diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
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@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ If you would like to stick to simply the cookiecutter approach, the template sti
    $ pip install cookiecutter
    $ cookiecutter gh:OpenAstronomy/packaging-guide -o ./output_directory
 
+Example
+-------
+
+You can also directly create a package using the cookiecutter template:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   cookiecutter gh:OpenAstronomy/packaging-guide
+
 This will create a new directory in your current directory named the same as the value of "packagename" you supplied.
 Change into this directory and run ``git init`` to make it into a git repository, and make an initial commit.
 This is required in order to have software versioning working for your package.