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What is Thinkific?

Thinkific Plus is a scalable learning platform that’s designed to be easy to use for teams and customers. Thinkific Plus offers enterprise-grade features that scale with the needs of enterprises, and the service includes a people seriously dedicated to helping users to reach their goals.

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Who Buys & Uses Thinkific

Thinkific Reviews

What users are saying about Thinkific.
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Pros

  • Intuitive interface and straightforward setup for course creation
  • Comprehensive training and responsive customer support
  • Robust course creation features supporting diverse material types

Cons

  • Pricing model restricts advanced features to higher-tier plans
  • Limited integrated marketing tools and SEO support
  • Insufficient design flexibility for landing page customization

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Incentivized
Sharon Reid
Founder at Sharon Knowledge, LLC (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific for my courses, digital download lead magnets, and digital workbooks. The business problems I solve are for job seekers, providing out-of-the-box thinking search strategies as well as leveraging AI for building new income streams for the everyday person even if they are not looking to leave their current employer. Thinkific allows me to create amazing landing pages, ability to email and create funnels, and so much more. It's a convenient one stop shop and I love it!

Pros

  • The accelerator program.
  • Providing tips on how to succeed using their platform.
  • User-friendly setup for putting together landing pages and course uploads.
  • The platform is very intuitive and you don't have to have tech skills to use the platform.

Cons

  • I wish bulk orders could be available for ALL plans not only the higher paying plans.
  • I wish I knew how SEO worked with Thinkific because I don't think I am doing it correctly.
  • I do a lot of searches in Google to figure out things like how to space in Thinkific for some of its features when working on my landing page. Apparently, there are some features that do not space and you have to use html to get the words to space in paragraph form and etc.

Return on Investment

  • Well, let me tell you this! I literally launched a unlocking new income streams with AI course on a Sunday and started getting sales within 12 hours, then within 3-4 days ended up getting 4 sales. About 7 more people said they will be buying the course as soon as they get paid since the course was launched on rent/mortgage day (aka June 1st).
  • My other course was priced higher and only ended up getting 3 sales within 3 weeks. However, what it did show me (it was my first course I've ever done let alone have up on Thinkific) is that I needed to revamp my course as well as landing page. Through the Accelerator program, I realized that my quality was WAY off and the landing page was NO WHERE at the level it should have been. So, that program helped a ton! Now, the course is revamped (just finished it two days ago), but this time around I am going to have a marketing plan in place before launching. So, the launch won't happen for another 3-4 weeks!
  • I like that payment comes very quickly. I typically receive payment within 1-2 business days. Also, there is not a huge payment taken out of the sale as a whole.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Udemy Business

Other Software Used

Canva, ChatGPT, Notion

Thinkific For Digital Marketing and Coaching Businesses.

Incentivized
Bobby PerryView profile
CEO- Digital Marketer in Marketing at The Artistic Creator Academy (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Thinkific is a platform like no other. I feel that Thinkific, the platform, has made it easy for me to connect with my clients in a simplified way without having to pay extra per product and service. I create an average of 5-6 courses per year and host 10 webinars per year. Being able to integrate my experiences with my audience allows me to meet them where they are. For those looking for a one-time offer, there are webinars or a mini-course available. If they want a longer-term commitment, they can join my community through flagship courses and private communities. Another selling point is the mobile app for people on the go, and when the company scales, you're able to white-label. What people want nowadays is to be able to do everything in one site and not have to go anywhere else, and Thinkific does just that.

Pros

  • Courses
  • Integration
  • Support Team.
  • Website

Cons

  • Having its own email marketing platform outside of using Zapier.
  • Creating lower cost options.
  • Affirm Payment Options.
  • More website customization features.

Return on Investment

  • No email marketing makes it more difficult to collect leads.
  • Price can be a barrier at time for small businesses who don't have revenue.
  • Easy to use and helps with my business needs vs platforms like Squarespace.
  • Community building through workshops and webinars Thinkific host.
  • Access to educational resources and mobile app.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Kajabi, Squarespace and Podia

Other Software Used

Squarespace, Substack, Metricool, Shopify

Best LMS On the Market.

Incentivized
Darian Kovacs ♾️View profile
Partner in Marketing at Jelly Academy (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's our primary learning management system for our academy. We need an on-demand tool to host all our learning. It also provides quizzes and a certificate, and it has a great online community tool that we use. It's also easy to create iterations of our course for other Universities and Colleges to license.

Pros

  • Hosting curriculum.
  • Online community.
  • Tracking progress.

Cons

  • See it in more Universities and Colleges so they're more accepting of the LMS.

Return on Investment

  • It's become our primary tracking and progress tool for students taking our on-demand course.
  • It allowed us to do a French version.
  • It allowed us to do a high school version of our course.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

D2L Brightspace, D2L Wave and Kajabi

Other Software Used

HeyOrca, Cyberimpact, DashThis

An effective e-Learning platform.

Incentivized
Bob ApolloView profile
COO in Corporate at Inflexion-Point (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Thinkific to host Inflexion-Point's Outcome-Centric Selling Academy, which is focused on B2B salespeople and sales organizations involved in complex B2B sales. We find it easy to design courses, upload content, and manage our training programs, and we have regularly received compliments from students on our platform.

Pros

  • Course design.
  • Course management.
  • Usage statistics.

Cons

  • More design options.
  • Proactive marketing.
  • Comparative analysis.

Return on Investment

  • Enabled us to continually grow our student community.
  • Made it easy to update courses.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Teachable

Other Software Used

HubSpot Marketing Hub, HeyGen, LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Why I will always use Thinkific

Incentivized
dazuqnick castro
Founder in Sales at THE8FIGURECOLLECTIVE (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific for my online business course. This course was created so my students would have ease with learning. I highly enjoy that it’s very simple to set up, it can be done quickly and is constantly being updated. My students enjoy that it’s smooth, it has a very nice luxury look. And that they are able to start and stop whenever they please.

Pros

  • Constantly updates the sites program for better use to the admin and enrollees
  • Being able to have the option of a app to help support your brand and business more
  • Allows you to edit and upload right from any mobile device. Making updates for the admin easier and quicker to get content out.
  • Allows you to preview everything you do and have it in drafts. This makes your creation process smooth and not rushed
  • Provides you training beyond just the course set up. This allows you to really grow and better your business and brand with great leadership

Cons

  • I think the beginner course should have at least 2 admin options. As a small owner when you are starting to sprout but don’t have a huge team yet. The cost can be helpful if the beginner rate then jumping straight to the higher advanced.

Return on Investment

  • POSTIVE impact more students enrolled i have had no negative reviews or feedback from any enrollment since starting.

Usability

Other Software Used

Class for Zoom, Instagram for Business, Meta Business Suite

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