Posts by Nate Johnson
Our Top 7 Tips for Updating Your Online Course
Many online course creators believe that after launching, it’s time to sit back and watch the sales roll in. Well, we hate to break it to you, but that isn’t where the work ends. You’ve spent dozens and dozens of hours researching a course topic, creating content for your course, building a marketing plan, crafted…
Read MoreImportant Fly Plugins Updates for July!
Well, Happy Summer to those of you in the northern hemisphere and if you’re in the south, we hope you enjoy some cooler weather and a break from the heat! We’ve been staying busy here at Fly Plugins doing our best to ensure that our customers receive best-in-class WordPress plugins and stellar support. Here are…
Read More[FREE TEMPLATE] Using Action Guides In Your Online Course
You May Have Great Video Lesson Content and Lesson Summaries, But What Do your Students Do Next? When Ben and I began creating our first online course in 2011, we wanted a way to ensure that our students not only retained the information presented within a lesson, but we wanted to also ensure that they…
Read MoreHow to Create Engaging Sales Copy for Your Online Course
You can create great, helpful online course content, but if you can’t sell it you’ve wasted your time and hard work. Here are a few tips for getting your value proposition across to prospective customers. When we created our first online course in 2010, we were about as nervous and anxious as an entrepreneur can…
Read More3 Tips for Higher Course Completion Rates
Over the last six years, we’ve worked with course creators in almost any industry or niche you can think of. And one of the most common issues they run across is how to get their students to follow through and actually complete a course they’ve created. If you’re an online course creator, in this article…
Read MoreWP Courseware 4.6 Introduces Bundles, Installment Payments, and Much, Much More!
Well, where do we start? We crammed so much into the release of WP Courseware 4.6 that it’s almost hard to list it all! If you’re interested, you can check out the release notes within the plugin. But, we wanted to share a few highlights. We’ve always been feature-driven by customer feedback, so this release…
Read More4 Questions to Ask Before Launching Your Online Course
We’ve always said here on our blog that everyone is an expert in something. And that something is what leads to the idea for an online course. But an idea doesn’t sell. A marketable product does. That being said, there are, of course, ways to ensure the viability of a marketable product ahead of investing…
Read More3 Ways to Use Amazon S3 Cloud Storage Within Your Online Business
We’ve long been proponents of using Amazon Web Services’ S3 cloud storage platform for hosting video. It’s inexpensive, has the resources to store and deliver as much video as you can create, and it delivers it to your end user with a fast playback experience (especially if you combine it with Amazon’s CloudFront content delivery…
Read More3 Ways to Repurpose Your Course Content
Creating an online course is not an easy task. When my business partner, Ben, and I created our very first online video course back in 2010, we easily spent at least 200 hours shooting video, editing video, creating action guides, working on the site, marketing the course, supporting students, and on the list goes… And…
Read MoreUnderstanding Where to Begin and End Your Course Lessons
In this post, we’re going to begin a new series on content creation tips to help you create online courses which will help your students succeed in absorbing and retaining the material you deliver. These tips are based on experiences working with our clients over the last several years, and these strategies and tips are…
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