LMScast

We’re joined by Paul Ace in this episode of the LMScast podcast where he shares insights in how you can scale your online course or membership website with conversational commerce, which will help you eradicate roadblocks to scaling.

Paul has a seven-figure audit tool. You can use that resource to go through your business checklist and what your score is to see what you may be missing from getting to the next level. If you're at six figures wanting to get to seven figures, or even seven figures and you want to get to eight, this audit will be for you.

You can also connect with Paul’s team over SMS or over email about your results, and you can book a call off of that if you’d like to connect further. If you feel like you’re burning a lot of money in your business, head to amplifyccom.com. Click on the video at the top to watch that, and then click Book a call under the video. You can book a call personally with Paul, and if it's a good fit you can do something together and make some magic happen. To check out Paul’s podcast be sure to head to www.amplifyto7figures.com or search on iTunes for Amplify to 7 Figures. And you will be able to see Chris Badgett featured on there, too.

We’re joined by Jono Petrohilos in this episode of the LMScast podcast where he shares how he found success with his personal training business and transitioned that into a successful online course platform.

Jono used to be a fitness trainer, and he ran a face-to-face bootcamp working at a franchise. When he started out, he was ranked as the worst in his franchise organization. He attended other trainers' workshops, took courses, read books, and did everything he could to work his way up to the top in his franchise, and eventually opened up another location. After seeing others successful with courses, he built his first course called How to Run a Successful Bootcamp.

In 2014 his course platform started focusing on online trainers and not just individuals who wanted to get fit, and in 2018 he grew that to about a million dollar a year business. That’s when he started to get over the fitness side a little bit, as he was no longer running the bootcamps and was spending all his time online working with funnels in sales and marketing. Jono’s passion shifted from fitness to online course creation and promotion.

To learn more about Jono Petrohilos head to Facebook and look up the Course Creator Community Facebook group and find his podcast Course Creator Community Podcast on iTunes. Whatever social platforms you usually use, type in Course Creator Community, and you’ll find Jono’s group.

Juliana Meyer from SupaPass joins us in this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS where she shares how online course creators can create apps the easy way instead of spending six figures or going down a rabbit hole that doesn’t end up working well to create an app for their website.

We get asked a lot in the WordPress world and the LMS world about how to build a companion mobile app for a WordPress website. And a lot of people go down the rabbit hole, and they just end up getting stuck or they do some research and find a mobile app developer and it ends up being over six figures to develop. Juliana founded an easier way to make that happen. And in this episode she takes us to school on creating mobile apps the easy way.

SupaPass is for any content that you're making. So if you've got a podcast, it can also have your podcast in there. If you've got music, if you've got an audiobook, if you've got blogs and articles, you can store all your content together. You can build a community there and have a pay for it or you can have a subscription. You can do patron donations, but you keep 100% of all the money. There's no revenue share. It's completely your platform.

Be sure to learn more about Juliana Meyer and the great work she’s doing to democratize app development for everyday people, be sure to head to SupaPass.com. And if you’re interested in chatting with them about your goals and challenges, feel free to message them through the website or jump on a call with them.

We’re joined by special guest Daniel Vargas in this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS. Daniel and Chris talk about how Daniel works with members of the LifterLMS community to build academy websites for their customers with advanced marketing and CRM integrations.

Daniel started Laboratorio de Éxito after the pandemic started in 2020. Then one day Daniel worked on a referral job helping someone in the real estate world sell her training courses. At the time, Daniel had an academy that he was building with LifterLMS and Keap, after many trials of many tools, so he knew exactly where to start on her project to get her training courses sold.

After many other site building referral projects, Daniel decided to create Laboratorio de Éxito to help people create momentum and based on the momentum that they create, to scale their businesses. Daniel emphasizes the importance of integrating with a CRM tool, in his case, Keap.

The main part of Daniel’s business now is building marketing strategies for customers. One of the resources he provides is recording calls with his customers around marketing and selling their products, and he has those calls available for the rest of his customers to build that sense of community and educate by answering questions people really ask.

Daniel Vargas is an awesome guy at marketing automation in WordPress and LifterLMS. His company name is Laboratorio de Éxito, and you can find that at LaboratoriodeExito.com. You can also find him on YouTube at Daniel Vargas, MKT and at DanielVargas.com. Thanks for joining us!

We’re joined by Cristian Raiber in this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS. Crisitian shares his story of transitioning his WordPress agency business into a theme and plugin development business where he offers many products for WordPress users. We have many members in the audience and our community who run freelance WordPress practices and agencies, so this episode is a great story about how you can grow into a plugin development shop if you’re currently a freelancer or agency interested in going down that path in the WordPress space.

Cristian thought he knew theme development inside and out working as an agency, since he was building themes for about five years. When he submitted his theme to the WordPress repository, he submitted another 63 updates because that's how many issues he could spot in his code. That's how many things were wrong according to the WordPress guidelines. Once it got approved into the WordPress repository, he made serious money starting off on day one, with the first month at about $15K.

After a drop off in their sales with high competition in the theme space over the past few years, Cristian and his team at WPChill are now 100% focused on plugin development. They still maintain two theme shops from back in the day and still offer updates and support for those clients who want to continue using those themes. But focusing on niche plugin development to solve problems brought up in the community has been a way for them to stay afloat in the space and grow their business.

To learn more about Cristian Raiber and the products he offers at WPChill, be sure to head to WPChill.com.

- Modula: Get a beautiful gallery on your WordPress site in less than 3 clicks!

- Strong Testimonials: The #1 WordPress plugin for collecting, managing and displaying testimonials.

- Download Monitor: The easy way to manage digital downloads in WordPress

- KB Support: The ultimate help desk and knowledge base support tool plugin for WordPress

- Kali Forms: The powerful & user-friendly WordPress form plugin.

Thanks for joining us!

We’re joined by Katie Keith from Barn2 Plugins, and she shares how you can create a document library in WordPress in this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS.

Katie shares the story behind Document Library Pro and what the inspiration for that product was. At Barn2 they developed a way to show WooCommerce products (and any post in WordPress) in a table format that’s searchable for users. But it didn’t work well for documents, just post types. So they ended up building a product dedicated to documents that looks like and works just like their product Post Tables Pro, but for documents such as PDF, video, or audio files.

Barn2.com has a bunch of really great WooCommerce plugins, as well as some table related plugins, which Chris and Katie are going to get into and talk about what all that means in this episode. At Barn2 they have come out with a document library plugin, called Document Library Pro, which is really useful for people creating training based membership sites and online courses. At Barn2.com you can learn more about Katie Keith, the Document Library Pro plugin, and all the other developments they have going on. Thanks for joining us!

Will Middleton from the LifterLMS team joins Chris Badgett on this episode of the LMScast podcast to discuss how online course creators can get their first 10 enrollments on their online course websites.

At LifterLMS, we’ve put together a summit focused on helping course creators get their first 10 enrollments. We have 5 speakers: Jenni Jacobs, Melissa Love, Ziv Raviv, Chris Badgett, and Will Middleton, who each share 2 lessons about designing your course outline, building a community, field expertise, entrepreneurial aspects, and the technology.

Often the first 10 enrollments can be the hardest as you’re validating your course offer and trying to get people into your program. Many entrepreneurs online give up after not successfully getting 10 enrollments. The strategies shared in the Enroll Summit will help you cross that threshold and get students onto your website to validate your offer and start getting feedback.

Be sure to head to Academy.LifterLMS.com/Enroll to sign up for free in the Enroll Summit. If you have less than 10 enrollments on your online course site, we recommend checking out this free summit with some great info on getting the first 10. There’s some great info in there even if you’re above 10 enrollments. You may get some great takeaways for your online course websites. Thanks for joining us!

We’re joined by language entrepreneur Marcus Carter in this episode of LMScast where he shares how he has found success through his online course website teaching English to Spanish speakers. Marcus shares his story of teaching in-person classes to going online and marketing on platforms like TikTok.

Growing up in the UK, Spain is the place his family went on holiday, and that’s where Marcus ended up deciding to settle as an adult and where he met his wife. Marcus has worked as a teacher for many years teaching people of all ages language learning skills.

One of the largest obstacles he noticed was the different way students learn languages and the materials available to them at different levels. And that’s where he dove deep into language learning methodologies and how he could facilitate learning the fastest. He eventually developed his own language learning method that he currently teaches live on Zoom and in his online courses.

Marcus does a lot of marketing work on TikTok and Instagram Live. Getting TikTok users and Instagram users who are interested in learning English, he’s able to funnel them to his Telegram group where he markets his course offerings.

If you’d like to learn more about Marcus Carter and the great language learning content he has, be sure to head to CarterSchoolOfEnglish.com. Thanks for joining us!

Divi design expert and digital entrepreneur Josh Hall joins Chris Badgett on this LMScast to discuss how website designers can create digital products to accelerate their growth. We’ve featured Josh on the podcast before, and this is his third show. So be sure to check out his other episodes after this one.

If you’ve been around the WordPress and Divi space, you may recognize Josh’s name or face from Facebook groups or his YouTube channel. But if you haven’t met Josh before, he’s based in Columbus, Ohio, and he’s a dadpreneur who lives with his wife and two lovely girls.

Josh hosts a suite of courses at JoshHall.co around website design and freelance to agency building. Josh shares how he created his student center and forum where he interacts with members who’ve purchased his programs.

Work-life balance is something we see as a common theme for successful online entrepreneurs who manage to avoid the burnout that can sometimes come with working in the online course or WordPress space. Josh shares some insights on how he manages the balance and some takeaways you may be able to implement as you build your business online.

To learn more about Josh Hall and the great offerings he has for online entrepreneurs who offer design and website building services to others, head to JoshHall.co and check out his podcast, blog, and tutorials he has hosted over there! Thanks for joining us!

Design expert Melissa Love joins us on this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS. Melissa is a LifterLMS power user, and we have another podcast episode with her, as well as a case study and a webinar. She’s also featured on our latest Enroll Summit online course where you can learn about getting your first 10 enrollments on your course website.

To learn more about Melissa Love, be sure to head to TheDesignSpace.co where you can learn how to build stunning websites as a creative entrepreneur. Also check out:

Our last LMScast featuring Melissa: https://podcast.lifterlms.com/how-to-build-beautifully-designed-training-based-membership-website-wordpress-melissa-love-marketing-fix/

Her case study about how she found success in the online space here: https://lifterlms.com/success/marketing-membership-site/

We’ve also done a webinar with Melissa if you’re using the Divi Theme alongside LIfterLMS, the webinar Melissa did will give you some great advanced tips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDkQXSWFCg8

We also have our Enroll Summit on getting your first 10 enrollments live now featuring Melissa Love: https://academy.lifterlms.com/course/enroll/

One of the things Chris has noticed about people who are successful with LifterLMS is that they have a clear customer. That customer can change over time, but having a clear target market (photographers in Melissa’s case) enables you to create a specific premium offer for that market. Melissa has launched some other business ventures for people who offer website design services to others. But keeping your mindset in each business focused will really help amplify your ability to have success in the market.

Many course creators and membership site owners can struggle on their launch of a course or even the launch of freebies and lead magnets. The main reason for that in most cases is that they don’t do market research and instead launch what they think the market needs. If you can ask five key questions of your market to determine what they need, it’s a lot easier to position offers in that market that they’ll find valuable and purchase.