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Launching · 6 min read · June 2026

How to Plan Your Online Course Launch, Week by Week

A great launch is planned, not improvised. Here is a simple week by week plan to launch your course with confidence.

Taylah and Luke, founders of Beauty CEO Society

Launching by posting once and hoping is how most courses flop. A launch that sells is built on a simple plan that warms your audience, opens with momentum, and closes with urgency. Here is how to map it out.

Weeks before: warm up

Start talking about the topic before you ever mention the offer. Share tips, stories and behind the scenes so your audience is thinking about the problem your course solves. By launch day, it should feel familiar.

Launch week: open the doors

Announce clearly: what the course is, who it is for, and how to join. Go all in for these few days. Share testimonials, answer questions, show up in stories. Talk about it far more than feels comfortable.

Mid launch: handle objections

Halfway through, address the doubts head on. Time, money, "will this work for me." A live session or a few honest posts at this point often unlock the people sitting on the fence.

Close: create real urgency

Give a genuine reason to act now: a deadline, a bonus that expires, a price that rises. Remind people the window is closing. A surprising share of sales come in the final hours.

After: deliver and capture wins

Onboard your students brilliantly and start collecting results straight away. Those wins become the proof that makes your next launch even bigger.

A launch is not a single post. It is a story you tell over a few intentional weeks.

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