Are you ready to start creating and selling online courses on your WordPress website today with LearnDash and WooCommerce? In nine years as an entrepreneur online, teaching video classes continues to be the number one way I earn money online because there is so much to teach and so many students ready to learn! You will love this course if you want to have the very best business system for publishing and hosting your classes on your own website which I highly recommend after years of relying on third party platforms such as Udemy, Skillshare, and StackCommerce. While hosting on marketplaces can provide good revenue, the ideal long term setup is having all my courses, products, and services on one single domain for maximum SEO, organic traffic, simplicity, and passive income.
Enroll in this course today to see exactly how I setup my entire website starting with an overview of what I have and a comparison with alternative such as Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, and Podia for eLearning. You will love the detailed tutorials showing how I install WordPress on Kinsta, setup the dashboard, choose a theme, and add the most helpful plugins for speed and SEO!
When you are finished with this course, you will have a platform of your own under your full control that makes the need to use Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, Shopify, ClickFunnels, LeadPages, SquareSpace, and hundreds of others unnecessary! You can easily make thousands per month online indefinitely using this setup as I do to sell online courses, services, write a blog, build an email list, and create a sustainable online business for the rest of your life!
In 2005 while I was in college at the University of South Carolina, I tried to start working online. I signed up for an MLM program and a survey website. A month later, I had refunds from both and figured working online was not possible because everything was a scam. The truth was I was afraid to fail again.
In 2011, I moved in with my wife and launched an online business focusing on video game addiction in an attempt to avoid dealing with any of my other problems. In a few months, I changed my business to selling shirts because I realized there was no money in video game addiction. A year after starting my business, I dropped out of my criminology PHD program at the University of South Florida to run my business full time which by then had changed to helping clients with Facebook and Google ads based on my experience failing to do them successfully for myself.
In 2013, I starting sharing everything I knew for free on YouTube because I hoped it would help me get more clients. By April 2014, I was nearly bankrupt after failing at 15+ different business models. I was also nearly dead from trying to drink the pain away and fortunately the fear of death motivated me to get into recovery. Being in recovery motivated me to focus more on being of true service to others and less on what I would get out of it. I started making courses online with Udemy which soon turned into my first real business. I partnered with as many talented instructors as I could and learned from top instructors how to get my courses the most sales.
In 2015, I tried making some inspirational videos sharing what I learned in recovery and got an amazing response on YouTube. To make the background on my videos more interesting, I started making the inspirational videos while playing video games. To make a more helpful website, I hired a freelancer to convert the videos into blog posts including this about page originally.