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You have got a great idea for an online course and you want to get it live and making money as quickly as possible! However, you want your first course to be done right so how long is all of this going to take from idea to life website. This is what we discuss in this episode of the WP-Tonic Show. #WordPress #LMS #CourseBuilding

1 - Jetpack Is Promoting Paid Upgrades on Plugin Search Screen, WordPress Plugin Team Says it “May be a Violation” of Directory Guidelines\ https://wptavern.com/jetpack-is-promoting-paid-upgrades-on-plugin-search-screen-wordpress-plugin-team-says-it-may-be-a-violation-of-directory-guidelines 2 - WooCommerce 3.6 to Add Marketplace Suggestions, Despite Overwhelmingly Negative Feedback from Developer Community https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-3-6-to-add-marketplace-suggestions-despite-overwhelmingly-negative-feedback-from-developer-community 3 - On Health, WordPress and a Tough Decision https://www.caroleolinger.com/a-tough-decision 4 - Pipdig Update: Dishonest Denials, Erased Evidence, and Ongoing Offenses https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/pipdig-update-dishonest-denials-erased-evidence-and-ongoing-offenses/ 5 - Why Google+ Failed https://onezero.medium.com/why-google-failed-4b9db05b973b #WordPress #Jetpack #WooCommerce The Tips, Reviews of the Week Jonathan - Affinity Photo: https://affinity.serif.com/ Morten - The Royal Art of Poison: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36447149-the-royal-art-of-poison Chris - TinyPNG: https://tinypng.com/ Spencer - Robot Ninja: https://robotninja.com/ Sallie - Stop JetPack Promotions https://github.com/JayWood/stop-jetpack-promotions  

Main Topic Growing Your eLearning Online Business Through Sales Funnels Lyndsay Phillips is a serial entrepreneur; client-appointed task master plus project ninja and warrior content marketer for life & business coaches, accountants and other online entrepreneurs across the globe. CEO & Founder of Smooth Sailing Business Growth, she leads a rock star team to support entrepreneurs who are seeking fast-paced business growth but finally have come to the realization that they can’t do it alone, do it all, and do it well. She is also the host of Smooth Business Growth Podcast, plus Smooth Business Growth Flash on Alexa– - and loves sharing practical tips, business building & content marketing strategies. An expert in all things content marketing, she and her team focus on leveraging content to attract and convert customers faster and build stronger relationships along the way   Have a sales ladder/ funnel created (some call it an ascension ladder) - I can share examples and why Ensure the topics/ subjects flow in that funnel and why Nurture - how to nurture during the course and after they sign up to increase conversions to what's next. What to do if they don't take you up on the 'next' offer right away How to optimize your course to prime them for your next offer What next steps to take after their course is over.   Lyndsay Phillips https://www.smoothbusinessgrowth.com Cindy Nicholson https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co   Lyndsay Phillips Mobile Number: (416) 455-9403 captain@smoothbusinessgrowth.com https://www.smoothbusinessgrowth.com/ Cindy Nicholson cindy@thecoursewhisperer.co https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/

1 - WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Released: Help Test New Blocks, Block Manager, and Improved Fatal Error Protection https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-2-beta-1-released-help-test-new-blocks-block-manager-and-improved-fatal-error-protection 2 - Family Tree DNA offers to trade privacy to catch criminals https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/28/family-tree-dna-asks-customers-to-share-dna-to-solve-crimes/ 3 - Blue Oceans. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote presentation (Part 2) https://pagely.com/blog/wcphx-keynote-2/ 4 - An Unpopular List of Marketing Trends for 2019 https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-unpopular-list-of-marketing-trends-for-2019/ 5 -Startup branding: how much does it really cost? https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/startup-branding-how-much-does-it-really-cost/   OUR PICK'S OF THE WEEK? Morten Rand-Hendriksen: https://growinwp.com/ecosystem-plugins/ Morten Rand-Hendriksen: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/scripts Spencer Forman: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wedocs/ John Locke: https://bokeh.pics/ John Locke: https://www.saclibrary.org/ Jonathan: ImageOptim: https://imageoptim.com/mac

We Interview one of the founders of Cozmoslabs who are authors of the popular multilingual plugin TranslatePress Adrian is the co-founder of Cozmoslabs, a company focused on building premium WordPress plugins since 2011. Their products are used on over 120,000 websites. Lately he's mostly focused on marketing and business development, however nothing feels better to him than actually coding a feature. Their most popular plugins Profile Builder and Paid Member Subscriptions are targeted on membership sites, offering things ranging from building user profiles & advanced front-end forms to creating subscription plans, restricting content and accepting payments. Their newest product, TranslatePress is a WordPress multilingual plugin that lets you translate your entire site directly from the front-end using a really intuitive interface. It works out of the box with any theme or plugin, including WooCommerce and site builders. Sure, we can offer a free TranslatePress business license and a Paid Member Subscriptions Pro license to the person who leaves a comment indicating the missing feature he would love to see developed next in these plugins. If this is too much, I'm open to ideas on your side as well :) Adrian Spiac https://www.cozmoslabs.com/ Cindy Nicholson https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/  

We Have a Special Guest For This Week's Show Michelle Schulp: https://marktimemedia.com/ 1 - WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6 https://wptavern.com/wordpress-ends-support-for-php-5-2-5-5-bumps-minimum-required-php-version-to-5-6 2 - T-Mobile starts testing wireless home internet service https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275640/tmobile-lte-wireless-home-internet-service-pilot-launch 3 - 16 Months of Members-Only Content https://tommcfarlin.com/16-months-of-members-only-content/ 4 - Tools to Boost Remote Work Productivity https://webdevstudios.com/2019/03/19/tools-to-boost-remote-work-productivity/ 5 - Pinterest hires the exec behind Walmart's tech transformation https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/21/pinterest-hires-walmart-exec-jeremy-king/

Daniel has a background in Direct Response advertising (PPC ads etc), but ironically, its his Content Marketing that people know him for He's had the top 10 content of all time on inbound.org and Top content of 2017 + 2018 on GrowthHackers (He even had one viral post generate $3 million in client requests in 2 weeks) Spend my spare time in the ocean or in the mountains, or nerding out with some good sci fi He teaches people how to write less often, but get more traffic, at www.ampmycontent.com

- WordPress Explores Proposal for New Block Directory to Host Single Block Plugins https://wptavern.com/wordpress-explores-proposal-for-new-block-directory-to-host-single-block-plugins 2 - Mark Ritson: For the first time big tech faces a credible threat of breakup https://www.marketingweek.com/2019/03/13/mark-ritson-big-tech-credible-threat-breakup/ 3 - My 5 Biggest Failures as a Marketer and Entrepreneur (Cost Me 15 Years) https://woorkup.com/internet-marketing-failures/ 4 - The web we broke. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/  

We’re Travis and Amanda Northcutt. We work with membership sites of all shapes and sizes and have a long track record of success in helping people plan, grow, optimize, and scale their memberships. Amanda was the Director of Sales for a multi million dollar membership site for 10 years. She took an early retirement to refocus her life and pack her family up to start traveling full time in 2015 before joining Travis at Member Up. When Amanda started working for the aforementioned membership site, it was grossing less than 6 figures annually. She played a key role in increasing revenue by more than 40x. Travis has specialized in the membership space for over 5 years now. He started out building membership sites for clients, and has evolved into providing strategic input on all areas of running a membership site. We traveled the world full time for a few years, and just recently settled down in Fort Collins, Colorado. You can learn more about our crazy life on our personal blog: https://northcutt.life We believe in entrepreneurship and making your financial goals align with your lifestyle goals. We’re a living, breathing example of this. https://memberup.co/

We had a great show here with special guest this Friday Show John James Jacoby co-host of WordPress Weekly podcast. 1 - Pantheon raises $40 million to manage Drupal and WordPress websites https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/05/pantheon-raises-40-million-to-manage-drupal-and-wordpress-websites/ 2 - Mark Zuckerberg outlines a ‘privacy-focused’ revamp of Facebook https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/06/mark-zuckerberg-outlines-facebook-privacy-rethink/ 3 - Talking to Michael Hebenstreit about WordPress after selling MHThemes.com https://www.ilovewp.com/blog/interview-michael-hebenstreit-wordpress-mhthemes/ 4 - Why People Don’t Get Wealthy? hhttps://calacanis.com/ 5 - WordPress Contributors Propose Shorter, Time-based Release Cycles https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-propose-shorter-time-based-release-cycles 6 - How My Brain-Damaged Mother Changed How I Look at Interface Design https://magenta.as/how-my-brain-damaged-mother-changed-how-i-look-at-interface-design-9d2a06f042a1