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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…

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…

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…

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…

Randomized quizzes are a great tool for enhancing learning retention. They’re also simple to create within WP Courseware. At the end of 2014, we released the largest update we’ve ever made to WP Courseware. After months of development and testing and with the guidance of one of the smartest people in the WordPress ecosystem, our…

Fumbling around with WordPress can be daunting in the beginning, however, these WordPress training resources can greatly lessen the learning curve for new users of the world’s most popular content management system. I can remember it like it was yesterday. Three things happened around 2009 which all culminated in me becoming deeply embedded in the…

Customer churn can lead to a 33% loss in sales for a membership or course site each year. But what can you do to fix it? For a membership site or online course which relies on recurring monthly subscription income, there are a number of potential factors which can lead to a loss of customers…

Amazon’s S3 cloud storage platform is extremely cost-effective, but budgeting for it can be difficult to predict. When we started our first online course back in 2010, almost all of the content consisted of video. And when we launched we knew we needed to address three specific issues right off the bat… Since we were…

Want to know how to create an online course with WordPress? These 10 simple steps will show you how. Article Index 1. Introduction 2. Course Topic Selection 3. Course Topic Validation 4. Setting Learning Outcomes 5. Compiling Your Resources 6. Beginning Your Outline 7. Choosing a Delivery Method 8. Creating Your Course Lessons 9. Building…