A question I'm often asked is:

“How can I create and sell online courses with WordPress?”

I’ve always wanted to have a good answer for this problem, but could never give one in good conscience.

Why?

Because every time I set out to assemble a recommended tools list for building paid online courses, I run into problems. I tried many times, but I never found a solution that addressed my 4 critical concerns.

A while ago, we released a new headers & footers feature for landing pages. While working on further improvements to it we noticed that there were some header designs we couldn't accomplish the way we wanted, with the current features.

As a solution, we've added a new “Scroll Behavior” feature in Thrive Architect. Watch the video to see how you can use this feature to create awesome header layouts and how it can be used in various other ways to enhance your pages.

When you need to place Call-to-Action (CTA) buttons on your website, should you limit yourself to the standard designs you’re used to… or can you achieve something far more engaging?

Well, if you build your posts and pages using Thrive Architect, you can leverage the Content Box element to fancy up your button designs however you want.

“Fancy up how?” you ask.

Well, how about a Content Box acting as a button where the entire area is clickable, uses engaging hover effects and offers unlimited ways to incorporate, modify and resize icons or images within them?

Got an online course that isn’t selling? Or are you looking to create a course sometime soon?

After all your hard work building an online course, the last thing you want is for visitors to land on your sales page and think “that's not worth it”, close the tab and never return.

Instead, you want visitors to immediately grasp the value of your course and see that it’s worth the investment. As a marketer, this means you want to increase the perceived value of your online course in as many ways you can.

Well, here are 6 ways that you can quickly raise the perception of value for your online course.

Creating online courses on your website can be an intimidating task.

With lessons to plan, visual, audio and text media to craft as well as checklists and course workbooks to create, there’s a lot to be done before launch day.

To do all that, you'll need to focus on creating great content instead of wasting precious time worrying about how it all looks. That's not to say design isn't important, it's just not what you should be spending very much time on.

That’s why we just added 14 new content box templates to Thrive Architect’s Styled Box element to help you achieve your course design objectives.

Designing cover art for any online product can be a real hassle.

Hiring designers, waiting on rounds of revisions, and optimizing image resolutions and file sizes all takes time and money.

And what happens when you need to make minor modifications to images? Turns out it’s not so minor after all.

You’ll either have to pay designers again just to make the small tweaks for you or load up Photoshop to do them all yourself.

Pretty tedious, right?

Well, this post is going to save you time and money by showing you exactly how to build an attractive eBook cover in just a few minutes using nothing but Thrive Architect.

Watch Shane’s video tutorial above and read our step-by-step explanations illustrated below to learn how you can do the same in minutes on your own website.

​In the info-product world, it can be hard to think outside the box.

Case in point, when it comes to online courses and how to use them for growing your business, it may strike you that there are only two good applications for them:

1. ​Free online courses as lead magnets and
2. ​Paid online course info-products

But is that really all you can use Ecourses for to help build your online business?

Heck no… allow me to show you the ways!

One of the most potent forms of marketing for online courses is word-of-mouth referrals.

It doesn’t matter how many adverts you pay for, guest posts you publish or webinars you run, your potential customers want to know what someone else thinks about your online course before they buy.

A good marketer knows that once you’ve hooked a potential customer and they want your product, you need to remove all their excuses or reasons why they won’t buy.

And often their very last objections can be cured with testimonials.

Testimonials are your way of tapping into word-of-mouth marketing by providing a different voice to your own that can step in and whisk away a customer’s concerns just as their purchase anxiety starts to flare up.

But how can you capture such testimonials when you’re just starting out? Well, let’s look at 5 quick testimonial capture hacks you can deploy to get rave reviews early and send sales through the roof!