Are The Leap and Thinkific the same organization?
Yes, The Leap is a product built by Thinkific - you can think of The Leap as Thinkific's younger sibling. You can learn more about The Leap's mission here.
Why did Thinkific create The Leap?
The Leap was created initially as a media property with a goal of building a community of content creators that are leaning more into sharing educational content (as opposed to entertainment content). Through working with this community we soon discovered that they had needs that the Thinkific platform wasn't particularly well-suited to solving however, so we decided to create a dedicated product to serve the "creator-educator" market.
What are the main differences between The Leap and Thinkific?
Thinkific is an advanced platform for more mature creators that are looking to build scalable learning businesses, primarily by selling Courses, and access to Communities and Memberships. The Leap, on the other hand, is primarily designed for creators that are experimenting with selling digital products for the first time, and are looking for a simple, light-weight solution that can get them up and running with selling products quicker. Here are some of the key differences:
- The Leap helps you create bite-sized products that are designed for mobile in just minutes, using pre-set templates including Mini-courses, Guides, Challenges and Tutorials. Any product created on The Leap can be sold for cash or given away for free in exchange for email. Check out this blog post for more info and examples. Products created on Thinkific typically require more time and effort to create.
- Using AI, The Leap actively helps you brainstorm ideas for your products, and auto-generates not only the structure/outline of the mini-course, but also populates it with suggested text/image content, and provides suggested talking points for your videos too. Thinkific currently uses AI to generate the structure/outline for Courses.
- The Leap also gives you access to your own link-in-bio style storefront where you can promote and sell products created on The Leap, as well as products and services hosted elsewhere. Thinkific offers a much more sophisticated website creation tool.
- The Leap is completely free to use, and all customers currently have access to all features. There is no paid plan and we don't even take a cut of your sales. Thinkific offers various paid plans for different customer segments, as well as access to an optional sophisticated payment suite in exchange for of sales.
Should I think of The Leap as a substitute for Thinkific? Or are they complimentary to each other?
The Leap and Thinkific are complimentary to each other in a number of ways.
- Validating new ideas: because it's so quick and easy to spin up learning products on The Leap (including mini-courses), it's a really low-risk way to experiment, test out and get feedback on ideas for bigger courses that you will eventually build on Thinkific.
- Converting existing content into lead magnets: why not take the course content you already have on Thinkific, and convert it into a series of "teaser" lead magnets on The Leap? Each lesson in traditional Thinkific course could be made into a Mini-course on The Leap, and then given away in exchange for email, giving you more customers to promote your Thinkific course to!
Can I use The Leap to capture leads to promote my Thinkific products to?
Absolutely! The Leap is a great tool for quickly creating lead magnets to help you build your email list - this is one of the main use cases The Leap was built for. You can export the leads you have gathered on The Leap anytime and merge them in to your central CRM platform, wherever that may be.
I can't find The Leap on my Thinkific dashboard. How do I access it?
The Leap is a currently a completely separate product from Thinkific, and there is no form of technical integration between the two. You can register and sign-in to The Leap from here at any time: https://www.theleap.co/.
Can I integrate The Leap digital products into my Thinkific site?
For each digital product you create on The Leap you will be prompted to create a landing page, and you will have access to a shareable URL for the landing page. You can certainly paste and incorporate this shareable URL into your Thinkific products, and promote them on your Thinkific site, but we don't currently offer any form of automatic/technical integration of products between Thinkific and The Leap.
My Thinkific credentials are not working in The Leap, how can I login?
The Leap is a currently a completely separate product from Thinkific. You will need register separately on https://www.theleap.co/ to access The Leap.