LMScast

This LMScast tells you how to grow your online course business with affiliate marketing, a system that invites other people to earn a commission from you by channeling paying customers to your website.

You issue an identifying link to your affiliate that they distribute to prospective customers via email, social media, and blog comments. Clicking the link triggers a tracking system that monitors site visitors and rewards the affiliate for each customer they send you that completes a purchase. You can realize 15% to 40% higher income by incentivizing others to do marketing for you this way.

Our LifterLMS platform works with the AffiliateWP and iDevAffiliate affiliate management systems. AffiliateWP lives on your WordPress website where you manage affiliate accounts and commission structure. iDevAffiliate is a hosted solution for your affiliate accounts, tracking, and commissions.

Affiliate marketing is not a magic bullet, but if you put in the time and effort to build a diverse team of effective affiliates you’ll reap real benefits. You especially want to attract super affiliates in your industry who are marketing experts and offer them a worthy commission for the business they bring you – business you wouldn’t otherwise get.

Also consider collaborating with other businesses that serve the same market as you but deliver different products and services. Become affiliates for each other for mutual benefit. It’s a triple win when they look good, you look good, and the customer is happy with you both.

Knowing how to grow your online course business with affiliate marketing will help you expand the success of your eLearning business.

You can teach a language online, and this LMScast will introduce you to 3 business models for online language learning course creators to show you how.

Language learning is in great demand for global careers and travel. If you speak multiple languages you have a valuable skill to share. Following are 3 business models you can build your language course on.

Before you start, visualize the student you want to teach. Then target your course for that niche such as tourists, business executives, or digital nomads. Think about specifics like Nepali for mountain climbers, or English for the hospitality industry.

Next, choose your course model. An MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is open to anyone who wants to pay and take the course, and it’s completely online and available worldwide. A blended model combines online content for most of the core learning, with face-to-face sessions for support. And a flipped classroom concept puts students in control of their learning while the instructor provides online content with occasional virtual meetings for individualized support.

If these 3 business models for online language learning course creators excites you but you don’t have technological skills, our Boost service at https://lifterlms.com/boost/ will get you started. For more information on language learning courses, go to our LifterLMS Language Learning Courses page at https://lifterlms.com/language-learning-courses/

Lots of musicians are successfully teaching music online, and you can, too. This LMScast shows you what to consider if you want to make an online music course. Your first step is to realize that you can do this. Then you can decide how.

There are more options online for teaching music than ever before. You can reach a worldwide audience using a passive course package, or arrange for active, live instruction through a service like Skype. All you really need to get started is internet access and the ability to teach.

You can start by putting together a low-cost music course package with video, audio, and printable PDFs for sheet music or other visuals. You create this once and sell it repeatedly. Live interactive training involves your time and participation, so you can charge accordingly for this extra value. Focusing on a niche is also a much better idea than being too general.

You do need decent quality sound and video, but it doesn’t have to be top studio quality. Your teaching style and methodology are your greatest assets. So consider this if you want to make an online music course: You’ll reach a global audience with few obstacles, on your terms. If you’re technically inclined or have limited funds, try a demo of our LifterLMS course development platform at demo.lifterlms.com. Or if you just want to teach music right now try our Boost service to get you started right away at lifterlms.com/boost.

This LMScast presents the health and fitness online course opportunity for personal trainers and anyone with a passion for fitness and teaching. The demand for information and training in this area is expansive and growing, and you can be part of it.

With an online course you can reach a global audience far beyond your local gym, box, or yoga class. Whether your area of expertise is CrossFit, endurance, bodybuilding, nutrition, or specialty areas within larger categories, your potential for teaching and for earning income is boundless. In fact, micro niches are most successful, as they offer information that no one else does, and niche learners are willing to pay more for that value.

Of course, your most valuable asset is your passion for fitness. You just need an internet-ready course package for your regime. You can use our LifterLMS course development platform to build, manage, market, and sell your online courses. If you just want to get busy training, our Boost service will build your course for you - done and ready to go.

We’re here to help you get past the technology barrier and enjoy the health and fitness online course opportunity. Choose a platform like LifterLMS or a service like Boost to make your online courses a reality. Experience a demo of LifterLMS for yourself at demo.lifterlms.com.

If you’re getting ready to create an online course, this LMScast with Chris Badgett will get you started. You’ll learn how to launch a business, marketing, or leadership online course even if you’re not a web technician.

An online course will let you share your business and marketing experience, skills, and expertise with people around the world and earn income from your course. All you need is a 3-part foundation to build on.

The first element is the instructor. Your skills and expertise supply your course value, but you need to be a good communicator who can teach others. Next is learning content that presents what you know through clear, accessible instructional design people can learn from.

Now you’re ready for a course delivery system. You can build and manage your course yourself with our LifterLMS solution, or if you simply want to teach your course, our Boost service can get you started quickly and comfortably.

Learning how to launch a business, marketing, or leadership online course begins with your instructional abilities and great course design. Try a demo of LifterLMS at demo.lifterlms.com, or find out how our Boost service can get you started right away.

In this LMScast Chris Badgett advises you to ask, am I making a membership site, online course, or learning management system? There are differences between these formats you’ll need to know before you build your site.

A membership site is a simple content resource that requires a fee to access its newsletters, files, media, and other products. An online course is basically a class delivered through the internet that teaches students a subject, technique, or skill. A learning management system, or LMS, is a complete course offering with grading, testing, evaluation, and certification, plus other means of tracking and validating a student’s progress.

You may choose to start a simple membership site with a plan for scaling up to a full LMS in the future. Or you may want a blend of formats. But you can see the importance of knowing which kind of site you want to build before you even consider web hosting, technology, or software.

We’ve designed LifterLMS to help you create any of these options and ensure engagement with your audience using gamification, themes, media, easy integration with other tools, and interaction between students and instructors.

Get clear on the question of, am I making a membership site, online course, or learning management system? Then try a demo of LifterLMS at demo.lifterlms.com to see how our development platform can help you build it.

This LMScast with Chris Badgett explores the concept of antifragile online education and how to benefit from progressive global transformation, as Nicholas Nassim Taleb has explored through his compelling series of books.

Benefits of the antifragile state are attained through counter-intuitive actions combined with a random “black swan” event.

What if you’re developing online courses when suddenly global interest shifts from physical classroom instruction to eLearning? Your online courses are now in extreme demand.

This is already beginning to happen as students seek alternatives to student loan debt and the limitations of classroom-based education. Add a growing force of disillusioned graduates who can’t get jobs and are retraining to generate independent income.

Whatever your subject area, our LifterLMS development platform will help you become antifragile by creating courses that are relevant now, with or without a black swan event. Try a demo of LifterLMS today at demo.lifterlms.com and see how we can help you realize your antifragile online education business.

Today’s LMScast discusses morning routines for teachers that help you generate more time and energy for your online course development. The way you start your day can make a profound difference on how you feel and how well you function.

If you feel like there’s just never enough time to curate and create your course content, establishing good habits is a simple and powerful way to get more done in less time with quality results. It all comes down to taking care of yourself first. This is especially crucial if your life is stressful and chaotic, and if you are working around a full-time job.

A morning routine is as much about boosting energy and reducing stress as it is about increasing your time. Building your routine is an ongoing process, so start with just one simple task. Focus on activities that increase your physical, mental and emotional/spiritual well being. Exercise and nutrition, reading and meditation, and creative visualization all contribute to ensuring you have a productive and satisfying day.

Morning routines for teachers leverage the power of habit for consistent rewards that make you a more productive person. It also helps to choose helpful, powerful tools to build your courses, such as our LifterLMS development platform. Try a demo of LifterLMS today at demo.lifterlms.com to see how it can work for you.

This LMScast will outline how to monetize your skills, passion, and life experience with online courses. It all begins with who you are, what you know, and what you’re already doing.

If you’re currently teaching, then you just need to learn how to expand on that through online courses. Qualify your primary need as independent income, the freedom of autonomy, or creating a legacy for your skills and knowledge. Current students can continue to train with you online, and you’ll reach a much broader audience than you ever could in person.

To get started, either build and sell your own courses using a platform like our LifterLMS plugin for WordPress, or use a development service like our Boost option to get you set up and running quickly. Either way, your courses will be based on your own content, preferences, and passion.

Engagement is crucial and your online teaching style is key to getting and retaining students. Learning how to be at your best in an online learning environment will take some trial and error, starting with where you are and what you want to accomplish, your level of technical expertise, and your commitment to continuous growth and improvement.

Listen to this podcast to find out how to monetize your skills, passion, and life experience with online courses using LifterLMS or Boost, then try a demo of LifterLMS at demo.lifterlms.com to see how it can work for you.

This LMScast will show you how to think about the role of the learning management functionality versus the design of the online learning environment. You’ll also learn about the release of the new LifterLMS LaunchPad WordPress LMS theme.

Choosing the right WordPress LMS theme and plugin for your course platform is crucial to its success.

There are several things to consider when choosing a WordPress LMS plugin and theme. Functionality belongs in a plugin, and design belongs in a theme.

If you are using a WordPress LMS plugin like LifterLMS, then it’s logical to use a theme created by the same company who makes the core plugin.