LMScast

This LMScast covers SEO basics for online course creators with Scott Magdalein of TrainedUp. There’s enough knowledge in this episode to get you started using SEO for your own website right now. Scott started using SEO when he created the TrainedUp tool for ministries, now a growing online course platform. Here he and LMScast host Chris Badgett share their collective experience with creating searc...

This LMScast explores elite learning environments and the Outlier 360 Project with Peter Fallenius on outliers and how understanding them can make you more successful. Peter defines outliers as people who perform at genius level. His Outlier 360 Project examines motivation, meaning, survival, and success towards creating outlier style business and learning environments that promote leadership, lea...

Whether you’re offering online courses, looking for an agency, or you are a WordPress service provider, this LMScast covers how to work with WordPress and service agencies with Matt Medeiros of Slocum Studio in Boston. Matt also hosts the Matt Report and PluggedIn Radio. Anybody can use WordPress to get a website working, but getting your site up and available may take longer if you don’t hire an...

This LMScast features ways to create high-ticket programs with Frank Bria, creator of the High-Ticket Program. Frank lists his keys to building a high-end course, and advises switching to outcome based thinking and pricing based on delivered results and demonstrated life-changing value with the services you offer. Identify the outcomes your courses provide and you can show prospects that you have...

Our new LifterLMS 3.0 release features a new access plan engine that lets you generate a variety of pricing models. This LMScast covers the top 10 pricing models for online courses and membership sites and offers advice on making your best choice. In this LMScast you’ll learn about these 10 pricing models: • One-time payment • Flat recurring payment • Payment plan • Free with membership • Members-...

This LMScast details creative uses for online courses outside of the internet marketing space with Jeff Long of the Online Course Coach Podcast, expert in video, web development, teaching, and corporate training. He tells why video is a vital element to your courses, and lists applications beyond general education. Online courses are great for public speaking entrepreneurs, as courses can be creat...

If you’re ready to hire a web development team for your eLearning business, this LMScast covers some points to consider for getting the right web team for your project. You have many options to choose from, from freelancers to agencies. It will be expensive and painful if your web company fails, so it’s important to work with the right service from the start. The most common issue customers report...

The world is evolving in their approach to education, and so is LifterLMS. This LMScast will explain our vision for the future of online education, the new LifterLMS 3.0 and beyond. Chris employs a philosophy with his children called “unschooling,” which advocates exposing learners to a variety of learning opportunities to discover what really interests them, including learning from mistakes. We m...

Today’s LMScast features the top 10 themes from the Online Course Creation Summit with Devin Slavin outlining major points of course creation from leaders in the industry. People who primarily work online are often isolated, so in 2016 Devin gathered 40 course creation experts for an Online Course Creation Summit to discuss design, creation, and marketing for successful online courses. Devin’s bus...

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...