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Today’s LMScast presents Designing Your Digital Classroom in Step 5 of the Ultimate Course Creation Framework series. In the course so far you’ve created a Rapid Enrollment list, seen the Magical Education Intersection, pre-sold a Collaborative Course, and learned How To Teach Online. In this final step of the mini-course it’s easy to over complicate your approach, but remember the best solutions...

This LMScast covers Step 4 in our Ultimate Course Creation Framework series with How to Teach Online. You may be a great classroom instructor, but online teaching requires a whole new approach. In the last 3 Steps we made a Rapid Enrollment list, discovered the Magical Education Intersection, and pre-sold a Collaborative Course. In Step 4 you’ll learn how to bring your best abilities into the onli...

Today’s LMScast features Step 3 of the new Ultimate Course Creation Framework series. Collaborative Course is about the benefits of pre-selling and makes use of the interest list and market research you did in Steps 1 and 2. The purpose of pre-selling a test version course is to get feedback from active students that will help you develop a much more successful complete course and increase its pot...

This LMScast continues our new 5-step Ultimate Course Creation Framework for your eLearning business with Step 2 - The Magical Education Intersection. This is where what you want to teach meets what your students want to learn. You may think your course idea is awesome, but is there a market as hungry for your subject as you are passionate about it? Market research will show you what aspects of yo...

Today’s LMScast presents an overview of our new Ultimate Course Creation Framework, a 5-step outline for building your eLearning business. Beginning with Step 1 - Rapid Enrollment, you’ll make a list of 100 prospective students for your first marketing campaign. It may seem scary, but it’s a necessary foundation for success. Students have choices today beyond the traditional classroom-based curric...

Until now online coaching has been limited to blogs, email lists, eBook sales, and online meetings. This LMScast will transcend those old-school limitations as Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett tell you how to use online courses to get more leads into your coaching business. The 3 main areas of coaching are relationships, business, and health. The coaching market is saturated with dating game...

We're very excited about this special LifterLMS 2.0 release edition of LMScast! Our mission is to democratize education in the digital classroom, and we're happy to announce that LifterLMS 2.0 is out, and it's free! The LifterLMS team is grateful to our customers who have been providing feedback that's helped us continue improving LifterLMS. We wanted to give back to the eLearning and WordPress co...

Our LMScast today is all about how real estate brokers and agency owners can get leads and sales through online courses. This episode will open up a world of possibilities for any business to benefit by offering online courses. The two best ways to attract customers are differentiation and positioning. Demonstrate your expertise and give people the opportunity to know you, like you, and trust your...

This LMScast will help you decide between an email mini-course versus an evergreen WordPress LMS course. Learn the advantages and applications each format offers and choose the best course type for what you want to teach. Email mini-courses are a great way to get started fast by offering simple, introductory content you can deliver through automated email. You can also test content and get feedbac...

Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett talk about how to organize online course production in this LMScast episode. Joshua has created 4 classes to teach you how to organize your course development process by making an outline before you start putting it all together. Building a structured framework saves time and frustration by keeping you on track and progressing smoothly. A tool like WorkFlowy...

069: How to Build an Engagement Machine with Learners and Prospects by Chris Badgett

This LMScast with Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett is about presenting great content for eLearning communities. We’ll show you how to build an engagement machine with both learners and prospects in mind. An engagement machine is a dynamic system for keeping in touch with current students and prospecting for new ones. It lets you share information in a one-to-many format by repurposing conten...

In this LMScast Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett share their predictions for 2016 eLearning industry trends, the LifterLMS project, and WordPress and online education in general. They discuss 3 definitive aspects: the importance of user experience, the expansion of WordPress, and the growth of the eLearning market. WordPress is on its way to becoming a primary online education content manage...

You’ll find fresh ideas for course development in this LMScast episode with Joshua Millage and Chris Badgett. In this discussion you will learn how to use online courses to create a community around your product or service. Joshua and Chris recently interviewed Kim Albee, founder and president of WP Marketing Engine, about how she onboards new customers and receives valuable feedback using the Lif...

Most entrepreneurs dream of having a passive income stream, and creating online courses is one way to create passive income. But actually taking the knowledge you have and getting it into an online course can be daunting. In today’s LMScast Joshua and Chris go through the 5 steps to creating a killer course. The first step is giving your students a specific breakthrough or learning outcome. When y...

In this LMScast episode Christopher Badgett and Joshua Millage talk with founder and president of WP Marketing Engine Kim Albee about how to use online courses to add the value of training and support for your products and services. Kim uses LifterLMS with WP Marketing Engine to create training, user guides, and community discussion forums for their software users. Onboarding new customers is a sm...