Although I had not personally designed or hosted this masterclass site, some of the theming and integration into the original DJ hub site was custom, and I believe warrants recognition. Built off the Teachable platform, heavy theming, customizations, and domain linking was implemented to make a near seamless integration with the hub to where one would not normally think they were actually switching to a whole new site completely while navigating the hub. With the original DJ site now ported over into this new theme and server, I am hoping to revist the theme options to see if I could get back a near seamless integration again.
The backstory on this: This site was originally created as a means of potentially diversifying my income stream at the time. It was near the current peak of my DJ growth, and I had been frequently and consistently\ been asked to help teach others how to learn, or what I am doing as a DJ. I thought it would be perfect to host an “ever green” video, text, image, and/or audio content series that these people could follow on their own time, at their own leisure instead of having to both be scheduled time for a 1:1, or even for situations where physical meeting was not possible.
Some of the key parts that went into, or involved with the hosting of this shop integration:
Customized theming and integrations to make a near seamless integration with the original DJ site hub.
courses can be completed at will once enrolled.
Custom domain name and DNS record management
Low maintenance backend with tons of features. Cost started out reasonable, but have been increased over the years, and may continue to do so.
Although this has not proved as a lucrative adventure (yet), I have kept it around since creation, as I have loved the features and systems that Teachable has offered as part of my subscription. Albeit, with one (so far) increase in subscription fees, even for plans that I thought were grandfathered in already. Would have been a HUGE plus if they grandfathered all current/previous plans at original prices for as long as they remained customers. That being said, I still have DJ content hosted there, and have even updated a lot of the course content recently, with the plan to revisit marketing my own masterclass content at some point (whether DJ or other).
Update 9/2024 – In the process of updating the theme to re implement the “seamless” site integration after this site is fully updated/migrated from the previous static HTML