The Startup Filmmaker’s Journey to Creating an Online Course.
Follow business-owner Michael as he takes you with him on his journey to create his own course. All the detail and tangible results, with real-time case study content.
How to Start a Coaching Business: Your Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide
Coaching turns experience into impact. When done right, it’s a business that helps people move forward while giving you the freedom to build something of your own. Starting from scratch might feel overwhelming, but the process is more practical than it seems. This guide will take you through each...
10 Best LearnWorlds Alternatives for Online Course Creation in 2026
If you’re on the hunt for LearnWorlds alternatives, you’re not alone. LearnWorlds has a lot going for it, but it’s not the right fit for everyone. Maybe the pricing feels a little steep. Maybe the platform’s complexity is slowing you down instead of speeding you up. Whatever your reason, the good...
Monetize Your Expertise: Top Tips for Turning Knowledge into Income
You’ve spent years building skills, solving problems, and gaining insights. But what if those experiences could do more than just live in your head or your day job? Monetizing your expertise means turning what you know into something people will pay for. Whether it’s coaching, writing, teaching,...
Creating a Value Ladder: Best Practices and Examples
A value ladder helps businesses guide customers from small, low-risk purchases to higher-priced, high-value offers. This structured approach increases revenue, but also strengthens customer relationships by meeting their needs at each stage of the buying journey. When done right, a value ladder...
LearnDash vs Kajabi: 5 Questions To Ask When Choosing Your LMS
Creating an online course requires more than just crafting compelling content. A successful course also depends on the platform you use to deliver it. Your LMS (learning management system) should align with your goals, whether they focus on engaging students, streamlining operations, or scaling...
How to Build a Microteaching Lesson Plan That Actually Works
Planning a lesson can feel like a balancing act. You’re trying to organize your thoughts, keep students engaged, manage time effectively, and deliver content in a way that makes sense. It’s easy to feel pulled in too many directions at once. Microteaching helps you step back and focus on one part...
Product Updates
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Can You Password Protect YouTube Videos? [And 11 Other Video Security FAQs]
If you use video for your business or course then it's likely that most of your video content will remain visible for everyone on your websites, especially if you are using video for marketing your product or service or explaining a concept or product feature. After all, when more people who watch...
Release Notes: March 2025
OK here we go! This is going to cover new features, improvements and bug fixes for the last half of 2023 and the first two months of 2025. We are long overdue for one of these announcements so let's get started. Over this time period we've had 28 platform updates, taking us from v5.2.9 and...
Release Notes: May 2024
Hello Spotlightr fam, it's time for another edition of release notes. Our last one was at the end of 2023 and at that time we were on version 5.1.54. It's been a little over 4 months since then, bringing us 14 more releases during that time. Included in those was a...
Release Notes: December 2023
Time for some updates! Our last blog update was in July, so we are long overdue. Since July we've updated the Spotlightr platform 15 times (about one update per week, with some weeks skipped). We are currently on version 5.1.54. One notable update wasn't a feature,...
Release Notes: July 2023
We're midway through the summer, let's get to some updates that occurred over the last few months. The last release notes were from mid-April, and since then we've gone through 9 platforms updates. We added an integration with Mailerlite and also revamped our Zapier...