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Every Friday at around 8:30am PST we have a panel of WordPress and Internet junkies and we discuss best #WordPress news stories and also the most interesting #onlinemarketing and #webdevelopment articles of the week.

You can watch the show live on WP-Tonic’s YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Wptonicgoogle/live

#359 WP-Tonic Show: 10 Best WordPress LMS Plugins to Create and Sell Courses Online?

#LifterLMS Free

https://lifterlms.com/

#LearnDash $159.00 1-site license

https://www.learndash.com/

#361 With Special Guest Sidney Clevinger

#WP Courseware $129 2-site license

https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/10-best-wordpress-lms-plugins-to-create-and-sell-courses-online/

4 - #Sensei single site $129.00

https://woocommerce.com/products/sensei/

5 - #LearnPress

https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/

Education WordPress Theme $69 16,838 Sales Last Update 21 December 18

https://themeforest.net/item/education-wordpress-theme-education-wp/

https://thimpress.com/

6 - #CoursePress Pro

WPMUDEV membership plan $49 per month

https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/coursepress-pro/

7 - #Ultimate Learning Pro $39!

https://codecanyon.net/item/ultimate-learning-pro-wordpress-plugin/21772657

Updated 4 January 2019

8 - #MasterStudy LMS Free however you really got use it with one of their themes $69

https://wordpress.org/plugins/masterstudy-lms-learning-management-system/

https://masterstudy.stylemixthemes.com/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=lmsplugin

https://stylemixthemes.com/

Updated 6 day ago

9 - #Good LMS - Learning Management System WP Plugin $32

https://codecanyon.net/item/good-lms-learning-management-system-wp-plugin/9033850

Updated Match 2018!

10 - #Namaste! LMS Basic Plugin Free Last updated:2 hours ago

Namaste Pro starting at $87

https://wordpress.org/plugins/namaste-lms/

https://namaste-lms.org/

In this episode of the WP-Tonic show we discuss with Spencer Forman how WordPress in 2019 compares to some of the leading marketing landing page platforms like #ClickFunnels, #LeadPages or #HubSpot. What is the stack of WordPress plugins particularly #CartFlows you should consider connected building effective marketing website for your business?

https://www.clickfunnels.com/

https://www.leadpages.net/

https://www.hubspot.com/

https://cartflows.com/

We discuss in our first show of 2019 how you can effectively promote your successful course in 2019 so you can get more sells and increase its profitability by using WordPress these basic marketing ideas!

Tip #1: Create Course Bundles

Tip #2: Create Multiple Subscription Tiers

Tip #3: Upsell Membership Plans and Add-Ons

Tip #4: Create Multiple Content Types

Tip #5: Facilitate Discussions

Tip #6: Award Certificates

Tip #7: Gather Data

Here a link to article I wrote recently connected to this subject.

https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/7-ideas-take-successful-membership-next-level-on-wordpress/

From Nurse to running a large and successful online course based business Jonathan has an amazing story to share. Also on Friday 21st of December at 1pm PST he will be doing a webinar about video cameras while you might be able to win a professional video camera worth around $3,000. See link below.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Z_r6Ba5S1-8RJS6XmOOjQ

Mike is the joint co-host with Rob Walling “Startups For The Rest Of Us” podcast and co-founder with Rob of the MicroConf which is the leading yearly conferences for individuals who are looking to start a Startup or already running a successful Startup company.

Mike started his career with a brief, 3 month stint at a start up multimedia company called 2K Innovations Corporation in North Carolina in 1998. He was invited to join full time as a principal, but declined after seeing how the company was being run.

Later that year, he moved to Buffalo, NY to work for a wireless ISP startup called Clearwire Technologies. He bailed a couple years before it went under and sold its name, but learned a lot about working at a small company.

With Special Guest Panelist Matt Medeiros from Matt Report

1 - State of the Word 2018: WordPress Embraces the Block Editor

https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2018-wordpress-embraces-the-block-editor

2 - Internal Google Docs Warn Not to Gift Contractors Shirts in Case They Start Thinking They're Employees: Report

https://gizmodo.com/internal-google-docs-warn-not-to-gift-contractors-shirt-1831064335

3 - Interview with Rachel Cherry: Automattic Pledges to Fund WPCampus’ Accessibility Audit of Gutenberg

https://wptavern.com/interview-with-rachel-cherry-automattic-pledges-to-fund-wpcampus-accessibility-audit-of-gutenberg

4 - Trends for 2019: Innovation will become faster and more flexible

https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/12/12/marketing-trends-2019-innovation-faster-more-flexible/

5 - Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance

#353 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Adam Preiser of WPCrafter and the Joint Co-Founder of CartFlows

Did you know that the majority of eCommerce websites make it hard for customers to simply checkout?

The process is filled with unnecessary steps and unnecessary questions. It's no surprise that nearly 70% of people who start the checkout process end up abandoning it all together.

And the worst part is, if you are using the world's most widely used eCommerce platform, WooCommerce, you have zero control over any of this.

Sure you can hire an expensive coder to make you an unmanageable / inflexible solution that is prone to breaking, but for the majority of us, spending tens of thousands of dollars is just not an option.

https://cartflows.com/

Our main story is recent interview of Matt Mullenweg by Adam of WP-Crafter who also joins the panel this week.

1 - WordPress 5.0 Public Release?

Interview on Gutenberg and Future of WordPress

https://ma.tt/

2 - The long, tortured quest to make Google unbiased

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18125879/search-neutrality-google-bias-seo-rigged-sundar-pichai-congress-eu

3 - WordPress eCommerce, Past, and Future

https://tommcfarlin.com/bigcommerce-ecommerce-for-wordpress/

4 - “The Commodity of Authenticity” with Jamie Cohen

https://medium.com/s/teamhuman/the-commodity-of-authenticity-with-jamie-cohen-9e7835a7d4cb

5 - Content Management is Design

https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/12/content-management-is-design/

Chris started learning about online education on a glacier in Alaska. He's created courses on everything from organic gardening to wood working. He is passionate about helping other entrepreneurial educators find success and create impact.

These are the main point that we discuss during the show.

#1. WordPress LMS and Gutenberg
#2. Different types of WordPress LMS implementations
#3. Different types of feedback
#4. Course PLUS concept

https://lifterlms.com/our-team/