Whether you’re offering online courses, looking for an agency, or you are a WordPress service provider, this LMScast covers how to work with WordPress and service agencies with Matt Medeiros of Slocum Studio in Boston. Matt also hosts the Matt Report and PluggedIn Radio.

Anybody can use WordPress to get a website working, but getting your site up and available may take longer if you don’t hire an agency to help, especially if you’re new to WordPress. Professional help will be a top consideration, even if that’s watching YouTube video tutorials. Plus you’ll need to get WordPress, a good LMS like LifterLMS, and a solid theme.

Know your goals, capabilities, and core values so you can drill down to the minimum viable product and stay focused on it until it’s done. But launching is not the end of the process and hiring an agency may still be your best solution for ongoing marketing, support, and improvements in the always-on internet environment. The best agencies will perform a discovery process to design your website conceptually to meet your goals and deliver your best business solution.

You’ll learn even more about how to work with WordPress and service agencies with Matt Medeiros offering advice on communication, pricing and billing, setting boundaries, establishing trust, and managing expectations. For more details visit the LifterLMS blog at blog.LifterLMS.com.

This LMScast features ways to create high-ticket programs with Frank Bria, creator of the High-Ticket Program. Frank lists his keys to building a high-end course, and advises switching to outcome based thinking and pricing based on delivered results and demonstrated life-changing value with the services you offer.

Identify the outcomes your courses provide and you can show prospects that you have a map and a plan to take your customers to the outcome they seek. Frank explains how the SAM Framework for resolving customer objections provides the skills, accountability, and mentorship they need to get results with tools like a mastermind group, email program, and Q&A sessions.

We’ll uncover the fears that can prevent you from making the transition to starting your online course business, and discuss how to think about pricing so you are well compensated for the results your courses provide. You’ll also learn the 5 building blocks needed to create high value programs. Plus we’ll tell you how to get Frank Bria’s High-Ticket Program blueprint with details for his 3 steps to create high-ticket programs.

Our new LifterLMS 3.0 release features a new access plan engine that lets you generate a variety of pricing models. This LMScast covers the top 10 pricing models for online courses and membership sites and offers advice on making your best choice.

In this LMScast you’ll learn about these 10 pricing models:

• One-time payment

• Flat recurring payment

• Payment plan

• Free with membership

• Members-only pricing

• Dollar trial

• Free trial

• Service fee and recurring payment

• Launch pricing, sale pricing, special occasion

• Free course or membership.

Hear about each of these top 10 pricing models for online courses and membership sites pricing models in the podcast, and learn how to decide which is best for your specific situation. You can also visit the LifterLMS blog at blog.lifterlms.com for a detailed, illustrated discussion of these pricing models and how to build them.

This LMScast details creative uses for online courses outside of the internet marketing space with Jeff Long of the Online Course Coach Podcast, expert in video, web development, teaching, and corporate training. He tells why video is a vital element to your courses, and lists applications beyond general education.

Online courses are great for public speaking entrepreneurs, as courses can be created from books and videos they already have. Product manufacturers and other businesses benefit from courses and videos to streamline onboarding and training, and for customer support, while establishing their brand as an industry leader.

The LifterLMS platform itself uses a demo course for internal training of new hires, and as a customer introduction to the platform. Most of their software purchases occur after customers view the demo.

Jeff shares lots of valuable tips in this podcast, and he has a complete course for creating videos for your courses quickly and within your budget at easyvideoforcourses.com. The LifterLMS course development platform makes it easy to implement your own creative uses for online courses outside of the internet marketing space. Try the demo at demo.lifterlms.com.

If you’re ready to hire a web development team for your eLearning business, this LMScast covers some points to consider for getting the right web team for your project. You have many options to choose from, from freelancers to agencies. It will be expensive and painful if your web company fails, so it’s important to work with the right service from the start.

The most common issue customers report is confusion, frustration, and alienation due to a lack of communication from their web developer once a project is underway. At codeBOX we build custom eLearning platforms based on the LifterLMS platform. Before we start your project we conduct a discovery interview to find out what you really want to build, and create a timeline and estimate for you. Our project manager answers emails daily, and calls each week with a progress report.

You’ll most likely work remotely with your development team, so choose a service you trust. It’s tempting to hire low-cost services in other parts of the world, but it’s a wiser choice to pay a little more now to make sure you’re getting the right web team for your project. At codeBOX web development services we’re committed to becoming your technology partner now and in the future.

The world is evolving in their approach to education, and so is LifterLMS. This LMScast will explain our vision for the future of online education, the new LifterLMS 3.0 and beyond.

Chris employs a philosophy with his children called “unschooling,” which advocates exposing learners to a variety of learning opportunities to discover what really interests them, including learning from mistakes. We made one of those mistakes when we announced the LifterLMS 3.0 upgrade without explaining why major changes were made.

Our mission is to democratize education in the digital classroom through personal leadership, rapid learning, and connection to others through progressive technology. We made some tough decisions in pursuing that vision that need to be explained, and in this podcast we offer the reasoning behind adding paid extensions and removing some free services, and we provide options for our users to maintain control of your transition process.

The new LifterLMS 3.0 software release is a major upgrade, and inevitably some things will be backwards incompatible. To deliver on our vision for the future of online education, we’ve made progressive decisions for LifterLMS 3.0 and beyond. We want you to enjoy everything we’ve introduced based our users’ feedback. This podcast is a start to that.

Today’s LMScast features the top 10 themes from the Online Course Creation Summit with Devin Slavin outlining major points of course creation from leaders in the industry.

People who primarily work online are often isolated, so in 2016 Devin gathered 40 course creation experts for an Online Course Creation Summit to discuss design, creation, and marketing for successful online courses. Devin’s business model for the Summit, as well as the Course Creation Network and bootcamp, is founded on partnership instead of competition.

This podcast covers the top 10 themes from the Summit:

Theme 1 - Engagement by creating courses people will use

Theme 2 - Pre-selling and working with a test group

Theme 3 - User experience and course flow

Theme 4 - Community building and progression

Theme 5 - Focus on results and student outcomes

Theme 6 - Authenticity in student engagement

Theme 7 - Automation, segmentation, and tracking

Theme 8 - Technical platforms and choosing the right one

Theme 9 - Live engagement through stream platforms

Theme 10 - Certification for proof of completion

At LifterLMS our focus is democratization of education through online learning. We strive to make our LifterLMS platform and codeBOX services accessible and affordable. These top 10 themes from the Online Course Creation Summit with Devin Slavin will help you focus on providing real value to your students with engaging courses they will buy and use.

Self-doubt may be keeping you from doing the work you want to do. Today’s LMScast is about confronting imposter syndrome and turning your negative experience into positive value.

Imposter syndrome is a feeling that you don’t know enough to be an authority, but you’ll learn through doing that value and expertise are gained through failure. Even if someone else is covering your area already, your unique knowledge and experience are valuable to the masses of other people who will benefit from what you know. Your failures, solutions, and observations are different from anyone else’s, and that gives you credibility.

You may have imposter syndrome if you make excuses, delay your work, or self-sabotage whenever you begin a new project. You might start thinking you should copy your competition, but it’s being yourself and doing things your way that prevents you from being an imposter. And it’s open and honest sharing that will resonate with the people you want to connect with.

You can build your confidence by visiting forums in your subject area and discovering how much you actually know. And you can teach beginning level courses without being advanced, so start where you are and build from there. As soon as you take positive action, you’re on your way to confronting imposter syndrome. Remember, you’ll only get better as you do the things you’re meant to do.

You’re closer than you think to starting an online course or membership site. In today’s LMScast Esther Marie of Esther Marie Creative tells how to build an audience for your membership site or online course with no list. If you’re a beginner, then listen up!

Esther creates online courses for clients. She started with a membership site called Virtual Assistant Internship based on her contributions in a niche Facebook group. She knew her target market because she was part of it, and knew where her audience was based because she was already there herself.

Building on her credibility as a thought leader, she created her own Facebook group, offered a couple of webinars that converted into her membership, did a beta test with three initial students, and was then ready to offer a course and a full-feature membership site. She reinvested her starting income into expanding the business and is now thriving. And she did all this with no email and no marketing budget.

In this podcast Esther shares her startup story and gives you tips on targeting your niche, leveraging the beta test, setting pricing, providing value, and staying relevant. She’ll show you how to build an audience for your membership site or online course with no list by sharing what you do, building community, and establishing your leadership for a niche you’re already part of.

Whether you run an established online business or are just beginning, you want your online course business to be as professional as possible. Today’s LMScast tells you how to level up your LMS, online course, or membership website business using resources you have, and how to plan your next steps.

Starting out with a low budget, your simplest and least expensive starting point is an inexpensive hosting account. Add free tools like a WordPress site and a development platform like LifterLMS and you can deliver and sell your online course. The ultimate solution is, of course, a custom LMS built to your specifications with full support such as our codeBOX service provides to already successful online businesses. Let’s talk about what you can start doing now.

Your primary consideration is hosting and there are decent lower-cost services, but they simply don’t provide all the support you’re going to need. A provider like WP Engine offers managed WordPress hosting with backup, support, and testing features you require for growth. Next, start planning now for the team you want to build, because as you grow your business you won’t be able to effectively do management, system admin, development, sales, design, and content all by yourself.

WordPress and LifterLMS make creating an online course approachable and affordable, but make sure you plan on how to level up your LMS, online course, or membership website business from the start.