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How Online Training Leaders are Moving from Marketing Hustle to Automated Growth

1. How Training Leaders have Gone Digital   Niche training businesses are no longer headquartered and overhead-heavy. Zoom, Kajabi, Kartra, Thinkific and many other tools have allowed the rise of the online business coach and training-based consultant. These are not novices but established professionals with a proven track record of over three years in the field. This report lays out the problems and solutions for those scaling up using online marketing.  Those who got the formula right have annual revenues typically ranging from $AU100,000 to AU500,000.(1)   Operating with lean, virtual teams of one to five members, online educators can work wherever there is wifi and a good cafe but usually situate near like minds, in Australia’s cities. While technically proficient at an intermediate level, they are comfortable with foundational digital tools but often find themselves in need of guidance…
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Top Considerations for Book Authors Creating a Course

If you have written a business or life advice book, you may be starting to get excited about the idea of creating a course! You could capitalise on your book’s concepts. You could make 10x the profit of the book itself.  But slow down there, this Lone Ranger is galloping off way too fast. You see, when offering a high level product like a course, we need to think about attracting multiple sales leads, systematically, and promoting the course.  Before you do a mini freak-out, let’s delve into what that might involve if you’re committed to NOT making Meta and Google any richer. Okay? Most businesses selling goods online advertise on Facebook or Google, then use retargeting ads relevant to the content the person was looking at. (These are ads that seem to follow the website visitor around the Internet). …
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Why You Shouldn’t Create a Course Before Considering This

For those who have written a business or life advice book, you may be starting to get excited about the idea of creating a course. You could capitalise on your new concepts. You could make 10x the profit of the book itself. But slow down there, the Lone Ranger is galloping off way too fast. The thing is, when offering a higher level product like a course, we need to think about getting multiple sales leads, systematically, and promoting the course.  Before you do a mini freak-out, let’s delve into what that might involve if you’re committed to NOT making Meta and Google any richer. Okay? Most businesses selling goods online advertise on Facebook or Google, then use retargeting ads relevant to the content the person was looking at. (These are ads that follow the web visitor around the Internet).…
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Making ‘Someday’ Goals Part of Now!

Are you procrastinating on your biggest dreams, like that of writing a book, making excuses for yourself that you’re too busy… too tired… have too much ‘stuff’ to do? “There is never going to be a good enough time or a ‘some day’ where you have ‘enough time’”, says Andy Monks. Someday starts now. In any month, you may give 90 hours to your family and keeping the house, 795 hours or so to your work (clients/boss), and a few hours for school, church or community. But if you spend from just four (4) hours a week, or 17 hours a month, then within six months you could write a book and leave a coherent legacy. This beats a drawer full of notebooks with scribbles. That’s the bottom line. Another perspective is from a Brisbane coaching professional, Eduardo Gomes. He…
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A Thinkific Vs. MemberPress Comparison

This is my shoestringer’s guide: a Thinkific vs. Memberpress comparison review. By January 2022, I realised that my book creation program as a membership was not as good as it could be. I had tried MemberPress – a WordPress paid plugin – for two years. I had set up loads of pages, 40 rules and umpteen emails, but if Memberpress did not guide the student through the materials, even with a hyperlink table of contents, it wasn’t ever going to be ideal. I was, of course, loathe to set it all up again, but after doing the Thinkific Fast Track course for free, I realised it was a simpler tool to use AND a much smoother experience for my students. Plus, I am now an affiliate of Thinkific, so if you click the link here, I would get a commission…
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How Can I Recession Proof my Book Publishing Business?

It’s that time in the economic cycle where the rubber hits the road… and starts flying off everywhere. Only 1 in 3 employers state they are going to increase salaries by over 3 percent. Costs are rising. Small businesses are hard enough to run, but with the global competition of book publishing at an all-time high, it starts to make you worry about the future of your fledgling book publishing business. There is no need to wail. One, because business training for adults is getting cheaper (more on that soon). Plus, while others still seek to get their first book published, you can start looking at creating online courses, workshops and membership offers. While many are ‘trying’ to do this and going on side ventures and $$$ courses, you can whiz by them and actually do it, launch it, and…
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