

https://steemitimages.com/DQmXuFo6eDoNTCavSs2RGQNQiu3duKCeKN6FA6PsN3CDxGd/5.png

It comes with double glazed windows. If I add guttering and a thicker floor, the supply cost is €4,786

You can read more about it here

https://www.beaverlogcabins.ie/log-cabins/log-cabin-wolfgang

With Fitting the cost will come to about $6,000 and then some more costs involved with sound proofing.

Other Plans

I am not a developer, but I would like to see how I can tie SMTs into my existing Excel and BI community. Maybe even find a way of rewarding people with tokens for activity within courses.

I also want to start using Dlive for training and other live shows. #dlive is an awesome project that I have not really been able to test because I have no where to work from :-(

So there you have it. My plan to tie my training business more in with Steemit, to create a steemit course and on-board new users. I think this investment is worth it, what do you think? Please do leave your comments below

Aligning my Business Objectives with Steemit in 2018