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18 Essential Things All Online Course Creators Must Learn Before Creating Courses

18 Essential Things All Online Course Creators Must Learn Before Creating Courses 18 Essentials That All Online Course Creators Must Learn Before Creating Courses from ...
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5 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Creating an Online Course:

5 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Creating an Online Course: 5 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Creating Online Courses from Sarah Cordiner If you are ...
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How To Teach a 'Skill' in Your Online Courses

Are you teaching a new 'skill' to your learners in an online course? Teaching online requires very different approaches to teaching face to face for ...
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8 doubt busters for online course creators

8 Doubt-Busters For Online Course Creators

8 Doubt-Busters For Online Course Creators It never ceases to amaze me how many entrepreneurs I speak to who are dreaming of making a positive ...
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Official Winners of The Edupreneur Awards 2015 Announced!

Friday 31st July 2015 saw The MainTraining Edupreneur Awards 2015 take place in Perth, Western Australia. The Edupreneur Awards are all about celebrating, recognising and appraising the ...
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Workforce Planning & Development Skills for Learning & Development Managers

Workforce Planning & Development Skills for Learning & Development Managers   ****EDIT: This workshop has now passed, but you can now get the eCourse version ...
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The 8 Fundamental Principles Of Adult Learning That Every Course Creator Should Know

The 8 Fundamental Principles Of Adult Learning That Every Course Creator & Training Professional Should Know As professionals in the training and education space, it is essential ...
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Should You Sell Your Online Courses on Udemy?

Should You Sell Your Online Courses on Udemy When They Discount Them So Highly?  Many thought leaders, experts and professionals from all industry sectors, have ...
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Why You’re Leaving Your Money On The Table

Why You’re Leaving Your Money On The Table We’re all special and unique on some level, for some reason, to some market, to some people, ...
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'Cheap' Online Courses: Are They 'Bad Quality'?

Cheap Online Courses - Are They Bad Quality?   There are lots of online learning platforms and online course marketplaces out there and they all ...
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Productivity Tip: Automation

Productivity Tip: How To Put Your Time-Consuming Daily Tasks on Autopilot!

Productivity Tip: How To Put Your Time-Consuming Daily Tasks on Autopilot! As an entrepreneurs and business owners we’re forever busy and it can feel like ...
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3 Ways To Maximise Staff Training on a Minimum Budget

3  Ways To Maximise Staff Training on a Minimum Budget  So you’re a training manager, a learning and development manager, or you have a role that ...
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5 Ways To a Best-Selling Course on Udemy

5 Ways To a Best-Selling Course on Udemy **Edit: Udemy algorithms may have changed since writing this article What makes an online course a ‘best-seller’? ...
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Should You Give Your Online Course Away for FREE?

In Part 1 of this article series, I explain to you what the 5 major criteria are behind getting an online course 'to the top'. The ...
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Why You Should Read Every Day

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Online Learning Glossary

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How To Price Your Information Products & Programs

How Do You Price Your Information Products & Programs?  It can be tough trying to decide how to price our information products and programs.  Although ...
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What Is Edupreneurship & How Can It Make You Money?

What is Edupreneurship?  Becoming an Edupreneur is essentially taking what you have in your head - your knowledge, your skills, your expertise, your experiences - ...
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The New (and much better) Way Of Getting Leads And Making Sales

'Edu-preneurship' and 'Edu-marketing' are the new ways of generating leads, impacting your market, positioning yourself as the authority in your field and of course, making ...
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You Have A Profitable Message! Teaching your market will change your life and your student’s

You Do Have A Message! Teaching your market what you know will skyrocket your impact and profits... You do have a message. You already know SO much ...
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Learners Are The New Buyers

Learners Are The New Buyers Sales are dead.  The consumer has switched to giving their cash to the one who has the answer to their ...
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As unemployment in Australia rises, return to work support gets cut

Have your say on this here: http://bitly.com/1E5a3r3 **OLD POST from early 2015 - lifted from the archives due to recent blog updates** The Government have just ...
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How to use a business mistake to enhance your reputation

Making it right when you’ve got it wrong: How to use a business mistake to enhance your reputation Today when I arrived at the office, I ...
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The biggest mistake educators make when managing classroom behaviour

What is good behaviour, and how do you get a certain group of people to behave in a certain way that allows for teachers to ...
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10 Steps Towards Starting a Registered Training Organisation

Why? Becoming a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) is the ultimate opportunity to contribute to your industry and area of expertise. Any business can deliver training, ...
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What is the role of the adult educator in the welfare to work sector?

There's a lot to be said about our roles as educators - and they definitely don't get easier when you have a class full of ...
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Keeping up with RTO compliance is getting tougher!

Australian Registered Training Organisations! If you are an RTO, no doubt you are spending a lot of time and frustration on your training and assessment ...
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How A Business Woman's Failure Caused The Rising Of A New Breed Of Entrepreneur

How A Business Woman's Failure Caused The Rising Of  A New Breed Of Entrepreneur After migrating to Australia just 3 years ago, I’d gone from ...
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