In this episode of LMScast we discuss how to prepare slides for teaching online courses and other instructional design secrets with Janet Kafadar from JanetKafadar.com. Chris Badgett of LifterLMS and Janet talk about marketing funnels, the different stages people go through when building a course, and how to remove the roadblocks that are standing in the way of course creation. Janet is a course creation expert who works with specialists in various fields to turn their knowledge into an online course. She has been working on this business for around four years now and she has learned a lot about …

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We discuss learning, leadership, and entrepreneurship with Pippin Williamson of Affiliate WP in this episode of LMScast. Chris Badgett of LifterLMS and Pippin talk about affiliate marketing for your product or service and what it takes to create a strong brand. Pippin shares his story from growing up surrounded by nature to entering the software development and WordPress space. Pippin grew up with four siblings and his parents on an apple orchard in the middle of central Kansas, about 30 minutes from the nearest town. He had a very nature-oriented childhood and a technology-oriented family, so Pippin developed a love …

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Welcome to this episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. Today we discuss how to create courses, workshops, memberships, and community that create learner results fast with Erin Flynn. Erin shares her story, and she and Chris talk about what goes into creating a solid course with high completion rates. Erin was working as a web designer, and her clients would tell her about the bad experiences they had had with previous web developers, from a lack of communication to just plain disappearing. Erin saw these negative experiences as an opportunity to help web developers with the business part …

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This episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS is about affiliate marketing, building teams, sales funnels, and pop ups for course creators with Syed Balkhi. Chris and Syed discuss the different aspects that go into a successful online business, and where your attention should be directed when you are building your team and sales funnel. Syed is an entrepreneur and the founder of many SaaS (Software as a Service) products, including OptinMonster, WPBeginner, WPForms, List25, Envira Gallery, and many more. If you have done any work in the WordPress space, you have most likely heard of at least one …

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In this episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS we discuss an entrepreneur’s journey and transformational learning design with Sucuri’s Dre Armeda. Dre shares his story of getting into the WordPress space, and he shares his experiences with Jiu-Jitsu and how that has changed the way he has approached his career and life in general. Dre has been around the WordPress ecosystem for a long time, and he has had quite an evolution in the space. Dre was in the Navy for about 12 years, and he was the ‘resident geek,’ which meant that he managed about 250 computers …

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This episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS is about how to survive, thrive, and connect to wellness as an education entrepreneur with Sherry Walling of ZenFounder. Chris and Sherry talk about mental health and wellness for entrepreneurs and what habits are important to build in the life of an entrepreneur to reduce stress and optimize efficiency. Sherry is a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with people who have really intense jobs, which most often ends up being people who own their own businesses. The purpose of ZenFounder is to make entrepreneurs and people with busy lives mindful …

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In this information packed episode of LMScast we discuss professional online course production with Grant Weherley of Monetize My Expertise. Grant and Chris Badgett of LifterLMS dive into all of the details behind Monetize My Expertise and how they operate, and they talk about the different aspects of course building. They also talk a bit about where courses are going in the future. Grant is the founder and owner of Monetize My Expertise, which is an online course production company that works with experts to monetize their expertise, as the name suggests. Grant got into building online courses when he …

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Chris Badgett and Ali Mathis of the LifterLMS team talk about the magical combination for course quality, speed to market, and low stress with content creation in this episode of LMScast. Chris and Ali discuss the different problems and opportunities that face course creators and how the LifterLMS Done For You service and the LifterLMS Experts program aim to solve those problems and take advantage of those opportunities. The LifterLMS Done For You service is a service where we setup up your LMS for you and fill it with demo content. Then we deploy it on a new blank WordPress …

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Welcome to this episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. Today we discuss how to unlock great design for your business with brand strategist Katie Elenberger. Chris and Katie get into all kinds of interesting topics that are relevant to course creators, membership owners, and business owners who are interested in design for a business to create a powerful brand. Katie is a creative brand strategist, and she helps companies determine the strategy for their brand and who their target audiences are. She designs creative strategies and tools to help companies reach their goals. Katie and her team work …

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This episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS is on validating course ideas, upselling, and cross-selling via Stripe with Phil Derksen of WP Simple Pay. Chris and Phil talk about how WP Simple Pay can be used to turn any WordPress website into a simple online store by allowing you to collect payments through Stripe. Phil is the creator of WP Simple Pay, which is a WordPress plugin for accepting credit card payments via Stripe on your WordPress site. WP Simple Pay is a way to get up and running with your course or membership site pretty quickly without …

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