The best platform to host and sell online courses

Ever feel like setting up your online course is way harder than it should be? Like you're drowning in tech, constantly Googling solutions, and spending more time fixing issues than actually selling?

You’re not alone. And that’s exactly why I recorded this episode.

Today, I’m pulling back the curtain on the best platform I’ve found for hosting and selling online courses: Course Creators Kit (CCK).

I’ve tested all the big names: Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific. And in this episode, I break down why CCK wins, hands down.

Here’s what we dive into:

• Why most platforms leave you stranded when you need support the most (and how CCK does it differently).
• The one thing most course platforms get completely wrong. And how it’s secretly costing you sales.
• How CCK makes launching easier, whether you’re a total beginner or scaling to six figures.

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Transcript

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Welcome to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. My name is Michelle Smit, and I am an ex-teacher turned online business coach for Edupreneurs, the owner of Digiteach and a six-figure entrepreneur. I am in love with empowering educators just like you to create freedom filled online businesses and lives they love. If you are looking to up level your skills, your finances, your mindset and change the trajectory of your life as an educator in business, then you are in the right place. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of business and mindset development to help unlock the infinite potential within you. To play bigger with your life and go after your dreams. We are going to have so much fun together. So thank you so much for pushing play today. Now let's dive in. Hello. Hello. Welcome back. So good to have you here as always. So I've been receiving quite a few questions recently about what is the best system to host and sell your online courses without having to lose your mind over tech. Or to pay for over bloated platforms with functionality that you don't need. And without feeling like you don't have any support. So if you've always wondered, where to host your course where to build your funnel, your landing pages, where to build your email sequences and email automation so you can email your people. And maybe you use a system now that you're not happy with, then this episode is for you. If you want an online business, and you want to sell courses, then you need to have a system to sell the courses on and to host the courses. You cannot sell courses without having a system to host and market and all of that. So it really is essential. So given that, what do I think is the best system? What is the system that I recommend? And I'm going to share with you in this episode what system that is and why I recommend it. So the system that I absolutely recommend is the Course Creators Kit. I'm going to refer to them as CCK because it's easy. So the Course Creators Kit is, for me, it is just by far the best system to use. Now, there are a lot of platforms out there. There's Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, Podia. Funneler, click funnels, the list goes on, there's a lot of systems. But CCK, in my opinion, stands out. And today I'm going to give you five solid reasons why this is the system to go with if you are serious about building an online business and selling courses. By the way, if you want to use the system or you want to trial out CCK and get a feel for the platform. You'll see in the show notes underneath this episode a link where you can click and that will give you a 14 day free trial with CCK. You don't have to add your credit card details or anything. It's a completely free, and you can play around with the system, get a feel for it. Feel if it is the right one for you. All right. So let's get into why I think this is the best system to use. So reason number one, their support is next level. Now, let's be real. When you're setting up an online course and building an online business. Tech things will go wrong. Maybe you can't figure out how to set up your checkout page. Maybe your videos aren't loading, or you just want to tweak a design but you don't know where to start and then you end up sinking hours and hours of time into figuring it out on your own. And if you do have tech hurdles, for example, when you're actually launching and selling your program and say, for example, you've got a tech problem that's urgent. People are trying to buy your course and they can't buy your course. You need to have support and you need to have fast support. Now, most platforms. Good luck. Good luck with the support, submit a ticket and pray to the tech gods that you hear back in time. That's kind of how it feels. But with CCK, you get real human support that is fast. And I'm telling you within 24 hours, you will hear something back from them and they will be on it. And they will go above and beyond. And now they do often have articles to help, but actually they're very hands on. The support team is amazing and they really care. They care about, and that's the ethos of the Course Creators Kit and the team there. They really care about the people who use the system. They care about their results. And I will even say, because It's not a huge system with thousands of users. It's more of a bespoke system that they will know you. They'll know your business and they'll be invested in your success. And it's amazing to have that feeling of support in the tech side of things. It's an absolute game changer, because tech, if it overwhelms you, which for many people it does, you need to have extra level support with it. And honestly, on its own make CCK better than all of the systems. I've used multiple systems and I've never experienced that level of support. And for me it's a total game changer. And I see our DBA students because I am partner with CCK and we help anyone in DBA can get all these free things with CCK. And I do that because I know that tech is an obstacle and we've partnered so that we can make tech not an obstacle so we can get people results faster in the best way we possibly can. And that's why our DBA students get good results is because they have that added level of support with the tech side. Alright, so reason two. It's a true all in one system. So you don't need a separate website builder. You don't need a separate email marketing tool. You don't need to duct tape 17 different platforms together and hope that it all works. CCK has everything built in one. So it's a Powerful course hosting system, so you can host your course on it. It's got a sales funnel builder, which is really easy to build out really good sales funnels. And a sales funnel is the thing that you sell your course with, and that leads to sales. You need it, otherwise you can't sell your course. Email automation, so you can build out automated email sequences, which you need when you are selling a course and growing an online business. You need to have an email autoresponder, it's got payment processing, it's got checkout pages, it even has a blog hosting tool. So you can have a blog if you want to, it's got an e commerce site, so if you want to sell physical products, you can do it. It's got a appointment booking thing that would replace Calendly. So you don't need to have a separate appointment booker. Which is amazing. So if you're in a situation right now where you're duct taping 10 different systems and you've got 10 different subscriptions and you're finding like it very clunky, it's not streamlined, it's causing you more stress. Then CCK is definitely the option to be going for because it's got all the things at a really good price. And if you haven't yet got a system, then yeah, I would recommend just going with CCK first. Because if you're starting from scratch, then I recommend you need more support than normal. And then CCK wins with the support. Okay, so reason number three. The pricing is actually fair. Now I can't say what the price is now, because you might listen to this episode like a year from now, and maybe the pricing has changed. I don't know. But what I've noticed when I look at all the systems. And I look at the price of CCK. CCK is actually really competitive with price, given what you get for that price. So, for example, if you look at like the starter plan of Kajabi, and then you look at the starter plan on CCK, and you look at what you get, you will see that CCK is much of the same price, but you get much more included. So you get maybe more funnels, more websites, like you get more in it. So that's what you want to be looking at is what you're getting for that price. And I feel given the support is so amazing. I would be paying extra for that support. It's pretty much a competitive price. So. If you're budget conscious, but you still want a high quality platform that doesn't feel like a ripoff, then I still think CCK wins. Because of the added levels of support that they have to pay for their team to support people and still they've got competitive pricing. So with that kind of level of support, it definitely wins on the pricing side of things. Alright, reason number four, they have done for you services that are pretty much affordable. So if you hate tech. You don't want to set the thing up yourself, you don't want to set up the funnel, you don't want to set up the website, you don't want to do the thing. And you want someone to do it for you, then CCK has done for you services where they can build your funnels for you. They can build pretty much anything you want for you on your website. And in my opinion, it is affordable. And I would say that because when you look at done for you services in the online business world and course creation world. I've seen things of 7 grand, 10 grand, 15 grand. I've seen really high ticket packages where they do the thing for you. But with CCK, you're not going to be paying those prices. It's going to be more affordable. Of course, you can hire a person to build out your stuff on different systems, probably for 5k and more. But if you are not rolling in that cash yet, and you really just want to get it done for you, then I believe that CCK offers really good builds for your funnels and all the stuff you need for your online business at a great price compared to what you'd pay elsewhere. So this means that for the people who are limited with time, but they have money to invest and they need to fast track this process. If you want your tech done for you and you want to skip the tech struggle and you want to get launching and making money as soon as possible, then CCK got packages that I think are really good that can get your stuff built. Now, I've had CCK build a lot of my stuff for the last couple of years. And for me, it's a dream because anyone who knows me knows that I'm not into tech. I don't like it. I don't teach on it. I outsource it where I can. And so, for me, it's been absolutely invaluable to have them be able to pull it out so many things for me. Because then I can focus on my zone of genius, which is coaching, creating content, selling, connecting, building relationships, all of the stuff that I actually enjoy while my tech stuff is managed. So that's a huge one. And then reason number five is it's really an easy system for beginners. So it's powerful for beginners and it's powerful for advanced business owners. I started with CCK. I wouldn't say I was a complete beginner because I'd used another system before that. But it was super intuitive. It was super easy. And I just felt compared to the other systems, it was way more easy to use. So if you're a beginner, the platform is intuitive. Of course, you're going to have a learning curve as when you use any system that's new. But it actually makes sense. It makes sense as you use it. There aren't weird workarounds. There aren't like overcomplicated things. It's quite straightforward on how to use it. And the website builder and the page builder and everything works really easily and quickly. Now, if you're an advanced business owner, meaning you've already been in business for a while, maybe you're using a system and you're not really loving it, then you can move to CCK and it still has all of the functionality that you would need I think for an advanced business owner. You can still build out more complex automations. You can build out evergreen automations that sell your courses all the time. You can do evergreen webinars on it. You can do enough with it that I think it can grow with you to a seven figure business with that system and it grows with you as well. And that's how the payment structure works as well as your email list grows and your business grows. Then the amount you pay for the system grows. So when you start small and you start as a beginner, you're paying less. But as you're making more money, you pay more, which a lot of systems are like that, and it makes sense in that way. So, those are the five reasons that I think CCK is the bee's knees, and this is why I have partnered with CCK. And this is why my DBA students and coaching clients have all the support when it comes to the Course Creators Kit. When they join the Course Creators Kit inside of DBA, they will get lots of bonus stuff that's been done for them to make their lives easier, to make tech easier. So they get extra support, they get pre built funnels, they get a course hosting dashboard built for them so that they already have a place to put their course on. They've got built in email sequences to sell their course. We've done that extra work for them just to make life a lot easier with tech. Because that's my goal is like, how can I get you to the result of making money and launching in the least amount of time? And in also the most joyful way possible where you don't want to throw your computer out the window. So that's why CCK is my favourite basically. All right. So if you can take one thing from this episode, then let this be this support. Support is really, really important when you are building an online business. You cannot put a price on having people that actually care about you and want to see you succeed. Now. If you are on another system, for example, Kajabi, which I don't think is a bad system at all. But I do know that these systems have thousands of users. And so you will become a number. Yes, they maybe have good support. But still they have got thousands of customers. And so they are managing a huge volume of tickets, a huge volume of support, and there's only so much they can give to you. Now with CCK, because the goal isn't thousands of users. It's a bespoke system where their ethos is to have a smaller amount of users, but really good quality, successful business owners so that they are really getting the help that they need. And that's what they have. So they don't have Huge volume of people on it at least for now and that isn't really in the future and the vision of CCK either. It's not really the goal isn't to compete on a volume scale. The way they are differentiating is to compete on the support quality scale and for me, that's what I would be looking for. If you want to have success with online business and course creation, you've got to make the tech side as easy as possible for you. And you've got to make sure that you've got the right kind of support to get you over the hurdles when they come, because the tech hurdles, they will come. So that's my two cents. Don't be cheap about it. Don't say, okay, I'm not going to spend that amount per month. I'd rather go patch 10 different systems together because you are not going to win that fight. Unless you are a tech wizard. If you're a tech wizard, then go and do that thing. I am not a tech wizard. So I'm speaking from my experience. For me, I would not win. I would never have launched. I would never have made a single cent probably if I had patchworked a lots of tech tools together. But I was able to be successful and our clients are able to be successful using CCK. Now, of course, you can use another system, but this is the one we recommend. So if you are inspired to give it a go, then there's a 14 day free trial link waiting for you in the show notes. You can just head there and click that. Go check it out. It's a free trial. Explore the platform, feel into it. And see if it feels good to you. And then you can always hop on and shift over. And if you've already got a system that you're using and you don't feel like migrating it to CCK I know that they have migration packages. That's what they did for us. They migrated our stuff onto their system. And so there should be some sort of migration package So you can just send them a message and they'll get back to you with regards to what ways they can help support you to get you over to their system. They do go above and beyond so you'll get the right support you need. Alright, so that's it for today's episode. If you enjoyed it, then please let me know, share with me. And also, let me know if you've used CCK and your experience with it. I'd like to hear what your experience is. So feel free to share that with me as well. And I hope you're having a beautiful day and I hope you have a beautiful rest of your week. And I will chat to you again next week. Bye. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode. If you are a teaching business owner, freelance teacher or online teacher, and you are interested in creating a digital course or group program to scale your income and impact without teaching more hours, then I have just the thing for you. Grab my free Scalable Digital Course Roadmap, and it will walk you through the six steps to turning your one on one classes into a scalable offer that frees you from the teacher burnout trap. Creating scalable courses and programs have allowed me to 10x my hourly rate, hit six figures in my business and impact hundreds and hundreds of people around the world without having to be actively teaching all day. If this is what you desire, grab my guide in the show notes and let me help you. I appreciate you so much and I can't wait to connect with you in the next episode. In the meantime, go create a business and life you love.