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Course creator interview: Thinkifics Greg Smith (Legal Road Map® Episode S4E98)

Course creator interview: Thinkific's Greg Smith (Legal Road Map® Episode S4E98)

Lawyer turned Thinkific CEO Greg Smith talks about lessons learned when developing his own online course and shares some of his best tips for course creators who are just getting started.

Course creator interview: Thinkific's Greg Smith (Legal Road Map® Episode S4E98)

Lawyer turned Thinkific CEO Greg Smith talks about lessons learned when developing his own online course and shares some of his best tips for course creators who are just getting started.

Legal for course creators: affiliate programs pt.2 (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E97)

Legal for course creators: affiliate programs pt.2 (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E97)

Learn about the important terms your affiliate program agreement needs to include. This is part two of a two-part series on affiliate programs.

Legal for course creators: affiliate programs pt.2 (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E97)

Learn about the important terms your affiliate program agreement needs to include. This is part two of a two-part series on affiliate programs.

Course creator interview: Haley Burkhead (S4E96)

Course creator interview: Haley Burkhead (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E96)

Scalability expert Haley Burkhead shares how she's grown her online business to a half-million dollar brand in just 12 months, plus some tough legal lessons learned (yes, hackers are a real thing!)

Course creator interview: Haley Burkhead (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E96)

Scalability expert Haley Burkhead shares how she's grown her online business to a half-million dollar brand in just 12 months, plus some tough legal lessons learned (yes, hackers are a real thing!)

Legal for course creators – affiliate programs pt.1 – (S4E95)

Legal for course creators – affiliate programs pt.1 (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E95)

Learn how affiliate programs can increase the reach (and bottomline!) of your online course without having to hire an entire sales team.

Legal for course creators – affiliate programs pt.1 (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E95)

Learn how affiliate programs can increase the reach (and bottomline!) of your online course without having to hire an entire sales team.

Course creator interview: Dr. Lindsay Padilla (S4E94)

Course creator interview: Dr. Lindsay Padilla (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E94)

Professor turned CEO Dr. Lindsay Padilla helps teachers become entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs become teachers with her signature method that focuses on helping students to actually finish online courses.

Course creator interview: Dr. Lindsay Padilla (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E94)

Professor turned CEO Dr. Lindsay Padilla helps teachers become entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs become teachers with her signature method that focuses on helping students to actually finish online courses.

Legal for course creators – guest experts (S4E93)

Legal for course creators – guest experts (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E93)

Collaborating with a guest expert for your online course is a great way to provide incredible value to your students. But mapping out (in writing!) things like who's doing what, and how the expert is compensated is crucial to preventing a guest expert collaboration from going south. In this episode you'll learn the important questions to ask when you're collaborating with...

Legal for course creators – guest experts (Legal Road Map® Podcast S4E93)

Collaborating with a guest expert for your online course is a great way to provide incredible value to your students. But mapping out (in writing!) things like who's doing what, and how the expert is compensated is crucial to preventing a guest expert collaboration from going south. In this episode you'll learn the important questions to ask when you're collaborating with...