Selling Online Courses and Digital Products

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I'm learning "Selling Online Courses and Digital Products" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Pick a topic you can prove".

What the lesson teaches:
- A digital product is something sold and delivered online with no shipping: courses, templates, e-books, presets, printables, spreadsheets.
- A good topic sits where three things meet: your proven skill, a clear result for the learner, and people already searching or paying for help.
- Evidence of demand: people ask you about it, competitors sell similar courses, people search for it, or people pay for coaching on it.
- Market signal: Udemy's 2026 Global Learning and Skills Trends Report (based on its business customers) names AI skills as the fastest-growing learning category.
- Narrow beats broad: "Excel for small-business bookkeeping" is easier to sell than "Learn computers."

The exercise I'm working on:
List 5 things people ask you for help with. For each, write the result a learner would get and one sign of demand. Pick the strongest.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Pick a topic you can prove" from the course "Selling Online Courses and Digital Products".

Here's what the lesson says:
If you're the kid on the street who's great at kicking a ball, other kids will pay you in candy to teach them. Teach what you really know, to people who really want to learn it.

The activity:
List 5 things people ask you for help with. For each, write the result a learner would get and one sign of demand. Pick the strongest.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.