I’m great at this because I spent 15 years producing reality television. Formerly an Executive Producer, I worked on shows for Bravo, HBO, Fox, NBC, Lifetime, E! and many more. Now I work with coaches and creators to turn their brilliance into courses and programs that are as bingeworthy as your favorite tv show.
In TV, you have seconds to earn the next minute. If the pacing is off, people leave. If the stakes aren't clear, people leave. If a scene doesn't serve a purpose, it doesn't survive the edit. Period.
Every frame has to command attention.
Every scene has a beginning, middle, and end. Nothing makes it through that isn't doing real work.
Now compare that to most online courses. Hour-long modules. Long-winded explanations. Repetition dressed up as value. Information overload instead of transformation design. And an 80 percent drop-off rate that we've somehow decided is just the way things are.
In television, that would get you fired. The online course industry doesn't need more marketers or more hype. It needs a harsher edit and people who understand that transformation only happens when attention is held long enough for it to land. And in this era, that doesn't happen in a classroom education structure. It happens in an entertainment episodic structure.