By WordPress LMS Elearning Expert Chris Badgett and Entrepreneur & Online Marketing Business Strategy Expert Chris Badgett on Teaching, Education, WordPress Development & Online Business.
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LMScast is a podcast for innovators like you in the WordPress LMS e-learning community. LMScast is produced by Chris Badgett, part of the team behind the #1 WordPress LMS plugin called lifterLMS. Each episode brings you valuable insights with one goal: to help you generate more income and impact through a learning management system built on WordPress. LMScast is for you the entrepreneur, the teacher, the expert, or the online marketer.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
LMScast makes online education economics tangible through detailed conversations about course design, revenue, platform costs, and execution.
Chris Badgett keeps LMScast close to the operating questions behind online education. His guest conversations connect course design to revenue, costs, customer value, and the practical work of building with WordPress and Lifter LMS.
An HTML block and a first $49 sale: Chris Badgett has questions for your course plan.
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A practical look at incentive design, margin, and affiliate terms for course sellers.
Chris Badgett and Alex Standifird treat course selling as a set of tradeoffs, not a morality play. The talk stays practical: how affiliates affect margin, where competitor checks fit in, and why more than one program can make sense when the numbers are tight.
A practical look at corporate training that treats access control and role-based structure as the main design problem.
LMScast looks at a practical corner of online learning: corporate training. It uses WordPress and LifterLMS to show how staff learning can be organized with tiered information, role-based access, and separate courses for different groups.
A practical conversation about making teaching stick, not just sound good.
Leanne Reagan's conversation with Chris Badgett frames teaching as something that can be worked on piece by piece: attitude, content, and whether people can put the lesson to use.
A practical look at turning expertise into a scalable online training business.
This episode looks at how a training program gets built and sold, with Robert Lunte and Dana Sleeper walking through CourseCreek as a service shop for instructional design, production, and implementation.
A practical look at WordPress-based continuing education, from cost math to student experience.
Continuing education and WordPress sit at the center of this discussion, with Chris Badgett and Kurt Von Annen making the business case for moving that work into WordPress.
A grounded reset for course creators who need better expectations, not hype.
This episode treats a failed online course project like a real business question: what was built, what was expected, and what kind of return would actually make sense.
A practical look at turning expert material into usable training.
Chris Badgett and Joe Gorup focus on a familiar course-creation challenge: turning dense source material into training people can actually use.
A practical reset on validation, pricing, and why friendly feedback is not enough.
This episode treats course validation as a plain business question, not a launch ritual. Chris Badgett and Kurt Von Ahnen keep circling the same point: before building, a creator needs proof that the market wants the offer, will pay for it, and sees enough value to act.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Teaching needs more than content.
Burnout is the pain.
Pain gets misread in education.
Chris goes solo with a practical nudge for online business owners: get away from the computer sometimes.
Marketing automation starts with capturing a lead.
Corporate training changes the LMS problem.
Chris Badgett makes annual planning feel usable, not ceremonial.
Continuing education is where the money gets interesting.
Gamification starts before completion.
Affiliate payouts need a ceiling.
Emily Middleton brings agency experience to Chris Badgett's LMS conversation.
Validation starts before a course exists.
Email is still the center of Chris Badgett's marketing stack.
Culture gets practical fast.
Chris Badgett gets straight to the offer.
Matt Medeiros is back with a course, and Chris Badgett uses the WP Minute launch to ask a simple but useful question: how does free education pay its way for sponsors, members, and WordPress pros?
Chris Badgett brings Ziv Raviv back for a conversation that moves from supercoaching to micro niching.
Marcus Carter returns.
Failure is the starting point, but not the punchline.
Chris Badgett turns a 100-mile run into a founder lesson.
Self-paced courses promise scale.
Chris Badgett goes solo.
AI changes the authoring problem fast.
Chris Badgett strips course creation back to the part people skip: teaching.
CourseCreek offers full service e-learning help, with Chris Badgett asking Robert Lunte and Dana Sleeper how their team handles production, implementation, instructional design, and online courses.
Speed is the whole operating principle.
Chris Badgett shares seven mistakes he made over 12 years building LifterLMS, offering lessons for education entrepreneurs.
Chris Badgett discusses shifting from a course creator mindset to a media company mindset to succeed in the online education space.
Chris Badgett discusses 10 ways AI will change the course creation economy, focusing on opportunities and risks for online educators.
Chris Badgett interviews sales and SEO expert Victor Coupe about redefining sales for online course creators and agencies.
Chris Badgett interviews Zach Katz about Gravity Kit's new Gravity Board add-on, a Kanban-style project management tool for WordPress.
Chris Badgett interviews Kurt Von Ahnen about leadership and its role in building online training programs.
Chris Badgett interviews Kurt Von Ahnen about thinking bigger when selling to businesses and scaling LMS projects as an entrepreneur.
Chris Badgett interviews Shahajan Jewell about Fluent CRM and the WordPress plugin ecosystem for online learning.
Chris Badgett interviews Matt about the power of podcasting and its impact on the WordPress community.
Chris Badgett interviews Derek Ashore about conversion tracking and analytics for online course websites and coaching businesses.