“Developing online courses was somewhere on the bottom half of our to-do list for years. But all of a sudden, it was like, ‘Well, I guess it’s being pushed to number one tonight.’ There was a big internal debate in my own mind but I had to tell myself that …

“I’ve created courses that I thought people wanted, and those didn’t do well because they were created from a selfish place of thinking that it was what they wanted.”

“When I established my curriculum, I was aware that there were different standards out there. I created a mind map and outlined the foundation of what should be included in the required 30 hours. From there, I was able to flesh out the engaging additional pieces."

“Thinkific Plus is an easy-to-use, interactive platform with a lot of breadth to it. It’s incredibly reliable and most importantly, it works for us. We’ve never run into issues and are happy with the choice of selecting Thinkific Plus for our learning management system.”

“Before Covid we were just working in East Africa, and now we are working with people across the globe, expanding with no boundaries and no borders—no nothing.”

“Charities are more traditional and conservative in their efforts to scale. Thrive’s had to take a different strategy to move forward, and that meant taking a risk and delivering virtual training through Thinkific."

"The hardest part about selling and marketing was driving traffic to my Thinkific website. The other challenge is that many of my students only purchased one course and never looked through the other offerings."

“We were the first organisation to launch a truly virtual event - the first banking industry virtual conference, which we’re really proud of. We committed to bringing the best and most interesting education to bankers inexpensively, and in a timely manner."

“There was a lot of downsizing then - some of them lost their jobs too - and we offered them the opportunity to join us as speakers. Even when the economy got better, most of them stayed with us over the years – many of them are exclusive to us; …

"She wasn’t a skilled gymnast, she was just having fun and dancing to this really crazy dance music, and in that moment I was just completely mesmerized. I was like, if she can do this, I can do this. I love dancing. This is going to be great.”

“My personal definition of “pay it forward” is when you channel the love and kindness that has been shown to you and share it with others. In other words, show your love, share your knowledge and play it forward.”

“We decided we didn't want to be constrained by limitations. If we've got 500 schools I want to make the training available for our schools as easy as possible. I chose Thinkific Plus because of the API access. It gave us the ability to go as far as we wanted …

"You’re not thinking about strategies for making money or any of that, and really for about four years I was just plugging away making content and totally missing the marketing aspect of it."

“We had a WordPress site with an LMS integration, and it was a nightmare. There were lots of problems – people were paying and not getting access, or getting access without paying. It was really stressful."

"After working at a bank, I learned what I didn’t want to do with my life. Teaching seemed like a quick, reliable way to make money. But I ended up liking it. Then I got into YouTube—and now, I sell my own courses."