Blog
So far, these posts are all about helping people make and sell online courses. Videos helping you make WordPress sites coming soon.
8-Week Cycles: How To Get Shit Done and Make Progress
How to be incredibly productive, stay focused, and make massive progress towards your most important goals.
Course Creation Lessons from The Beatles?
Here are 7 important, and surprising, lessons The Beatles’ Get Back film can teach budding online course creators.
[Making Of… #23] The Dog Ate My Homework
A post-mortem on making the course, what I learned, and what I’ll do differently next time.
[Making Of… #21] Behind-The-Scenes: Software
A walkthrough of the software I used for planning the course, writing it, actually making it, the course platform, and even the sales and launch.
[Making Of… #20] Behind-The-Scenes: Hardware
A quick behind-the-scenes walkthrough of the hardware I’ve used to make my new course.
[Making Of… #19] Planning And Production Workflow
Some behind-the-scenes on planning the course and managing the production workflow.
Teaching Online: One Year On
From the hope and excitement when you have a new idea and anything seems possible… to this, one year on.
Teaching Online: The Exact Moment I Had The Idea
15th July 2016—the journal entry that started it all for me.
[Making Of… #17] Fancy A Preview?
So far, a lot of this ‘Making of…’ series has been about concepts and thinking and stuff that makes my head hurt a bit. So…
[Making Of… #16] I Fell In Love
Why make a course on Webflow when there’s already LOADS of free training out there already?
[Making Of… #15] Retiring to the Bahamas
A step back in time to look at why I made two of my most popular and profitable courses.
[Making Of… #14] How To Make Everything Easier
The 3 key decisions you need to make, right at the start of the course-making process.
[Making Of… #13] The Hangover
Have you seen the film, The Hangover? Well, I’ve been away, and it’s nothing like The Hangover at all.
[Making Of… #12] Big Decision
The most important decision I had to make at the start of this course-making process.
[Making Of… #11] Cave Paintings
Where I delve into WHY basing online tech courses on real-life scenarios and stories is so effective.
[Making Of… #10] Going With The Flow
A few bits of work-in-progress with the case study logo and website branding.
[Making Of… #8] Shit Sandwich
Why you have to base your course on a ‘real life’ situation, that closely matches your students’ own lives.
[Making Of… #7] Peeling The Onion
The first layer of the onion ain’t gonna lead to any dramatic transformations, raving fans, or big sales.
[Making Of… #6] No-One Wants To Buy Your Course
The harsh truth is: no-one wants to buy your course. Really. So what DO they want?
[Making Of… #5] What A Slacker
I have to say, it’s at times like these I feel fortunate to have a business model selling online courses.
[Making Of… #4] The 1970s Called And Want Their Logo Back
As I’m planning and developing the new course, I’ve also been working on ideas for the course branding too.
[Making Of… #3] I’m Going All-In With These
Six core teaching concepts I went ‘all in’ on when planning and creating my new Webflow course.
[Making Of… #2] It’s Not All Bad
What I learnt from running a training program in a completely different format to usual.
[Making Of… #1] The Teacher Learns More Than The Student
The positives I took from running a ‘live bootcamp’ experiment vs a traditional course.
Make It Real
Why as a budding course creator it’s best you share your bloopers and just do it.
Nothing Personal
It’s about being mindful of spending your precious time on what’s truly valuable, and dropping what’s probably not.
Words I Didn’t Expect To Hear
There was nothing quite like hearing these words while laying in a hospital bed at 3.30 in the morning, to bring my priorities into sharp…