Want to add some scarcity to your next course or product launch... on autopilot? Offering an early bird bonus at the start of a launch motivates people to buy right away, rather than waiting until the last minute. However, you don't want to have to send your bonuses manually or stay up until midnight to stop your early bird offer. Instead, you can set up a very simple automation using the 'goal date' feature in ActiveCampaign, my favorite email marketing platform. Check out my video … [Read more...] about How to Automate Your Product Launch Bonuses with ActiveCampaign Goals
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Creating and Selling Online Courses – a Round Up
We like to think we're pretty good at creating online courses. But where would the fun be in not sharing that knowledge with you?! We've published quite a few articles in the past with information about creating online courses. From idea conception, to picking titles, right up to getting an audience for your course. Here's a quick round-up of our best pieces: The 3 Types of Online Courses You Need to Grow Your Business Online courses are easier than ever to create, launch, … [Read more...] about Creating and Selling Online Courses – a Round Up
20 Ways to Use Brandable (PLR) Content to Grow Your Business
Business coaches, consultants, service providers and infoproduct sellers take advantage of brandable, done-for-you content (aka PLR) all the time. It's how you can use content to grow your business WITHOUT creating anything from scratch. But many people get stuck deciding where to start. It's easy to get overwhelmed by your own ideas or stalled coming up with a creative way to be unique. To help you out, we've picked our favorite ways to use brandable content and organized them … [Read more...] about 20 Ways to Use Brandable (PLR) Content to Grow Your Business
The 3 Types of Online Courses You Need to Grow Your Business
How much has your business grown since you started? If your answer is “not as much as I would like”, then you are not alone. We all know that growth should be at the top of our priority list. However, in real life it’s easy to get bogged down and distracted by the day-to-day running of your business. But what if I told you that you could tackle your biggest business growth challenges with just 3 types of online courses? And it doesn’t have to take you a lot of time to manage, once you … [Read more...] about The 3 Types of Online Courses You Need to Grow Your Business
How to Use Virtual Assistants to Save Time Creating Courses (+ a FREE Checklist)
One of the biggest challenges I hear from customers, over and over again, is their lack of time. At Content Sparks, we tackle a big portion of that issue by providing ready-to-go courses and other marketing content. However, you still have the problem of using that content and setting it up as a course! The solution is simple. When you’re first starting out in your business, most people do everything themselves. I certainly did! I learned to build a blog, create some graphics, set up an … [Read more...] about How to Use Virtual Assistants to Save Time Creating Courses (+ a FREE Checklist)
How to Create Your Spectacular, Signature Online Course [Steps & Checklist]
Want to create your own signature online course WITHOUT spending multiple months and massive amounts of money? You can easily do it faster using our done-for-you content, but still make your course totally unique by incorporating your own signature process for the topic. A signature process or signature system is your personal, step-by-step approach to solving a specific problem. It could be for a relatively common challenge, like building an email list, but it has your unique spin, tips, … [Read more...] about How to Create Your Spectacular, Signature Online Course [Steps & Checklist]
How to Create a Course Sales Page that Converts [Key Steps & Content to Include]
Let’s say you have a course you want to sell, whether you’ve created it from scratch or used a brandable, done-for-you course kit from Content Sparks. How are you going to convince people to buy it? Unless you have a group of students waiting to open their wallets, no questions asked, you need to create a sales page for your course. This is the page online where you persuade your ideal student that your program is exactly what they want and need. And then you give them a place to … [Read more...] about How to Create a Course Sales Page that Converts [Key Steps & Content to Include]
How to Create Graphics in PowerPoint with Smart Art
Are you 'graphically challenged' when it comes to designing images for your courses and other content? Or maybe you're just short on time? Well, there's one easy solution that might already be sitting on your computer - PowerPoint. We use PowerPoint all the time to create graphics for blog posts, infographics, course illustrations, Facebook Ads, overviews of processes, etc. There's a lot of untapped power in PowerPoint that you probably didn't realize. But for this tutorial, I'm going … [Read more...] about How to Create Graphics in PowerPoint with Smart Art
