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How 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 MoreBest CoursePress Pro Alternative WordPress L.M.S. Plugin
As you know, sometimes, good things do come to a close. In recent news, WPMU DEV announced they are sunsetting many of their premium plugins, but one in particular is CoursePress Pro. CoursePress Pro is a learning management system that was launched back in 2014 a couple years after WP Courseware was launched. Since WP…
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 MoreUsing MemberPress to Sell Your WP Courseware Courses
MemberPress and WP Courseware Offer a Powerful Combination for Creating and Selling Your Online Courses with WordPress One of my favorite membership plugins out there right now is MemberPress. Why? Well, primarily because of how much fun its creator, Blair Williams, is to hang out with at conferences! Ok, even though Blair is an all-around…
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…
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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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