MyLearningSource: For All Educators and Students

Zack Edwards of MyLearningSource gives homeschool parents and educators a tour of a free platform for finding vendors, co-ops, workshops, and scholarships, and asks listeners what features they want next.

• Why MyLearningSource was created, from COVID vendor visibility to rising convention costs
• The Parenting Hub: co-ops, support groups, micro schools, and statewide organizations like FPEA
• Event calendar, daily coins, and vendor discounts
• An algorithm-free community as an alternative to Facebook
• Written and live workshops, plus possible video workshops
• Products sortable by ESA and non-ESA eligibility
• Scholarship guide: ESAs, Step Up For Students, state, federal, and higher ed

• MyLearningSource website
• FPEA (Florida statewide homeschool organization)
• Step Up For Students
• Historical Conquest (Zach's history products company)

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MyLearningSource explains its new weekly newsletter, how the top homeschool workshop gets featured, and how vendors and families can be part of the community.

• How the weekly newsletter picks the number one workshop
• Weighting of views, clicks, and likes
• Vendor profiles: workshops, scholarships, galleries, and reviews
• Written vs. live vendor workshops
• Florida as the prototype state, with roughly 280 vendors, and expansion to other states
• A free tier vendor who earned about 25 clicks from last week's newsletter
• Marketing funded by vendors through ads and convention newsletters
• Partnering with MyLearningSource instead of competing

• historicalconquest.com
• FPEA homeschool convention newsletters

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Zac Edwards gives a tour of the MyLearningSource vendor portal and the new Vendor Network, built for homeschool vendors, tutors, therapists, and educators. Customers can listen in to see what happens behind the scenes.

• Vendor portal: blogs (daily for paid, monthly for free tier), customer surveys, and profile listings
• Marketing calendar and special discounts
• Live webinars and the webinar chat
• Coin rewards that let families earn discounts
• Algorithm-free social media that shows only what you follow
• Vendor Network and the Homeschool and Educators Association (HEA)
• Homeschool conventions calendar
• ESA programs by state, including SGOs, scholarships, and co-ops

• Step Up For Students
• AAA Scholarship Foundation
• Florida co-ops directory

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A tour of MyLearningSource, a free community platform connecting homeschool families, educators, and vendors through workshops, events, and rewards.

• Who it's for: homeschoolers, microschools, charter, private, and public school educators
• Written workshops: blog-style posts from vendors and MyLearningSource, such as Florida ESA information
• Live workshops: hosted events, social clubs, and product demos
• Family account: saved vendors, upcoming events, favorite workshops, and community posts
• Coins: earn coins and redeem them for discounts and free subscriptions
• For vendors: posting a live webinar with RSVP options through the vendor portal
• Co-ops: add your co-op and share public homeschooling events
• Coming soon: vendor interviews and guest podcasters hosting on the site

• MyLearningSource
• Innovate the Future (non-profit scholarships)
• Historical Conquest
• Zogos educational games

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Zach Edwards of Historical Conquest gives vendors a tour of what homeschool parents and students see when they arrive at MyLearningSource, and how vendors can take advantage of it.

• No-algorithm social media: you only see posts from providers you choose to follow
• Earning coins: read workshops, visit vendor sites, leave reviews, and return daily
• Spending coins: a $10 Historical Conquest gift card or a $42-value, six-month Zogos Gaming membership
• Parents Hub: Florida co-ops, event calendar, and discounts
• Workshops and articles: editor pieces, vendor stories, and Florida news like PEP being full
• Live workshops: free to host, and vendors get attendee information
• Products marketplace: curriculum, therapy services, academies, and scholarship nonprofits; vendors should add images

• Historical Conquest
• Zogos Gaming
• Innovate the Future
• Timberdoodle
• Trade Schooler
• Cosmic Learning

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Homeschool vendors are spending hundreds on ads that don't reach the right families. Zach Gideritz of Historical Conquest introduces My Learning Source, a platform built by vendors, for vendors, and walks through how it works.

• Why Google Ads and Facebook campaigns can be costly and hit-or-miss for vendors
• The 2020 origin of My Learning Source and why it was revived as convention attendance dropped
• ESA and EFA scholarship states already on the platform and more coming
• Free tier vs. paid tier (about $30 a month) and adding states
• Vendor reviews, trusted accounts and top-rated scholarship vendors
• Workshops (blogs): one per month, newsletter features and SEO benefits
• Co-op social media features for homeschool families
• Stealth testing and the Lightning Round trivia game example
• Upcoming outreach to co-ops and video workshops

• My Learning Source vendor and family platform
• Historical Conquest
• Etiquette Factory, Ember and Ivy Literacy, Zogos
• Step Up for Students, Odyssey, ClassWallet

#Homeschooling #HomeschoolVendors #ESA #EducationMarketing #SmallBusiness #MyLearningSource #HomeschoolCurriculum #EducationSavingsAccount #HomeschoolCommunity #SEO