- Thinkific Payments brings more payments
and selling tools in-house,
giving creators the ability to drive more sales
without having to manage different tools
or pay for third-party integrations.
Now, everything you need to support your business
is in one convenient place.
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- New and improved communities features
to help you build a better community amongst your customers.
Selling features to help you sell more
and generate more revenue.
More apps and integrations
to connect with the tools you love,
including a really cool way to produce personalized videos,
to help with your marketing and engagement
with your customers,
and of course, Amplify, the event
you don't wanna miss this quarter
to help you connect with and learn from other creators.
All of this and more in our feature update video
here from Thinkific.
Welcome back, and I hope you enjoy.
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- Hi, I'm Dez.
We recently launched Thinkific Payments,
a new set of features
that helps you sell more courses easily.
We're really excited that Thinkific Payments
brings more payments and selling tools in-house,
giving creators the ability to drive more sales
without having to manage different tools
or pay for third-party integrations.
Now, everything you need to support your business
is in one convenient place.
By simplifying your day-to-day tasks
and finding easier ways to sell more,
you can grow your business quickly.
The first way you can grow your business
and simplify your day to day
is with the built-in payment processor.
For example, you can accept payments, process refunds,
and manage payouts all from within your Thinkific dashboard.
This makes managing student payments easier,
since actions like processing refunds
can be processed with a single click.
The second way you can grow your business
is with built-in selling tools
designed specifically to meet the unique sales
and marketing needs, of course creators like you.
The advantage of native in-product tools at your fingertips
is that it can help you grow your revenue
without having to spend a ton of time
and money on marketing.
Thinkific Payments is generally available to creators
in the USA and Canada,
and we've started providing limited access
to creators in additional countries
with more to come throughout 2022.
With continued investment in features like reporting,
subscriptions, refund management,
we're building a payment service designed
to help you scale an education business.
What are some of the selling tools available today?
Creators who signed up for Thinkific Payments this fall,
got early access to the new performance checkout,
a brand new single-page checkout
that is faster and smoother.
With performance checkout,
everything is consolidated onto a single page,
moving your customers through the buying process faster.
Your customers pay first, and then set up their account
after the transaction is processed.
This changes help reduce customer drop-off
because less information is required from the customer
before payment is taken.
Finally, performance checkout is a better experience
for returning customers
since their credit card details are auto-populated.
Students can now purchase a second course
without having to get their wallet out.
Performance checkout will be available
to all creators in early 2022.
So if you're not on Thinkific Payments,
keep an eye on your inbox for that announcement
in early February.
Creators on Thinkific Payments
also got access to Order Bumps,
a selling tool that helps you
increase your average order value
and drives more sales from each transaction.
With Order Bumps, you suggest complementary products
to your customers just before they check out.
For example,
if your customer is purchasing a foundation course,
before they click buy now,
you can suggest that they add on an hour of coaching
or a workbook.
In early 2022, we will invest more
into the Order Bump feature,
allowing you to offer Order Bumps on subscription products,
where currently you can only offer Order Bumps
on one-time sales.
You will also be able to sell subscription products
as an Order Bump to support monthly, weekly,
or even daily selling models like coaching for instance.
Performance checkout and Order Bumps
round out a robust set of selling tools
that are already available to creators like coupons,
promotions, subscriptions, and upselling.
These tools have already made a huge impact
for our creators.
10 Baggers Stocks has made $1,600 from Order Bump sales
within two weeks of setting up this feature.
He also improved his checkout conversion rate by 58%
after setting up the performance checkup.
Thinkific Payments is a major investment for us
and it's something we'll be building on for years to come.
We spend our days working to make selling easier
and administration faster,
so you can spend your days doing what you care about,
teaching and sharing your expertise.
Your work and your education changes the lives of students.
We're so grateful to be able to help you
bring that good into the world.
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- Hi, I'm Allie,
and I'm here to share what we've been working on
to help drive connections among your students
using communities.
Student engagement within your community
is more than just likes and comments,
and the learning experience you provide as a creator
is more than just your course.
Keeping students engaged means giving them a reason
to keep coming back, not only to learn from you,
but also to connect with their like-minded peers.
We recently introduced the ability
for your students to create a personalized profile
and @mention other community members,
so they can start connecting with one another
and never miss out on conversations they care about.
Profiles make it easy for students
to share a bit about themselves with their community
and to learn about other members too.
Mentions allow students to tag other members
in response to a post
or directly communicate with one another,
enabling lively conversations
in a dynamic online environment.
Profiles and mentions in the community's experience,
help your students to get to know each other
and start engaging around a common interest.
Your course.
We did this to foster a safe
and transparent psychological space
for genuine connections to be created
between members of your learning community.
As a creator, you maintain control of your community
and its data with privacy as a priority,
free of unnecessary ads or algorithms,
so that content can be shared freely and purposefully
in the spirit of education.
And in case you missed our last video,
this follows the release of spaces and threaded replies,
which can be used as flexible building blocks
to arrange your community, run cohort-based classes,
focus discussions, and organize conversations
in context with relevant posts and topics.
We're excited to continue building more ways
for your students to engage with one another
and learn together in your community
aligned to a common educational goal.
So stay tuned for more updates on communities.
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- Hi, I'm Miranda,
and I'm excited to share the latest with you
on the Thinkific App Store
and just how much it can supercharge your course business.
Do you like the idea of sending personalized videos
right to your students inboxes,
based on when they enroll in your course
or become eligible for a new offer?
How about keeping your students on their toes
with interactive multimedia lessons
like clickable learning maps or virtual tours.
Lastly, have you ever wanted
to deliver your learning content
as if it were a conversation in real time,
all while gaining insights
into your students' learning patterns?
Well, you can do all of this and so much more
with the Thinkific App Store.
By partnering with developers around the world,
we're offering more way for course creators
to design an experience that improves learning outcomes,
student engagement,
and the likelihood to share your course with others.
We're adding new apps every single month
that help you design and launch a course business
that students will love.
Here are a few of our recent favorite apps
to hit the Thinkific App Store.
First step, there's Bonjoro.
Now Bonjoro is the app that makes it simple
for you to create videos
that get sent right to your students' emails
to personally welcome them into your course,
offer them an exclusive deal,
or even share a success story from your community.
Filming and sending these videos off to your students
only takes a few clicks,
and the best part is it all takes place
within a Bonjoro dashboard
that integrates with your Thinkific data seamlessly.
Now, when it comes to creating
an immersive learning experience,
ThingLink is your best friend.
This powerful app helps you create
interactive multimedia lessons
that help students engage with your learning material
more meaningfully.
Whether you want to guide them through a 3D art exhibit
or help them progress through a customizable learning map,
ThingLink is a game changer
for crafting an unforgettable student experience.
Last, but certainly not least, there's DialogForm.
DialogForm offers you a way to simulate
the two way teacher learner interaction
by embedding a chat bot style lesson
into your course player directly.
Students are then presented with their learning content
in a way that feels natural and engaging,
just like talking with a real teacher.
You have a unique vision for your business.
So we've moved beyond a one size fits all approach
to provide you with the best possible tools
to get the best possible results.
The Thinkific App Store empowers thousands of developers
to create meaningful solutions and new functionalities
for you to bring your dream business to life
with absolutely no coding required.
- Here at Thinkific,
we're closing in on 500 people on the team,
all of us working hard for you to create success
in your business.
I am really excited to continue to share with you
some of the exciting projects we're working on
that are gonna help you build your own learning products,
create your own businesses, generate revenue,
and most importantly,
for you to have a positive impact in the world.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you again really soon.