The rhetoric right now is that courses are kind of dead...

I get why. A lot of it kicked off when Amy Porterfield closed down her course-based business at the beginning of the year, and it threw a lot of people for a loop.

(Not to mention AI and the commoditization of information 😬)

But after all my experimenting recently, I just don't buy it.

Free info you can Google? Yeah, that's a tough sell.

But a course that gives people:

• the tools to actually implement
• accountability
• interactive tools that give rewards (my favorite thing!)

...is very much alive.

So I'm making it my mission until the end of the year to modernize my courses for 2026 ✨

I'm going through my best ones and "AI-ifying" them, as I call it.

Here's the example I've shared so far...

I took Ads Vault, which started as a spreadsheet course, and turned it into an interactive tool. See a preview of that HERE.​

Then I made a YouTube video showing how I did the same with my freebie (watch HERE), and I've gotten SO many questions since publishing that video 3 weeks ago.

If you want to update your own course (or your old spreadsheets, haha) so they feel relevant for right now, join my waitlist and I'll let you in behind-the-scenes of what I'm doing with my courses right now.

I'll test which updates actually improve my students' experience AND improve conversion rates... and share all the goods soon.

A few other things I'm working on:

1️⃣ You can now chat to my courses inside ChatGPT.

We just finished Offer Vault and High Ticket Vault plugins (instead of GPTs).

If you're a student, go check those out, because now you can just chat with ChatGPT about the course.

Prefer Claude? There's a skill for that too, of course!

2️⃣ Sales pages customized to the reader.

Testing this now. (It's kind of amazing when a headline says your name and speaks to your exact pain points and dreams 😀)

3️⃣ A tool that pulls freebies straight out of my courses and designs the funnels for me.

It's so hands-off.

I literally just sent my team member a message about it today, because not having to deal with form fields or automations is incredible.

4️⃣ A system that labels all my testimonials and DM screenshots.

My Claude tool then suggests what goes on the sales page, or makes stories and carousel posts for my feed, depending on what I'm launching.

I truly believe everyone should have a course... so even if you don't have a basic spreadsheet product (like me 💁‍♀️) to beautify, get on the waitlist to see what's possible.

Breaking: Instagram just announced 90-minute videos 👀

They're horizontal, they're called Features (basically IGTV again), and they're testing them now.

Why the comeback? Instagram has a TV app, and vertical Reels don't work on a TV.

So who fills it with hours of long video? You. And so far, no payout has been announced.

My take: I wouldn't start your long-form on Instagram. Put it on YouTube, where it gets found in search and can pay you, then bring the best 30 seconds to Instagram as a Reel.

If they start paying, I'll happily eat my words. Until then, I'm not working for free to fill somebody else's TV.

Now on a personal note... I'm 3 weeks into a 6-week fitness challenge 💪

I have literally never done one of these, but after joining my local F45 I somehow found myself in one. (How did this happen?? A good coach and community, that's how.)

At first, I wanted to skip it because:

• it included a body scan where you see your body fat percentage, which was intimidating esp. being 10 months postpartum
• I was scared to calorie count for the first time in my life, because I didn't want to bring up old (bad) dieting habits from my teens

But it's actually been really illuminating.

• learning what a 500-calorie meal really looks like
• seeing how much snacking adds to the calories (wild!)
• trying new foods, like buckwheat for breakfast (very trendy on my TikTok right now)
• cooking a tonne of sweet potatoes and root veggies and swapping them in for rice and noodles

I'm by no means entering the health space, ha.

But it's helped me get my footing as I come back to work. It gives me direction, even though it's unrelated to work.

Because movement creates momentum, which creates clarity. Nothing just starts from clarity.

Oh, and one more thing...

I'm at the halfway point of a 30-day posting challenge with a bunch of my peers 👀

The rule: the first person who doesn't post for a day pays the group $1,000.

So far, everyone has posted every single day for 15 days, and it's been really eye-opening to see what's resonated and what's flopped.

That's probably a story for another day, once I have more insights after the challenge is done.

👇 Want in on the course makeover movement?

​Add your name to the waitlist HERE.​

~ Elise

P.S. If you have a course or spreadsheet that feels a little dated, the waitlist is where I'll share exactly how I'm updating mine.