LMScast

Self-doubt may be keeping you from doing the work you want to do. Today’s LMScast is about confronting imposter syndrome and turning your negative experience into positive value. Imposter syndrome is a feeling that you don’t know enough to be an authority, but you’ll learn through doing that value and expertise are gained through failure. Even if someone else is covering your area already, your un...

You’re closer than you think to starting an online course or membership site. In today’s LMScast Esther Marie of Esther Marie Creative tells how to build an audience for your membership site or online course with no list. If you’re a beginner, then listen up! Esther creates online courses for clients. She started with a membership site called Virtual Assistant Internship based on her contributions...

Whether you run an established online business or are just beginning, you want your online course business to be as professional as possible. Today’s LMScast tells you how to level up your LMS, online course, or membership website business using resources you have, and how to plan your next steps. Starting out with a low budget, your simplest and least expensive starting point is an inexpensive ho...

In this LMScast Chris Badgett can help you decide between learning management system all-in-one software vs. an integrated software solution for your learning management system, online course, or membership site requirements. There are turnkey all-in-one solutions offered by some companies that may or may not serve your needs. For many people, our LifterLMS course development platform provides eve...

This is our 100th episode anniversary edition of LMScast, and today’s topic challenges you to ask yourself, what level teacher leader are you? Leadership instructor and author Chris Badgett will help you understand what kind of teacher and leader you are and how you can improve. The first level you operate from is positional, meaning you are a leader because you occupy the role of teacher for your...

The best online learning experience requires a live element, and today’s LMScast explains how to do livestreaming with online courses, membership sites, and more. Livestreaming allows for real-time online interaction through any device that can access the internet, and it’s an extremely effective support feature for your course. It’s easy to get started with livestreaming using basic services like...

If you have an online business, the time will come when you need custom membership site, online course, or learning management system development and design services. In this LMScast codeBOX owners and team members discuss what they do and how they can partner with you. The LMScast program began with the release of the codeBOX LifterLMS platform in 2014. LMScast was designed to help users get the...

This LMScast departs from the usual focus on business to address a more altruistic purpose for becoming an educational entrepreneur. Today Chris Badgett shares his online course creation freedom secrets for creating a livelihood by helping others. As Sufi poet Hafiz wrote, "The small man builds cages for everyone he knows, while the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps droppi...

Today’s LMScast tells you how not to fail as an instructional designer or eLearning consultant by balancing the three fundamental elements that make up your online course. You must have expertise, instructional design, and a functional online delivery system or your course will fail. You may actually be an instructional designer or an expert in your specialty area, but you’re still only contributi...

Internal training courses are a great way to help your people grow. This LMScast is about new highly effective smart corporate training and organizational development systems that allow your managers to focus on higher-level tasks instead of onboarding and training. Most businesses still train new employees by having them shadow a current employee, or worse, throw them into the job to sink or swim...

There are many opportunities open to digital technology professionals, and one of those is online course development. In this LMScast we’ll show you 3 business models for online course entrepreneurship for WordPress and other technologists. Technology, coding, and programming courses are always changing and often the only way to stay current is self-instruction or online courses through services l...

Today’s LMScast will help real estate professionals teach courses online with a look at the top 3 online courses residential real estate brokers and agency owners use for business growth. Methods of buying and selling homes are changing. If you know how to leverage the internet, social media, and web presence you can teach others. Online real estate courses generate leads, build relationships, and...

This LMScast explains how online courses can help you grow your SaaS business with 3 ways SaaS product companies win with an online course strategy. Online courses just make sense for SaaS to provide in-depth instruction for new users and instruction for software upgrades and added features so customers get the most out of your tools. Offering value through a free introductory course encourages cu...

This LMScast tells you how to grow your online course business with affiliate marketing, a system that invites other people to earn a commission from you by channeling paying customers to your website. You issue an identifying link to your affiliate that they distribute to prospective customers via email, social media, and blog comments. Clicking the link triggers a tracking system that monitors s...

You can teach a language online, and this LMScast will introduce you to 3 business models for online language learning course creators to show you how. Language learning is in great demand for global careers and travel. If you speak multiple languages you have a valuable skill to share. Following are 3 business models you can build your language course on. Before you start, visualize the student y...

Lots of musicians are successfully teaching music online, and you can, too. This LMScast shows you what to consider if you want to make an online music course. Your first step is to realize that you can do this. Then you can decide how. There are more options online for teaching music than ever before. You can reach a worldwide audience using a passive course package, or arrange for active, live i...

This LMScast presents the health and fitness online course opportunity for personal trainers and anyone with a passion for fitness and teaching. The demand for information and training in this area is expansive and growing, and you can be part of it. With an online course you can reach a global audience far beyond your local gym, box, or yoga class. Whether your area of expertise is CrossFit, endu...

If you’re getting ready to create an online course, this LMScast with Chris Badgett will get you started. You’ll learn how to launch a business, marketing, or leadership online course even if you’re not a web technician. An online course will let you share your business and marketing experience, skills, and expertise with people around the world and earn income from your course. All you need is a...

In this LMScast Chris Badgett advises you to ask, am I making a membership site, online course, or learning management system? There are differences between these formats you’ll need to know before you build your site. A membership site is a simple content resource that requires a fee to access its newsletters, files, media, and other products. An online course is basically a class delivered throu...

This LMScast with Chris Badgett explores the concept of antifragile online education and how to benefit from progressive global transformation, as Nicholas Nassim Taleb has explored through his compelling series of books. Benefits of the antifragile state are attained through counter-intuitive actions combined with a random “black swan” event. What if you’re developing online courses when suddenly...

Today’s LMScast discusses morning routines for teachers that help you generate more time and energy for your online course development. The way you start your day can make a profound difference on how you feel and how well you function. If you feel like there’s just never enough time to curate and create your course content, establishing good habits is a simple and powerful way to get more done in...

This LMScast will outline how to monetize your skills, passion, and life experience with online courses. It all begins with who you are, what you know, and what you’re already doing. If you’re currently teaching, then you just need to learn how to expand on that through online courses. Qualify your primary need as independent income, the freedom of autonomy, or creating a legacy for your skills an...

This LMScast will show you how to think about the role of the learning management functionality versus the design of the online learning environment. You’ll also learn about the release of the new LifterLMS LaunchPad WordPress LMS theme. Choosing the right WordPress LMS theme and plugin for your course platform is crucial to its success. There are several things to consider when choosing a WordPre...

Today’s LMScast will tell you how to create passive income for offline businesses by sharing information and tutorials online for your products and services. If you have a website-based business you’ll benefit from this discussion, too. Buyers do online research before buying even simple items, so make it super easy for them to learn about everything you offer. If you’re an instructor or trainer,...

This LMScast will show you how to name your online course so students will notice you and take a closer look at what you can offer them. Just as a book title or email subject line can make you want to read further, your course title should have the same effect. Choosing a name for your course is crucial to its success, so have patience and see how the course develops to choose a title that represe...