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 Record The Video Modules for Your Online Course
A Real-Time Case Study on Video Recording, from a First Time Course Creator Welcome back to our blog series detailing how to create your own online course, featuring real-time testimony from me, Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas, a co-founder at Fair Share Films. Together with Spotlightr, I’m detailing our...
Crafting Your Course Narrative: Scripted, Unscripted, and Everything In Between
Hello again! Welcome back to our blog series on how to create your own online course. I’m Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas with Fair Share Films, a new bootstrapped production company working on our own bootstrapped course (about bootstrapped filmmaking 😀). In collaboration with Spotlightr, I’m...
Building Blocks for Success: The Ultimate Guide to Your Online Course Tech Stack
Hello! Thanks for reading this next installment in our blog series on how to create your own online course. I’m Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas from Fair Share Films. We’re working with Spotlightr to document the creation of our own first course, “The Startup Filmmaker: Bootstrapping Your Indie Career...
How to Sell an Online Course
Course Creators Need a Marketing Plan to Sell Effectively Creating your online course is only half the battle. Selling it is a different story. You’ve come up with some fantastic online course ideas, picked the best one, packaged your expertise and are ready to monetize your course and share your...
How to Start an Online School
Prepare for the Work & the Rewards There are many reasons why you might want to start an online school. They’re flexible, accessible, more more affordable to build than traditional educational environments, and they come with powerful abilities to personalize coursework and rapidly scale both...
Why Microlearning Platforms Should Help Shape Your Course
Video Course Creators Would Be Wise to Study Microlearning Models in Creating Their Courses Creating great content for your course isn’t just about the lesson materials themselves. If your presentation and formatting isn’t as engaging and accessible as it could be, the competition could win...
Product Updates
Release Notes: April 2023
Happy Spring! We've spent the last few months on mostly improvements to already existing features but we did squeeze in some new stuff. Some of the new features we important, but subtle. Let's get into it. Live streaming was released to everyone on the platform. This was a big release and...
Spotlightr & HubSpot Integration: Using Video To Enhance Your Customer Journey
HubSpot and Spotlightr can connect to turn your visitors into leads, and leads into fans, and then fans into customers. Here's how that happens... You can generate more leads with your videos by adding opt-in forms right inside your videos. You can force the opt-in to watch the video, or make...
Release Notes: Oct 2022
We haven't put out any Release Notes since early June. The main reason being that we were pretty much working on the biggest update to Spotlightr since it's inception. And that was an all new app, completely redesigned. June and July we had our heads down working...
How To Prevent Users From Downloading Video Files (Or Share Them!)
Pirates! They're out there. It's a legitimate concern. Digital pirates out there don't want to pay people for their hard work. As a course creator or even a general website owner your videos are your property and one of the most valuable online assets you...
How To Track Video Views On Your Website Courses
We all know it's very important to know how well your students are absorbing your course material. When students are given books, PDFs, or other documents to read there is no way to know whether they really read it or not. Typically the best way to know if by giving...