Planning, preparing, and presenting an online course can be extremely profitable, but it can also take time and effort. We provide your course content, ready to customize, however one of the most challenging tasks for many online course creators is recording your videos. Your course videos need to be professional to show your audience that you’re serious about helping them, and this can be tricky if you have to start learning a lot of technology. The good news is that there’s a tool that will … [Read more...] about How to Record Your Online Course Videos with Zoom (for FREE)
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How to Use Facebook Groups for Your Online Course Platform
Delivering your online course content doesn't have to require specialist platforms or complicated plugins. You can deliver your online course using Facebook Groups! Say you have your online course mapped out. You're delivering it live, or you want to access the fantastic features that Facebook offers for course creators. Whatever the reason you're leveraging Facebook Groups to deliver your course, this post will help you do it the right way. Start here, with my video demo and overview. … [Read more...] about How to Use Facebook Groups for Your Online Course Platform
17 Experts Share Their Top Sales Tips for Conversations that Convert
Do you struggle with converting prospects to paying clients? Frustrated with having sales conversations with prospects that never lead to anything but giving out free advice? We tapped into the wisdom of some of our customers at Content Sparks and asked them: What's your #1 Tip for having 1:1 sales conversations that convert? We grabbed the answers from our Customer Mastermind group and where we asked on LinkedIn and copied them below. At the end of the post, we added some top tips from our … [Read more...] about 17 Experts Share Their Top Sales Tips for Conversations that Convert
How to Design an Online Course Curriculum, Product Suite, or Training Series [Worksheet]
Have you thought about what you'll do once you've created your first online course or offline workshop? How will you scale your business and maximize the sales you get from each student - WITHOUT working every minute of every day? One easy, time-saving strategy is to start with a single, brandable (PLR) course and design an online course 'curriculum'. Customers in our Content Sparks Mastermind Group have used this concept to design offers like: An online Academy A step-by-step … [Read more...] about How to Design an Online Course Curriculum, Product Suite, or Training Series [Worksheet]
Customer Lifecycle Marketing for Business Coaches and Consultants
Sales funnels are the dinosaurs of marketing. New business owners used to be told that all they had to do is keep building funnels and the money would follow. And yes, funnels still play a part in your marketing. But it's just a small part in a much larger picture. When it comes to growing your coaching business, Customer Lifecycle Marketing is the strategy that will lead to GREATER income with LESS expense and effort. Consider these stats: Based on those number, it … [Read more...] about Customer Lifecycle Marketing for Business Coaches and Consultants
How to Quickly Customize Your Brandable PLR Content [Checklist]
Customers ask me regularly how they can quickly customize their brandable (aka PLR) course content so that it's unique to themselves and their market. No one wants to spend days on rewriting since it defeats half the purpose of buying done-for-you content, which is to save time. Even when you do want to make edits, you're saving hours and hours of time on the research, designing, and structuring of your course content. But sometimes you just need to get some content out the door. With that … [Read more...] about How to Quickly Customize Your Brandable PLR Content [Checklist]
How to Improve Your Business Writing Skills [Quick Tips & Checklist]
The most essential success skill in business is communication, whether it's with customers and clients, prospects, employees, colleagues, or vendors and contractors. Poor communication skills can result in confused clients, poor quality work from employees, the wrong deliverables from vendors, ineffective lead generation, low customer conversion rates, rejected business proposals, high bounce rates on your blog, and a host of other problems. Practically every interaction in your … [Read more...] about How to Improve Your Business Writing Skills [Quick Tips & Checklist]
How to Build a Learning Community for Your Online Course
To have a successful online course, your students need to see results. More specifically, they need to see the results that you promised. But how can you help them get there without working one-on-one with each person? [NOTE: we also mention this in our post on 8 Ways to Make Your Online Course Unique] Completing a course online, especially a self-paced one, can be lonely and isolating. Even if students can contact you personally, that’s not the same as having a group of like-minded … [Read more...] about How to Build a Learning Community for Your Online Course
