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Making a Booking Calendar Available Only to Members
Are you trying to make a booking calendar available to members? A couple months ago I was helping a friend with her new membership platform. We went over everything she was doing, as we migrated her site to WooCommerce. And then came the final request - to make a booking calendar available to members. Customers...
How to Structure An Online Course
If you structure an online course well, you'll keep people engaged Have you ever sat in a lecture - clearly presented by an expert - only to discover that you're bored out of your mind and can't stay awake? In my series focused on online courses, we've covered who should create a course, and how...
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,...
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