The purpose of this article is to outline our recommended minimum requirements to get your Showcase Website completed and ready to launch to you customers.
Your showcase website provides you with a professional website, with a responsive navigation and engaging design that will enable you to showcase your coaching business. It also provides an online destination where your students can to get to know you and learn about the services you offer as well as increase your online presence helping to generate and capture new leads.
Even though most of the leg work has been done for you, there is still some work for you to do in order to ensure the website showcases the services you offer, shows your personality and provides the right user journey into your coaching business. The good news is, all the hard work is at the start and once you have made that bit of effort to begin with, you can get on with promoting your website making only small updates as you go. Gaining knowledge by completing our online training course will provide you with more flexibility to edit and maintain your site rather than having to relying on our team and will prevent you from viewing it as burden on your time rather than a tool for your business!
Don’t be daunted by the work required at the start. Plan your time around the training available and take it step by step and reach out for support.
Here our 5 steps to getting started and getting your new Showcase Website LIVE!
Step 1 - Navigate to the Support Hub & start your Showcase Training
Through the GLF. Connect system, you can access the Support Hub via any user role or page. When clicking the Support Hub menu navigation, you will taken to the home page of the Hub. From here, click Getting Setup Training or the Showcase Website option in the menu navigation. Through both of these pages you can start the Showcase Website Training Course...
Step 2 - Open a new tab, login and take a tour!
On handover, our team will provide you with your Showcase Website domain, and the URL for the Content Management System (CMS) area as well as your username and password. To access this, the CMS is always accessible by adding /wp-admin to your domain, for example showcasegolfacademy.com/wp-admin. When you navigate to this URL, you will see a page that looks like this:
Enter your username and password to login to your account and take a tour around the CMS to familiarise yourself with the area.
Step 3 - Work through the training course and add your content
Plan some time to work through each chapter of the training course to become familiar with how your Showcase Website is built and how to use the CMS area. Your progress through the training course will be saved as you complete each lesson. You can stop and come back to this at anytime. We recommend you complete a lesson and then immediately make the edits as you progress allowing you to implement this in manageable steps.
Step 4 - Complete each step within the 10 Steps to Complete Before you Launch!
Below the training course (on the Showcase Website page of the Hub), you will find a short guide detailing 10 steps to complete before releasing your website to the world. This includes running some final checks to ensure all of the dummy text has been removed, checking your contact forms and finally removing the maintenance mode.
Step 5 - Turn off Maintenance Mode and set your website free!
It’s time to go live and get your coaching business out into the world. Visibility through online search such as Google can take some time, however this can be helped by taking a number of steps.
Read our follow up article on the most important steps to take to increase your website visibility and drive more traffic into your business by clicking here.
And finally, remember, our team is always here to help and you can reach out to us by using the Help Button in the bottom right corner of your GLF. Connect system or by emailing us at supportteam@glfconnect.com. Don’t forgot to make use of the Knowledge Base and the range of Showcase Website tutorials to help you along the way!