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 An Online Course Outline Is Planned & Executed

How An Online Course Outline Is Planned & Executed

Outlining Saves Time and Money and Helps You Achieve More, Faster Creating a well-structured online course starts with a solid course outline. Think of the outline as your course’s blueprint, setting the stage for a clear, organized learning experience. It helps you lay out the content logically,...

10 Best Digital Products to Sell Online in 2025

10 Best Digital Products to Sell Online in 2025

In an era where digital dominates, selling digital products is one of the smartest ways to build a profitable and sustainable online business. Unlike physical products that require inventory, shipping, and logistical headaches, digital goods exist purely in the virtual world, making them...

How to Build an Online Community: 12 Proven Strategies for Success

How to Build an Online Community: 12 Proven Strategies for Success

An online community is a space for connection, collaboration, and shared experiences. A well-built community offers value and has the potential to grow into something meaningful and lasting. For a community to thrive, it needs a strong foundation. That means setting clear goals, choosing the right...

8 Best Teachable Alternatives for Online Course Creators in 2025

8 Best Teachable Alternatives for Online Course Creators in 2025

If you’re looking for Teachable alternatives, chances are you’re frustrated with its limitations.  You may feel jaded by high transaction fees, rigid design options, or lackluster customer support, in which case you need a platform that better fits your needs. Fortunately, there are plenty of...

LearnDash vs Teachable: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Software

LearnDash vs Teachable: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Software

(Updated for July 2025 with Teachable's plan changes in June) If you’re a teacher looking to take your courses online or a content creator looking for ways to share your knowledge on a particular subject, the LMS (learning management system) that you choose is going to be the most important tool...

Complete Steps to Creating a Digital Product (And Then Profiting)

Complete Steps to Creating a Digital Product (And Then Profiting)

From SaaS startups to marketing agencies and ecommerce websites, the internet presents an endless amount of business opportunities with reasonably low barriers to entry. An entrepreneur's dream, if you will. What's even more jaw-dropping is that many entrepreneurs are finding great success in...

Product Updates

Publishing with Embedly

Publishing with Embedly

We're very pleased to announce that Spotlightr oEmbeds are now supported on Embedly, the most utilized provider of third party embeds on content publisher platforms. This means that you will now be able to paste the Spotlightr share link on sites like Medium, Reddit, Kickstarter, Disqus, etc. and...

Release Notes: February 2019

Release Notes: February 2019

2019 Started off strong with a major update to CTAs which introduced very powerful and adaptive Hotspots. We also followed through with improvements to CRM integrations by making it supper easy to tag your customers. We are also nearing the official release of the Chrome recording and video...

Release Notes: July

Release Notes: July

The main focus on our July efforts has been on optimizing performance, stability and ensuring that everything works flawlessly.  We took some time away from developing new features or enhancing old ones (although there was still some of that going on), to yield much...

Release Notes: June

Release Notes: June

Summer is here and the Spotlightr team is ready.  June brings several major improvements and enhancements to how you use Spotlightr, including the addition of a Wordpress plugin as well as a few other feature enhancements which we describe below.  Here are some of the...

Release Notes: May

Release Notes: May

May has been a really productive month for the Spotlightr team as we continue to welcome customers migrating from version 3 to our new version 4, as well as new customers into the platform. We are excited to present to you some of the major additions and improvements...