Welcome to Podia!

Learning a new platform can feel overwhelming. This quick guide will help you get up and running fast.

Now your website, digital products, email, customers, and blog are automatically connected in one place. Let's set up your first product, explore the Podia website builder, create a course, and turn on email.

Feel free to skip around using the purple navigation bar below. You don't have to follow this guide in any particular order, so start with whatever feels most interesting or relevant to your business. 💜

Step 1: Products | Step 2: Website & Blog | Step 3: Courses | Step 4: Email | Step 5: Bonus Podia Tricks!

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Step 1 📚

Adding your first product to Podia

💜 More resources for building digital products

First, let's add a product to your Podia account.

  1. Click the "Products" tab in the top menu of your Podia site.

  2. Select the type of product you'd like to add.

  3. Name your product and click "Create"

You can set up one digital download and one coaching product on the Free plan, and unlimited products of all types on the Mover and Shaker plans.

Click "Create Product," then click through the tutorial below to see how product setup works. This one shows you how to set up a digital download, but the same steps apply for other product types like webinars, bundles, and coaching.

Up next, you can customize your sales page for your product so people can purchase it.

Click on the three dots in the top corner to open up the sales page editor. Then keep reading, because we'll cover how to use the Podia website editor in the next section.

Step 1: Products | Step 2: Website & Blog | Step 3: Courses | Step 4: Email | Step 5: Bonus Podia Tricks!

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Step 2 💻

Setting up a simple website and blog

Podia uses a point and click website editor. All the sections have been professionally designed so they'll all look great, and you can make customizations to get your site looking exactly the way you like.

Edit your website

In your Podia dashboard, click on "Site" and "Edit site" to open the Podia website builder. Click "View site" to see what your live site looks like.

Edit your blog

Click on "Blog" to open your Podia blog options. You add a new post, view all blog posts, or view your live blog.

Change your colors

Click "Site" - "Edit site" to open the Podia website builder, then click on the Design tab in the top menu. Select "Colors" to change your website's color palette. There are premade palettes or you can add your own.

Change your fonts

Again, click "Site" - "Edit site" to open the Podia website builder, then click on the Design tab in the top menu. Click "Fonts" to change your website's font style and size. There are preset font pairings or you can customize your own.

Video tutorial 🎥

Customize Taylor Swift's Podia blog in 6 minutes

This video shows you how to use the Podia website builder. Add sections to your website and blog by clicking the plus sign anywhere on the page. Then choose the section you'd like to add from the left-hand menu. You can make changes and customizations with the Content and Design tabs.

  • Content tab: This is where you can adjust the text, images, embeds, and grid items in each section.

  • Design tab: This is where you can change the layout, image shape, color, background image, and style of each section.

Step 1: Products | Step 2: Website & Blog | Step 3: Courses | Step 4: Email | Step 5: Bonus Podia Tricks!

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Step 3 🎬

Building your course

To set up your course in Podia, click "Products" - "New product" - "Online course." Name your course, and click the "Create" button. You'll see the following options for building and customizing your online course.

  • Lessons: Add new lessons and sections to your course. Lessons can include media like text, images, videos, quizzes, files, embeds, and even coaching sessions. You can add as many lessons and sections as you like.

  • Details: Change your course's name, image, and description.

  • Pricing: Set the price for your course as free, waitlist, or paid. You can also add up to three upsell products that will be displayed after checkout.

  • Availability: Decide whether your course is open or closed for enrollment, and customize the number of seats available, start date, and access duration.

Podia tip ✨

The course below has video lessons and tutorials that show you how to build your podia course. It's a course within a course! If you'd like to see what the checkout process looks like for your customers, click the checkout button below. Otherwise, you can skip checkout and jump right into the content to start building your course.

How to build your online course with Podia

  • Course
  • 21 Lessons

Take a look at an online course built with Podia. And learn how to build a course in Podia at the same time!

Step 1: Products | Step 2: Website & Blog | Step 3: Courses | Step 4: Email | Step 5: Bonus Podia Tricks!

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Step 4 ✉️

Set up your email list

It only takes a minute to get your email list set up with Podia. To start, click on the "Email" tab in the upper menu of your Podia site. The first time you click on "Broadcast" or "Campaign", you'll see the setup screen below. You'll need to add your mailing address to comply with email-sending laws, and you can choose to add a double opt-in (recommended) and customize your opt-in text.

Then you'll see an email dashboard with all your previous messages and email stats. Click "Send broadcast" to send a one-off email to your list, like a newsletter or announcement. Click "Start campaign" to build an automated series of emails that go out when people do things with your business, like buy a product, join a waitlist, or subscribe to your newsletter.

Now let's send your first email

Step 1: Products | Step 2: Website & Blog | Step 3: Courses | Step 4: Email | Step 5: Bonus Podia Tricks!

Step 5 ✨

Bonus: More cool things you can do in Podia

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This guide is just the beginning of all the things you can do with Podia! Check out these resources to continue building your business. We can't wait to see what you make next.

Publish a blog post

Make a link in bio page

Set up a welcome email

Sell coaching sessions

Offer a free lead magnet

Add an upsell at checkout

Help!

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