If there’s one thing you’d expect from a series called “Course Income Secrets”, it’s probably training on how to create a course!

Am I right or am I right?

Well, yesterday was my birthday (Jan 26) and I gave myself an amazing gift, I’m sure you’ll hear more about it soon.

Anyway, how do you get that first course done?

First steps to creating your course

The very first thing you need to do, even before creating the course, is to make these decisions.

1- What will be the topic of your course?

2- Who will you be teaching it to?

3- What will they get from going through it?

These seem simple, and they can be, but they aren’t always the easiest thing to clearly define.

We’re not going to go into this here but you can find lots of other episodes on my blog about these topics.

Delivering the course

Once you know what your course is about, who will be interested in it and what they will get out of it, you need to thing about how...

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It’s my birthday and I’m going to give you a life changing gift!

I want to give you a free pass to join a program I’ll be putting together soon.

Truthfully, I’ve not been this excited in a long time – actually the most I’ve been since starting my online journey over 5 years ago!

Obviously, I can’t make any income claims or promise you can achieve anything but I’m jumping in with both feet.

How do software companies get started?

Most software companies get started the same way as any other business.

You become a star programmer, create a killer program, talk to a VC, get millions and hire a ton of programmers.

After about 5 years, if you’re lucky, you start being profitable.

That’s how I started my company back in 1998 – Newlix Corporation

I created a killer piece of software, we started the company, then got 6 million in funding and hired 20 developers.

However, in 2001 we had to shut it down

What’s the real winning...

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What if I told you that you could start a multi-million dollar software business right now without being a programmer or knowing anything about the industry?

Imagine, your own software company…

Obviously, I can’t promise millions or being the next Bill Gates, but I can promise it’s possible for you too

What do you need to know?

Before I tell you want you need to know, let’s go over what you don’t need to know…

You don’t even need to know:

- A programmer.

- How to program

- How to store and publish code

- How to integrate a payment gateway

- How to setup an email list and broadcast emails

- How to hire an assitant

- How to find customers

- How to get sales

- How to create a winning piece of software

- and the list goes on

What do you need to know then?

All you need to know is how to follow instructions!

Easy right?

Who can guide you?

Even though, I’m a programmer and I’m learning the steps to do all this, and I could surely...

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Let’s talk about adding a chat bot to your WordPress blog site.

It’s really quite simple to do and so many worry about the tech.

In this episode, I’ll show you how easy it is to add a chat bot to your WordPress blog site.

By the way, you can just as easily add it to almost any website that you have header code edit access.

What is a chat bot?

Before getting into it, let’s make sure we’re talking about the same thing.

When I say “chat bot”, I mean a piece of software, or a computer, that can have a conversation with your web site or blog visitor.

It’s usually a little hovering icon on the bottom of your site that users can click to interact with.

On my blog (this page you’re reading now), it’s a picture of me with my hand pointing to a message to click for help.

When you click it, a popup opens with the start of a conversation.

You can fully customize the conversation and the user interaction.

You can even change the fonts,...

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Once you’ve got your course available online for others to buy, you’ll want to offer some deals or coupons, at least sometimes.

Most online course platforms support some form of coupons or deals.

Today, we’re going to show you how to add deals and coupons to your course on Click eCourse.

What kinds of coupons and deals can you create?

On Click eCourse, you can create a number of different deals and coupons.

Deals are a special price or a percentage off that visitor will automatically be shown if they are in the proper time frame of the deal.

A deal can have an optional start & end date and can also have maximum uses as well as frequency expiry special treatment.

For example, you can create a deal like these:

- Create a deal that expires on a certain date

- Create a deal that only starts in future and ends on certain date after that

- Create a deal that can be used only X number of times to buy course

- Create a weekly deal that expires on...

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If you have a course that you are selling online, they say the best way to get sales is to actually talk to people.

People will buy a course from someone they know, like and trust…

They’ll also buy it if someone they know tells them it’s great.

Lastly, if they see lots of strangers say it’s a great course.

How to scale your sales?

Of course, you can spend thousands in ads to sell your course.

What if you don’t have that money (yet)?

You can spend all your time talking with people online until someone buys it.

What if you don’t have that time?

You can hire someone else to do the talking for you and pay them commissions.

What if you can’t find that person?

Chat bot to the rescue

If you can’t spend the money on ads, spend the time talking to everyone or hire the right person to be you, next best thing is a chat bot.

The cool thing about a chat bot is that you can tailor it to be close to what you’d say and do.

You can even...

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Did you know you can create a chat bot demo for someone else and they can demo it without making any changes to their web site?

That’s right, you can create a chat bot and send your prospective clients a link that they can see the chat bot on their website or blog.

Pretty cool right?

Well, I think so lol

Getting your chat bot

Before you can demo a chat bot for your prospect, you’ll need the software.

I’m not sure how long you’ll be able to get the lifetime deal but as I write this, there’s still a $37 lifetime deal for this software.

You can check it out at http://info.MyConversioBot.com to see if the deal is still available.

You can create any number of bots for different web sites and blogs.

Creating a bot for someone else

With the agency license, you can also create any number of chat bots and allow others access to configure.

Let’s just get into creation of a bot to show as a test on someone else’s site.

Go to the My bots...

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It’s been a week and I’m super excited to be going through this challenge.

I gotta tell ya, I’ve done lots of challenges – I mean LOTS – and this is by far, the most valuable to me.

Get in on the next one at http://ofa.jsgagnon.com

Even after just the first week, I can already tell that it’s going to be worth hundreds of times the silly $100 if cost to get in.

What is OFA?

So, OFA, stands for One Funnel Away and it’s really the flagship tag line in all of Click Funnels and Russell Brunson’s communications.

It refers to the fact that you never know when you’ll really make it.

Even though you don’t know how far you are, knowing that there is a path to your success and it really is just about never quiting because you are possibly just one funnel away.

Your next funnel – your next pic hit might be the one that makes you those millions!

The One Funnel Away Challenge

It started a few years ago with Russell wanting to help more...

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There are literally hundreds of ways to build your email list online.

Today, we will talk about using two tools that work well together.

Using WordPress and aWeber to build your list.

Getting a WordPress web site

If you don’t already have your own WordPress site, you can get it from click eCourse platform.

We include in the free options the ability to setup your own WordPress blog.

Just go to https://clikecourse.com and click register on top right to get your free account.

If you’re on mobile, first click the hamburger menu item

To reveal the Register menu item

You will see a register account popup.

Click on Continue with Facebook (or it may say Continue as YOURNAME) to use Facebook login (or you can enter email, you’ll just need click link in email to validate)

You’ll see the Facebook popup asking for permissions. Click on the Continue as YOURNAME button.

You should see a message that registration with Facebook was...

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Did you know that you can add a chat bot to any website?

You can even add it to a funnel or capture page!

Imagine having a little chat bot on your funnel page, or on your course sales pages, cool right?

So how can you do that?

Check it out at http://info.MyConversioBot.com!

What can a chat bot do?

It’s pretty awesome that you can add a chat bot to your website, your blog, your funnel page or capture page, but what can it do?

Lots of stuff, but mostly have a conversation with your visitor.

Maybe they have questions, or they aren’t sure what to do…

Your chat bot can be generic or super specific to the page they are on.

It can ask them for their name, their email, their phone number and add them to your list.

It can guide them through a complex process by asking questions and changing the messages based on their answers.

It can setup appointments, or offer them special coupons.

How to add chat bot to your page?

There are a few ways you...

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