In this episode of the LMScast podcast, Ryan Lee shares his experience and knowledge running a simple, successful, family-friendly microbusiness that focuses on providing information to customers or clients.

Ryan Lee is a skilled entrepreneur, and business coach with over 23 years of expertise in membership sites, coaching, online business, and internet marketing. You may visit him at RYAN LEE. To get his renowned daily (ISH) Newsletter, anyone can sign up.

Through his coaching, training courses, and membership websites, he has assisted innumerable company owners and entrepreneurs in starting successful and lucrative companies. Ryan Lee is renowned for emphasizing simplicity and creating enterprises that are enduring and satisfying to manage. He just sold his nutritional firm, Rewind, and is now concentrating on assisting business owners in streamlining and expanding their operations.

406: How To Create A Lucrative 1 - Person Family First Micro Business With Ryan Lee

In this LMScast episode, Melanie Ramone shares her journey from being a wedding planner to helping service-based entrepreneurs.

Melanie Ramone is a speaker and coach fir wedding planning industry. Melanie with a background in wedding planning, she has shifted her focus to supporting new entrepreneurs and service-based businesses as they grow. She started by organizing weddings in Mexico and Italy, and despite early resistance to her charges, she eventually found success by convincing Americans to get married in Mexico.

Melanie's knowledge piqued the interest of wedding professionals attending conferences and summits. The Association of Bridal Consultants then engaged her to open a chapter in Mexico. As the Director of the state, one of her responsibilities was to share her knowledge with others in the industry. However, when she researched existing teachings, she noticed that no one was addressing the business side of the wedding industry, including the challenges of pricing and dealing with people questioning the value of services.

414: How To Build The Business And Life You Deserve With Melanie Ramone

In this LMScast episode, Arnas Donauskas discuss and shares about WordPress Hosting.

Arnas Donauskas is the product owner of Hostinger, a web hosting company. Hostinger offers the most affordable WordPress web hosting services. They provide hosting packages specifically designed for WordPress websites, offering better performance, enhanced security, and improved compatibility for WordPress sites.

416: Discover The Affordable Full Stack WordPress Web Hosting Company Hostinger

In this LMScast episode, Ken Theriot, shares his journey into audio and how he became a course creator and how to produce professional audio for courses.

Ken Theriot is an audio professional and course creator. He is the owner of Home Brew Audio, a platform aimed at teaching people how to do audio recording at home. Ken initially started recording music as a teenager and sought to improve the quality of his recordings.

Ken offers guidance for both beginner and more experienced course authors on audio setup. For beginners he advises to start with live instruction utilizing programs like Zoom. He highlights the need of having decent audio quality for filmed videos nevertheless. He advises utilizing a microphone that is placed near to the face. This might be either a USB microphone that is directly linked to a phone or computer or a separate microphone that is attached to the device.

417: How To Produce Professional Audio For Your Courses

In this LMScast episode, EZ Smith shares his WordPress and web design journey and about his popularity on Twitter.

EZ Smith is a WordPress Expert, WP Developer, and Entrepreneur. Smith provides WordPress technical consultancy, offering solutions to small agency or B2B marketing teams to improve their business.

420: The Journey of WordPress Rockstar EZ Smith

In this LMScast episode, Christiaan Pieterse shares his journey and importance of Maxi Blocks. With stunning templates from Maxi Blocks, you can build websites more quickly.

Christiaan Pieterse is Co-Founder of Maxi blocks. It's a page builder and template library. Maxi Blocks helps to add amazing template to your website and with the help of page builder , there is a option to modify those template.

He and his wife overcame the difficulties of remote web design work over time, finally switching to a white-label web design strategy. They streamlined the process by serving as in-house web designers for other companies in this model.

Maxi Blocks is subsequently created as a response to further simplify web design, providing users with a library of patterns, blocks, and icons to personalize and construct full websites.

Maxi Blocks, which are built on top of Gutenberg, offer building blocks that may be joined to create patterns, which in turn comprise full web pages, improving accessibility and effectiveness.

426: Increase Your Website Building Speed with Beautiful Templates by Maxi Blocks

In this LMScast episode, Kim Coleman discussed the value of sabbaticals for business owners, especially those in the software and WordPress industries.

Kim Coleman is a business partner and frontend developer at LifterLMS, as well as the owner of Paid Membership Pro. She is a WordPress entrepreneur with a strong background in product development, team management, and marketing. Kim leads frontend development for the core open-source plugin and oversees more than 75 Add-Ons.

Kim described how sabbaticals provide a significant chance for entrepreneurs to recharge and obtain a fresh perspective by taking a step back from the daily grind. She also discussed her cooperation with Jason, her husband and company partner, emphasizing how sabbaticals may allow for

431: How to Take a Sabbatical with WordPress Entrepreneur Kim Coleman

In this LMScast episode, Brian Casel shares online coaching business tips using Clarityflow. Brian discusses Clarityflow, formerly known as ZipMessage. The Clarityflow platform was initially developed as ZipMessage, an asynchronous messaging solution. After a year in business, they decided to rename the company Clarityflow and focus on the coaching market.

Brian Casel is the founder of Clarityflow, a well-known software creator, businessman, and entrepreneur with expertise in internet business and coaching.

445: Elevate Your Online Coaching Business With Clarityflow

In this LMScast episode, Josh Spector discusses his strategy for assisting professionals in expanding their businesses, especially concerning the skill sessions model. Additionally, he shares tips on how you can grow your expert business.

Josh Spector is an experienced and practical specialist in the realm of business growth. In a succinct manner, he highlights the need of offering targeted and useful material. The one-hour Zoom video lectures throughout the skill sessions include subjects including creating clients, creating products in a day, newsletter social playbook, and defining a specialty.

446: How To Grow Your Expert Business With Josh Spector

In this LMScast episode, Shahjahan Jewel shares the story of how FluentCRM started as an internal tool for WP Manage Ninja before becoming a full-fledged product. He also shares insights about marketing automation

Shahjahan Jewel is the owner of WP Manage Ninja, a business recognized for developing well-liked WordPress products including FluentCRM, Fluent Forms, Fluent Bookings, and Fluent Support, was founded and is led by Shahjahan Jewel. Shahjahan highlights that Fluent CRM offers powerful marketing automation and CRM functionality at a far cheaper cost than SaaS options like ActiveCampaign since it was developed with small businesses, creators, and WordPress users in mind.

471: Marketing Automation In WordPress With FluentCRM

In this LMScast episode, Education Entrepreneur Bradley Morris shares his creative journey, beginning with a low time when he operated a t-shirt business and dropped out of college, which helped him learn the importance of thankfulness.

His artistic career started in 2007 with the release of his viral "Gratitude Dance" video. Bradley became interested in meditation throughout the years, leading seminars and retreats before turning to recording meditations for an audio library that brought in passive revenue.

472: Education Entrepreneur Bradley Morris Shares His Creator Journey

In this LMScast episode, Aaron talks with Chris Badgett about AI for course creators. He shares the journey of developing DocsBot.ai, from creating a proof-of-concept chatbot trained on WordPress documentation to building a powerful tool that enables companies to leverage their own documentation for content creation, customer service, and more.

Aaron Edwards is the creator of DocsBot.ai, a cutting-edge chatbot driven by AI that improves document management and business assistance. Aaron explains the fundamental idea of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which blends generative.

480: AI for Course Creators with Aaron Edwards From DocsBot AI

In this episode of LMScast, Chris Badgett talks with Nick Usborne about his initiative, Your Awesome Life Story, a website that helps people, especially those over 50, record and save their life experiences for those who come after them.

Nick Usborne has decades of expertise in the field and is a prolific author, educator, and course developer. In order to preserve family history and make sure that priceless experiences, lessons, and memories are not lost over time, Nick emphasizes the need of documenting personal narratives. He talks about how many people lament that their family's legacy is lacking since they didn't document their parents' or grandparents' stories before they died away.

491: Capturing Your Awesome Life Story

In this LMScast episode, Chris Badgett and Jill Schulman discuss leadership, bravery, and overcoming fear in both personal and professional growth.

Jill Schulman is an educator, business leader, leadership specialist, and former U.S. Marine Corps officer who places a strong emphasis on both professional and personal development. She entered the business sector after serving as an officer in the Marine Corps, where she swiftly advanced to leadership roles but soon came to understand that leadership is a talent that needs constant learning and improvement.

492: The Science of Bravery With Jill Schuman

In the latest LMSCast episode, Chris Badgett reintroduces Mark Westguard, the creator of WS Form a robust and adaptable form-building WordPress plugin.

Mark Westguard, the creator and principal developer of WS Form, a robust and developer-friendly form-building plugin for WordPress, founded it. Mark and Chris explore advanced applications of forms beyond the typical contact form, emphasizing their potential to improve learning websites and streamline intricate workflows. With over 150 customizable templates and more than 90 integrations, WS Form allows users to connect with platforms such as Mailchimp, CRMs, Make, Zapier, and others.

501: Beyond Basic Forms - Advanced WS Form Techniques for Your LMS with Mark Westguard

In "The Future of Online Education in an Artificial Intelligence World," Bud Kraus examines how the field of digital learning is changing as a result of artificial intelligence. Bud Kraus, who has worked as a WordPress specialist and educator for decades, emphasizes AI as a potent tool that may improve student engagement, automate repetitive activities, and customize instruction rather than as a substitute for instructors.

Bud Kraus is a seasoned instructor and content developer in the WordPress community, having taught WordPress and web design in person and virtually for more than 14 years. In this LMScast episode, he highlights how AI may be used to develop learning environments that are tailored to the requirements of each individual student while simultaneously posing significant ethical, data privacy, and digital equity concerns. He also has a podcast channel.

502: The Future of Online Education in an Artificial Intelligence World With Bud Kraus

Remkus de Vries, a WordPress performance specialist and strongman athlete, combines technical know-how with a holistic outlook on life and health in this episode of LMScast.

He talks about his curatorial WordPress weekly, Within WP, and his work on performance tools like as Scanfully. Remkus highlights the need to be genuine online in order to encourage feedback and personal development, in addition to fostering connection in a remote work environment that is frequently isolated.

503: WordPress Performance And The Business of Newsletters With Remkus Devries

504: Internet Marketing With David Risley From Blog Marketing Academy

505: How To Build Open Source Community With Roger Williams From Kinsta

In this LMScast, Taco Verdonschot presents Progress Planner, a proactive solution for website optimization and maintenance made just for WordPress users, including developers, agencies, and site owners.

Taco makes a compelling analogy when he says that creating a beautiful website is only the first step, much like growing a garden. To remain healthy and functional over time, both require frequent care updates, cleanups, and continuous enhancements. This is the role of Progress Planner, which functions as an omnipresent and persistent setup wizard that keeps helping users even after the initial site creation is finished.

506: Powering Your Website Progress For Maximum Results With Taco Verdonschot

In this LMScast, Founder Karen Wisch of Graphics by Design talks about how she transitioned from traditional graphic design to web development. She began her profession in design when computers were widely used, and once a customer requested a website, she progressively moved into web programming. 

Karen finally started using WordPress after learning it on her own. She talks about an exceptional effort with the Missouri Credentialing Board, which certifies practitioners in Missouri who treat drug use disorders. About seven years ago, the Board was managing license renewals and continuing education (like the MARS course) entirely on paper.

508: How Missouri Credentialing Board Built a Continuing Education Platform With LifterLMS

In this LMScast episode, Andy Jack from Candle Digital explores the revolutionary potential of artificial intelligence in e-learning in the LMSCast episode.

He specializes in assisting subject matter experts in transforming their expertise into effective virtual learning environments. He highlights that we are in a new era with opportunities for personalization, virtual tutors, and reflection-driven learning by drawing a connection between the early internet and the current generative AI explosion.

Create an AI Tutor For Your WordPress LMS Website With Andy Jack From Training Spark

In the episode, Lindsay Halsey from Pathfinder SEO delves at the ways artificial intelligence is changing search behavior and the implications for website owners, particularly those creating online training programs or e-learning platforms. She explains that with the rise of AI-generated search results such as Google’s AI Overviews and conversational modes users often get direct answers without clicking through to a website. Because of this change, websites find it more difficult to become visible using traditional SEO alone. However, Lindsay emphasizes that this is merely a new challenge and not the end for content providers.

AI SEO For WordPress LMS Websites With Lindsay Halsey From Pathfinder SEO

Greg Zakowicz offers a useful, data-driven strategy to assist course developers in expanding their audience and boosting enrollments through successful multi-channel marketing.

Greg highlights the significance of moving beyond conventional email campaigns by including SMS, online push alerts, and personalized messaging into a unified approach. Greg has more than 20 years of expertise in e-commerce and lifecycle marketing.

Master Multi Channel Course Marketing With Greg Zakowicz From Omnisned

In this LMScast episode, Kurt Von Ahnen disclosed that John C. is the source of one of his fundamental ideas on leadership. According to Maxwell, "Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less." He thinks that everyone has an innate ability to lead, whether it be in the form of managing a team, a small group, or even just one other individual.

512: Becoming a Better Leader|Wisdom from the Trenches

In this LMScast, Zach Katz from GravityKit presents Gravity Board, a WordPress add-on for Kanban project management that integrates Trello-like features into your website.

Zach Katz founded GravityKit, a business that creates robust Gravity Forms add-ons like GravityView, which gives customers extensive options for how to display and manipulate form data on their WordPress websites. Using customisable phases like to-do, in progress, and done, Gravity Board, which is built on top of Gravity Forms and GravityView, lets users graphically organize tasks.

How To Manage LMS Websites Inside WordPress Like Trello With GravityBoard

Victor Julio Coupe reveals in his LMSCast interview with Chris Badgett that his strategy for sales, particularly in the SEO space, differs much from the conventional, hard-pitch method.

According to him, the market is already weary of frequent outreach via email, LinkedIn, and other platforms, frequently from independent contractors or even artificial intelligence (AI)-generated profiles. He discovered that, regardless of language or location, cold pitching rarely succeeds as a result of this saturation.

514: How To Sell More Courses, Memberships, And Websites With Victor Julio Coupe

In his LMScast solo episode, Chris Badgett discusses the new safeguards in LifterLMS 9.0 and delves further into the significance of WordPress LMS website security.

He describes how tools like Akismet spam detection, sophisticated CAPTCHA integrations with Cloudflare Turnstile and Google reCAPTCHA, and IP blocking for repeatedly unsuccessful checkouts help guard against bots and fraudulent activities. By implementing secured media, Chris also resolves a persistent WordPress problem with the Media Library, guaranteeing that only enrolled students can access course materials and downloads.

515: WordPress LMS Website Security With Chris Badgett

Ziv Raviv explained how he started his business ten years ago with a podcast, which paved the way for him to pursue coaching and online courses. After learning about LifterLMS, he expanded into creating over 300 courses in a variety of micro-niches, such as balloon art, the floral industry, children's entertainers, relationships (Generous Marriage), and copywriting (Daily Cookie). 

Ziv's first course was just a Google Doc with unlisted YouTube videos. He clarified that by narrowing his focus so much, he was able to establish credibility and trust in close-knit groups, which produced unexpected outcomes, such as generating over $1 million from the balloon art specialty alone, which has just 3,000 members globally.

516: Meet Serial Education Entrepreneur And Super Coach Ziv Raviv

Chris Badgett offers his advice on creating and running an email list that now has over 100,000 subscribers in this episode of LMSCast.

He makes the case that, when compared to social media, email is the most reliable and efficient marketing medium since it is used by everyone and can be utilized for prospecting, nurturing, sales, and customer support. Chris emphasizes that although having a larger list frequently results in higher revenue, the caliber of members is significantly more significant than the number.

517: How to Build A 100,000 Subscriber Email List

LMScast is a podcast for innovators like you in the WordPress LMS e-learning community. LMScast is produced by Chris Badgett, part of the team behind the #1 WordPress LMS plugin called LifterLMS. Each episode brings you valuable insights with one goal: to help you generate more income and impact through a learning management system built on WordPress. LMScast is for you the entrepreneur, the teacher, the expert, or the online marketer.

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