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Create and Sell Online Courses with Teachable and Thinkific
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Create and Sell Online Courses with Teachable and Thinkific

The complete guide to self-hosting online courses: turn your online courses into a full-time business with our training!
3.8 (147 ratings)
Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
12,300 students enrolled
Created by Phil Ebiner, Matt Bernstein, Video School Online Inc
Last updated 1/2018
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What you'll learn
  • build your own online course site with Teachable or Thinkific
  • write email sequences that make sales
  • create a sales funnel that gets more people onto your email list
  • drive more traffic to your website, funnel, and email sequences
Requirements
  • Students should sign up for either Thinkific or Teachable to be able to follow along with the course content (the free plan is fine).
  • Students should have a website with an email marketing tool like ConvertKit, AWeber, or Mailchimp to create email sequences.
  • Students should create a website, YouTube channel, and social media channels for your brand.
Description

Do you want to increase your online course income?

Would you love another stream of income?

Have you thought about self-hosting your online courses?

You're in the right place.

This course walks you through BUILDING YOUR OWN ONLINE COURSE SITE with Teachable and Thinkific. But it doesn't end there. We should you exactly how we're making sales using email sequences and sales funnels. 

You'll learn how to WRITE EMAIL SEQUENCES that turn website visitors into course purchasers.

You'll learn how to CREATE A SALES FUNNEL that increases the number of people on your email list.

You'll learn how to DRIVE MORE TRAFFIC to your website and into your sales funnel.

Everything we teach you in this course is what has been tested and proven to work. We don't only show you how to do this, but we back it up with proof. We promise that if you take this course and implement all of our strategies, that you'll be better off than 99% of all other online instructors.

Instructors Phil Ebiner and Matt Bernstein have taught 100,000s of students on Udemy and other course platforms. Now they'll show you their exact strategies to replicate their success with your own course website.

There really isn't any reason to hesitate. Enroll now, and get started. 

Only people like you, that act now, will be successful.


Who this course is for:
  • Udemy instructors
  • Anyone with an online course that wants to increase their revenue from that course
  • Anyone who wants to create online courses and host them on your own site
Course content
Expand all 110 lectures 08:49:34
+ – Dive in to Self-Hosting
5 lectures 12:38

Welcome to this course. In this video, we'll give you more information about how this course works and who the instructors are.

Course Introduction and Overview
Preview 03:56

Use this lecture to decide which sections you want to start with.

Course Roadmap
00:46

In this lecture of the self-hosting course, you'll learn the basics of how to be successful with a self-hosted course site. We'll walk you through the basics of how it works.

How to be Successful with Self-Hosting Courses
Preview 03:19

In this lecture of the self-hosting course, Phil shows you his proof of success, and the rapid increase in revenue he is generating from his self-hosted courses.

Proof of Success
Preview 03:51

Whether you use Teachable or Thinkific doesn't matter much. They both have a lot of the same features. This is a quick comparison of the two.

Teachable vs. Thinkific
00:45
+ – Create Your Self-Hosted Course Site with Thinkific
12 lectures 36:48

Host your online course content with Thinkific. This is what the course design looks like within Thinkific. 

Hosting Skillhance Courses on Thinkific
Preview 01:52

Learn how easy it is to build / setup a course within Thinkific.

Building a Course with Thinkific
09:25

Create / build a course bundle with Thinkific. Learn how to build your own & offer a unique value proposition compared to your course offerings on Udemy.

Course Bundles
03:22

Learn to build a premium membership with Thinkific & offer a unique value proposition compared to your course offerings on Udemy.

Skillhance Premium Monthly Membership
01:25

Learn how to setup course memberships within Thinkific. Yet another way to offer a unique value proposition compared to other teaching websites.

Course Memberships
03:20

Thinkific makes selling your course easier by offering you a sales widget that can be posted to any website. This will help you sell more courses.

Course Sales Widgets
03:13

Host a lead magnet on Thinkific. This is the start of the sales funnel and allows you to collect students emails in exchange for a free course.

Hosting a Lead Magnet
01:07

Learn how to host your podcast on Thinkific. This will allow you to collect listeners email address in exchange to access all podcast episodes.

Hosting a Podcast
01:27

Organize your course categories using Thinkific. Learn how to improve your users / students experience on your self hosted website.

Thinkific Couse Categories
02:00

Learn what Thinkific website settings are and what specifically is easily customizable with your Thinkific website.

Website Settings
05:18

Thinkific Hosting plans / pricing. What features do Thinkific offer, and at what price?

Thinkific Hosting Plans
02:23

Once you have a paid plan, Thinkific offers great customer service. Learn how to watch their free course, access their help center, and ask any question you need their help with.

Thinkific Help Center
01:56
+ – Create Your Self-Hosted Course Site with Teachable
11 lectures 55:55

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn about the different plans Teachable has to offer.

Sign Up for Teachable
07:01

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll get oriented to the Teachable dashboard and admin pages.

Teachable Dashboard
08:14

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn how to put your courses on Teachable.

Building a Course with Teachable
13:11

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn the different options for pricing courses with Teachable, including one-time payments, subscriptions, and payment plans.

Set Pricing for Your Teachable Course
04:06

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn how the coupon codes work on Teachable. You'll even learn how to give away a free one-month trial to your subscriptions.

Coupon Code Options with Teachable
05:22

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn how to create a course bundle with Teachable.

Course Bundles with Teachable
01:35

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn how to create pages right within Teachable.

Creating Pages on Teachable
03:41

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn how to customize your top menu, including adding custom links.

Customizing Your Menu on Teachable
06:05

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn how to customize your home page to make it look like a nice landing page, custom page, or course directory.

Customize Your Home Page on Teachable
04:05

In this section of the course, you'll learn how to use Teachable to self-host your online courses. In this lecture, you'll learn the final steps to publishing your course on Teachable.

Publishing Your Teachable Course
02:20

In this lecture of the Teachable section, you'll find out where to get help when you have Teachable issues.

Resources for Teachable Users
00:15
+ – Price Your Courses
2 lectures 14:14

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, you'll learn more pricing strategies.

Pricing Your Course
08:10

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, you'll see how Phil is pricing his courses. What's working right now? Let's dive right in.

Phil's Pricing Case-Study
06:04
+ – Create Your Email Sequence
12 lectures 01:07:13

Learn how to setup your own email marketing series / funnel.

Introduction to Email Marketing
04:14

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, you'll learn how to create a great sequence of emails that sells your online courses.

Email Sequence Template
08:10

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, you'll see a sample of Phil's email sequences that is working right now to sell his courses.

Phil's Email Sequence Case-Study
06:03

Learn the challenges of email marketing / setting up a sales funnel.

Challenges of Email Marketing
08:18

Learn the concepts of content marketing to build an email marketing campaign.

Content Marketing
03:42

Learn how to create valuable content for an email marketing campaign.

Valuable Content
07:03

Learn email client standards - like gmail, yahoo, and how to not get into spam.

Email Standards
04:41

Learn things to avoid doing in your email marketing campaign that will lead to customers spam folders.

Email Spam Filters
06:45

Learn additional ways to keep your emails clean from the spam filters.

Keep Email Clean
04:00

Learn how to generate traffic to your website to generate leads to sign up for your email list.

Lead Generation
05:18

AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action.

Learn how to use AIDA to close the sale & profit.

AIDA
06:51

Recap of email marketing & how to use it to generate leads / sales.

Conclusion to Email Marketing
02:08
+ – Create and Drive Traffic into Sales Funnels
10 lectures 01:28:50

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, you'll learn the basics of creating a sales funnel that will increase your revenue.

Sales Funnel Basics
07:17

Learn exactly how we generate traffic to our website.

Getting Started Generating Traffic to Your Website
10:06

Create a front end offer. This is the first product your customer will buy from you. Example, a $15 course.

Creating a Front End Offer
06:39

Build a back-end offering. This is the most expensive product / service a customer will purchase.

Creating a Backend Offer
09:07

After your customer orders the front end offer, the next time you send them an email (1 week after they buy). It's a front end offer. Maybe a video course that SUPPLEMENTS their learning + bonus offerings.

Creating Your First Upsell
10:38

The downsell is the same as the upsell, except no bonuses are offered. It's also discounted at a lower price because maybe the customer was interested in the product, but didn't want the bonuses.

Creating Your First Downsell
05:58

Learn how to build a 2nd & 3rd upsell. What ideas to continue to supplement / further their learning. information is never withheld. These are meant to further their learning in a supplementary skill.

Creating a 2nd & 3rd Upsell
11:18

Take a look over my shoulder as Matt Bernstein shows you exactly what his company "Skillhance" sales funnel is.

Example of a Skillhance Sales Funnel
09:11

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, Phil talks about writing articles to drive traffic to his courses.

Phil's Article-Writing Case Study
08:48

In this lesson of the self-hosting course, Phil talks about posting YouTube videos to drive traffic into his sales funnels.

Phil's YouTube Case Study
09:48
+ – Choosing a Niche
3 lectures 09:17

Choose your website niche, then make sure all of your content falls under that.

Choosing a Course + Webite Niche
Preview 04:59

Validate your website niche using Amazon Kindle best seller rankings.

Amazon Kindle to Validate Course Subjects
Preview 02:35

Validate your website niche / subject by researching the amount of keyword search terms are made each month.

Google Keyword Research
Preview 01:43
+ – Build a WordPress Website with OptimizePress
11 lectures 47:17

Check out what Skillhance website home page looks like to emulate the design.

Skillhance Homepage
Preview 04:24

Learn how to build a similar homepage for your website using OptimizePress.

Building the Homepage with OptimizePress
07:49

Learn how to setup / design a blog using OptimizePress.

Skillhance Blog with OptimizePress
04:24

Learn how to setup / build a resources page using OptimizePress.

Resources Page with OptimizePress
04:29

Learn how to create / build a coaching page for your website with OptimizePress.

Coaching Page with OptimizePress
07:03

Learn how to publish blog posts & publish on a consistent schedule. This will help increase traffic to your website.

Publishing Blog Posts with OptimizePress
06:08

How to use OptimizePress to build pages on your website.

OptimizePress Page Builder
03:27

Learn to create social proof on your website with a reviews page. This is also done with OptimizePress.

Skillhance Reviews Page
Preview 01:17

Learn how to build / setup an about page for your website. People want to get to know you, and not a company. You'd have an easier time paying a friend $20, then you would a total stranger.

Skillhance About Page
01:52

Use Sumome WordPress plugin to add subscribers to your email list. Learn how to setup their sumome smart bar.

Sumome Smart Bar Sharing
04:31

Learn how to protect your website and backup your website data with Backup WordPress plugin. Learn how to set it up.

Backup WordPress Website
01:53
+ – YouTube Marketing Strategies
6 lectures 36:01

Learn the basics to marketing your website with YouTube.

YouTube Marketing Plan
06:36

Learn how to create engaging videos on YouTube that drives traffic to your website.

Creating Engaging Videos
05:07

Learn to optimize your YouTube channel and specific best practice strategies to build your channel.

YouTube Channel Best Practices
03:22

Learn how to use YouTube to maximize your revenue from it. YouTube ads, lead magnets, etc.

Maximizing Income
03:16

Get a close look over Matt Bernstein's shoulder as he shows you his company YouTube channel for Skillhance.

YouTube Channel Case Study
11:49

Learn how to optimize YouTube videos. Top 10 things to do on YouTube as well as top 10 things to avoid.

Optimizing YouTube Videos
05:51
+ – Google+ Marketing Strategies
4 lectures 13:06

Learn how Google+ can help build your business and drive traffic to your website.

Introduction to Google+
02:55

Learn the basic strategies behind Google+ and how to drive traffic to your website.

Basics
03:40

How to use Google Hangouts to communicate with people to build customer relationships as well as partnerships.

Google Hangouts
02:44

Learn how to use Google+ communities to build a group for customers to interact in & grow together.

Communities
03:47