302: Catching Up with the $30k a Month Piano Teacher How He Grew His Business While Cutting Back His Hours 97%

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 9 a.m.

Things were going great; he had a bunch of happy customers, he\u2019d quit his engineering job to focus on it full-time, and he was doing what he loves.\nYou might remember Jacques Hopkins from\xa0episode 223, where he broke down how he turned his hobby of playing piano into a solid $20k a month online business at\xa0Pianoin21days.com.\nBUT\u2026.\nBetween customer support, email, social media, phone sales, and all the other day-to-day tasks, it was taking a full 40 hours a week to run.\nSince then, Jacques set out to automate, optimize, and outsource different elements of the business. Those initiatives cut back his time commitment to maintain the biz to just 10 minutes a day \u2014 and still grew revenue to $30k a month.\nJacques isn\u2019t one to sit still, he\u2019s using his newfound time freedom to work on more strategic growth projects and his other project;\xa0TheOnlineCourseGuy.com.\nHe\u2019s launched a podcast interviewing other people who have successfully launched online courses, and sells his own course giving customers a behind the scenes look at how he built and sold his courses on Pianoin21days.com.\nTune in to hear how Jacques \u201cplugged holes\u201d in his course, outsourced time-consuming repetitive tasks to a virtual assistant, and successfully increased his revenue while reducing the time spent on his business.\nFull Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Catching Up with the $30k a Month Piano Teacher \u2014 How He Grew His Business While Cutting Back His Hours 97%