How to Launch a Paid Live Workshop in Seven Days
A seven-day plan to pick a topic, sell seats before you build anything, and run your first paid live workshop without stitching six tools together.
You do not need a course, a funnel, or a big audience to run a paid live workshop. You need one specific problem you can help someone solve, a page where people can pay, and a date. Here is a seven-day plan that gets you from idea to a room full of paying attendees, using Faaji.co for the registration, payment, reminders, and the live room itself.
Day 1: Pick one problem, not a topic
A topic is "productivity". A problem is "I plan my week on Sunday and it falls apart by Tuesday". People pay to solve problems. Write down the three questions people already ask you for help with, and pick the one you could answer in ninety minutes with a screen share and a worksheet.
Then write the result in one sentence: "You will leave with a weekly planning system you can actually use."
Day 2: Price it and set the date
Pick a date seven days out. That is enough time to sell seats and not enough time to overthink it. Price by the result, not the hour: a workshop that fixes something people have struggled with for months is worth more than a Netflix subscription. Many first workshops land between $20 and $60.
On Faaji.co you set the price in credits, and the form shows the dollar amount next to it. There is no monthly fee; Faaji.co keeps a percentage of what you sell and nothing else. See pricing for the exact numbers.
Day 3: Create the workshop page
Create the workshop on Faaji.co: title, the one-sentence result, date, price, and a cover image. That gives you a public page with checkout on it. Copy the link. That link is the whole funnel for now.
Do not build slides yet. You are going to sell first, then build for the people who actually bought.
Day 4: Tell the people who already know you
Send the link to your email list if you have one. Post it where your audience already is. Send it directly to five people who have asked you about this problem before. A direct message that says "I am running this next Tuesday, I thought of you" outsells any polished post.
Day 5: Build the workshop for the people who bought
Now you know how many people are coming and, if you asked them at checkout, what they are struggling with. Build a ninety-minute outline: ten minutes of context, sixty minutes of doing the thing together, twenty minutes of questions. One worksheet or template they leave with.
Day 6: Test the room and set your reminders
Faaji.co sends reminders to everyone who registered, so you do not need a separate email tool. Open the live room the day before, check your camera and screen share, and practice the first five minutes out loud.
Day 7: Go live
Start on time. Say the result out loud in the first minute. Do the work with them. Answer questions live, and at the end tell them what you are running next, even if it is just "the next round of this".
After the workshop
Ask the people who came for one sentence of feedback. Save the questions people asked, because those are your next workshops. On Faaji.co the money lands in your earnings the moment the room ends and pays out on the next Monday run.
If you want to turn this single session into something bigger, read How to Run a Paid Five-Day Challenge.
Ready to start? Host your first workshop on Faaji.co.