2024 Circle Review | How to create an online community, membership site, or online courses

Looking for the best community platform for your membership, community, or online courses? In this complete tutorial, I'm excited to introduce you to Circle, an all-in-one community platform for creators, coaches, and entrepreneurs.
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🕑TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Circle Tutorial
01:00 Create your Circle community
02:30 Create your member profile
03:27 Customize your branding
04:44 Space Groups vs. Spaces
05:36 Types of Spaces
06:46 Add a Post Space
08:46 Write a post
10:04 Add an Event Space
13:17 Livestreaming in Circle
14:20 Create an online course
16:10 Adding course lessons
19:04 The search bar
19:38 Invite Members & Bulk Import
20:08 Create Paywalls
21:57 Create Member Tags (badges)
22:54 Community analytics
23:21 Plans & pricing
24:02 Circle vs. Mighty Networks
24:33 Circle vs. Heartbeat
24:56 Circle vs Skool
25:32 Circle vs Facebook Groups
26:06 2 strategies to launch a new Circle community
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- Heartbeat: witandwire.com/heartbeat
- Mighty Networks: witandwire.com/mightynetworks
- Skool: witandwire.com/skool
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- 📌 Free Course Creation Toolkit: witandwire.com/coursetoolkit-...
- 📽️ How to create & sell online courses in Circle: • Full Tutorial: How to ...
- 📽️ 2024 Course Platform Comparison: • 7 Best Online Course C...
✨ ABOUT WIT & WIRE:
Hey, I'm Melissa! I help online business owners turn their skills and passions into profitable online businesses. I'm a course creation expert (formerly @ Teachable, Ramit Sethi, General Assembly) and I share simple step-by-step tutorials to help everyday experts scale their income and impact online doing work they love.
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[@witandwire]

⭐Try Circle for free with a 14-day trial: witandwire.com/circle And let me know what you think about Circle in the comments!

[@RyanReichertEstes]

Thanks for sharing this content, Melissa. Your tutorials and walk throughs have been really helpful for me in narrowing down a sea of tech options that will help me manage my business offerings. I appreciate how clear, approachable and useful your videos have been!

[@witandwire]

I'm so glad our videos have been helpful!

[@libertyleave]

This was SO GOOD and SO THOROUGH. Thank you so much! Can’t wait to start my own community soon :)

[@witandwire]

I'm so glad this was helpful!

[@jordanthornton]

Perfect timing - been getting ready to implement community aspects into my course after multiple student requests! Thanks for this, and hope you're doing wonderfully this year, Melissa.

[@witandwire]

Thanks, Jordan! Exciting to hear that you’re expanding into community. I hope you’re doing well, too!

[@jacquelynvansant186]

This Circle tutorial was fantastic and thorough. Very well done, Melissa! Circle is something I am familiar with as a user/member, but I have been interested in how to set up a Circle community. Thank you for sharing this.

[@witandwire]

I'm so glad this was helpful!

[@SteveBubel]

Extremely helpful. Thank you, Melissa!

[@witandwire]

I'm so glad it was helpful!

[@BigDogMom]

Great tutorial! Did you move your courses to Circle or are you still with Teachable? I’d love to hear what you use for all the various aspects of your online business.

[@witandwire]

Great question! We have courses in both Teachable and Circle.

[@felicia-usa]

This tutorial was super helpful. Thank you so much!

[@witandwire]

I'm so glad it was helpful!

[@islasierraco]

love this review!!

[@witandwire]

I'm so glad it was helpful!

[@business-in-japan]

Thanks. Great presentation of the platform.

[@witandwire]

Thank you! 😊

[@anna.y.l]

Thank u for your input! For the paywall - is just credit card an option? I`m not sure how to link paypal etc. maybe you know that?

[@witandwire]

Great question! Currently, you can accept payments via credit card by connecting to Stripe. (PayPal isn’t currently an option if you use Circle’s checkout page directly.)

[@bobc1280]

Hi Melissa, this is an outstanding video, as all of your videos that I've seen are. It looks like Circle might be an ideal tool for the platform I want to create, which will involve several online courses and an ongoing support community. My question: does Circle allow me to offer different plans and revenue models, all under the same umbrella? For example, I want to charge one-time fees for each of the courses, but I want to use the subscription model for the ongoing support plan. I'd like to offer all of the components "a la carte" to each customer via the same platform, e.g. Circle.

[@witandwire]

Thank you! I’m so glad to hear that my videos have been helpful, and great question. Yes, you can create different price structures within one Circle community. For example, as you said, you can create Paywalls for a la carte one-time pricing, and also have Paywalls for recurring memberships with various personalized access levels. I hope that helps!

[@jaceaser]

How does it compare to teachable communities?

[@witandwire]

Great question! We have a full video comparison between our top favorite course-building platforms (which includes Circle & Teachable) here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4XdeHR_r7VmqcU Plus, we'd recommend downloading our free Course Creation Toolkit with a side-by-side comparison of top course creation platforms here: witandwire.com/download-course-creation-toolkit/ We hope this helps, Team Wit & Wire ✨

[@sophieash5883]

Great tutorial! Q: We have events that are free to members but paid for outsiders. Can Circle accommodate this structure? I want to make sure that external people can only see and attend the events, but also see discussion threads and courses behind a paywall. Thanks!

[@witandwire]

Yes, great question. It’s possible to have some Groups or individual Spaces that are available to free members (or even the public without a login) while others are just for paid members. So it should be possible.

[@hansan3920]

Payouts are daily ?? Weekly Or monthly ?? In circle

[@witandwire]

Great question. Since Circle’s paywalls are powered by Stripe, it will depend on your Stripe settings. You can learn more here: support.stripe.com/questions/understanding-daily-automatic-and-manual-payouts