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How to come up with an idea for your online course
Yesterday we talked about who should create a course Yesterday I answered the question, \"Who should create an online course?\" Today I want to tackle your next question, which is likely how to come up with an idea for your online course. It's the place where a lot of people get stuck. Before we get...
Who Should Create an Online Course and Why?
There are platforms for online courses everywhere It doesn't matter where you look, platforms for online courses are everywhere. When you visit some of these platforms - like Podia, Teachable, Thinkific and more - you discover that each of them have 20,000 - 50,000 customers. It begs the question - is everyone creating online courses....
Why I no longer allow comments on my blog
You've heard the debate about comments on blogs, right? The conversation comes up a lot about comments on blogs. I used to tell people that I really appreciate comments on blogs. But that was back in 2013. And things aren't exactly the same today. Today I no longer allow comments on my blog. My friend...
Teaching Soft Skills: How to Develop Your Team
What are soft skills and why are they important? Few things are harder than teaching soft skills - because there are no simple curriculums or solutions. But I have a framework that helps. Before I introduce you to it, let's agree on what skills I'm talking about. Do these skills look familiar? Are they important...
Gravity Forms Makes It Fun to Work With Forms
Gravity Forms 2.5 is Live If you want to talk about the most powerful plugins that have made WordPress what it is today, I would tell you it's has been form plugins, membership plugins, eCommerce plugins and LMS plugins. The original form plugin for WordPress - the one that helped people understand you could make...
How to Boost Your Average Order Value
When I was in college, a long time ago, I had to take a statistics class. I can't recall much from that class (other than I remember barely going, and sitting in the back when I did). But I did learn the difference between mean, mode, and median. Turns out, when it comes to increasing...
Leveraging Content Dripping in 2021 for Your Membership Site
We binge everything these days.... When Stephen King, in 1996, decided to publish a novel in 6 monthly installments - The Green Mile - it was like going backwards in time. Not just because the story was set in the 1930's but because serial stories were a thing of the nineteenth century. Have you seen...
How to Structure & Build a Great Product Team
Want to build a great product team? There's no one formula. It's been a long time since I've written about hiring on this blog. So when someone asked the question about growing and building a great product team, I thought it was time to tackle it. When it comes to building a great product team,...
Are you using Video Testimonials yet?
If a picture is worth a thousand words..... There's something so incredibly powerful when you're presented with video testimonials. Don't believe me? Check this out. It's a video testimonial for my coaching service by my friend Shawn, who runs WP101. How much more powerful is that compared to putting a simple text quote in front...
Building a New Product? The Trick is Niching Down.
Let's say we were getting into the eCommerce product space... Imagine I was getting into the eCommerce product space. The first advice I'd give myself would all be about niching down. Because, after all, it's the first advice I'd give you too. Let's go further and say we still wanted to stay in the WordPress...
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