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Course Income Secrets#378 - My Story - Who is Jean-Serge Gagnon?I bet you’ve seen me all over and want to know who I am.
Welcome to this episode and hopefully I’ll cover what you are wondering.
I’ll talk about where I lived and how I grew up as well as how I got to where I am today online.
I’m not sure it’s all connected to my online journey, but let’s get started.
Where did I grow up?
I’m a French Canadian and was born in a small town called Sept-Iles in Quebec, Canada.
I lived there until I was 6. After that we lived in Winni...2021-10-2226 min
Course Income Secrets#268 - The real story behind Course Income SecretsHow did Course Income Secrets come to be?
What is my story before then?
How did I get started online?
Who am I?
And more importantly, why would you listen to me of the Course Income Secrets show?
Who am I?
Let’s start with the beginning…
As you know, my name is Jean-Serge Gagnon, I am an online marketer and a programer.
What you might not know if that I have 4 daughters, a wonderful wife and 4 grandkids!
I was born in a small town in Quebec, Canada called Sept-Iles (which means Seven Islands)
I moved a lot as a kid...2020-11-1832 min
Course Income Secrets#220 - How to host your course for Free on Click eCourse platform?The cool thing about Click eCourse is that you can actually host course for free.
No hidden costs, for free.
Yes, there are limitations but it’s entirely possible to host a course for zero cost.
We’ll show you how to do that in this episode.
Start by registering a free account
The first thing you’ll need is an account on the site.
Of course, that is free too – just go to https://clickecourse.com and click the Register link on top right.
This will give you a popup where you can enter your email and password and click on...2020-09-1036 min
Course Income Secrets#219 - How to best use Personal Branding on Social Media?If there’s one thing you need to know it’s how to use Personal Branding on social media.
I know that when I started online almost 5 years ago, I thought personal branding was pretty obvious.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that it’s complicated to understand…
It’s just that we get easily caught up in other things.
What is Branding?
Let’s start by clearly defining what Personal Branding actually is.
If you think of a brand, names like Coca Cola, WalMart, Bandaid, Nike or Kleenex come to mind.
Most everyone knows exactly what those are, right?
If I...2020-09-0925 min
Course Income Secrets#218 - What does know like trust mean and how do you build it?If you’ve been trying to build a business online for any length of time, you’ve heard this plenty.
You’ve heard that you need to build your “know, like & trust” factor.
I know I have but how do you build it?
Let’s first explain what it is so we’re on the same page.
What is the Know, Like & Trust factor?
The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that, and maybe for you too, is that I need more people to know, like and trust me.
Makes sense, right?
The secret is to understand that it’s a se...2020-09-0827 min
Course Income Secrets#217 - How can Course Income Secrets help me generate income?If you’ve been seeing Course Income Secrets episodes then you know we talk about lots of stuff and you’re probably wondering How can Course Income Secrets help me generate income?
Maybe you caught a few on iTunes or SoundCloud.
Perhaps you’ve seen some of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram.
Especially, if you see we talk about so many different things!
Where do we begin?
That’s the real question, right?
Where did Course Income Secrets begin?
You might even wonder how everything is connected!
I’ll definitely cover that but first, let’s start with the beginning.
W...2020-09-0730 min
Course Income Secrets#216 - What is Click eCourse platform and why do you need to use it?You’ve seen me post about Click eCourse and your’re wondering What is Click eCourse platform and why do you need to use it?
It’s a great question for sure.
I mean, there are lots of other platforms out there to host courses on.
Let’s answer the first question
What is Click eCourse platform?
The Click eCourse platform can be found at https://clickecourse.com
It started as a Course Hosting platform but has grown into a social media, personal branding and education platform.
You can host your course on it and you can connect with other course c...2020-09-0434 min
Course Income Secrets#215 - How to create a course from a pre-recorded video?So you have a video that you showed how to do it all and you want to create a course from it?
You could just upload that video to YouTube and give people the link to it.
Then you tell them to go to 12:15 for step 4 and 35:22 for step 8, etc…
That does work, but it’s a lot better to have separate videos.
Deciding on the course structure
The first thing you’ll need to do is decide of how many parts you have and split the video up.
In my case, I had recorded yesterday’s episode with the goal of...2020-09-0336 min
Course Income Secrets#214 - How to create your first course on Click eCourse platform?I’ve created a few posts showing how to do this but I wanted to create a post that would show all the steps on how to create your first course on Click eCourse platform.
The steps are pretty simple:
1- Register a free account
2- Setup your profile
3- Become an affiliate
4- Create a new course
5- Add lessons to course
6- Publish the course
Let’s get into each step
Step 1: Registering your free account.
First, go to https://clickecourse.com (or use the link from your friend)
Next, click the Register link on top right of scre...2020-09-0238 min
Course Income Secrets#213 - Beginner's guide to click eCourse platformWelcome to the Beginner’s guide to click eCourse platform
Where you can host your own course and sell it but also where others can promote it (if you want) and where you can make income by promoting the platform itself.
In this episode, we will talk about using the platform and properly setting up your account.
The platform is also a social platform where you can see other people’s status updates, new courses being published, comments being added and new lessons being added to courses.
Registering a free account
The first thing you’ll want to do is regist...2020-09-0153 min
Course Income Secrets#212 - How to find the right partners to work with online?Have you come to the realization that you can’t do everything yourself?
As an entrepreneur we are often guilty of thinking we are the best person for the job.
We tend to think “my way or the highway” is the right solution to disagreements.
I know I’ve been guilty of those thoughts.
The right way to think
Even though we know it’s not the right way to think, we still can catch ourselves thinking that way.
That’s really just because thoughts and feelings have a mind of their own.
It’s not because we think one thing that we...2020-08-3125 min
Course Income Secrets#211 - What is best way to promote on Social Media?If you’re building a business online you need to know what is best way to promote on Social Media!
It’s funny how people just don’t understand that building on social media is not any different than in “real life”
But, they send you spam and don’t care about you unless you click their link.
How it was in the olden days
You probably know exactly how things were when your father’s grandfather was around.
I mean 100 to 200 years ago, how did they build businesses?
And why do you care about how it used to be?
I mean, today...2020-08-2831 min
Course Income Secrets#210 - How to make money online with Click eCourse platform?Do you want to make money online with Click eCourse platform?
Did you know there are 3 different ways to make money online with Click eCourse platform.
1- Promote someone else’s course and get a commission
2- Promote the platform and get monthly commissions
3- Sell your own course on the platform
Setup your account
Before you can make any income from click eCourse, you need to setup your account properly
After logging in, you can go to the Affiliate tab in your account settings and fill in everything needed.
After which you can become an affiliate. Make sure to en...2020-08-2630 min
Course Income Secrets#209 - How to migrate your WordPress site to another WordPress server?If you want to migrate your WordPress site to another WordPress server, it’s a relatively simple process, however there are a few things to keep in mind.
You should know the answer to these questions:
- How to access back office
- What theme are you using?
- What plugins did you install?
- Are you using an SSL certificate?
Let’s discuss each of these in more detail.
Backoffice access
Obviously, you’ll need to be able to access your WordPress backoffice unless your provider can get you your data and answer all the questions.
The back office of Wor...2020-08-2631 min
Course Income Secrets#208 - How to Sell your Course on Click eCourse platform?If you have a course hosted anywhere else of you haven’t hosted it yet you can find out here how to sell your course on Click eCourse platform?
Why would you want to host it on Click eCourse instead of those “big name” sites?
Click eCourse is a course hosting platform with features not found on other sites.
It’s not just a course hosting platform, it’s a complete social media platform with groups, business pages and ability to post status upates.
You can even private message other member on the platform.
We even have a WordPress option for you to...2020-08-2532 min
Course Income Secrets#207 - First Steps to Building a Business online with Personal BrandingI was talking with one of my online friends the other day and it made me realize something.
I keep forgetting that the basics aren’t obvious to someone who hasn’t done any of this yet.
Even if you have been following me for years, you might have no clue what a niche is or what you need to do to get started.
The first steps to building a business online
In the video, I cover this more but the first thing you really need to do is choose your niche.
Ok, well, maybe it’s figuring out what a nich...2020-08-2442 min
Course Income Secrets#206 - How to become an online rock star with personal branding?So you want to be a rock star?
I know I wanted to be one growing up.
My father even had me sing and told me how good I was.
Imagine my surprise when I started listening to myself singing in my teens?
I mean, seriously, who wouldn’t want to be a rock star with all the fame and money that comes with it?
What about an online rock star?
Ok, well, maybe I’ll never be a real rock star…
Maybe that’s what you realized too, but you still want the money and the fame, right?
So, how do y...2020-08-2133 min
Course Income Secrets#205 - Inside programmer's mind - How to build a custom web site with phpToday will be a little different. I’m going to show you how to build a custom web site with php.
I know I usually talk about generating income online and the strateggies, techniques and tools you need to learn.
Of course, you don’t need to learn PHP or how to build a custom web site with php to do that.
Where to start?
The first thing you need to do to learn how to build a custom web site with php is obvious.
You need to learn php.
There are lots of tutorials online to learn that and I ca...2020-08-2031 min
Course Income Secrets#203 - How to migrate your blog to your own self-managed WordPress server?Are you looking migrate your blog to your own self-managed WordPress server?
Do you know a WordPress server is a standard piece of software?
You can find all sorts of places to host your WordPress blog or website.
It’s pretty simple to do and easy to manage.
How to export your MLSP sites data
If you are using MLSP Sites WordPress services, you know they are phasing out that service.
If not, the process to export is the same on any WordPress site.
To save your data so you can migrate it to a different server, all you need to...2020-08-1831 min
Course Income Secrets#204 - What is the right mindset to build a business online?It’s no secret that building a business is not an easy thing.
Building a business online can be easier in some respects but is also harder in others.
I’ve been building my online business for almost 5 years now, longer if you count other ventures.
It’s not easy and that’s why you need to have a certain mindset.
What is mindset anyway?
Let’s first define what I mean by mindset.
If you google it, you will find a definition like this:
the established set of attitudes held by someone
- google search
What I think it really mea...2020-08-1829 min
Course Income Secrets#202 - Generating Leads On Social Media Dos And DontsIf you want to generate leads on social media, you’ll want to know about these dos and donts.
There’s definitely lots to learn when generating leads on social media.
But before we even talk about that, let’s define what we mean by leads.
What are leads?
Depending on who you ask, you might get quite a few definitions for the word lead
A lead can be any of:
1- The social media account who reacted or commented on your social media post
2- The social media account who you had a conversation with via a messaging app
3- A ph...2020-08-1732 min
Course Income Secrets#201 - How to create content once and post to 14 platforms in one hour?Did you know it was possible to create content once and post to 14 platforms in one hour or less?
I know, it seems pretty difficult since it can easily take 30 minutes or more to create content and post it to 1 platform.
It is possible though, although you need time to learn the skills to make it possible.
Obviously, when I started doing this, it was taking me more than 1 hour for sure, so let’s talk about how I got there (so you can too)
How it all started
You probably already know this but when I started, I was on...2020-08-1436 min
Course Income Secrets#200 - Where should you be posting content in 2020?The question that is on everybody’s mind is Where should you be posting content in 2020?
It’s a question that needs to be asked all the time because things change all the time!
The places to post in 2020 are not the same as in 1990, 2000 or 2010, that’s obvious right?
But it’s not even the same as 2019, 2018 or 2015!
What changes from year to year?
Mostly, what changes is where people’s attention is.
Sure, the platforms and web sites to post to changes too, but if not one is there, it really doesn’t matter much.
When I started my online jo...2020-08-1339 min
Course Income Secrets#199 - How to fix Pinterest may lead to spam error with your site?Have you been a victim of your site being flagged by Pinterest a “may lead to spam” and you’re wondering how to fix Pinterest may lead to spam error with your site?
Anytime you or your visitors click on a link to your blog, you get the dreaded message: Heads up! Sorry! We blocked this link because it may lead to spam.
Isn’t that just the worst feeling in the world?
I mean, your site isn’t spam – you probably have less links and ads that 99% of all the other sites on Pinterest, right?
How did it happen to me?
On Ju...2020-08-1235 min
Course Income Secrets#198 - What's the best Chatbot for my website?If you’ve been wondering what’s the best Chatbot for my website, let me me help you.
To be honest, it would be impossible to actually answer that question because it depends on the features you like.
There are lots of chatbots out there, too many to count.
Some are free and some have AI and some even have a full body avatar.
Very cool stuff.
What can you use a chatbot for?
For me, I started using the Facebook messenger chatbot called ManyChat way back in 2018.
When it first came out, the messenger chatbot integration was pretty awesome.
What...2020-08-1133 min
Course Income Secrets#197 - If you build it, they will come. Is that true?Have you ever thought that if you build it they will come?
I know I have, but is it true?
What if all that mattered was building a better mouse trap?
Or location location location…
Right?
Do you think that if you build it they will come?
Is it true?
Well, once thing is for sure is that customers by from people they trust.
Or rather, brands they trust.
So, if you build it, unfortunately, they will not come.
Building it is not enough.
What is the answer then?
What did I build?
I’ve always known that if you buil...2020-08-1031 min
Course Income Secrets#196 - Pincredible results with Pinterest! How to get 100k monthly viewers in a few days!I tell ya, it’s totally insane how Pinterest is doing for me right now!
Imagine getting almost 100,000 monthly viewers of my content.
I mean, I’m at 91.2k right now!
How does that compare?
They say not to compare yourself to others but Gary Vee is getting 115.6k
Ray Higdon is getting 69.1k
Gloria MacDonald is getting 100.1k
Marc Lalonde, the Wealthy Trainer is getting 962.8k!
And John & Nadia Melton are getting a huge 1.1m!
Wow, right? I mean I was getting 5, that’s right FIVE monthly viewers last month.
Imagine!
Is Pinterest really worth your time?
The big questi...2020-08-0729 min
Course Income Secrets#195 - What is Reels? Using Reels and Why do you care?Maybe you heard about Reels, maybe not, but what is reels you ask?
How about using it? Where do you find it?
Do you need to download a new app?
Finally, why do you even care about Reels?
What is Reels?
If you haven’t heard, Reels is a new feature integrated into Instagram from Facebook.
It allows you to create short videos (15 seconds long) that live in your profile.
You can do things like add music and disappearing text to your videos too.
The great thing is you don’t need to download any new apps, it’s integrated into I...2020-08-0629 min
Course Income Secrets#194 - How to Grow your Audience by ONE Million 200 thousand PERCENT in 10 days!Wow, that’s insane right? You want to know how to Grow your Audience by one million, 200 thousand percent increase in a few days?
I bet you do.
I know that when I saw my mentor talk about getting 100k monthly audience on his content and that Gary Vee was getting less than 200k, I wanted to know what he was doing!
Is audience that important?
We talk about audience in all social media platforms.
Even your email list is an audience you own.
Each platform has different levels of engagement and value to you as a marketer or a co...2020-08-0531 min
Course Income Secrets#193 - How to Add your own Chat Bot to your Course sales page?If you’ve wanted to learn How to Add your own Chat Bot to your Course sales page, I’m going to show you how I do this.
I’m not sure about other course hosting platforms, but with Click eCourse hosting platform you can setup a chat bot for your course easily.
If you’ve created a course in the past and just put it on YouTube as unlisted videos and then added those to an email or blog post page as a “course”, you will like how easy it is to create a course with Click eCourse.
What is a chat bo...2020-08-0430 min
Course Income Secrets#192 - Course Hosting Platform Click eCourse introductionHave you created an online course and just posted videos on your YouTube channel?
Maybe you also setup a web page with links to those videos?
Perhaps you created units in a Facebook group?
Those are certainly some simple and free ways of creating basic online courses.
What are limitations of free solutions?
One of the main issues with those free solutions is metrics.
It’s that you don’t know how many students you have, how many have started the course or have completed it.
You also can’t easily ensure they paid for it if you are selling it
Com...2020-08-0334 min
Course Income Secrets#191 - Why Should you host your Course on Click eCourse?If you’re new here, you might wonder why should you host your Course on Click eCourse, right?
Maybe you’ve been following me for a while, or for many years and your reason is simply that you know me and that’s awesome, I appreciate you.
But, if not, you might be thinking there are lots of sites to host courses out there.
Where did I start?
Let me take you back to my beginnings…
In 2015, I started my online journey and found an awesome platform called My Lead System PRO (or MLSP) which you can learn more about at http...2020-07-3136 min
Course Income Secrets#190 - Optimizing WordPress for SEO and Creating First Blog Post!Have you been wondering how you could be Optimizing WordPress for SEO?
That’s right, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization
It’s almost a science in itself and things change often but there is lots that doesn’t.
What can you do when Optimizing WordPress for SEO?
There are a number of things you can do to optimize your WordPress blogs.
You should:
- Find a good keyword
- Use the keyword in your blog title
- Use the keyword in your file names
- Use the keyword in your blog url
- Use the keyword in 3-4 places in you...2020-07-3028 min
Course Income Secrets#189 - How to Setup a WordPress site for free in 5 minutes?Have you been wanting to setup a blog or web site and worried that it would be complicated to do?
What if I told you that it was possible to setup a WordPress site in less than 5 minutes?
How about if it was free and you could do it right now?
Well, you can do it and it really does just take 5 minutes.
Setting up WordPress site
Actually, it took me just 4 minutes to do it and I show you how in the video above.
You need to do this:
1- Register for a FREE account on Click eCourse site
2...2020-07-2929 min
Course Income Secrets#188 - Free Course Hosting solutions for 2020Are you looking for a way to host your online course without paying a monthly fee on a hosting platform?
There are many ways you can do this.
I know, I know, they say if you pay, you’re more likely to work harder at generating income to eliminate the cost, right?
Well, I tend to think that statement is propagated by those who make money from your monthly payments.
That’s why I build all my solutions with a free forever option.
What can you use to host your course for free?
The simplest way to host an online cour...2020-07-2827 min
Course Income Secrets#187 - How to create an Online Course for Free in 2020?So you have a course that you’ve created and want to host it for free?
I totally understand – you don’t want to spend money before you know it will give you the returns you hope for.
There’s lots of ways to host courses online.
There are tons of platforms out there and you can certainly use one of those.
Course creation basics
Before we even talk about where and how to host your course, let’s make sure you have the basics thought through.
First thing you’ll want to do is make sure your course title is going to...2020-07-2729 min
Course Income Secrets#186 - Critical Steps to YOUR Online Success overviewHave you been building a business online for too long without results?
Are you tired of creating all this content and not get any sales!
What about just growing your list?
I was too and not too long ago, I decided to reboot my strategy
What results was I getting?
You see, I’ve been building a personal brand online for years, actually since December 2015.
I’ve learned a lot and lost a lot too.
I even grew two Facebook pages to over 18k likes only to get them banned and shutdown by Facebook for reasons I still do not know...2020-07-2422 min
Course Income Secrets#185 - How to host your FREE course on Click eCourse platform?Do you have a free course you are already giving to people?
You can use the Click eCourse platform at https://clickecourse.com to host your course for free.
Maybe you are sending them links in emails to videos in YouTube or you setup a blog page with links to those videos.
Perhaps you haven’t setup a free course yet and you’d like to know how.
What is Click eCourse platform?
Click eCourse is a course hosting site with a strong social integration.
The main goal of the site is to host courses that you want others to find...2020-07-2330 min
Course Income Secrets#184 - What is a Private Label Rights (PLR) site and How to profit from it?Have you heard PLR before?
It stands for Private Label Rights.
It’s a permission or license that a creator can give to their work.
Basically, it means that you can take their work (a digital course, a video, a book, an eBook, software, plugins, pdf file, etc…) and sell it or give it to others and keep any profit.
What is PLR site?
It stands to reason that there would be a site that authors can publish their work and you can copy it for your own use.
There are many such sites and I use Internet Marketing Zoom whic...2020-07-2228 min
Course Income Secrets#183 - How to add Coupons and Deals to make more Course Sales?If you are selling a course online you know how hard it can be to make sales.
They say to use urgency and scarcity to improve your close rate.
I’ve seen lots of course creators talking about selling their course at super low prices for the first 15 and then raising the price for each new 15 students.
You certainly can just keep editing the price of your course but what if you could automatically control this?
You can do that on Click eCourse platform at https://clickecourse.com with deals and coupons.
What are deals?
I’m not sure about othe...2020-07-2124 min
Course Income Secrets#182 - Adding a Chat Bot to your Course to Offer a Coupon!If you have a course you’ll trying to sell, you are probably using a few methods to get sales.
There’s a new way that is super cool that you can use.
I’m sure you’ve heard of Chat Bots!
What if you could setup a Chat Bot for your course that would offer your visitor an awesome deal?
What is a Chat Bot?
There are lots of different chat bots out there.
Some require Facebook accounts and tie into your Facebook page, such as ManyChat.
I used ManyChat quite a bit when it first came out but got turn...2020-07-2035 min
Course Income Secrets#181 - How do you get Viral Video Views on TikTok?The holy grail of all social media content is that viral post.
Speaking of which, I finally got a video to get 35,707 views in less than a week!
The great thing about TikTok right now is that the number of creators is still much lower than the consumers of content.
This means the platform highly encourages creators and by doing so makes it easier to go viral on the platforms
That being said, you still need to understand the basics of how to make that happen.
A little background
I started my TikTok account in December 2019 after numerous pings by...2020-07-1730 min
Course Income Secrets#180 - How to decide what to teach in your course?If you’re not sure what to teach in your online course, I can certainly help you figure that out.
It’s not always easy when we start thinking about what others are doing online.
We see these so called “gurus” that say they are making tons of money online and we figure we need to be doing what they are doing.
But, what if we have no clue how to teach what they teach?
How did I figure it out?
Before I give you the secrets, let me tell you a little about me.
I’m pretty much a computer n...2020-07-1634 min
Course Income Secrets#179 - How to get people to buy from you Online?If there’s one thing we all want online is for people to buy from us.
We want them to join our business, signup for our services and buy our stuff, right?
I mean, what’s the point of building a business online if no one buys from us?
The secret to getting them to buy from you
So what’s the secret to getting them to buy from you?
It’s really quite simple.
I’ve been building my brand online for years now and I’ve learned the simple secret to getting people to buy from me.
I can tell you...2020-07-1526 min
Course Income Secrets#178 - What is best Chat bot conversation for your site?Have you been looking into getting a chat bot on your website or blog?
I’ve been thinking about that for a long time but never really looked into it.
I mean, my experience with ManyChat for Facebook chats was really great.
I loved ManyChat (and still do) but with the changes that Facebook has made with the messenger requirements, I stopped using it.
How do you add chat bot to your web site?
I was super excited when I heard of ConversioBot in my Facebook timeline.
Learn more about it at http://info.ConversioBot.com
I mean, sure, I wa...2020-07-1451 min
Course Income Secrets#177 - How to plan your Chat bot conversation for your site?So you have a web site and you’d like to add a chat bot to it!
Sure, you can use many of the platforms out there but how do you know what your bot should say?
I mean, what’s the process you want it to go through?
How do you know what you should say with it?
What is a chat bot for?
Those are all great questions and it can be overwhelming to figure that out.
The thing you have to remember is that your chat bot is just like any other marketing tool.
It’s a tool t...2020-07-1334 min
Course Income Secrets#176 - How to add Chat Bot to your web site?If you’re like me, you love chat bots and your loved Many Chat…
But once Facebook changed the rules, it because harder to use (I really should still be using it though)
Anyway, since I found a really amazing chat bot for web sites (get yours at http://myconversiobot.com) I thought it would be cool to show you how to add it to your blog or your website.
Getting the chat bot software
The first thing you’ll need to do is get the software.
I’m not sure how long it will be available at this ridiculous lifetime...2020-07-1035 min
Course Income Secrets#175 - Real First Time Demo of ConversioBot softwareOMG, this is so awesome! I’ve been looking for a conversation bot for a web site or blog for quite a while!
Did you use ManyChat before Facebook made all those changes?
Or maybe you’re still using it…
But… Facebook owns “the list” and can lock you out anytime!
Happened to me twice… Not sure I want to try a third time.
Imagine my excitement when I found a pure web based bot!
Similar setup but use specifically to build an email list or membership site!
Pretty cool right?
I thought it would be $10 or $20 a month but was even more...2020-07-0935 min
Course Income Secrets#174 - What are the steps to getting success online?Are you wondering what you need to do to actually get the success you want online?
In all honesty there are probably 100 things you could do, if not 1000, that would get you that success.
That’s why what you really need to do is find someone who has the success you want and do what they do.
I bet you’ve heard that plenty of times…
How do you find the right someone?
That’s a great question.
You can do a bunch of searches online…
You can watch their content, takes notes and eventually, after comparing a ton of people, ch...2020-07-0835 min
Course Income Secrets#173 - How to Make Money Online with Attraction Marketing?It’s really the most common question – how to make money online?
There are so many ways to do that…
Affiliate sales, membership sites, product promotion, brand deals, selling your own course, coaching, social media influencer, and more…
I was noticing one of my friends, Maayan Gordon posted how she’s made $18,110 – almost 10x what she made 4 months ago.
You can see that post at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maayangordon_maayan-entrepreneurlife-activity-6686037443654877184-jgN3
And just 4 months ago, she posted that she made $1,210 in a week.
You can see that post at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maayangordon_maayan-entrepreneur-activity-6642888040576614400-oOXB
and just the mon...2020-07-0731 min
Course Income Secrets#172 - What do Successful Course Creators do online?I’m sure you’ve heard the saying: find someone who has the success you want and do what they do.
Right?
I know I have.
It’s not that easy though… because those people are doing lots of stuff that we don’t see.
So, what do you do?
Connecting with leaders
First of all, you’ll need to connect with the leaders.
Find them and connect.
And when I say “connect”, I don’t mean to send them messages and emails or try to call them because most likely they will ignore you if you do that.
What I mean is get on t...2020-07-0624 min
Course Income Secrets#171 - How to Grow Online Business with Attraction Marketing?If you’ve been online for any amount of time in last 10 years, you know that all businesses need to be online.
And I bet you’ve heard that you should be using Attraction Marketing instead of traditional marketing methods.
But what is Attraction Marketing anyway?
Isn’t that what marketing is all about?
What’s the difference between that and other forms of marketing?
What is Marketing?
I guess I’ll start there.
When I look up “what is marketing” online, WikiPedia defines it as:
Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships. It is the business process of identifying...2020-07-0326 min
Course Income Secrets#170 - How to get TikTok Influencer to work with you?Are you trying to work with an Influencer and they aren't responding to your messages?
Maybe you're tagging them in your posts or comments and they aren't acknowledging that either?
You are commenting on all their TikTok videos... tagging them in yours but nothing!
Frustrating right?
How did I get an Influencer to work with me?
Well, the first thing you need to remember is that you can't need an influencer...
If you really "need" them, then you can just pay for them, there are lots for hire.
Just like anything else though, you can't be sure until you work...2020-07-0220 min
Course Income Secrets#169 - How to Grow your Business with Personal Branding?Are you wondering why you need to use Personal Branding to grow your business?
Maybe you're not 100% sure what Personal Branding is...
I often wonder myself why we need to use Personal Branding.
I mean, why can't we just be a business?
What is Personal Branding?
You might know what Personal Branding is and to be honest, there are many definitions.
This is just my definition of Personal Branding.
It's the process of making a person the thing that people remember when they think of a problem they need solved.
Instead of thinking of a product or business, they'll think o...2020-07-0131 min
Course Income Secrets#168 - How to create capture pages to build your email listSo you want to build an email list and you're not sure where to begin?
Perfect, I'll cover the basics here.
I've been building my email list for 5 years and still just have about 1000 people in it.
Keep in mind that it also depends on what you focus on too.
In my case, I've been focusing a lot on building my platform instead of my list.
Maybe I need to change that
The 3 main things you need
Let's first clarify the main things you need to create an email list.
1- You'll need an email list provider or auto responder.
2...2020-06-3028 min
Course Income Secrets#167 - Top 5 tips to Create Viral TikTok videosIf there's one thing everyone wants to know, it's how to create viral content.
I'm going to give you the top 5 tips on how to do that on TikTok.
These tops 5 tips are very similar to other social media platforms but there is some uniqueness to TikTok.
Especially right now since the platform is relatively new.
What causes virality on TikTok?
The way the TikTok algorithm works (so I've been told) is that your video goes through a series of buckets or layers.
The first layer is your followers.
A certain percentage of your followers get shown your new video...2020-06-2925 min
Course Income Secrets#166 - Secrets to growing your LinkedIn Connections!You definitely want to be using LinkedIn in your social media strategies today.
It's the 2nd fastest growing social network right now.
So, how do you grow your connections on LinkedIn?
I've slowed down my growth but at my peak, I grew by over 1200 connections in a single month!
First things first - your profile
The first thing you need to make sure of is to setup your profile to be an All Star.
That's a badge you get when you fill everything out.
On top of that, I recommend a few more clarifications.
First, make sure to use the...2020-06-2630 min
Course Income Secrets#165 - How to do TikTok Duets, Reacts and Stitches?There's so many ways to share other people's videos on TikTok.
Three of them are doing Duets, Reacts or Stitches.
What are these and how do you do then you ask?
We'll cover that in this blog post.
What is TikTok?
First, let's just explain what TikTok is in case you don't know yet.
I do have to say though that if you don't know what TikTok is yet, you must be living under a rock lol
So, TikTok is a social media platform that allows you to share, create, upload and view short videos.
They can be from 5 seconds...2020-06-2526 min
Course Income Secrets#164 - How to setup your WordPress Blog on Click eCourse platform?Did you know Click eCourse included a free WordPress option for you?
You can setup a WordPress web site right in the platform.
Even with the free account!
Registering your free account
Go to https://clickecourse.com and register your free account now, then follow these instructions to setup your WordPress web site.
Once you're on the site, you'll see a register link on the top right like this:
or on your phone, it will look like this:
which when you click, you'll see this menu:
When you click the Register link, you'll see a popup like this:
Enter your e...2020-06-2430 min
Course Income Secrets#163 - How to use TikTok filters and effects?One of the great things about TikTok is it's video editor.
You can really do a lot of cool things in the TikTok video editor.
Whether you upload a video or you record one in the app.
I use an Android phone so, what I show you might be slightly different on an iPhone.
I've also noticed differences depending on your phone too and some TikTokers sometimes talk about features I don't have.
How to upload video
To upload a video to TikTok, you will want to click the little + at the bottom middle of the screen.
Next, you will...2020-06-2325 min
Course Income Secrets#162 - The First Two Comma Club Live InvitationThe First Two Comma Club Live Invitation
Do you want to take your online business to the One Million a Year mark and beyond?
That's what the Two Comma Club is all about.
It's an award you get for reaching two commas in your sales using a Click Funnels funnel.
If you've been following Russell Brunson you already know about this.
If not, this is your invitation. Go to http://2cclive.jsgagnon.com right now to save your seat!
When is the Two Comma Club Live event?
I'm officially inviting you to attend.
I hope you see this in time...2020-06-2111 min
Course Income Secrets#161 - Results from TikTok growth hack testResults from TikTok growth hack test
A week ago, I did a TikTok test.
I followed a suggestion from Jeff Couret on TikTok
He said to post 20 videos in 1 day... with 30 minutes between them,
https://www.tiktok.com/@jeansergegagnon/video/6837515391074389254
So, I thought, why not give it a try and see?
How I created 20+ videos to post
I probably should have taken the time to create some better videos for my audience.
Like do tips and record them all separately... put them in drafts and post them at the appointed times.
But, being the automation fool I am, I decided t...2020-06-1925 min
Course Income Secrets#160 - How to setup retargeting Ads on Facebook?Do you want to show your posts to people who have seen your other posts automatically?
Are you out of time to pay the social media engagement game?
Are you willing to spend a few hundred a month on ads on Facebook?
If you've dabbled in Facebook Ads like me...
And you have a life, so you can't spend 4 hours a day on Facebook doing the engament thing, then you're in the right place.
What is Facebook Engagement game?
One thing about Facebook is that there is a way to get people to see your stuff without spending on Ads.
...2020-06-1832 min
Course Income Secrets#159 - How to migrate MLSP Sites Blog to new WordPress site?How to migrate MLSP Sites Blog to new WordPress site?
Have you been using MLSP (My Lead System PRO) Sites as your Blog platform?
That's been my platform for over 5 years now. Find out what that is at http://mlsp.jeansergegagnon.com
It's sad to see they are discontinuing it but not totally unreasonable given their explanation.
Since I need to migrate, I've been looking for an alternative.
What's the first step?
First you will want to create a backup of your data.
There's a process called exporting which does just that.
Go to your sites management dashboard and click...2020-06-1746 min
Course Income Secrets#158 - How to create and edit videos on TikTok?If you've setup an account on TikTok, you've at least seen a few videos.
If not, what are you waiting for? TikTok is still the fastest growing social media platform today.
BTW, make sure to follow me @jeansergegagnon (or go to http://tiktok.jeansergegagnon.com)
You might be wondering how they did those...
I mean, how do they do this disappearing text...
Or how did they add the music, do the lip-sync or add those effects.
TikTok video recorder basics
One of the best features of TikTok is it's video recorder.
It lets you record in segments.
It lets you...2020-06-1630 min
Course Income Secrets#157 - What content should you create for TikTok?It's no secret that TikTok is a platform you need to be using right now.
If you think it's just for kids, you're missing the boat big time.
Sure, there are kids on there, just like all social media platforms but there are a lot more adults than yo might think.
I've been using it for about 6 months now and I've grown slowly to 764 followers now.
I'm certainly not the top influencer on there but I've learned a lot since December 2019.
How did I get started on TikTok?
I don't know about you, but I've been hearing Gary Vee talk...2020-06-1531 min
Course Income Secrets#156 - How to use TikTok to grow your BusinessToday I'm doing something special.
I've been using TikTok for a while and saw someone suggesting that you can grow you followers by posting 20 videos in a day.
So I thought I'd talk about How to use TikTok to grow your Business online and then split that up into minute long videos and post them all as part 1, part 2, part 3, etc...
But, it is also all about how to use TikTok to grow your business
Setting up profile right
First thing after creating an account (I cover that in my course at http://tiktokabc.com) is setting up your profile...2020-06-1134 min
Course Income Secrets#155 - Your First Facebook Ads and Fastest Course Creation MethodYour First Facebook Ads and Fastest Course Creation Method
So you have an idea for a course?
You want to get it done as fast as possible.
Or maybe you want to learn how to create your first Facebook Ad..
I'll show you...
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Course Income Secrets#154 - What is best way to learn Attraction Marketing and Personal Branding?What is best way to learn Attraction Marketing and Personal Branding?
I'm sure you've heard about Attraction Marketing and Personal Branding tons of times.
Leaders keep tell you to "brand yourself" and "learn how to attract the audience you want"..
Right?
You've heard that so much you're sick about...
What is Attraction Marketing?
The first thing to...
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Course Income Secrets#153 - Who is Jean-Serge Gagnon and why follow me?Who is Jean-Serge Gagnon and why follow me?
Today's episode is all about me.
Where I'm from, my family, how I got into business and my online journey.
Now that I'm building a personal brand online you might wonder how it all started.
My first business...
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Course Income Secrets#152 - What are most important things to do on Social Media in 2020?What are most important things to do on Social Media in 2020?
Have you been asking yourself what is most important to do on social media in 2020?
Maybe you are new to the online world or you've been building a brand for years.
Either way, you are wondering what has changed in 2020 and what you need to be doing today on Social Media.
What has changed in 2020?
That's a good question.
One thing that's for sure is...
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Course Income Secrets#151 - How to update your profile picture everywhere on Social Media!How to update your profile picture everywhere on Social Media!
So you've decided to change your profile picture but you have it everywhere!
I just did that last week.
I changed my profile picture on Facebook, but nowhere else.
Now, I need to change it everywhere.
Being congruent
So, what's the big deal?
Why not...
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Course Income Secrets#150 - What will you learn from Traffic Secrets book?What will you learn from Traffic Secrets book?
The Traffic Secrets book is the third and last book in the Secrets Trilogy.
It is all about filling your website and funnels with your dream customers.
It is written, and read by, Russell Brunson, the founder of Click Funnels and an online marketing genius.
Imagine learning how to...
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Course Income Secrets#149 - What will you learn from Expert Secrets book?What will you learn from Expert Secrets book?
Wow, the Expert Secrets book refresh is awesome.
The Experts Secrets book by Russell Brunson, the founder of Click Funnels is a book about online marketing and how to build an army of fans that will follow you everywhere and buy everything you have to sell.
These fans will also share all your stuff and attend all your events.
If that appeals to you, you need to get this book.
If you have not gotten your copy, make sure to get it at http://expertsecrets.jeansergegagnon.com
Here's your...
READ MORE and...2020-06-0324 min
Course Income Secrets#148 - What will you learn from Dotcom Secrets book?What will you learn from Dotcom Secrets book?
If you've been wondering what the Secrets Trilogy books are all about, you'll love this.
Get your copy at http://dotcomsecrets.jeanserge.gagnon.
I'm going to go into the first book and tell you what is in it and how I learned from it.
I'm not...
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Course Income Secrets#147 - The Secrets Trilogy unboxing challenge!The Secrets Trilogy unboxing challenge!
If you've ordered the Secrets Trilogy, you can submit an unboxing video.
If you haven't, get it from http://secretstrilogy.jeansergegagnon.com (just order free book and you'll be able to get box set after).
Russell has...
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Course Income Secrets#146 - What Is An Unboxing Video And How To Create One?What is an unboxing video and how to create one
You must have heard about unboxing videos before, right?
If not, there's just videos of you recording yourself opening something.
It's like capturing your excitement of opening a gift.
Usually, you'll be unboxing something you are excited to have received.
Other unboxing videos
There is another type of unboxing video.
It could be that you are recording it for an online retailer to show potential customers what's in the box.
We are not talking about the 2nd type here though.
How do you make an unboxing video?
It's pretty simple.
...2020-05-2922 min
Course Income Secrets#145 - Marketing Secrets book Trilogy reviewMarketing Secrets book Trilogy review
I'm so excited to have received my Secrets Trilogy books yesterday.
If you have not heard of this, you're in for a treat.
The Secrets Trilogy book set is a hard cover set with Dotcom Secrets, Expert Secrets and Traffic Secrets.
You can get any them for free by just paying shipping at http://books.clickecourse.com/
It even has...
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Course Income Secrets#144 - How to setup your blog on WordPress siteHow to setup your blog on WordPress site
Are you going to need a blog or a web site to promote your course?
Maybe you can just use the course platform's landing pages as the course home page.
Maybe you can just use the school's home page to showcase all your courses.
What if...
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Course Income Secrets#143 - How to connect your aWeber lists and campaigns.How to connect your aWeber lists and campaigns
I'm going to change all my email follow up series to use campaigns and want you to see how it's done.
I've been using aWeber for almost 5 years now and have 60 lists now!
It's crazy to have that many lists and it's difficult to manage.
What is right way?
Obviously, there are many different ways to do this and as many different tools you can use.
You don't have to use aWeber , but that's the tool I use and that I can show how to do things with.
I want to do...2020-05-2624 min
Course Income Secrets#142 - How to create email list and campaigns with aWeber?How to create email list and campaigns with aWeber?
Do you want to know the difference between a campaign, a followup series, a broadcast and email list?
If you're building a business online or trying to sell a course, you definitely need an auto responder.
Or in other words an email list manager
What is aWeber?
aWeber is an auto responder... or an email list manager.
It lets you manage multiple email lists, have subscribers on each list and send out messages to them.
You can...
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Course Income Secrets#141 - How do I automate social media posts?How do I automate social media posts?
Not sure if you knew but I automate a lot of my social media posting.
Some say that's a bad idea and they may be right, who knows, right?
I've asked myself that question and I know there's some issues with automating social media posts, but there are benefits too.
What are issues with...
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Course Income Secrets#140 - How to get Leads from Social MediaHow to get Leads from Social Media?
It's not secret that anyone building a business online today needs to use social media.
If you try to use the same tactics as normal businesses use in traditional media in a social media environment, this will just not work.
It's a different world and you need to know how to generate leads on social media.
What is traditional media?
In the normal business world, they simply use advertising in TV, radio, magazines, billboards, etc...
Even though you...
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Course Income Secrets#139 - What is an auto-responder? Plus aWeber demo!What is an auto-responder? Plus aWeber demo!
If you don't know what an auto-responder is, you're not the only one.
I'm sure you've heard lots of times how you need to be using an auto responder if you are building a business online.
You probably heard how...
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Course Income Secrets#138 - Proof of how to get Engagement on Facebook!Proof of how to get Engagement on Facebook
I bet you're heard about all those tricks to get engagement on Facebook, right?
I mean, there's the post often suggestion...
There's the comment n everything one.
There's the share tons of stuff one too.
I believe in 3 rules
There's surely...
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Course Income Secrets#137 - How to start a Business Online in 2020?How to start a Business Online in 2020?
Is it any different now than before?
You betcha!
This are completely different now!
For one, there's this whole "stay home" and "social distancing" thing going on...
This affects lots of things when you are considering starting a business online in 2020.
The online business basics
Regardless of the covid-19 or Corona virus social distancing and remote work differences, there are basics that still apply.
Starting a business today is...
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Course Income Secrets#136 - How often and when to post on Social Media?How often and when to post on Social Media?
Such a big question.
As I mentioned in the last episode about posting daily, it got me thinking...
What about more than one post a day?
What about when to post?
What about which platform?
As you read up on this, you'll...
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Course Income Secrets#135 - How to organize your content to post daily?How to organize your content to post daily?
One of my struggles has always been to figure out how to create daily content.
Not that you have to produce content daily, it could be every few days, weekly or even monthly.
However, I highly recommend daily if you are just getting started.
Why daily?
It seems to be contradictory to say...
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Course Income Secrets#134 - What is the big deal with TikTok?What is the big deal with TikTok?
You probably heard about TikTok a lot over the last 2 months.
More than you've heard in the last year I bet.
If you're a fan of Gary Vaynerchuck (Gary Vee), then you've probably heard him talk about it for the last year or more.
So, what is the big deal with TikTok?
Why is TikTok a big deal?
If you still need...
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Course Income Secrets#133 - How To Get Engagement On Facebook To Get Sales?How to get engagement on Facebook to get Sales?
If you've been wondering how others get Sales on social media platforms like Facebook, you are at the right place.
No matter how annoying it is that we aren't getting any comments or likes on our posts on Facebook, we need to remember it's not our platform.
The owners of the platform decide how it works.
If we want to get results, we need to follow their rules.
Rules on Facebook
What are the rules on Facebook then?
There are lots of...
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Course Income Secrets#132 - How To Setup Your Pixel For Retargeting Ads?How to setup your Pixel for retargeting ads?
If you are building a business online, you will probably eventually want to do ads, right?
When I started I knew that I would eventually want to do that.
I certainly didn't think I needed to setup my pixels.
I thought that was something to do with the quality of a picture
What is a pixel?
Well, although it's true that the more pixels you have in a picture does indeed define it's quality, that's not the pixel we are talking about here...
There are...
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Course Income Secrets#131 - What Is My Daily Episode Posting Process?What is my daily episode posting process?
Have you been wanting to post on many platforms but just don't find the time to do it?
What if I told you I post on 8-10 different platforms every day?
You'd probably think that's easy for a single guy...
But, I'm not single... I'm married and have a day job AND have 2 young kids.
Well, actually, I have...
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Course Income Secrets#130 - Top 10 Tips For Social Media MarketingCourse Income Secrets - #130 Top 10 Tips for Social Media Marketing
Top 10 Tips for Social Media Marketing
There's no way to escape social media today when you start to build your business online.
You might be able to get away with it if you have a huge budget and are willing to spend a million dollars on advertising.
but I bet you're like me and don't have a dime to put into advertising.
How I got started
It's crazy but when I started trying to...
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Course Income Secrets#129 - How To Create An Alexa Skill Podcast?How to create an Alexa Skill podcast?
If you're like me and you've been creating content for a while, you probably have been thinking about podcasting.
I've just recently gotten myself an Amazon Echo Dot and love using it.
My wife even wanted her own, so now we have two!
Audio is the new media.
Everything is becoming audio now.
They say it's because of...
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Course Income Secrets#128 - Should You Grow Your Followers Fast?Should you grow your followers fast?
It's a good question to have.
I remember doing lots of things to grow my followers really fast.
I learned how to grow my Twitter followers by 30-50 per day!
I learned how to grow my LinkedIn connections by 1000 per month!
I even learned how to grow my Facebook likes by 18,000 in just one day with just $200 in ads!
Crazy right?
The good and the bad
The thing about growing your followers fast is that...
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Course Income Secrets#127 - How To Get Started Online?How to get Started Online?
That's a easy question and a hard one!
I remember when I first started online.
I was trying to build my home based business, a network marketing business and I had learned great skills on how to get phone numbers from strangers.
I would just walk up to them in malls, grocery stores, gas stations and other places, start a conversation and get their number within 5 minutes.
It was a great skill to have... but I was still not building my business..
I know why though, it was because I wasn't talking to enough people.
...2020-05-0218 min
Course Income Secrets#126 - How Do You Know What To Talk About?How do you know what to talk about?
One of the most common questions I hear when someone realizes they need to create content online is this:
How do you know what to talk about?
I mean, really, how do you know?
How do I know?
I'm not sure - I've been producing content for my online audience for almost 5 years on a daily basis.
Sometimes, it's just random thoughts but one of the things that I came to realize recently is the process to get things to talk about isn't obvious to most.
Even then, what I do isn't...2020-04-3017 min
Course Income Secrets#125 - Why Is Consistency So Important?Why is consistency so important?
I bet you've asked yourself that question before, right?
We hear it all the time - consistency is king.
And it's true that it's super important.
Yes, content is queen and cash is everything, but without consistency, you don't have anything either.
In your life, being consistent is also important.
That's how others know what to expect.
It's how kids know when they should get to bed, go to school or get dressed.
As adults, we ....
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Course Income SecretsSimple Tip - Look Up At The CameraI remember when someone first told me about lookup up instead of down at the camera.
I hadn't really been paying attention to which I was doing...
I had been doing story and live videos for a few months and had just a few viewers.
This guy messaged me something I've never forgotten.
Since then, I've discovered a few more reasons why it's better to look up at the camera.
Have you noticed if you look down at the camera instead of up?2019-09-1005 min
Course Income SecretsCourse Income Secrets - What Does Build Rapport Mean?It's crazy how many online marketers spend zero time building rapport before asking you about their biz op or product.
I know that for me, when someone sends me a message asking if I'd like to try their product or look at their biz op, I always say no or just ignore it.
I know it's a numbers game and even if only 1 in 100 reply, you're still getting that 1, right?
Well, what if I told you, it could be 1 in 5 or even 1 in 3?
I remember wondering what did my mentor mean when they said I needed to build rapport?
It's...2019-09-0907 min