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Is Your Course as Transformative as You Think?
You poured your knowledge into your course.
But if students aren’t finishing… if testimonials are thin… or if sales are stuck — the problem isn’t your content. It’s your structure.
The REFOCUS Course Audit Checklist helps you identify the seven essential ingredients every successful course needs — so you can improve student outcomes, boost completion rates, and finally feel confident charging what your course is worth.
✅ Instantly see where your course needs support
✅ Discover hidden gaps in content, engagement, or outcomes
✅ Build toward a course that gets results — and raves
Perfect for:
Coaches, consultants, and course creators who want more than just sales — they want satisfied, successful students.
Find out what’s working, and
what’s quietly holding your course back,
with this free REFOCUS Course Audit Checklist.
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🎙 Podcast Appearances
Hear me in action — sharing tips on course creation, business systems, and the freedom of building
a business that supports your life (not the other way around).
Podcast
February 25, 2025
EP #92: Living the Island Life in Midlife with Marla Martinez
Today’s episode is with Marla Martinez. Marla is a woman in the middle entrepreneur who is a course consultant who has now scaled a few side hustles into successful businesses as well.
In this episode, you will learn: What it's like to live the island life in midlife. Why successful businesses are about genuinely helping others, not only about making money.Why you should live the life you want, not the life you have.Why it's important to take the risk.
Podcast
February 3, 2025
Course Creation for Entrepreneurs to Make More Money and Amplify Your Impact
Host : Six Figure Business Coaching
Are you tired of leaving money on the table with your online courses? In this latest episode Six Figure Business Mastery, hosted by Kirsten Graham and Jeanne Willson, our guest, Marla Bainbridge shares her expert insights on how to optimize your programs and courses to increase revenue and boost testimonials and referrals. With her proven strategies, you'll learn how to create successful online courses that attract clients and drive business success. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, this video will show you how to optimize your online course for maximum profitability, freeing up your time to focus on what matters most. By applying Marla's course optimization techniques, you'll be able to build a successful business that generates consistent income and helps you achieve your financial goals. So, if you're ready to take your online courses to the next level and earn more money, watch this video now and start optimizing your way to success!
Article
Nov 27, 2023
She Wrote An 'Escape Plan' to Quit Her Job and Move to an Island. Now She's There Generating Nearly $300,000 A Year
Host : Entrepreneur.com
By Jason Feifer
n 2007, Marla Bainbridge Martinez went on a vacation that changed her life.
She visited Isla Mujeres, a five-mile-long Mexican island off the coast of Cancun, and fell in love with it. She returned for regular visits, meeting other Americans who had moved there, and started thinking: "They get to live there. Why not me?" The answer was work — she was a consultant at a technology firm, and couldn't just quit and move to an island...
Podcast
May 30, 2023
Optimizing Your Online Course for Maximum Success: Learn How to Get the Most Out of Your Course!
Host : Six Figure Business Coaching
Are you looking for tips on optimizing your online course? Then this video is for you! In this video, we will explore the key aspects of optimizing an online course to ensure it meets the needs of your audience. We will look at topics such as creating an effective course structure, building an engaging user experience, and integrating multimedia elements. Additionally, we will look at how to measure the success of your course, such as through student engagement and feedback. We will also discuss best practices around student support and course marketing. Finally, we will talk about how to leverage technology to make the course delivery more efficient. By the end of this video, you will have a clear understanding of how to optimize your online course.
Podcast
Apr 4, 2023
Hiring a Marketing VA: What You Need to Know
Host : Six Figure Business Coaching
Hiring a Marketing Virtual Assistant (MVA) can be a smart investment for your business. A Marketing VA can assist you in managing your marketing activities, such as video marketing, social media, email marketing, content creation, and blogging. They can help you save time, stay organized, and ensure that your marketing efforts are consistent and effective. Marla, Jeanne, and Kristen all have experience working with Marketing VAs and have some valuable insights to share. Marla: "When I first hired a Marketing VA, I was skeptical about how much they could help me. But after a few weeks of working together, I realized that they were saving me so much time. They were able to take over my social media, email marketing, and content creation tasks, which allowed me to focus on other aspects of my business." Overall, working with a Marketing VA can be a highly rewarding experience. They can help you save time, stay organized, and improve the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. However, it's essential to find the right fit for your business and to establish clear communication and expectations from the outset.
Podcast
January 31, 2023
Level Up Your Online Course LIKE A PRO
Host : Six Figure Business Coaching
Do you want to know how to Level Up Your Online Course LIKE A PRO? Marla Martinez will share some tips and ideas on successful Online Course Creation with Jeanne and Kirsten of Six Figures Business Coaching. With development, launch strategy, and marketing, your Online Course can be a great business to earn money while sharing your knowledge and expertise. If you’re new to this, we will teach you How to Create your first Online Course, how to sell your online course and some online teaching tips. It’s easy if you are teachable and know YouTube!
Podcast
Nov 15, 2022
How to Optimize your Online Course in 2023
Host : Six Figure Business Coaching
How to Optimize your Online Course in 2023? Marla Martinez is an online course creator coach, and an expert in her field, shares tips and hacks on how to create a course that is optimized and well organized. She has been helping coaches for quite a while now who have problems creating an online course like online coaching, how to get coaching clients, and how to create an online course that sells. Coaching for coaches has been her expertise and become very successful with this. Online course creators trusted her ways to get more traction in online business programs.
Podcast
July 10, 2022
How to Optimize Your Courses with Marla Bainbridge
#618 How do you know your course is worthy of the price tag? What are the solutions you provide, and what are the transformations your students can expect to see? What do you want them to say about you and how you served them? Today’s guest host, Marla Bainbridge Martinez, will walk you through her REFOCUS system to help you answer these questions and take your courses and testimonials to the next level. These Teaching Friday episodes hosted by SPI Pro members are always jam-packed with actionable tips, so make sure you listen in. Marla’s business, Refocused Income, helps course creators build learning experiences that deliver results and lead to glowing reviews. In this session, she walks you through exercises that teach you how to organize your content optimally. She also helps you understand the strategies you can use to supercharge your social proof through testimonials and referrals. Enjoy! Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/session618.
Podcast
December 4, 2021
Mastermind Groups
Host : Johnny Boy Studios
met Marla Martinez in August 2020 when we became founding members of a mastermind group together. In August 2021 the group decided to meet up in person to celebrate 1 year being together and I had the privilege of sitting down with Marla to have a conversation. We dive into her history as an entrepreneur, the empire she is building on the island of Isla Mujeres today, and what being a part of a mastermind has done to help her along the way. The full version of this conversation can be found on episode 38 of the JohnnyBoy Studios podcast, listen here; https://pod.link/1547201837/episode/d...
Podcast
July 14, 2021
Ep. 61: Why Using Best Practice Online Course Design Techniques Really Matters With Marla Martinez
In this episode, Trudy and Marla talk about online courses and Marla’s transformation in her life by utilizing her skills and past experiences to reinvent income streams and design a life that she wanted to live. Marla is a course consultant and specializes in curriculum content design. She help’s course creators design and organize their content for an optimized learning experience for their students.
Trudy & Marla also talk about –
1. Marla’s decision to up and move to Isla Mujeres, Mexico.2. How business experienced difficulties when the Covid pandemic hit.3. How Marla then made the decision to participate in online courses.4.
Marla found an audience that were people who wanted to create a course but
didn’t know how to start.5. They talk about course structures and what improvements can be made to engage participants. 6. Marla talks about how she found her balance in life with her move to Mexico.7. Her involvement in SPI Pro and mastermind groups. That came from her association with Pat Flynn.8. The support she received from her mastermind community when her first course was released.9. The importance of having someone with an outside perspective.10.
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