You can collect testimonials from your course participants or students in several ways:

Collect your first testimonial BEFORE the course starts

Offer free access to your course in return for a feedback and a testimonial. That way when you launch you new course you already have social proof. Social proof like testimonials can help you get more sign ups for your next course.

An automated request

Ask for feedback directly through email or survey after completion of the course. Depending on your platform, you should be able to automate a testimonial request from your students

Encourage students to leave a review

Your course platform or website may have a feedback function for collecting testimonials, reviews, and star ratings. Enable this so that the platform collects social proof for you. Here are details of testimonial and review collection on the major platforms

Collect testimonials on Podia

Collect testimonials on Kajabi

Collect testimonials on Teachific

Collect testimonials on other course platforms

Reach out to past students

Use LinkedIn and other professional networks to send a testimonial request. These tools have built in tools for collecting testimonials.

Offer incentives

Such as discounts on future courses or free resources for writing a testimonial.

Offer a bonus lesson or resource

In exchange for a detailed testimonial or video testimonial.

Encourage students to share

their success stories on social media using a specific hashtag related to your course.

Permission

Remember to always ask for permission to use the testimonial and make sure to respect your students' privacy by only using their first name and last initial.

Once you have testimonials, it's time to share them. Our guide on sharing your course testimonials explains some unique places to share them to drive more students to sign up.

Once you've collected testimonials for your course, consider these ways to share your course testimonials.