Behind the scenes
The tools I run eTeach Online on
People ask me this every week: “What do you actually use?” Here is the honest list. Nothing on it that I don’t open myself, and only one of them pays me if you sign up through my link. I’d recommend it either way.
The one that runs everything
Kajabi
My website, the blog, the membership, every course, every checkout page, my email list and this very page all live in one place. One login. When I want to sell something new, I build it in an afternoon instead of wiring five tools together.
What I use it for
- Website and blog
- The eLearning & Instructional Design for Beginners membership and its courses
- Offers, checkouts and the Store
- Email newsletters and automations
- Landing pages, like this one
If you are a teacher or instructional designer thinking about selling your own course, membership or coaching, this is where I would start. The free trial is long enough to build and publish your first offer.
Partner link: if you start a paid Kajabi plan through it, Kajabi pays me a referral fee. It costs you nothing extra, and I would send you there anyway.
The rest of the stack
Five more tools, each doing one job well. No partner links on these. I just use them.
Notion
My planning brain. Content calendar, course outlines, the running list of what to build next and the notes behind every lesson I teach.
Canva
Every slide, worksheet, thumbnail and social graphic. If it has my colors on it, it was made here.
Metricool
Schedules my social posts and shows me which ones actually brought people to the site, so I post less and more on purpose.
vidIQ
Keyword research and titles for the YouTube channel, plus the data that tells me which videos to make next.
Google Workspace
Email, the documents I share with members and the spreadsheets that keep the business honest.
Why share this? When you can see exactly what someone uses, you stop shopping for tools and start building.
Here for the instructional design side rather than the business side? Start with my free Storyboard-to-Portfolio Checklist.