Innovate your culture as you would innovate your product, for a thriving organizational culture is the bedrock of sustainable success. By daring to innovate your culture, leaders foster an environment that encourages creativity, embraces change, and adapts to emerging trends. Today's guest is Greg Smith, Founder, and CEO of Thinkific. Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their online courses. In this podcast, Greg delves into the transformative power of innovating your culture as you would innovate your product. Join us as we explore real-world examples, practical strategies, and expert insights on how to harness the potential of innovative culture-building. Discover how the drive to innovate your culture not only enhances employee engagement and productivity but also attracts top talent and cements your organization's position as an industry leader. Through this episode, gain inspiration to embark on a journey of cultural innovation that propels your organization to greater heights of excellence and innovation.

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Join Mary Nunaley and me and discover “How to Engage your Audience through Gamification”

📢 Mary and her son Amadeus co-founded the Lavender Dragon Team in 2018. Mary is a Master Instructional Designer, Thinkific Expert, and Gamification Aficionado along with being an award winning course creator.

When not behind the computer, you can find Mary checking out cemeteries, reading, or hanging out with the family, including her four felines.

Join Mary Nunaley and me and discover “How to Engage your Audience through Gamification”

📢 Mary and her son Amadeus co-founded the Lavender Dragon Team in 2018. Mary is a Master Instructional Designer, Thinkific Expert, and Gamification Aficionado along with being an award winning course creator.

When not behind the computer, you can find Mary checking out cemeteries, reading, or hanging out with the family, including her four felines.

Are you interested in reaching new potential marketing agency clients? How would you like to add additional revenue streams to your bottom line?

The global e-learning market is projected to reach $390.6 billion by 2026 making it a fast-growing and lucrative industry for course creators… and they need your help!

Course creators are looking for help with everything from content & marketing to sales & customer service, which presents opportunities to reach and expand into that market. In this podcast you’ll learn from a major player in the e-learning industry:

- What course creators need help with

- How marketing agencies can support course creators

- How agencies get started and earn more revenue

Listen and learn from Raphael Zajtmann, Senior Manager, Agency Partners at Thinkific!

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Thinkific - https://thinkific.com

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Join Jay on today's Black Entrepreneur Blueprint podcast episode # 374 as he discusses three emerging industries that entrepreneurs should look at that have amazing upside potential to build a multi-million-dollar business. Visit www. BEBConnect.com

I’ve been running a online business for over a decade which means I’ve logged nearly 34,000 hours of work from home time. Having the best and simplest tools to run that business is one of my keys to success and today I will share with you my favorite tools that I use regularly for running my online business. 

In this podcast I will share the tools I use on a regular basis but if you want the full list of tools that I have put together you can access that below

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176: Course Creation For Creators With Rob From Thinkific

In this week’s episode, I chat with Rob Balasabas from Thinkific. We talk about how he builds community over at Thinkific as well as how they use YouTube. We also discuss how course creation for Youtube creators can be a big deal and a great way to make extra income before you are partnered.

About Rob

Rob Balasabas is the Social Media & Community Manager at Thinkific. He manages the daily curation of Thinkific’s message on social media. You’ll also find him engaging with their private online community of over 15,000 (and growing) online course creators inside the “Thinkific Studio” Facebook Group. He speaks at conferences on behalf of Thinkific, as well as podcasts, webinars, and live streams.

Connect With Rob Here:

YouTube Channel

Instagram

Check out Thinkific here for your own courses

Support the show on Patreon here for day-to-day interaction with myself and the community on discord.

If you want to send me your products or merchandise please send it here:

Dusty Porter 
P.O. Box 7028 
Chestnut Mtn. GA 30502

Links Discussed In This Episode

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Canon 70D – A Fantastic Camera at a great price.

TubeBuddy – A tool that makes your YouTube Life EASIER and Helps grow your channel.

Screenflow — A fantastic Screen Recording software for Mac to create beautiful screencast videos.

Adobe Audition — Audio editing software.

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TubeBuddy – A tool that makes your YouTube Life EASIER and Helps grow your channel.

Patreon – Get Your Channel Featured On The Show AND Acess to an exclusive YouTube Creators Facebook Group

AudioHero – A Fantastic source for copyright free music to use with your content. The Netflix of AUDIO. Use our Code CREATOR at checkout for a special promotional price.

Bluehost – If you need a website use this link to get a free Domain Name and a great deal on hosting.

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• Experience and knowledge in leveraging IP where he has created an ecosystem that has helped a lot of people
• How he stumbled upon memory teaching
• The story and catalyst of how he started this kind of teaching
• Explanation of how direct response marketing works
• Books and social accounts as a passage that is pointing to a central hub and funnel
• How he tracks communications to know what people have and haven’t done
• The particular structure he uses for his emails and content
• Dual Path Readership
• Facebook vs. YouTube
• Aware and unaware market
• How he uses YouTube and creates engagement for his videos
• Discussing selling pitches in videos
• How to know how much free stuff to give
• Why you want your competition to pay attention to you
• Proprietary language used by Dr. Anthony

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Branding You Academy

055: Share Your Course Using Thinkific with Siddharth Bharath

Thinkific is an online course software platform based in Vancouver BC, Canada. CEO Greg Smith was searching for a way to put his LSAT course online in order to reach more students. He saw the need for an online course platform and along with his co-founders designed software that would allow course creators to easily add their content online.

On today’s episode, Shannon speaks with Siddharth Bharath, a marketer and VP of growth at Thinkific. Sid, who at the time was a marketing consultant, was looking for an online platform to host his courses. He really liked Thinkific as a course platform because it was easy to use. He decided to contact Greg Smith with some marketing ideas and Greg was impressed enough to ask Sid to join their team and has been with them since.

Shannon picks Siddharth’s brain asking him what technology is needed to create a course, how much financial investment is involved, how students and teachers can interact, marketing your course and more.

10:05 What led Sid to work for Thinkific

12:40 How Thinkific can help you run a course

14:45 The Thinkific plans so you can decide which financial investment works for you

15:55 Do you need a website needed to run a Thinkific course

16:50 What is the bare minimum technology needed to make a video

18:30 What tools are needed for good audio

19:55 Sid’s tips for creating a video

20:40 How Thinkific facilitates the interactivity between students and teachers

21:30 Yoga teachers who are producing courses with Thinkific

23:25 The Thinkific team and culture of kindness

25:30 The help available to Thinkific users

26:25 Sid’s tips for marketing a course

29:05 Videos as yoga class add-ons and how they can supplement your in-person classes

29:25 Payment options for your customers such as one-off, monthly payment plans

30:30 Sid’s last bit of advice: “Action beats perfection”

31:50 How to get in touch with Sid and Thinkific

32:15 Shannon’s wrap-up and key takeaways

Links

Email Sid: sid@thinkific.com

Thinkific Website

Thinkific on Facebook

Thinkific Blog Post: Best Equipment & Software For Creating Online Courses

Example Yoga Courses on Thinkific

The Bhakti Shop

Mako Mindfulness Membership

Related TCYT Podcast:

Ep 54: Launching a Podcast and Facebook Group

The Connected Teacher Facebook Group

Book a Consultation Call with Shannon

5-Day Content Creation Challenge

Define Your Yoga Niche Online Course

PDF: 5 Koshas

Yoga for Pelvic Health Teacher Training

Mama Nurture Teacher Training (RPYT)

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When you become proficient in your field, you’ll find people coming to you for your expert’s knowledge.

In fact, often your ability to educate peers on your methods will surpass the methods themselves. Every business professional has invaluable wisdom, but often they find it difficult to teach in a manner that sticks. Proficiency in teaching is critical for any professional, and today’s guest will help you refine your skill.

Greg Smith, co-creator of Thinkific, has been helping brands and business leaders build educational courses through his dynamic online platform. Throughout his career, Greg has found a teaching structure that can help audiences absorb ideas with ease. With his six knowledge bombs of online teaching, and tips on finding your market, Greg Smith will turn you into the best educator you can be. And as a bonus, he's giving you access to Thinkific for free! 

In This Show, You’ll Learn:

• Power of pilot course to hone your teaching content
• How to up your course completion rate
• 6 knowledge bombs to think about while creating your course
• Why perfection kills

Key Quotes

• “We spent most of our time not on the marketing, but on making a course people would get the most value out of.” - Greg Smith
• “With our imperfect videos, we had higher completion rates and better grades. They let the students know that we are human, we make mistakes too.” - Greg Smith
• “My single biggest obstacle was my perfectionism. 'Perfect' is impossible.” - Greg Smith
• “Once you get your product to the customers, they’ll find a hundred things you can improve upon.” - Greg Smith
• “If you’re gonna move the world, you just have to get it out there. Don't try and be perfect.” - Park Howell
• “You’ll learn as much from your students as they learn from you.” - Park Howell

Mentioned in this episode

• Greg Smith
• Greg Smith Twitter
• Thinkific
• Winnebago Man
• Zoom
• Social Media Marketing World

As co-founder and CEO of Thinkific, Greg has worked to build a platform to “empower modern course creators” by making it easy for them to create, market, and sell online courses. This allows people to focus on what’s really important - their learning business - not the tools and technology behind it. With over a decade of experience as a course and platform entrepreneur, Greg knows what it takes to both lead and succeed in the world of online learning.

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Jeff Cobb talks with Greg about his experience launching and growing Thinkific, practical advice for how to create and sell online courses, and what he sees as the biggest opportunities in the future of online learning.

Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode87

Highlighted Resource of the Week – A free weekly webinar hosted by Thinkific. This is a live training session that takes place every Monday and Thursday at 2PM ET and it’s designed to teach you step-by-step how to build an online course and start growing your online course business. It also gives you an up close look at the Thinkific platform. To find out more and to sign up, go to http://www.leadinglearning.com/thinkific.

Thank you to Castle, which is the sponsor of the Leading Learning podcast for the second quarter of 2017. Castle is an accomplished full-services certification and licensure testing company that also offers its clients a variety of learning solutions capabilities. With an expert team of testing and instructional design professionals and a thirty year history of excellence in it’s field, Castle understands what it takes to develop and deliver quality learning and certification programs.