Wondering how you can sell & deliver digital content?
We've been there and it's confusing knowing how to do this!
We use and recommend two key tools for this, Thrivecart & Searchie.
Some links are affiliate links so if you use them we might get a small commission which we can use to fund Laura M's diet coke addiction 😉 (the price doesn't change for you)
SEARCHIE
All of our products are hosted on Searchie, including our programme and membership. It's our favourite business tool.
What can this tool do?
✅ process payments (with a Stripe integration)
✅ host your videos
✅ automatically transcribe all videos
✅ automatically add captions
✅ automatically create audio downloads of your videos
✅ host a membership
✅ host a course
✅ host any other private or public video based content
✅ store PDFs and other documents as downloads
✅ searchable (videos are searchable)
❌ email marketing
❌ community
Easy to use? YES SUPER SIMPLE!
Thrivecart
Thrivecart is primarily a payment processing tool but they recently added Learn+ which offers hosting for a course or digital product. Most cart software like this charge you a subscription fee but Thrivecart offers a one off fee to manage subscriptions, split payments & affiliates too. We use this for all our payments.
What can this tool do?
✅ process payments (Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay & Google Pay)
✅ process split pay & subscriptions
✅ manage affiliates
✅ host your videos
✅ host a membership (although not as user friendly as Searchie)
✅ host a course
✅ host any other private or public video based content
✅ store PDFs and other documents as downloads
❌ searchable (videos are searchable)
❌ email marketing
❌ community
❌ automatically transcribe all videos
❌ automatically add captions
❌ automatically create audio downloads of your videos
Easy to use? CART IS SUPER SIMPLE
Learn+ takes a bit of fiddling
What other options are available?
✅ Kajabi - we didn't love this but it works for some people
✅ Teachable or Thinkific - both are good starting sites for courses
✅ Gumroad - we've not tried this but its super popular on Twitter
✅ ClickFunnels & Klaviyo - pretty good but expensive
✅ Podium - takes a bit of fiddling to get this one right, we didn't love it
We'd pick Searchie & Thrivecart over all of these (and we have!)
How could you keep it low-tech?
✅ You could take payment with a simple PayPal link
✅ You could deliver via email
✅ You could store your PDF's in a GDrive or Dropbox
✅ You could host your videos on Vimeo or YouTube
✅ You could use a Facebook group to host your digital content
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List Building Masterclass
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Social Curator
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