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]
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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
10 PowerPoint Tips for Better Slides in Under 5 Minutes
Want to spice up your slideshows with some simple PowerPoint tricks? Below is the edited replay of the special guest training with Ellen Finkelstein (of Power Pointers Quarter Hour): In the webinar, Ellen showed us 10 different 'hacks' for making your slides more engaging and professional-looking. She did a step-by-step walk through of each, including examples of how you can apply them in your own presentations. Ellen even used slides from our Storytelling in Marketing course in her … [Read more...] about 10 PowerPoint Tips for Better Slides in Under 5 Minutes
How to Automate Your Product Launch Bonuses with ActiveCampaign Goals
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
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)
