Stack suggestions Needed
I'm creating a course and membership with Wordpress but have gotten a ton of contradictory advice and bloated functionality ideas rather than good set up stack. Thinking Elementor, A theme, Thrive leads for funnel, Learndash, Mailchimp, Member Press. Do I need all of these to start? Do I also need Active Campaign? DOn't really understand why I would need Clickfunnels. Anyone with successful experience open to brainstorming?
This is a good question and it sucks you didn't get more responses.
First question is: are you definitely going self-hosted? If yes, then I wrote this detailed explanation of your options.
Feel free to email me and I can offer more advice (course author for 2 years)
wow. this is quite a bit... seems expensive too.
i think you can probably start much more simply... using free tools... for the most part.
a self-hosted wordpress is probably all that you need to start, cost-wise, right? start simple, build from there?
there are a lot of hosting providers on the cheap... like bluehost. this is 10 years old but most of these are still around: https://john.do/blog-hosting/