Thanks for the great video! I'm wondering how would you price different courses differently? For instance, you can restrict posts using Ghost, but users would still pay the same fee to unlock website content when they subscribe. This means they would pay one fee to unlock the entire website (and courses as a result).
Hey James - this is a good question - and no doubt, a current limitation for using Ghost as a one off, course by course, publishing platform. (e.g. - selling multiple courses individually - rather than bundling them all within an umbrella all access pass style strategy) There are workarounds - but they involve incorporating different LMS platforms (e.g - you can certainly embed external courses - or products within Ghost on a one off basis - Gumroad - Podia - or whatever - this is great for a multi-author marketplace style solution - but alas, as you mention - it doesn't solve the problem of many courses - with different price points - all within one ecosystem - unless of course, you choose the all access pass/pay X - and get it all - style approach) We use Pathwright for most of our courses these days (both my own and a few partners - mindfulmarketplace.pathwright.com) - it's probably the best LMS I've used - really an enterprise product - but in the end, would love to be able to use something like Ghost, to deliver the same experience - simply due to the traffic benefits - natural/organic visitors - built in newsletter - customized design, et all :) I appreciate you watching - and the good questions - ghost is awesome, and if you build something great, please feel free to share it with us here!
@@atinybookabout Thanks for your response. I appreciate you getting back to me. It means a lot! I’m trying to switch to Ghost from WordPress as WP is becoming too difficult to handle with all the theme and plugins issues. I want to start writing articles, create courses which I can host in one place and hopefully people will pay to access the content. This is what lured me to Ghost. It looks amazing but has some limitations. Like you said, I too would ideally want all the traffic and users to come straight to my site. And so, I’m not too keen to host my courses elsewhere, because then that’s another different thing I have to maintain. I’d rather have everything under one roof, which is Ghost. I wonder if Ghost is going to capitalize on some of these pain points and integrate (natively) some of these features which will greatly improve the experience for creators who are trying to create and sell all sorts of things. Do you have a list of tips and tricks for people thinking of trying Ghost? I’ll definitely share the link once I get going with the site :) We should all support each other in this creator economy :)
@@jamess5542 Hey there - Ghost is very powerful and robust for everything you want to do above - with the exception of selling individual courses, on a course by course payment basis. (you can easily overcome that simply by charging one price - for all courses - and gating them behind a monthly all access pass/membership site style price point, etc.) This is actually the best way to maximize your income from courses, anyway. (people are much more likely to pay to access al of your content - for one price - instead of buying courses individually, on a one off basis - which won't sell as well, in total) If you look at all of the "masterclass" style sites - this can be done on Ghost - as is. (We pay for - and use a much more expensive LMS (mindfulmarketplace.pathwright.com) that is specifically for courses - and individual cohorts - but they don't have newsletters, customized branding - tons of unique themes/multi- author publishing for articles/etc - so no solution is perfect - just never make the perfect, the enemy of really, really good - and just get started building!) Good luck - and let us know if you build something cool!
Hey there 👋 we are in a similar position where we are looking into Ghost as a LMS solution. Did you final go with ghost as your course delivery? We a re really stuck with choosing Thinkific and Podia but really like the opportunity that Ghost offers.
Hi there - We already use Podia, and have been for about 4 years or so (which is awesome) - and another more sophisticated LMS I also really love but it's pricey and more of an Enterprise level solution - I would love to be able to move all of our smaller courses to Ghost, and it's a very exciting option - you need to creatively use the "tags" (which can be a pain in the ass to set up) and the new "public view" feature (I just did a video on this) is super helpful as well - longer term, it's def my plan to use Ghost as our primary LMS - but short term (for affiliates and product sales) we'll keep our primary LMS options as well until it's ready. Thanks so much!
@@atinybookabout At the moment we don't have a LMS in place at all so we are really tempted to use ghost as an option, it's cheap and looks super cool. Is there anyway we can connect and speak further. Your ghost theme looks awesome too. Did you develop yourself?
Thanks for the great video!
I'm wondering how would you price different courses differently? For instance, you can restrict posts using Ghost, but users would still pay the same fee to unlock website content when they subscribe. This means they would pay one fee to unlock the entire website (and courses as a result).
Hey James - this is a good question - and no doubt, a current limitation for using Ghost as a one off, course by course, publishing platform. (e.g. - selling multiple courses individually - rather than bundling them all within an umbrella all access pass style strategy) There are workarounds - but they involve incorporating different LMS platforms (e.g - you can certainly embed external courses - or products within Ghost on a one off basis - Gumroad - Podia - or whatever - this is great for a multi-author marketplace style solution - but alas, as you mention - it doesn't solve the problem of many courses - with different price points - all within one ecosystem - unless of course, you choose the all access pass/pay X - and get it all - style approach) We use Pathwright for most of our courses these days (both my own and a few partners - mindfulmarketplace.pathwright.com) - it's probably the best LMS I've used - really an enterprise product - but in the end, would love to be able to use something like Ghost, to deliver the same experience - simply due to the traffic benefits - natural/organic visitors - built in newsletter - customized design, et all :) I appreciate you watching - and the good questions - ghost is awesome, and if you build something great, please feel free to share it with us here!
@@atinybookabout Thanks for your response. I appreciate you getting back to me. It means a lot!
I’m trying to switch to Ghost from WordPress as WP is becoming too difficult to handle with all the theme and plugins issues.
I want to start writing articles, create courses which I can host in one place and hopefully people will pay to access the content. This is what lured me to Ghost. It looks amazing but has some limitations.
Like you said, I too would ideally want all the traffic and users to come straight to my site. And so, I’m not too keen to host my courses elsewhere, because then that’s another different thing I have to maintain. I’d rather have everything under one roof, which is Ghost.
I wonder if Ghost is going to capitalize on some of these pain points and integrate (natively) some of these features which will greatly improve the experience for creators who are trying to create and sell all sorts of things.
Do you have a list of tips and tricks for people thinking of trying Ghost?
I’ll definitely share the link once I get going with the site :) We should all support each other in this creator economy :)
@@jamess5542 Hey there - Ghost is very powerful and robust for everything you want to do above - with the exception of selling individual courses, on a course by course payment basis. (you can easily overcome that simply by charging one price - for all courses - and gating them behind a monthly all access pass/membership site style price point, etc.) This is actually the best way to maximize your income from courses, anyway. (people are much more likely to pay to access al of your content - for one price - instead of buying courses individually, on a one off basis - which won't sell as well, in total) If you look at all of the "masterclass" style sites - this can be done on Ghost - as is. (We pay for - and use a much more expensive LMS (mindfulmarketplace.pathwright.com) that is specifically for courses - and individual cohorts - but they don't have newsletters, customized branding - tons of unique themes/multi- author publishing for articles/etc - so no solution is perfect - just never make the perfect, the enemy of really, really good - and just get started building!) Good luck - and let us know if you build something cool!
Hey there 👋 we are in a similar position where we are looking into Ghost as a LMS solution. Did you final go with ghost as your course delivery? We a re really stuck with choosing Thinkific and Podia but really like the opportunity that Ghost offers.
Hi there - We already use Podia, and have been for about 4 years or so (which is awesome) - and another more sophisticated LMS I also really love but it's pricey and more of an Enterprise level solution - I would love to be able to move all of our smaller courses to Ghost, and it's a very exciting option - you need to creatively use the "tags" (which can be a pain in the ass to set up) and the new "public view" feature (I just did a video on this) is super helpful as well - longer term, it's def my plan to use Ghost as our primary LMS - but short term (for affiliates and product sales) we'll keep our primary LMS options as well until it's ready. Thanks so much!
@@atinybookabout At the moment we don't have a LMS in place at all so we are really tempted to use ghost as an option, it's cheap and looks super cool. Is there anyway we can connect and speak further. Your ghost theme looks awesome too. Did you develop yourself?
Hello! Where did you get your theme for Ghost from ?