Thrivecart Learn Review & Hands On Walkthrough: Is this course platform really free?

hey everybody how's it going john here from unbeatable tech and i'm so excited to give you my opinions of the new thrive cart learn platform if you're not sure what that is there was an announcement made recently by josh bartlett and the team over at thrive cart where they unveiled what they've been working on for a while thrivecore's been quiet for a few months and the reason is because they just launched a huge update which gives you free access if you're a thrive cart user to an all new platform inside of thrive called thrivecart learn what thrivecart learn is is essentially a competitor to teachable a competitor to learndash a competitor to samcart all the course platforms allows you to build and launch your own courses inside of thrive cart directly without any complicated api keys integrations or any of that techie hookup stuff that can get so many people sidetracked in this video i'm gonna go and take a look at it we'll build a course out together i'll let you know the good the bad and the ugly as we're going through this i've given myself just a little bit of heads up so i know where i'm going with this review but we're you're going to see my first impressions going through building out a real course together i've used tons of platforms just about all of them out there so i'll give you my honest opinion by the end of this video and if you're interested at any point in the video and you want to give it a shot understanding this is actually a free upgrade we'll talk about some of the optional paid bumps in this video this is free for thrive card if you want to give it a try i also have some bonuses as an affiliate full disclosure i get a bit of compensation if you purchase but this is my unbiased review i'm not being paid by thrive card to make this review and it does not serve me to only fluff you up on all the stuff because if you don't trust me then you won't use my recommendation to watch my videos so this is my honest opinion let's go ahead and dive in so there's a video sales letter here i'll also link that down below in the description for you to take a look at what this is but i'll go ahead and save you the pain and let's go straight into it here okay so i'm logged into one of our thrivecart accounts and you'll see a little new button up here with the subtitle of learn so this is their new platform now before we actually build out the course here inside the learn platform basically this is getting rid of the need to have to do this going into your settings going into integrations which scares a lot of people going to membership platforms building maybe a wordpress website and building thrive apprentice or wishlist member and lifter lms and then hooking it all up and praying that it works and praying that like your web host doesn't go down all that stuff this is a hosted solution you would expect to pay about 100 200 per month for a solution like this the pro version of teachable which is what we're personally using uh is about 100 per month it is 100 per month a sam card same deal uh so this is an opportunity to save some money but let's see if it's any good let's go in and build a course and next we will go and hook it up into an actual sales funnel deal let's do it so i'll click over to the learn section here and you can see i have a test course i just gave myself a little bit of heads up before recording this but we're going to go ahead and start from scratch here let's delete this course and we can create our first project if you are a user of convert box or thrive cart you'll be instantly familiar here this is using their same user experience which i think is phenomenal it's very easy it's step by step and it's very fast so let's go we'll go of course here we'll call this simple low priced course we're going to pretend this is a mini course for the sake of this demonstration all right so we have a product or we have a project so the way this works is within the project you can organize courses you might use each of these courses as part of an irresistible offer as a bundle so you're not locked into only selling a single product you'll also be able to do bundles more on that in a second so let's give this guy a name we'll call this awesome mini course in this course you'll learn about thrive card learn it's good enough author is me and i'll give the course a quick logo here alright so i uploaded a simple image that says awesome course and let's create our course okay so now we have our courses created here we're now in the course creation module or setup so we can set up with modules so we'll do introduction and here you can see there will be throughout the interface here several invitations i would say to upgrade to the pro version or learn plus as they're calling it that's going to give you a bunch of different little benefits um which we'll cover once we get over to it so let's just follow along with the free version first and decide i have personally not upgraded to the plus yet more on that later okay we have our first module we can start adding a lesson in something this drag and drop very easy i enjoy that process of you know drag and dropping moving things around because otherwise i'm using a notepad to map everything out then i'm trying to recreate it in a menu system and it can be a little bit more funky so this is very appreciated all right so we'll call this one welcome to the course we'll create the lesson now question is how do the lessons look what can you do with them uh this is okay a feature content is also coming so you're gonna get very bare bones for free they're gonna really try to get you to upgrade to that plus version we'll see about that i'm going to edit this lesson very similar to the checkout page designer inside of thrifecard so let's go and give it a heading and we'll say welcome to my course so this is kind of nice it's not like wordpress where it's very structured and rigid and what goes where you have a little bit of flexibility here let's assume you want to put a video in here and i'll go ahead and grab an embed code for some video okay i've grabbed an embed code i'll just paste it in here i'll say done i don't like that you can't see the preview of the video i also don't really like that because this is a software as a service i tend to have different expectations versus something like a wordpress plugin if it was all in wordpress it was just code that i'm loading on my website i would expect to be responsible for my own video hosting but there tends to be an expectation inside of the software as a service world that they include your video hosting for you but at the same time that's not a really fair expectation i should be able to say because first of all you're not paying every month for thrive cart so if they were to give you an ongoing um hosting forever that would probably not be a very good business model and i would be fearful of the future of thrivecart here they're being smart they're kind of doing what is reasonable uh we'll give you this entire platform we'll integrate it for you just handle the ongoing costs of video hosting so that's where vimeo would come in wistia spotlighter dub there's several different videos out there even presto player things like that so um not a big deal just want to make you aware that's a it's a con but i i can explain through the con that um they can't really afford to give you free unlimited video hosting for life right that's just not really a fair expectation but be aware this is not a fully free solution if you're comparing it to something like a teachable where that hundred dollars per month is also paying for your video hosting so to keep that in mind all right let's fill this lesson out a little bit in this lesson you will learn and maybe get a bullet point list here there we are less one less two less than three all right not too bad i will say publish and i should be able to preview this we'll get into that in a moment let's add one more lesson here i'll be lazy but so if you are building out a course it wouldn't take too long the load screens are not bugging me at all and this is like day one or day two of it being released so um so far this seems like it's a really lightweight solution all right lesson two this way we don't need to have video lessons on everything this is just a text lesson let's also add a link i'll learn more and i will add the link here to my bonuses so you can go to unbeatabletech.com thrivecart bonus right there and learn more if you like what you're seeing i will give you my full opinions at the end of the video alright so this is a mini course no big deal you can see here they are going to try to get you to upgrade while this is here on the screen let's just click on it and see what you are getting advanced sequences being able to if they complete this lesson then unlock that lesson thrive automator is a tool that just came out there's some videos i have on my channel about that which is like a wordpress solution similar to this tagging lists kind of like that crm functionality there's a very very light implementation inside of the right part which is interesting the big one here is course bundles it's it's i'm frustrated because this would be an amazing solution a very easy recommendation if you're on a budget to just grab this and be good but having a bundle is a really important thing i from our audience and from what i've learned in the last seven years of doing this marketing thing is just being able like one product to one course is very inconvenient so from that perspective i like what thrive apprentice has done that you can create courses or bundles and link them to a thrive cart product which you'll see in the end of this video when we sell the sucker they're really going to try to get you to upgrade again it's only i think two hundred dollars let's walk through the other list here team access i could give or take it i it's important but it's not a deal breaker for most people student import that's a big deal being able to take your list of people and if you're migrating off of an expensive software as a solution or a software as a service and coming here being able to import your students is very very important so good job well good job for them on like pulling it in as a paid feature featured content not sure that is yet it's coming soon in custom domains this is a interesting one here so custom domains is where instead of being uh unbeatabletech.thrivecart.com to be like the the home of my thing i would be able to do unbeatable tech or courses.unbelievabletech i can control all that branding which is great inside of the pro version of thrive card the normal thrive card not this learn platform you have the ability to give them one custom domain so one checkout page which is like okay it's been one of my quibbles i don't know if quibbles is a good word for it but i haven't been a huge fan they wouldn't give you unlimited custom domains that would be a huge benefit um and now here on the learn platform it seems as though you'll be able to have a custom domain for every course which is a head scratcher you would think that if you can have unlimited custom domains for your courses you should be able to make a landing page which is a one-page funnel a sales page instead of a thrive cart with a matching domain or at least um you know a similar domain a custom domain for that sales process head scratcher not a huge fan that's a big knock um just because now it doesn't make sense to me if you're going to give multiple custom domains give it across the entire platform if you're only giving a single custom domain stick with it i don't like the inconsistency there okay but if you like all this if as we're going through the video you want to grab it uh it's going to make me leave the why would you make it leave though that's weird let me hit save and then we can check it out oh come on come on okay let's go back in there that's weird all right let's come here upgrade now i can go through only 200 100 195 i'm not giving you giving you my full endorsement on this yet we're gonna work through it together but that's the price to upgrade and it's a one-time price it's not monthly it's not yearly um i don't know if it's sustainable but i've we've seen thrive car continue to grow and scale and they're taking on sam cart head to head with this one here so clearly it is sustainable where they've done the numbers and they're they're smart business people so i don't think they would really set themselves up for failure like that okay so we have a course here it's basic we're gonna come to the course options if the student pays a recurring fee to access this course what should happen after their payments failed awesome pause access disable access super cool so for example if you want a monthly membership where you release new content every month uh you could create drip content we can do drip here so after a trial rebuild after a time period so we could say for example drip out a lesson every oh this is so interesting it's not very flexible is strip out a lesson every week or every month um i would like to be able to include hey maybe after three days get this one after five days get that one um but this is this is good and simple simple is generally better okay course options so that's very nice show this course for sale to students of your other courses very nice so inside their members area kind of like how we got the the pitch to upsell here we can say yeah i want to include this and then you can link them to the sales page of this product which we'll do at the end of the video all right we'll skip over behavior rules but let's just at least show you um okay so if the new lesson becomes available we might be able to add them a tag give them a tag an active campaign so we can send an email to them say hey by the way this lesson's available go click here and log in you can do all that through the integrations with your email marketing platforms nice very cool i'll skip over it but that's a lot of things you could do already so we have our course built out bundles here is only for pro your students importing is only for pro i can click here it's probably gonna give you another warning so it's a fully functional platform but it's limited functionality until you upgrade so um if you're planning on switching over just have the expectation of making that small investment because i just personally would not want to use this for years and constantly see all the stuff i can't do they they're smart marketers man these guys are smart all right now let's sell this bad boy here what we're going to do is we're going to create a product by going to the product section and we'll just call this a learn course learn course let's make it go live why not and we'll do myself as the owner let's just charge five dollars for it and we'll not do a bum but all the good stuff you can normally do with thrive card you can of course do here but we'll skip over that because that's not really the purpose of this video let's put in our support email address and this is where i wanted to show you when they purchase add them to their membership site normally this is where you'd have all your integration set up for example with thrive apprentice wishlist member teachable things like that here though check it out thrivecart learn so this feels just like another integration as an example if i go to this thrive apprentice course i'll probably see some of the courses that i sell on my own website but in this case it's going to be right here no loading no api keys no red error messages that sometimes happen and you can add tags which is interesting i don't exactly know what that is so more on that to come let's just make it a very simple um checkout form we're skipping over all this save and get url let's go through the experience here so i will head over to the purchase again i have not customized this but you can see the price of my course is now that amount let's pause real fast and buy this thing okay i'll paste in a fake email address and put my credit card in all right so it's completing the order let's see what happens next okay so it sends me to a not designed checkout page if i click here what's going to happen i'll click over here it'll ask me to create my account which is super nice very clean that's set up here i'll also likely get an email address or an email here we go so now i can see verify your account to access oh goodness ads on top of ads cool so this is my email address it tells me that i'm good to go i'm in i get my standard invoice i'm used to getting from thrife cart and we get this is just a receipt from stripe since this was a real transaction okay cool so let's go ahead and create our account we'll call this first purchase i'll put in the email address i just used give myself a password and i'll say complete and now i can see here this is very nice i can see my awesome course i can click on it and i've got access instant access this looks very premium it definitely has that thrive cart feel to it i wonder if i can see all my purchases so far i don't see the ability to get my purchases i'm sure that's on the road maps that's just the next logical thing to include but that's it guys this is thrivecartlearn i can see in my dashboard now if i go over to this uh dummy account and look at my transactions i can see this transaction coming in today all in one spot we built that out in just a few minutes what are my thoughts if you are already a thread cart user and you're not happy maybe you're paying a lot and there's a lot of tech and confusion and stuff with your current provider this is worth a look honestly it is worth a look um it is a brand new software it's a brand new system which means i would expect there to be some bugs in the beginning throughout this process i didn't really feel any bugs going through it but i would be cautious of if you have an existing for example we have about a hundred thousand students in our main academy i would not be comfortable importing all 100 000 over today and getting started with this platform i would let the bugs work out a little bit but if you're launching your course and you're not sure how to do it and you're looking at kajabi and then you see the price tag of like a per month 100 200 per month this could be a serious budget option where for the price of a few months you could be good on life for both your checkouts and your courses what's nice about this as well is because if you are selling um physical products like drop shipping or selling a book print on demand things like that thrive cart does that nicely already and then you can have a bump where they can get access to a member's area inside of thrivecartler so there is some good flexibility with what you can do here um one of the gripes i've always had with thrivecart is just because you sell a course as the main product if maybe the upsell was a consulting thing that was not a course you kind of have to have a course for everything like you have to almost create dummy courses or shell courses if you wanted to have upsells and down cells that are different products um it's just kind of something you get used to it's a common um it's a common downside with course platforms but there you go um not bad i'll certainly say i'm impressed going through this for the first one learning more okay cool shows you what's going on i'm impressed in a follow-up video i'd like to go ahead and add a couple more courses in here to see how they populate in that members area and if they send over to the course sales page that's definitely interesting to me i hope this video was helpful if you enjoyed it please subscribe like do all that stuff and if you don't have thrive and you're considering it um there's a link down below my affiliate link i'd be appreciative but do what's right for you in the next video we'll dive much deeper into it take care

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Length: 19min 4sec (1144 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 08 2021