Customer & Employee Training articles, guides, and product updates from the Mini Course Generator blog.
Not another logo parade. Nine real customer education programs, each broken down to the stealable pattern: what they built, why it works, and the lean version of it.
Onboarding decides retention before week two. The education-first playbook: stages, the 8-step process, honest metrics, and where product tours stop being enough.
Enrollment counts are vanity. The two-layer measurement framework for customer education: program metrics, business outcomes, and verified understanding as the bridge.
Most customer education stats circulate without a source. This page fixes that: every figure below is dated, linked to the study that produced it, and labeled by who funded it.
The complete guide to customer education: what it is, the sourced numbers behind it, a step-by-step program blueprint, the failure patterns nobody writes about, and how to pick the stack.
Bots intercept tickets; education prevents them. Why 73% of customers try self-service but only 14% get resolved, and the playbook that closes the gap.
One team kept a public counter while building their LMS: 4,450 hours and climbing. Before you write the first ticket, read the numbers vendors don’t publish.
An LMS keeps learner progress true, a CMS gets content found, and an LCMS adds shared authoring on the learning side. Here’s what each system owns, the one question that decides, and how the two connect when you need both.
Every vendor lists integrations. Nobody tells you the order, the plan gates, or when a CSV upload is enough. A buyer’s guide to connecting an LMS without regret.