 The number one question I get asked most often by course authors is what learning management system or LMS should I use to sell my courses? There are hundreds and hundreds of learning management systems out there to choose from, so I get why every course author is confused by this. You should try going to an L&D trade show where everyone there is selling the world's best LMS system. Talk about getting a headache. Over the past decade, I've used talent LMS, teachable, kajabi, litmus, canvas, learn-dash, the list goes on and on. But before I tell you what my favorite learning management system is, let's go over a list of items on what you should be looking for in an LMS system. Number one, scorn compatibility for interactive courses. Number two, easy to use page builder with templates. Number three, the ability to build out the pages of the LMS into a full blown website. Number four, integrated e-commerce shopping cart. Number five, open API for custom programming. Number six, automated workflows. Number seven, a built-in affiliate program. Number eight, the ability to manually upload new users into the system in bulk. Number nine, built-in surveys and net promoter scores. Number 10, certificate generation when a course is completed. Number 11, excellent reporting capabilities and analytics. Number 12, the ability to sell and manage B2B course sales. Number 13, community features. Number 14, blended learning capabilities with Zoom integration for live talk classes. Number 15, form builder for lead generation collection. Number 16, the ability to sell courses individually or as part of a bundle or subscription. Number 17, integration capabilities with your favorite SaaS based tools. Number 18, enterprise level capabilities so you won't outgrow it. Number 19, email capabilities. And number 20, a flat fee pricing model. So now you know all of the things that you'll want to look for when shopping for an LMS system, but let me save you weeks of research and just tell you a system that will do all 20 of those things I just mentioned and many, many more. The number one learning management system that we recommend to clients here at the URL doctor is Learn Worlds. Learn Worlds has the flexibility of a custom designed Learn Dash site without all the incompatibility issues that you run into with Learn Dash and plugins and WordPress. And believe me, all of those incompatibility issues will drive you crazy. I was a Learn Dash developer for more than a decade and I know intimately the struggles of trying to keep a Learn Dash site, especially one that's built for squirm compatibility up to date and playing nice with all the other plugins that were needed to make it work. Learn Worlds has a page builder that's very similar to WordPress. It has templates that allow you to build out your learning management system into a full blown website if that's what you choose to do. In all fairness to WordPress, Learn Worlds does not have the capability to add all the different plugins that a WordPress site does. But in all honesty, Learn Worlds comes with so many features built in that I honestly don't miss or need the ability to add additional plugins. And it has all of the squirm capabilities and all of the e-commerce shopping cart capabilities already built in, so you don't need plugins to add those anyways. You also have access to the Learn Worlds API, which allows a custom developer to come into your site and connect it with other pieces of software in a more custom designed fashion if that's something that you need. The majority of my customers don't, but it's nice to know that you have the capability to be able to access that API if you want and need to. One of the features that I really like in Learn Worlds is the built in affiliate program. So affiliate marketing is a great way to sell your courses by connecting with other influencers, people on social media, partners, customers. There's lots of different relationships that you can build to have affiliate marketing work for you, where basically somebody is going to send traffic into your site, you give them a special web code or coupon, there's a couple of different ways that you can set it up, but they're going to send traffic into your site and the site itself will track that sale of somebody purchases and then you can give that person that sent that traffic to commission. It's a great way to build your customer base, build your traffic levels and Learn Worlds has an affiliate program already built into the system. Another Learn Worlds feature that my clients have gotten super excited about is the app that allows you to sell your courses in the Apple and Android stores. The app is an add on feature, but it really opens up a world of possibilities if you're interested in selling through an app environment. The automated workflow capabilities are another great feature in Learn Worlds that you will not find in a lot of other LMS systems. The ability to connect your Learn Worlds sites with other third party apps to take advantage of marketing opportunities and additional upsell opportunities and to keep your learners on track all through workflows that can be automated. The list of features in Learn Worlds goes on and on. Honestly, I could probably make 50 separate videos on all the different features and things that you can do in Learn Worlds. But the number one reason that my clients and I like it is that it's SCORM compatible. The majority of courses we make here at the URL doctor are SCORM courses. They're interactive. They are created in a SCORM file format and we deal a lot with large clients with enterprise level clients and this is the type of course that they expect. So if you're interested in selling your courses to large companies, you're going to need SCORM compatible courses and a SCORM compatible LMS system. Interactive courses are also more engaging. They actually bring your learner into your material and really keep them engaged and entertained as they go through the course. With a video course, you're just basically watching a series of videos. And I don't care how beautiful you are. After a while, 10 or 15 minutes, that gets really boring to just sit and watch. Now, Learn Worlds does have an interactive video feature that's part of the system. Now, my video crew and I kind of give it a meh rating. It's not one of our favorite things about Learn Worlds. But I do know that this particular feature is something that they are currently upgrading. So we're really looking forward to when the new interactive video feature comes out. So one of the other things I want to mention about SCORM compatible LMS systems is that the majority of them charge per user. Every time you put a learner into that system, you get charged for that learner. The difference with Learn Worlds is it's a flat fee pricing model which makes it a lot more affordable, not just for my small clients, but also for my big enterprise clients. So this is really a huge advantage and makes Learn Worlds very price competitive as far as SCORM compatible LMS systems. But I don't recommend anything that I don't believe in or use myself. I moved all of the URL doctors courses out of Learn Dash and into Learn Worlds and I've been thrilled with the results. Learn Worlds is now the number one recommended LMS system here at the URL doctor. Our knowledge bank off the shelf library of 700 microcourses is built in Learn Worlds. We can not only sell these courses directly to the public for somebody to come in and take a couple courses here or there or to buy a subscription, but with the duplication feature, the cloning feature in Learn Worlds, we can now clone these sites and sell a completely white-labeled, pre-built learning management system with hundreds of microcourses to our clients if that's something that they're looking for. It's a super cost-effective way to get a very large group, your own library of courses relatively quickly. We also have a proprietary test assessment feature called Knowledge Test that we have built on top of Learn Worlds that actually quizzes a learner and assesses their knowledge base before they take a series of courses and then it recommends to them in Learn Worlds what courses they should take based on their knowledge gaps. It saves a huge amount of time for training and for anybody in the L&D space who has a corporate group of learners that they're trying to teach. If you'd like to try Learn Worlds, use the coupon URLDR10 and save 10% on your first six months of service. If you have any questions about Learn Worlds or how to create engaging e-learning courses, please feel free to reach out. Good luck and remember to keep it engaging and exciting and don't create courses that suck.