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How to Create an Online Course with SamCart in 2022
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May 20, 2024
**Description:** Learn how to create an online course using SamCart in 2022 with our step-by-step tutorial! This video guides you through the process of setting up and selling your online course using SamCart's intuitive platform. Discover how to create course modules, set pricing, design a sales page, and integrate payment options seamlessly. Whether you're a coach, educator, or entrepreneur, this tutorial provides all the tools and strategies you need to launch and monetize your online course effectively. Start sharing your knowledge and generating revenue with SamCart today!
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How to create an online course with SamCart
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So maybe you saw my previous video on how to create a sales page with SamCart. SamCart started out as a sales page software and have since expanded into
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other areas such as memberships, as well as online courses. So you can host your online course with SamCart
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It's really, really easy to set up. If you want to follow along in today's tutorial, I'll put a link down below
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in the description where you can sign up for a free 14 day trial. This is our affiliate link
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So if you sign up and upgrade to a paid plan, we may earn a commission, but at no extra cost to you
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Now let's hop on the computer and build our course. Here's what it looked like when you click on the link in the description
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below to get started, click on try for free, and then they're going to show you the three different plans that they have
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If we scroll down further, what you're going to see is with any of the plans, the core features include unlimited courses
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So you can choose which of the plans you think makes the most sense. We end up using the middle growth plan because it includes, you can see right
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here, order bumps and purchase upsells, which allow us to sell more each time
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someone visits one of our sales page, but to create the course, just create your account
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I'm just going to log in right now. After you log in, what you want to do is hover over apps and
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then click on courses app. And from here, click on create new course, give it a title
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So let's create a course for launching your YouTube channel. If you want to change the course URL, you can do that
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So we could say channel update course synopsis, say for YouTube videos in four weeks
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And then so here, if you wanted to add additional information about the course
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you could add a video, an image. This is just for kind of the basic overview of the course
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This is not the page you would use to actually sell the course. So I'm not going to worry about filling this in right now
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I could add an image though. So here is one that I created before
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Insert image. Okay. So we've got the image. We've got all this filled out
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Moving on from here, the next section are the units and lessons
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So what we want to do now is create the first unit. So unit one, create your channel
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And so what you can do here is you can have different tiers. So depending on if you saw the sales page video, we essentially
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had three different pricing plans. So you could offer different things. Maybe certain modules are only available for a more
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advanced or more expensive plan, or you just have everything all within the same, the same kind of pricing tier
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But we can do here is go say, we want this to be upgrade
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So we could have two different plans. And then for each of the different units, what we want to do are
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actually here control by access. Do you want the access to be by unit or by lesson
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So the lessons are within each of the units. I would say, let's set this up by unit
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So unit one, create your channel will be available for basic. And then if you go to a signed here as well as upgrade
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And then, so what we can do here is create our first lesson channel set up and then edit within the page editor
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Again, here you can change the actual URL for specific lessons. The featured video is the video
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That's going to be kind of taking up the whole width of the page that you can add here
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But if you wanted to add text first and then insert videos later
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I, we can do that as well. So we could say, so if I didn't want to use the featured video here, we could insert a video
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down below as well by just clicking insert video, paste the video URL
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One thing to keep in mind in SamCard is you're going to need somewhere else to host your videos
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That's both for sales pages as well as for the courses. So you could use YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Vidyard
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There's a ton of different options. We're currently using Vimeo quite a bit. And let's just for this tutorial, insert some of our different YouTube videos
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So create a channel. We have a YouTube video for that. Let's just insert that right here
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Insert. And so when you add the video here within kind of the text, it's going to show up
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Kind of not, not taking up the entire screen. If what I wanted to do is add content and then add that lets me choose
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the type of content that I want to add. So if, if I wanted to add a video like that, what's going to happen here
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We have a video section right here. Let's just add the exact same video right here, insert video
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And so you can see it takes up the entire width just to show you all the different places
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Why don't I add the exact same video right here as well
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And then when we go to view this lesson, you're going to see how each of those looks a little bit different
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You also have additional options for images, audio, and downloads. But I think, you know, most of our online courses are primarily video based
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Maybe have a couple of downloads. Also, if you want, you can add, have the downloads right here
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You can add a download. You can have quizzes as well as worksheets
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I think for lesson one, that's probably pretty good. And then let's go back
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So maybe that's the only lesson within this unit. Let's create another unit. Let's say recording your first video
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This is available for both tiers. Let's add a lesson, make a YouTube video edit
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Okay. So for this lesson, again, we could change the URL. We could add content
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Let's just add only a featured video this time. So here is a video on how to make videos with your phone
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Why don't we answer that? Make a YouTube video with phone. One thing to keep in mind, we would recommend that you use Vimeo
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Wistia, Vidyard, something like that for your videos. If you can, obviously YouTube is free
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The other ones are paid. The thing is with YouTube, you can easily click through and go to
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YouTube, watch other stuff, be distracted. Also, you can click through, have the URL for the YouTube video
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So someone could share that with their friends. They don't have to be part of the online course to view those videos
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There would be unlisted. So they're not going to just show up generally on your channel
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But the thing is, if you use a platform like Vimeo, you have much more control over where you share your videos and how people have access to them
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So for example, here is our Vimeo account. So we have some videos uploaded here
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You could go to copy link, copy video. And, you know, here I could go to add content, add video
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And again, it's going to work basically the same way if I were to insert this video here
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And so the thing is here, you're not going to see the links to be able to go to
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YouTube and then have the actual URL for this video. They're only going to be able to view the video here
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But if you're just getting started, don't worry too much about it. You can get by with free YouTube videos
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Let's maybe delete this section. So if we go to that, deletes on the left side right here
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Are you sure? Yes. Get rid of it. Save. Okay. Let's go back
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Okay. So let's say these two units were available for the basic and the upgrade
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Now, if we were to create another unit that we only wanted to be available for the upgrade, essentially what we would do here is we would
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delete basic and then we would add upgrade right here and then go to Okay
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So on this one, we're going to talk about how to edit videos. Maybe this is something that was only available with an upgraded plan
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Let's say, so then we added this lesson again, exact same thing. Let's go and add a video
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We have one of those as well. There's that again, there's obviously tons of stuff you can add here
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bulleted list, numbered list, how you align stuff, strike through, you know
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you can definitely play around to see what, what types of things you want to
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add in addition to, I'm just doing videos right now, then save this lesson
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And let's just say that was the entire course. So we go back, we have two units that are available for the basic and the
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upgrade, and then unit three is only available for someone who upgrades
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And that can be our entire course. The next thing we want to go through is the scheduling
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So for scheduling, this is essentially how you want someone to have access to the content
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Do you want to draw attention to the content? Do you want to add a video? Do you want to have access to the content
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Do you want to drip content out? So you can potentially do, you know, one unit, say per week
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So drip scheduling, and then what you're going to do day of the week and zero
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days after previous for maybe the first one. And this one could be say seven days later
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And this unit could be another seven days later. If you wanted to do it, you know, something like this, or if you just
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click on a dropdown and go to instant access, that means that someone has
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access to the entire course material right away. Okay. So let's leave this as instant access
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So the student gets access to everything all at once. The next piece are the public details
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So what's going to happen here. So let's say I was taking the course and I share with a friendly link of being
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like, Hey, I'm taking this course. You should definitely check it out. They may share the link where someone isn't yet logged in yet
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What is that going to, that page is going to look like? So you want to essentially have the description of the course, but then
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there's a button to purchase, taking them to the URL for your sales page
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So in this case, it would be the sales page within SamCart, but you need to add the URL here
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So this is for our Instagram reels course in Spanish, but it's the one
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that I remember the URL for the purchase button text. So purchase course
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And then, so obviously I could add a ton more in terms of the description of the course
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We're not going to do that today. And then you get to add either an image or a video
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So let's just add a video here. Obviously this would be more something kind of talking
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about what the course is. So maybe let's not do that. Let's just go and add the, the image of the course
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Yes, I know. I am an amazing graphic designer. Look at what I did. Okay. So that are the public details of someone isn't signed in
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This is what they're going to see. Then you go to assign products. So basically you have, we have two products right now
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So we have the basic tier and the upgrade tier and basically which of the SamCart
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sales pages are we going to assign to these? So if we go to assign products, so if you saw the tutorial on how to build a sales
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page, we could go to tutorial product. Basic could be the basic tier
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So we add that right there. So if someone purchases from this page, they have access to the basic tier
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and then assign products to this. And I think there was something else
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Look, Oh, I named it upgrade. I'm pretty good at this and save that there
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So basically there'd be one sales page, one sales page and there are different pricing tiers
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Depending on the tier that they chose, then you would have the different accesses
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given by assigning the products right here. If I wanted to add a cross sell
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So let me just show you what that looks like. Essentially while someone is viewing the course, they're going to have another
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course that's being offered to them. So let's get that set up. So let's, you can choose what you want the design to look like, choose the
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colors and then add course cross sell. Then let's make it active
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Choose a product first. What do we want to do? Sure. The Instagram course that I was telling you about
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Make it active. And then what do you want? What do you want the button to say
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The featured image. So what do we want the image to be? I think I have something we can use
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Best course ever select image. Okay. So this is the course image
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The button is going to say, unlock now, grow your Instagram with reels, Instagram reels course
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And I think the cross sale is good to go. Okay. That is saved
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Let's go back. And what do we want to do now? So if we just go through some of the options along the side, so if we click
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on students, what we can do here is that we could essentially add additional
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students, kind of one person at a time. Or if we go back, we can essentially import students as well
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So we can select the course and essentially upload a CSV file with a list of all of
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their names and email addresses. So they would get access to the core. So for example, if you were switching from teachable to Sam cart and you moved all
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your courses here, you would want to move all your students over as well. Then settings
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What do we have here? So business name, logo, you can give the course library name and a description
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choose your brand color, choose your primary time zone. So that's essentially that now let's just look, let's just take a look
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at what this is going to look like. So if you want to see what your course looks like, if you're on the course
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library page like this, you can click on preview, or if you're within one of
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the courses editing it, you have the view course up in the top right corner
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So here's what it's going to look like when a student is logged into the course. So you have the image here, the title, the kind of subtitle
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they could click on resume course. Here's where the cross self shows up
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So if we open up that real quick, I think it'll open it up in a new tab
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Here is the sales page for our Instagram reels course. Let's go back to preview again
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So going down further, if we go to the lesson, here's essentially
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how this is going to look here. So this was the featured video, and then you have the, the text
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And then here's what it looks like when you add a video to the text that comes in smaller like this
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If you add a section for the video, it again is going to be taking up the full width
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You can navigate through the different materials along the left side here
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So I could go to the video editing section, right. Like that, or kind of the same thing
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If you go back to the course, you have everything here. It looks like this green bar is going to show you how much
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progress you've made on the course. Now let's take a look really quick at what it's going to look like for
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somebody who hasn't purchased the course. So if we go back to dashboard, here is a course URL
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Let's open up incognito because I'm currently logged in to my SamCard account
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And here's essentially what it's going to look like for someone who hasn't purchased the course, so you have log in up at the top, you can purchase the course
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right here, where it's essentially going to take them to the sales page
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They can see what the material is, but you can see the lock symbol
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So it's not going to let somebody go in and view any of the materials
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It's going to say how many videos, quizzes, worksheets, and files are within the course
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And if they were to click on directory, they would see the different courses that we have available
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That's how easy it is to create your online course with SamCard. If you now want to learn how to create a sales page with SamCard, check out
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the video up above, if you want to compare SamCard to Teachable, check out the Teachable video down below
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Hope to see you in those and future videos. Bye bye
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