246 From 1 Viral Instagram Post to 1.1M YouTube Subs

The Art of Selling Online Courses

The Art of Selling Online Courses
246 From 1 Viral Instagram Post to 1.1M YouTube Subs
Apr 17, 2026 Season 1 Episode 246
John Ainsworth

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What happens when a digital artist with 1.1 million YouTube subscribers decides she wants to work less, not more? That's exactly where this conversation went.

I sat down with Flo Visser, the founder of Art with Flo, one of the most popular Procreate tutorial channels on YouTube. Flo started the whole thing almost by accident, after a friendly Instagram competition with her boyfriend spiralled into a viral post, a Patreon membership, and eventually a full creative business built around teaching people to draw.

We talked about how she structures her Patreon, why she's been on the platform for seven years and still has a love-hate relationship with it, and how she's built a library of over 250 tutorials across multiple subscription tiers. But honestly, some of the most interesting parts of our chat were about everything else.

Flo is training to become a yoga teacher, planning creativity retreats that combine drawing, improv, yoga, and real human connection, and she recently became the only person in her voice acting class invited to continue to the next level. She's also figured out that her elbow is her early warning sign for burnout, which I thought was brilliant.

This one was different from most episodes. Less funnel talk, more about what it actually looks like to build a business around the life you want rather than the other way around. Flo's got a clarity about what she enjoys and what she's moving toward that I found genuinely refreshing.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Check out Flo's work:
🌐 http://artwithflo.com
📸 http://instagram.com/@floortjesart
▶️ http://youtube.com/artwithflo

Episode Artwork 246 From 1 Viral Instagram Post to 1.1M YouTube Subs 43:46 Episode Artwork 245 What 13 Years on YouTube Taught Me 48:24 Episode Artwork 244 Your Ideas Are Worth More Right Now Than Ever Before 39:16 Episode Artwork 243 The Job Market Is Changing. Are You Ready? 38:00 Episode Artwork 242 From 100K to 1M Subs With One Free YouTube Course 34:29 Episode Artwork 241 Meet the Piano Teacher Who Built a $2M Online School 35:12 Episode Artwork 240 Why Does Authenticity Matter to Your Audience? 49:21 Episode Artwork 239 How To Actually Build an Evergreen Course 50:19 Episode Artwork 238 How To Actually Build a Course Around a Problem 49:05 Episode Artwork 237 The Dark Side of Success Nobody Talks About 55:16 Episode Artwork 236 How to Build a Course Business Around YOUR Life 42:01 Episode Artwork 235 How To Actually Scale by Doing Less 40:53 Episode Artwork 234 How To Actually Make Money With a Small Audience 47:17 Episode Artwork 233 Your Plan B Is Killing Your Business 48:21 Episode Artwork 232 How I Created a Career That Didn't Exist 39:59 Episode Artwork 231 Meet the Man With 980,000,000+ YouTube Views 46:43 Episode Artwork 230 How To Actually Pre-Sell Your Course 35:42 Episode Artwork 229 I Started Posting 1 Short A Day. Here's What Happened 37:25 Episode Artwork 228 Here's How You SELL Courses (Even If You're Not A Marketer) 44:24 Episode Artwork 227 How I Made $650K+ Selling Courses 43:28 Episode Artwork 226 How I Went From 4K to 11K YouTube Subscribers in 1 Year 35:44 Episode Artwork 225 How I Made 6 Figures in Under a Year Selling Courses 36:02 Episode Artwork 224 How I Built a 4,000+ Student Business (What Worked) 40:55 Episode Artwork 223 How I Made $1 Million In 10 Months 41:50 Episode Artwork 222 Selling $10K Courses From Podcast Only: How I Do It 48:29