Bold Business Model (Chris Badgett)

Course Lab: Lessons from Successful Online Course Creators

Chris Badget is the co-founder and CEO of LifterLMS. He is also the creator of several organic gardening, permaculture and beekeeping courses online.

In this episode we discuss:

• Teaching outdoor, hands-on skills in an online environment.
• Working with experts in your niche cooperatively instead of competitively.
• How to be strategic to get the most return on your creative investment.
• Distinguishing between a passion project and a business.
• The importance of publishing over perfecting.
• Being bold in asking for what you want.
• Negotiating partnerships with co-creators.
• The importance of pairing support with content.

“It was just such niche content that the people that wanted it really wanted it, so that the quality or the instructor style had some forgiveness in it.”

– Chris Badgett

Chris Badgett is the co-founder and CEO of LifterLMS, a learning management system for WordPress. He helps education entrepreneurs create, launch, and scale high value online training platforms. He believes in democratizing education in the digital classroom and contributing as much as possible to the open source WordPress community.

As well as creating his own online courses, Chris also created a platform, OrganicLifeGuru.com, to connect experts in the fields of organic gardening and permaculture with students to make information in these areas more widely accessible.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

Mirasee

Chris’ instructional video (website under construction)

Chris’ LinkedIn

Credits:

• Guest: Chris Badgett
• Hosts: Danny Iny & Abe Crystal
• Producer: Cynthia Lamb
• Executive producer: Danny Iny
• Assembled by: Geoff Govertsen
• Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
• Audio Post Production: Post Office Sound
• Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
• Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Music and SFX credits:

• Track Title: Bossa BB

Artist Name(s): Marie

Writer Name: Chelsea McGough

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Track Title: Grace

Artist Name(s): Shimmer

Writer Name: Matthew Wigton

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

• Track Title: Carousel Lights

Artist Name(s): Chelsea McGough

Writer Name: Chelsea McGough

Writer Name: Matthew Wigton

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

• Track Title: Coo Coos

Artist Name(s): Dresden, The Flamingo

Writer Name: Matthew Wigton

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Episode transcript: Bold Business Model (Chris Badgett) coming soon

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