Lesley Sim from NewsletterGlue.com joins our host Chris Badgett from LifterLMS on this episode of LMScast. You can publish your newsletter right inside WordPress thanks to their plugin. Engaging your students with newsletters can be a very effective method of generating value for course creators.

Newsletter Glue excels at doing two things. Automatically sending the newsletter after you write a blog article, and because you create the newsletter using WordPress, it cuts your publishing time in half. Your distribution is doubled as Newsletter Glue allows you to publish your newsletters as blog posts, giving them a second life and increasing website traffic.

The plugin distinguishes itself from CRM platforms by improving and streamlining the sharing of the newsletter content. CRMs, however, put a greater emphasis on lead management and segmentation. So, integration between these two can give you improved results.

For this episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett, we have Adam Preiser, the creator of the immensely popular Presto player for WordPress. The best learning management system on WordPress, LifterLMS was recently integrated with Presto, the most sophisticated video player on WordPress. Videos are a crucial component of online learning, and this combination is the best of both worlds.

Presto has a number of fascinating features that are useful to both LMS designers and users. Using it, you can annotate chapters, keep track of view progressions down to the individual user, and the user interface is actually conscious of its embedding destination on a website.

Adam can be found at prestoplayer.com. CartFlows Inc. was co-founded by Adam as well. His goal is to make top-quality how-to videos for digital entrepreneurs.

For this edition of the LMScast featuring Chris Badgett, the founder of LifterLMS, we got in touch with Jon Phillips of Holygrailwp.com. This will be an exciting episode because Jon will show us how to speed up our websites and how he came up with a fantastic formula to do it. What a coincidence that Jon enrolls students in his courses using LifterLMS!

Jon discovered this through taking on the challenge and by making mistakes. Jon is more of an experienced user than a WordPress developer. His professional background is as a fitness coach, and WordPress and LifterLMS happened to cross his way when he started to teach courses online.

Learn how Jason Gracia (www.swyftsites.com) builds effective websites for coaches that effectively benefit his clients in the coaching business in this episode of the LMScast podcast, hosted by Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. A coach or a consultant can use Swyft Sites to create their business websites without having to do any of the work themselves.

It can be intimidating to build your own website. There are a lot of options available that sound "simple" and promise that you can get your website by pressing a button. It isn't really the case. The area where Swyft Sites set themselves apart is they understand your needs and obtain necessary information from you. Finally, they build a solid backend to support your business while maintaining a user-friendly front end for website conversions. They consider it to be a potent instrument. So, when they hand over a website to their clients, it can start functioning on every business endpoint that was promised, from sending automated emails, to CRM or booking sessions - everything works right off the bat.

On this edition of the LMScast podcast, hosted by Chris Badgett of LifterLMS, Michael Short of GoWP discusses outsourcing for agencies. GoWP was established by Michael, the company's creator and a leader in the outsourcing sector, with a wide range of resources and skills to assist businesses in outsourcing their gaps.

So, if you are trying to create a learning platform with LifterLMS, this session would give you valuable insight into how you could outsource some of your requirements. Perhaps you don't require a resource on a full-time basis, or the help you have access to is not very skilled. However, for a limited period, you can hire a highly qualified resource through outsourcing who will propel your learning platform company forward without breaking the bank. Additionally, courses, presentations, & designs are essential components in creating a robust learning environment. Hiring freelance design specialists can benefit your landing page and course teachers.

Learn about how one can scale up his or her course and membership sales in 3 years in this LMScast episode with a blue-collar dude at heart named Josh Hall, hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS. Entrepreneurs can turn their passion into a money-making business with joshhall.co and LifterLMS.

Josh is a chill entrepreneur, a lifestyle businessman, and a family man who was really excited about building an online community. He gravitated towards entrepreneurs and online mentors who are a little more like-minded. He took a counterintuitive approach by signing up with James Schramko, the author of Work Less, Make More. He found that a “webpreneur” sounds a lot better than a web entrepreneur so he stuck with that. His business model is not something that’s negotiable for him to revolve around the lifestyle because he gives importance to time, freedom, and definitely financial freedom.

Josh mentioned a pro tip earlier about how he nails that first impression and makes people comfortable in his membership. He makes sure the members of the community feel like they’re super welcomed. He also ensures that they’ll get community support from other folks. The best part about being a member of an online community is that one can start sharing what he or she knows and help others. He also focused on how one can go to the next level and not be a stressed-out entrepreneur. For example, it doesn’t matter what one uses for monthly training or yearly planning.

Josh considers the current year as the creation year to continue with his podcast and boost his YouTube channel. He will also consider revamping, tweaking, fine-tuning, redoing, and spending a lot of time refining his three years old business course.

Welcome to a fresh new episode of LMScast. We have Sam Michie from Social Bluebook with us today. We have discussed brand collaboration ideas and strategies for the course creators and coaches and help them generate more money.

One of the common questions we have received from our audience while discussing brand partnerships, product placements, and similar topics is- am I big enough to how many followers or subscribers are enough to call me a micro-influencer or an influencer at all. They mean when is the right time to start reaching out to brands for partnership. In reply to this question, Sam said this is also a misconception that you need to have a certain amount of subscribers or followers.

The reality is that there is no hard and fast rule. The way the companies differentiate or categorize nano-influencers, micro-influencers, and so on differs case by case. So, whenever you’re getting a good response to your content and think that you have a strong place in a group of people, that is the right time. The right time is when you feel like it. The reason behind him implying this statement is companies technically can license user-generated content as intellectual property and use them in advertisements. They even hire agencies to develop user-generated contents to use as social proof. So, in these cases, your follower or subscriber count is not going to be in the contract. In those cases, only your content quality, planning, and creativity are going to get preference.

The discussion above generated a question in our mind- how is this different from affiliate marketing? Sam explained that affiliates received the commission only if a sale or conversion is generated. Usually, they do not get paid for generating content to sending traffic. But when you’re making content directly in a partnership with a brand or the brand has an intention to use your content as intellectual property, you’re going to get a flat fee and that would be upfront before your content goes live or sometime after that. There will be no calculation based on the impact of the content you made.

We have discussed a lot more in-depth details that are essential for every content creator out there. Please listen to the podcast and comment on what you think. We would love to know your thoughts and answer all the questions you have.

Kay Peacey is back again on LMSCast as a guest! She is from slickbusiness.co. She is a shining example of an expert, somebody who really cares about their community. She has built a successful training-based membership site around her expertise on ActiveCampain. She took a whopping 5 years+ time to record the course materials for ActiveCampaign. So, you can imagine how much value and insight we are going to get from her.

In this episode, we are going to learn about what she has done so far, her decision-making process, some of the important bits, etc. We will also try to know about the training stack she uses, the product suite, and many more!

At the beginning of our discussion, she tells us about the free resource which is her Facebook group named Automate Your Business With ActiveCampaign. Then she told us about the wonderful free training course she made with LifterLMS. If you’re curious, you can find the course by searching Accelerated ActiveCampaign. We got to know about one of her major achievements with her ActiveCampaign academy that is available on the slickbusiness.co website.

One of the notable discussions on this podcast is about Melissa Love and Kay Peacey both using LifterLMS and collaborating with each other, helping each other in different business aspects. They even worked together using the EASY Framework! And FYI, Melissa has also been a guest in our podcast a couple of times!

There are some very detailed discussions about strategy and pricing but we will not give a spoiler here. Please listen to her directly explaining the whole story with a very detailed process.

We are back again with a brand new episode of LMSCast. In today's episode, we are going to listen to Ziv Reviv and learn how he made a 6 figure membership site and the golden keys that helped him to make 377K in revenue last year!

Ziv is a serial entrepreneur. One of his awesome projects is Balloon Artist College. Here, he teaches to become a balloon artist. You can take it as a career, or start your own business as a balloon artist! This really is a micro-niche and it definitely works. AtLifterLMS, when someone asks, "Can I do this? Will anybody buy my course?" We use Ziv and his Balloon Artist College as a solid example of how much of a specific niche you can pick and what the percentage of success can be.

In this podcast, we went deeper into what keeps Ziv going, how he conditions his mind to keep up the flame and not get totally burnt out, how to plan ahead and when to give yourself a break. One of the major takeaways from him was focusing on the customer-first approach that can work in all kinds of business and it will definitely pay off in the long term. We have discussed some of the common misconceptions and why an entrepreneur should invest more time in marketing and sales.

If we have to summarize the learnings from Ziv, then we could say that there is no better way of focusing than finding clarity and having a helping mindset. Be it coaching business owners, building a course business, or just organizing your day-to-day life and making the best use of 27 hours a day(listen to the podcast to know how)!

We really liked the Daily Cookie service which saves a lot of time and effort by being consistent in communication with your customers. Their writers are very professional and offer great quality work. You should definitely check out the Balloon Artist College website to know about so many cool ways you can use balloons in so many different social events.

In this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett of LifterLMS, Brian Casel shares how he thinks about effective communication online and how he ran his company with completely asynchronous communication instead of live meetings along with what some of the best strategies are for effective asynchronous communication such as in your online course or membership website.

Brian shares insights into how some of the best conversations and collaborations happen asynchronously. At Brian’s previous company that he recently sold, he had a team of 25 people and they almost never had live meetings. They used video messaging, email, and private messaging and group chat on slack.

ZipMessage is a way for people to have conversations via video threads by recording videos to each other in their browser. The initial idea for ZipMessage was for a user to send somebody a link, just like a calendar link, but instead of booking a meeting he wanted to be able to have them just record. They can click the link, come to a webpage page, and record right into the browser. Then, they send that message back and forth via threads in the conversation down the page. That way progress can be made on a project and questions can be answered faster without having to coordinate at a specific time accommodating different time zones, schedules, etc.

To learn more about Brian Casel, be sure to head to ZipMessage.com. Brian also has a podcast called Bootstrapped Web over at BootstrappedWeb.com, so if you’d like to get a behind the scenes view of what's going on at ZipMessage, that's a great place to go. Thanks for joining us!