#183 - How Course Businesses Work, How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions & Profiting From Vacant Office Spaces

**Shaan Patel** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Sam Parr** (1:02)
That alone is kind of like to your point here where if you're a creator with an audience with credibility, if you've done something, if you're actually good at a skill, yeah, you can get to a million dollars a year of profit, not just revenue, doing it as an individual course creator.

**Shaan Patel** (1:17)
Yes, and the path is quite straightforward.
The tactics are simple, but it's basically...
All right, everyone, what's happening? We have a good episode, but before we get to it, please do me a favor, click the subscribe button on iTunes and the follow button on Spotify. Last week, we got a ton more Spotify listens because they're doing something. I think there's a pop-up right now that shows to people when you listen to the podcast, that asks if you want to follow.
And anyway, I want to see if that's working. So go ahead and click follow on Spotify and then click subscribe on iTunes. And the reason why is the more you click that, the higher we go up in the rankings, the higher we go up in the rankings, the more listens we get, the more listens we get, the more cool shit that we can do. So do that now. In this episode, we're going to talk about course businesses. A course business is something that a lot of people are interested in. I think it's one of the easiest ways to make a million dollars a year. But we're also gonna talk about how companies are making a hundred million dollars a year doing it. So go ahead and give us a listen. We're gonna talk all about the course businesses. It's gonna start in just a second.
And make sure to click subscribe, click follow, and we'll talk to you soon. We got a lot of cool stuff going on, but how you doing?

**Sam Parr** (2:35)
I'm good. I'm still recovering from your sick burn about my sweatshirt.

**Shaan Patel** (2:41)
They'll see on video. It's not that it's bad.
It's just that it would have been a lot better if you wore it as like a nine-year-old in 1994

**Sam Parr** (2:51)
I look like a skateboarder who got his birthday present.
You know, a 12-year-old skateboarder who got his birthday present. And then a bra you clapped back at Sam and told him he looks like a knight who's wearing the like chain link stuff that goes under your armor.

**Shaan Patel** (3:06)
You look like the extra from the Disney movie, Brink.

**Sam Parr** (3:13)
I have not seen that, but.

**Shaan Patel** (3:15)
You look like a 90s Disney movie extra.

**Sam Parr** (3:19)
Dude, I wish that would be an upgrade from my reality.

**Shaan Patel** (3:22)
Have you, do you read books?

**Sam Parr** (3:26)
I can't tell if this is another burn.
Do you read books? Do you know how to read? Yeah, I read books.

**Shaan Patel** (3:34)
How many books do you read?
I'm not. This is real. I don't know.

**Sam Parr** (3:40)
How much do you bench press?
I read, I'm reading a book all the time. It doesn't have one book that's going at any given time. Probably read, I don't know, three or four a year.