SBA 379: Lessons Learned From Running A Training Business

The Smart Buildings Academy Podcast | Teaching You Building Automation, Systems Integration, and Information Technology

5 years ago we founded Smart Buildings Academy with the hopes of gaining 1,000 students by 2025. Today we are the largest vendor-agnostic provider of building automation training programs. In the beginning of this journey it was just me and my co-founder, who happens to be my wife. Along the way we've created 30+ training programs with over 2,000 hours of training lessons, 370+ Podcast episodes, thousands of blog articles, and we proved that online delivery is an effective delivery model for BAS training. It wasn't an easy journey, along the way we've made mistakes, had people blatantly copy our training programs, and we've had to develop processes from scratch for delivering training. In today's episode I am sharing the lessons learned from running a rapidly growing training business. In our traditional style, I'll share the good, the bad, and the ugly. My hopes is that you all can learn from us and take away processes and strategies you can bring into your business.