📱 Best Platforms
Teachable, Udemy, Skillshare
📖 The Hustle
Teach office professionals and small business owners how to turn Google Sheets from a basic spreadsheet into an automated reporting machine. Cover QUERY functions, IMPORTRANGE for connecting multiple sheets, pivot tables, SPARKLINE charts, conditional formatting rules, data validation dropdowns, and basic Apps Script automation. Most people use 5% of Google Sheets' power. Your course unlocks the other 95% and makes students the go-to spreadsheet person at their company.
🚀 First Step
Record a module building a real sales dashboard from scratch: import raw data with IMPORTRANGE, clean it with QUERY, visualize with SPARKLINE, and automate refresh with a simple Apps Script trigger.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Build every lesson around a real business use case (sales report, inventory tracker, employee schedule) rather than teaching functions in isolation — context makes formulas stick
- Give students a 'dirty' dataset to clean and analyze as a capstone project — hands-on struggle followed by success creates the most satisfying learning experience
- Include cheat sheet PDFs for QUERY syntax, IMPORTRANGE syntax, and 10 most useful formulas — students will reference these long after finishing the course
🛠 Tools & Resources: Google Sheets, OBS Studio, Teachable, Canva, Google Apps Script