Q: How can we monetize this?
I see that you have a wordpress embed plugin (I LOVE THAT), and I see that you have an email-form/subscribe-wall and a password wall. So in my mind, I'm thinking that I could get a wordpress membership plugin and let people pay for a membership and they could login and use this course, or just sell people the course that sends them a link to the course and the password to access the course...but what stops those people from sharing the course link or the course password?
It would be a lot easier if you folks had your own paywall or something, to ensure that only the users that paid for the course could access the course. Or do you already offer that? I'm just not seeing it mentioned on your website or in this AppSumo page.
This looks amazing, I'm just hoping that there's a way to take a payment from paypal or paddle or another gateway before a user can get access to this course, without the user easily able to share a direct course link and password after they get into the course (aka steal or share my paid course to many others for free).
Also, is there a way to export courses if we want and need to, aside from manually copying and pasting things?
Lastly, what Plan is this tied to with you folks? It doesnt look like you offer a 250 Ai credit plan normally, it's usually 500 or 1000 credits per month on your regular plans?
Thanks in advance! :)
Onur_MCG
Jun 27, 2024A: Thanks for the questions;
1- We are soon going to provide Zapier integration to provide a solution for monetization. Your case (using a wp membership plug-in) is also a great option. You can embed your mini-courses after the gateway instead of sharing direct links. Does it wok for you? Yet, I want to share that protecting the online content 100% is not possible - even if there is strict login barrier with username and password, they can be also shared with the people around.
2- You can export courses to PDF.
3- Since this is a LTD offer, there is # of AI-credit difference compared to normal plans on the website.
Best wishes,
Thanks so much for the prompt response! Embedding on our wordpress site might work in this scenario. Im just worried that someone might take the embed code and share the URL with others.
It would be cool if you folks could possibly develop a system down the road where I can limit the IP address of where the embed code and load from (my web server IP), and no other IP addresses. Or, even better if you can give us a way to make unique user passwords for each purchase, and then have a dashboard of what user passwords are accessing the course...that way it is a lot easier for us to identify a potentially abused purchase/password and we can suspend or reset it.
Last question, please. I see that you already support Stripe, which is great. I could use that for now with no problem...HOWEVER, will you please consider adding the Paddle payment gateway? They are extremely easy to work with in terms of their API hooks. The reason why Paddle is so great is because they handle the entire payment lifecycle and literally own all of the liability for purchases through their gateway, and they easily take payments from literally everywhere around the world. It would be incredible if you can please add Paddle support in the future....or at the very least, Paypal please?
Zapier is nice, but I dont want to pay for it and Im not a current customer. I could handle memberships and embeds own my own wordpress site but then I have to worry about my own payment gateway and server uptime a lot more. So it would be fantastic if I can leverage all the course purchases and access directly on your platform.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
I love the product so far, by the way. Just started using it.
Anyway, to create something within the program where the link is disabled from being shared, only accessible by the registered email upon signup, maybe in the interface/backend a slide or clock which we can select that reads; "Shareable" "Non-Sharable at our discretion, a one-time use password to access the course but after the course is completed it expires? Really adding thinking out loud to see if it's something that is feasible to give you free consulting brainstorming ideas. lol I'm sure this could attract more buyers/course creators/beginning course creators understanding they won't lose crazy revenues and lose control of their work. Plus, even if you added a few bucks more per month at least I would make that move easily. Don't think $2 bucks - $3 bucks is insane as long as I can recoup funds over time. The AI credits are not that big of a deal (I mean a did question it too but it's your direction there and i see you addressed it multiple times) since I have a few LTDs for digital ai image creators and free ones also exists I can always upload images. Do wonder if I could add certificate creation using webhooks/automation with another program. Canva, Glorify, FlexClip, etc. I do like the product and will get because I can monetize it with my followers but not having 99% control is the issue. PDFing to them their can share it anyway so unless it's a free course it's not an issue solver.
Thank you sooo much for your great and detailed feedback - very nice suggestions and applicable possible actions.
I totally agree that we need to add additional capabilities of restricting the user's access to exclusive groups. The first part of development will be released within 2 weeks. Once we will release the first part, please keep in touch through the live chat widget on your dashboard to take this issue further. Best wishes