In your consulting business you are accustomed to approaching each client with personalized services, but there is a more streamlined, scalable method that may work for you. Today our LMScast podcast with Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett is about how to productize your consulting business with online courses. We will also tell you how to serve more clients and make extra income by down-selling. First, let’s define what we mean by productizing your services. If you look at what you do for most clients, you will see similarities in the services you provide. Most of the information you give them …

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If you have thought about trying to make money with your own YouTube videos, the process may have seemed opaque to you. In this LMScast Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett tell you how to monetize your YouTube channel, and it’s much simpler than you think. The conventional approach to generating income with YouTube goes something like this: Make a video or video series Become a YouTube Partner Allow pop-up ads before, during, and/or after the video runs Hope the video goes viral so you can rake in the cash from all those ad views The truth is, you aren’t going …

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Do most people really need a 40 million dollar eLearning solution to create and offer online courses? In today’s LMScast Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett talk about how to create an eLearning marketplace clone from a development platform like our LifterLMS WordPress learning management system plugin by leveraging the power of disruptive innovation. First, what is a marketplace clone? Basically a clone is a less expensive and generally less robust version of an industry standard product or service. In the eLearning marketplace, Udemy is an outstanding example of an established platform used by instructors to present their own coursework in …

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There are several pitfalls you can encounter while developing online courses. In today’s LMScast, Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett list the most common mistakes when making an online course and discuss how you can avoid making them. Joshua and Christopher polled several outstanding online influencers about challenges they have encountered with their eLearning development, and what they would have done differently. Knowing what they have learned means you won’t have to make those mistakes yourself. An edupreneur is a combination of entrepreneur, developer, marketer, and educator, and each discipline can present different sets of problems. However, there are some basic …

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There’s something in the DNA of an education entrepreneur that drives them to teach for profit, and there’s no greater classroom than the internet. In today’s LMScast Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett discuss characteristics of educators and entrepreneurs, and how those characteristics can come together to create exceptional online courses. The simplest definitions are that an educator is all about teaching, and an entrepreneur is all about the money. But the edupreneur is a blend of those categories. This individual has an “irrational passion” for sharing their knowledge and skills, but also wants to realize a monetary return for sharing …

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In today’s LMScast, Joshua Millage and Chris Badgett talk about the 3 E’s of online education. These 3 E’s are all about how you can create a successful online course and how you can really change someone’s life and help them improve in some way. The 3 E’s are: Educate Entertain Execution These 3 E’s of online education are also the secret to how you can take your online course to the next level. The first of the 3 E’s of online education is Educate. Since the point of online teaching is education, most people creating a course have some …

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In eLearning it’s vital for teachers to be able to engage with their students in order to know if they’re learning and understanding the material. In today’s LMScast with Joshua Millage and Chris Badgett, we discuss how to use technology to scale the human touch between teachers and their students in online courses. We’ve been building engagement systems for websites in the Infusionsoft community for years. Using Infusionsoft, you can apply tags that trigger engagements with customers based on their actions. For example, if a customer makes a purchase, you can set up a sequence in Infusionsoft to send them …

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There has never been a better time to publish your book, because now you can do it online. And if you know how to monetize a book with online courses, you can realize unprecedented profits from it. In today’s LMScast with Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett we discuss how publishing an eBook can be a great introduction to your online course offerings. There are some compelling reasons to publish a book online. First, the conventional book format is simply difficult for a lot of people. Every individual learns differently, and book-based coursework prevents some students from assimilating the information they …

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In eLearning your number one goal is to help your audience fully understand the information they need to learn. Using a variety of media formats — including text, video, and audio — you can accommodate most individual learning styles. Plus you are offering greater worth, and therefore can charge a higher fee for your online courses. In today’s LMScast Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett explain how to embed audio in your WordPress LMS. It’s actually easier than you might think. There are several options for including audio in your course design. The simplest method is to use the existing media …

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There are many ways to create online content that delivers your message and can also generate income. In today’s LMScast Joshua Millage and Christopher Badgett talk about how to monetize a podcast by offering online courses. A previous LMScast episode in this series on monetization focused on blogging. Podcasting is another approach to consider. Creating a podcast is quite an undertaking, and if you choose to employ this method understand that there is a lot of work involved, but there are also distinct advantages, one of which is personal appeal. A blog features the written word of a writer but …

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