Yes you can and maybe you should!

We built a 100% transparent feature for you to collaborate with Influencers so that you can get exposure in their circles, i.e. a market in which you currently have no connections. You don't need to be the marketing expert. Let others do that for you and focus on what you do best, that's our suggestion.

Here are the steps: 

Step 1:
Find an Influencer and negotiate their reward. You can check our Influencer listing or find them outside of 5StarTeachers. Important to note: 5StarTeachers will not interfere in your negotiations with them or dictate how much they should be paid or what they should get for their efforts or results. That is totally up to the both of you.

Step 2:
Edit your Course and find the field "Coupon Codes from Influencers" . There are 2 values you have to enter: the first is the agreed upon Coupon Code, the second is the email address of the Influencer, in this order. Both the Coupon Code and the Influencer's email address are never shown on the Course or anywhere on the platform.​​​​​​

Step 3:
Save your Course. It automatically becomes "unlisted" which means that only people with the link can see it. And if they are a registered Student, they can book it "only" with the correct coupon code from the Influencer. 

Step 4:
When they booked it correctly, both the Teacher and the Influencer get an email that it was successfully booked, i.e. paid.

Step 5:
When the Teacher decides to "deactivate" this Course i.e. taking the Course offline OR remove the Influencer's email address, both the Influencer and the Teacher are notified of this action via email which makes it 100% transparent for both parties.
We are sure Influencers will love this.

Good to know:

1. Courses can have multiple influencer email addresses and coupon codes. So you are not stuck with only 1 Influencer.

2. If you had set a Free Course Coupon Code to offer Students a free Single-session Course and you add Coupon Codes from Influencers, this Free Course Coupon Code will be removed automatically.

Case:

You have a "listed" Single-session Course that you offer at the regular price of USD 100. To work together with an influencer, you "duplicate" this Course and set the Course price on the duplicate to, for example, USD 50. You set the Influencer's email address and the agreed upon coupon code in the correct field and save it. This Course duplicate is now exactly the same except that it is now available at USD 50. It is now also "unlisted"  and only bookable with the coupon code from the Influencer. When the Influencer can successfully influence people in their circles to book and buy your Course via the link and the coupon code, they have now bought the Course at a 50% discount because everyone else is paying USD 100. 

The reason why you should duplicate your Course, is so that you can always compare "the booking data" between the two Courses, the one with the coupon code and the one without, or in case you just wanted to try out a different price for a specific Course without coupon code or influencer. We want our Teachers to be able to keep their Course booking data so as to analyse their marketing efforts and results at any time and adjust their strategy based on data.