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Entrepreneurs on Fire

A $300B Industry and Growing: Find Your Opportunity in the Online Course Industry with Greg Smith: An EOFire Classic from 2021

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Greg is the CEO and Co-founder of Thinkific - a software company that makes it easy for you to create, market and sell online courses. Thinkific serves over 50,000 people and businesses, that have taught millions of students, and generated over half a Billion in revenue for Thinkific clients.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. More people are creating more courses, and more people are taking courses.

2. Start your curriculum with the points that you are comfortable writing or talking about.

3. Whatever business you are in, there hasn't ever been a better time to be diving into an online business.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to

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entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network

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the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like

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finding founders. Today we're pulling a timeless EO Fire episode from the

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archives so the giveaway may not be active and we'll be breaking down a

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300 billion dollar industry and growing, find your opportunity in the online

0:26.7

course industry. To drop these value bombs, I are brought to Greg Smith into EEO Fire Studios.

0:31.8

Greg is the CEO and co-founder of Thinkific, a software

0:34.8

company that makes it easy for you to create market and sell online courses.

0:38.8

Think Kific serves over 50,000 people in businesses that have taught millions of students and

0:44.0

generated over half a billion in revenue for Think Kiff at clients. And today,

0:48.2

Foundation, we'll talk about how more people are creating courses and more people

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are taking them,

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how to start your curriculum with the points

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that you're comfortable in writing and talking about.

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And whatever business you're in,

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there hasn't ever been a better time

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to diving into an online business and so much more.

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And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode

1:05.8

goes to Greg and our sponsors.

1:09.1

The product boss hosted by Jacqueline and Mina

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is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio

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