Thinkific New Features Roundup 2021

[Music] hi i'm greg 2021 has been a big year for us here at thinkific and we wanted to share with you some of the ways that we're innovating to support you and your business this year we took our company public and raised 184 million dollars we've also grown our team to over 400 thinkers and all of those people and all of those dollars are hard at work innovating to support you in your business that is our obsession here at thinkific how do we create success for you in building and growing and scaling your business this year that means two key areas of focus the first is helping you bring your vision to life in terms of the learning experiences you want to deliver to your audience and the impact you get to have on them and the second is helping you sell that getting more people into your audience more people signing up for your programs and courses and learning from you we also want to make everything across the board easier for you to do building a business is hard your software shouldn't be the team's going to come and join in a moment and share with you some of the things we've built and some of the things we're working on for the future i hope you'll enjoy this thank you hey i'm aaron and i lead product here at thinkific in the past year we've connected with more of you and spoken with more of you than ever before and we're using that insight as the basis to help you create learning experiences worth paying for we're thrilled to share some of the things we've been working on this year hi there i'm madeline a product manager at thinkific our job is to listen to you the creator and develop features that help you meet your business needs and succeed you've built amazing courses that can impact countless individuals and now you just want to share them with as many people as possible your efforts to promote your course may be working but there's potential for many more people to be reached you want to tap into like-minded individuals similar to those who are already enrolled in your course today but how do you accomplish this we added social sharing so students enrolled in your course can share their progress by publishing a personalized post to their favorite social media channels with a link back to your course homepage this can help you gain more exposure for your course and gain new enrollments since launch we've seen that in general horse creators that have turned on the social sharing feature have more course enrollments overall and more enrollments in the last 30 days compared to those that don't have it turned on word of mouth is a powerful form of communication for your students to share about their experiences and endorse your course there's no simpler or more instantaneous tool than social media for students to share about their experience while celebrating their accomplishments with an endless pool of potential new students within their personal network hi i'm sarah product manager at thinkific and i'm excited to talk to you about how communities can help grow your business communities transform online learning from a one-sided experience to a communal and collaborative exchange we build spaces in thinkific communities help better organize content spaces are flexible building blocks that enable you to run cohort based classes focus discussions on content and customize the student experience to your course for example you can create spaces for instructor updates share assignments gather course feedback and run office hours content is the most valuable part of your community and how you structure that content gives your students social cues as to how to participate content organization is what makes communities relevant and usable when building an online learning experience web pages are some of the most important ways that you attract and engage an audience you want an experience that's easy to manage but one that also grows with your business so we're introducing a new site page editor it gives you one interface to add remove and manage all the sites within your business we've also improved our section editor so you can rearrange content there exactly as your customers will see it we're doing this because websites are the front door to your business and we're increasing our focus in building successful online experiences that help you attract and engage your audience when we talk with you about the way that you scale your businesses we've noticed many of you are adopting multiple thinkific accounts this requires you to manage multiple credentials and makes it harder to scale your teams so we're introducing the thinkific plus portal the plus portal unifies multiple thinkific environments into one view and brings all of those resources to just a click away we're doing this because your time is valuable and rather than worrying about administrative details we want you to spend as much of that time as possible building a successful learning business [Music] hi steven menon from thinkific here today and i'll be speaking about our performance checkout feature you succeed by selling online and conversion is a really important factor you ask for a streamlined checkout to increase sales efficiency as well as to increase the value of each of your customers you also ask for the flexibility to sell in ways that meet your business and help you grow healthy ecommerce is a big priority for us that's why at the start of this year we introduced a performance checkout to really create something that's usable fast and converts this fall customers in the us and canada will have the opportunity to upgrade to our new one-page checkout that will offer the convenience of being able to offer complimentary products at that checkout page as well as the ability for your students to purchase without having to create an account we've tripled our team size in this past year in this product space to be able to test learn and build faster hi my name is neha and i am the senior manager of platform marketing at thinkific when we talk to our customers two of the big things that come up is the desire for more when it comes to our learning experience and the need for support when it comes to marketing and selling your online courses this is one of the biggest reasons why we decided to launch the thinkific app store apps allow you to do so much more we're adding new apps and extended functionality every single day focused on helping you acquire new customers create awesome learning experiences and target the audience that you've always dreamt of a few of the recent additions to the thinkific app store include an app called beastnotes beastnotes is a super easy app for your students to take notes distraction free while watching your video lectures and scrolling through various articles another app that we've added to our roster includes hoist hoist is a super simple and cost effective tool that we have in our app store that allows you to capture student video testimonials and highlight them on your course website last but not least we have an app called omnisearch omnisearch is a very powerful tool that allows your students to effortlessly find the information that they're looking for within your course material at any given time when we set out to launch the thinkific app store we knew that we wanted to bring together the best in-class tools to help you achieve the very best results after all we're not about that one-size-fits-all approach we know that you know your students unique learning needs better than anyone else and the tools that you will need to put in place to address them our apps platform makes it possible for the engineering of hundreds even thousands of developers to build out the solutions that you need to best suit your needs at the end of the day we want you to focus on doing what you do best sharing your knowledge with the world oh and the best part is there's absolutely no coding required [Music] this update wouldn't be complete if we didn't talk about our investments in technology when you choose an online learning platform you want a partner that's committed to highly available scalable and fast technology this year under the hood we've made significant improvements in our infrastructure we've strengthened our apis and we've upgraded nearly a dozen components of core technology in our platform there's more demand and feature innovation in our market than ever before and we're committed to continually investing so we can keep your business running smoothly [Music] hey everybody this is sumo here from thinkific and i head up community here the number one question we get from our course creators is how do i launch and sell more of my courses to my audience well today i'm super excited to announce two new courses built just for you the first one the marketing strategies course with marketing guru neil patel breaks down how he uses webinars for his own business he goes behind the scenes on his six million dollar funnel and teaches you how you can use webinars to increase your core sales this course is completely free for all our customers the second one is a eight-week live experience called the course builders academy where you will connect with several other course creators and our top instructors and go from zero to launch ready this is for people who are serious about getting ready for black friday and the holiday sale season and we'll walk you through everything from how to pick an audience a topic and then how to get ready for launch in these courses not only will you learn the top secrets of our top course creators but you'll also get to connect with other creators just like yourself and get the behind the scenes on how we build courses here at thinkific last but not the least if you're looking for ideas inspiration or advice don't forget to join the thinkific community on facebook where you'll be able to connect with over 30 000 other creators just like yourself not only is it the largest but it's also the kindest place on the internet to talk about course creation as always i'm invested in your success signing off this is sumo that was just a taste of some of the ways we're innovating to help you in your business we are just getting started and we're going to have regular video updates coming to you about all the great things we're doing here at think [Music]

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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 06 2021