Month: June 2015

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5 Udemy Course Marketing Resources for Udemy Newbies

Are you new to Udemy and feel like you are kind of lost now that you have published your first course and waiting for the dollars to start flowing? Don’t get discouraged because it can take awhile to get that first sell or to hit your first $100 dollars in revenue. It took me awhile to get there but thankfully there are a lot of resources out there to help you along. Here are a few of those resources from Udemy and a few that I’ve created myself during my journey on the Udemy platform since I started with my first course in July of 2014. Udemy Teach – Course Marketing Learn how to start marketing your course before you hit the “Publish” button. Lots of great marketing tips can be found on this site from Udemy including what Udemy will do to help promote your course and what you can do to help make your course competitive in the Udemy Marketplace. Make sure you enroll in their Free course “How to” Course on Marketing! Udemy Course Marketing Checklist The Udemy Course Marketing Checklist is a list of over 45 places online and on Facebook where you can post your Udemy Course Coupons. The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Udemy Bestseller Read this article for more about Udemy’s Forever Young Formula. What is the Forever Young Formula, you ask? The Forever Young Formula is the series of actions you’ll need to take if you want to stay “forever young” on Udemy—that is, earning consistent, sustainable income now and in the future. Learn how to add students, grow traffic to your courses and converting that traffic to your new students. Udemy Marketing: Increase Your Course Success Enroll in this “Free” Udemy Marketing starter course with over 100 positive reviews. This course will show you several different sites to post your course coupons to along with other course marketing ideas. Want to learn even more ways to promote and market your Udemy Course? Take the full course “Udemy Marketing: Where to Promote Course Coupons” for just $19 dollars. How to: Get Record Course Sales Your First 30 Days on Udemy Here’s a great article for those of you who come to Udemy already with your own online communities. The article talks about ways to utilize what you already have such as a mailing list using tools like ConvertKit and MailChimp’s Forever Free Plan, a YouTube channel, blogging, Facebook groups or pages along with several other social media networks you might already be part of.   Bonus Resources: Ask Dennis, Blab Show and Udemy Marketing Minute Podcast Check out the Udemy Marketing Minute Podcast with quick nuggets of Udemy Course Marketing tips and advice under 5 minutes. I haven’t recorded anything new lately but there is still lots of great information to get you started. You can also check out the “Make Money Online” show that I co-hosted with Udemy instructor Matt Bernstein on Blab. Watch the replays along with other Blab shows I have hosted and learn from the experts I have chatted with. Have a question about Udemy Marketing? Ask me and I might feature your question and promote you in front of my Facebook Group audience and on my YouTube Channel. Watch Blab Replays Listen To Udemy Marketing Minute Podcast Replays Ask Dennis! Learn With Dennis Would you like a free 15 minute Skype call with a successful Udemy instructor? I teach 9 courses on Udemy including one of the top-rated Udemy marketing courses. I can help you find your direction with your own online course or help you with marketing ideas geared to help you generate more revenue. SEE TESTIMONIALS AND SCHEDULE A CALL TODAY! Udemy Instructor – Warren Leslie Chalklen, PhD Dennis Smith is very passionate about Udemy. Since my Skype coaching session with him, I have realized how much he has dedicated his life to helping other Udemy instructors succeed. Through his websites, coaching sessions, and Blab hangouts, you will definitely learn a lot from Dennis. I highly recommend that you connect with him.

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7 Tips from Udemy Instructors on keeping those Udemy sells chugging right along

I recently asked the question “What is your advice when sells are slow?” in my Facebook group “The Online Course Promotion Group: Featuring Udemy, Skillshare and more!” to see what kind of advice other Udemy instructors would offer when sells were slow. There are a lot of things instructors can do to maintain current courses and work on new courses to take advantage when sells pick up. Here’s some of the advice instructors gave: Udemy Instructor Vicky Williams Put your energies into improving the course or making a new one. There will be slow times, but when things pick up you’ll have more to offer. I agree with her advice because new courses are a great way to cross promote to the students of your other Udemy courses. Plus improving on your current courses will keep current students happy and ready to buy those new courses. Udemy Instructor Mark Timberlake If you are talking about in between promotions, then:Keep driving traffic by creating lots of content links back to your Udemy course, it will pay dividends when the promotions kick back in.Imagine folks just wishlisting your courses, waiting to be able to purchase, keeps me going. Mark is spot on when it comes to the importance of having great content out on the internet and driving students back to your courses. I recommend a blog and giving potential students a great deal on your course so they are more likely to click though and take your course. Plus YouTube is another great way to do this by creating great promotional videos and adding a link as the very first item in the video description. When you do this you get to keep more of the revenue because you are doing the marketing of your own courses instead of Udemy or an affiliate marketer. Mark has a great Udemy community on Google+ that can help you achieve those results. Udemy Instructor Lisa Frase Create, create, create. Creating new courses, eBooks, blog post, social media presence, YouTube videos and other content is one of the best things you can do to bring potential students your way. Why not create something new today and let us know what it is in the comments below! Udemy Instructor Alex Genadinik This will go a lot of other recommendations, but I recommend having courses that are under $50 because they will have a higher chance to be bought without being on a promotion. Alex has a great point here. It can be hard to get someone to buy your course when they aren’t being promoted on Udemy and potential students have no clue who you are or what your instructional background is. Don’t be afraid to play around with your course pricing and see what works best for you. Udemy Instructor Yukiko Sato  Communicate with existing customers. While in your Udemy Course Dashboard you will see the total students for your course. It’s a good opportunity to click on that and take the time to communicate with new students by welcoming them to your course. But you can also check in with existing students and congratulate them on their progress or see how yo.u can help them along if they haven’t started the course yet. Remember that building relationships with your students is key to your future success on Udemy Udemy Instructor Sean Kaye Go outside, do something else, watch TV…I try not to get too wrapped up in it. Yes, Sean is so right on with this one. It’s a good idea to step away from the keyboard and go out and enjoy life and take what I call a “me” day. Time for yourself and time away from Udemy, looking at your revenue every few minutes, course creation and marketing. You know what I’m talking about because we all do it. If you have to work what I suggest is go to a coffee shop and work in a different environment than your home office so you have a change of pace. In the town I live in we have free WiFi downtown along a creek so if I wanted to I could work outside if it’s not too hot or cold. Udemy Instructor Cody Ray Miller I agree with Sean. Or, even better, start working on another course! Don’t fall into the ‘management trap’ with your courses. Produce them, publish them, answer students questions, maybe an update to a course here and there, but ultimately just let those babies work for you while you’re sleeping! I agree with Cody about doing all the right things as an instructor on Udemy and also getting some sleep so you are well rested to keep those creative juices flowing. You might be surprised by those revenue numbers when you wake the next day. Hope this advice gave you some ideas and if you have some thoughts of your own please share those in the comments below. Be sure to check out the courses offered by the instructors above or check OnlineCourseCoupons.com or FreeCourseDaily.com for possible discounts on their courses. Resources: The Online Course Promotion Group: Featuring Udemy, Skillshare and more! Online Video Educators & Entrepreneurs Udemy Marketing Collection on Google+