How To Create A Course And Sell It Online

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Create, market, and sell your own online courses

Thinkific's powerful, all-in-one platform makes it easy to share your knowledge, grow your audience, and scale the business you already love. Whether you're educating 10 students or 10 million, feel confident that you've got the easiest technology and best support in the business.

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50,000+
course creators
100 million+
courses taken
165+
countries using Thinkific
$650 million+
earned by our course creators*

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Everything you need to run your education business under one roof

Build your course

Easily upload videos, build quizzes, and organize all your learning content with our drag and drop builder. Set pricing, schedule lessons, and automate your content to curate a learning experience your students will love.

Design your course site

Beautifully showcase your courses and maximize sales with a fully customizable course website that's designed specifically to sell education. Quickly update one of our themes to match your style, or connect your courses to an existing site for a seamless brand experience.

Market and sell

Get all the marketing tools, integrations, and payment options you need to promote your business, sell courses, and build raving fans. With advanced e-commerce options, you'll join a community that's already earned more than $100 million selling courses on Thinkific.

Support your students

When your students thrive, so does your business. Use our robust suite of student features including completion tracking, automated progress emails, course discussions, and more to ensure your students are happy and successful.

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Thousands of entrepreneurs trust Thinkific to help them deliver exceptional student experiences

"You need to get on Thinkific. The team is creative, reliable, and offers unbeatable support. They always make sure all my bases are covered and, as a business owner, that's invaluable."

Lewis Howes, The School of Greatness

Turned his passion into a top ranked worldwide podcast and 7 figure online education business
"Thinkific has been a DREAM partner. I've been impressed with the level of customer service, attention to detail and the way the company treats me (and my clients) like family. The software is easy to use without sacrificing any quality. They're seriously changing the game!"

Marshawn Evans Daniels, Believe Bigger

Built a community of over 100,000 extraordinary women
"By teaching our audience how to scale and grow their business through online training, we've grown ours. We couldn't have done it without Thinkific."

John Lee Dumas, EoFire

Trusted by over 20,000 students from all over the world
"When I found Thinkific it was like a breath of fresh air. It cut my content upload time more than in half. It has literally transformed my ability to get my content out to my community, increased my revenue, and I don't think my business would be where it is today without it."

Dana Malstaff, BOSSMOM

Helped over 20,000 moms start and grow their businesses
"Turning my book Sell It Like Serhant into an online course has changed my life and career. Without Thinkific I would not have a course. It's opened up a new revenue stream for my business, and way to help more sales people."

Ryan Serhant, Sell It Like Serhant

Real Estate Broker, Author, and TV personality
"Thinkific offers the power and flexibility to help us achieve our business goals. If we had only started using Thinkific 1 or 2 years earlier, we'd have gotten to where we need to be so much faster."

Ryan Chynces, Hootsuite

Certified over 45,000 students as social media professionals
"I use Thinkific because it's the best online learning platform. It enables me to interact with my students, answer their questions, see how they're doing - all without having to worry about building that technology for myself."

Kim Werker, Make it Mighty Ugly

Helping people discover their own creativity
"When I found Thinkific I knew I had found my perfect solution. It's honestly the best e-learning platform. If that isn't enough to convince you, they are made up of the most helpful, kind, and generous people that I've ever had the pleasure of working with."

Sarah Cordiner, Edupreneur Academy

Helped over 9,000 students in 131 countries

Easy to set up and make your own

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Powerful customization - with the click of a button

We now offer best-in-class apps in the Thinkific App Store for course creators. Easily customize your course experience—no matter your expertise—so you can build exactly what you want. No coding required.
Total control over your content, pricing, and data

You have the freedom and flexibility to run your course business however you choose. Take full control over site design, content, course pricing, student information, and more. You get paid instantly and own 100% of your data.
Seamless automation lets you work without worry

Automatic onboarding, student messaging, completion certificates, and more. Ensure your students get a world-class education every time so you're free to tackle your big picture goals.
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Designed for you and your students

The most successful course creators know that seeing results for their business depends on delivering an exceptional learning experience to their audience.

Every Thinkific feature, from our landing page templates to our state-of-the-art learning environment, was designed so you can enhance your students' experience and grow your business for long term success.

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"I seriously can't be more impressed with your customer support team. They are the perfect blend of efficient and personable. It's like having my very own IT department."

Some of our world-class customer champions

There are many reasons why we're rated #1. Here's just a few of them:

Responsive and personal email & phone support - we don't go home until every question has been answered
Comprehensive knowledge base, training site & live webinars to get you going - regardless of if you're an expert or just starting out
90% of questions answered in less than 5 hours
Active peer support from our 12,000 member Facebook group - filled with course creators just like you

Haley Davis
Teaches food videography
brewinghappiness.com

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Be our next success story

Get started creating your online course with Thinkific today and turn your expertise into a thriving business, just like Haley who transformed her foodie blog into a successfully scrumptious online course.

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