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Udemy Life Book

How I hit my first $100 month on Udemy.com

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 2016 Update: Since I wrote this post I have been busy on Udemy and just launched my 9th course on “ConvertKit” which is a powerful tool I use for email marketing. I also published my 2nd book “Udemy Life” which is how others like myself earn 100’s and 1000’s each month teaching on Udemy. I hope you check them both out and read the post below on how I got to my first $100. I am now approaching $30,000 from everything I do revolving around Udemy including OnlineCourseCoupons.com. Read my latest blog post “On The Road To $30K In Udemy Revenue“. Dennis CONTINUED BELOW…[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Save On My Udemy Courses [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][convertkit form=4900669][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]My “Udemy Life” Book Now Available on Kindle! Discover how Udemy Instructors are making 100’s and 1000’s each month by teaching skills on Udemy! Buy On Amazon Today [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][divider][/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” google_fonts=”font_family:Oswald%3A300%2Cregular%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]I have been working hard the last few months to grow my income through laptop lifestyle. Hoping that I can make enough money to live on my own again and not have to work for corporate America. My dream is to travel around the United States and the world while run my business on my laptop and a Wi-Fi connected. My courses on Udemy.com are just my latest stream of income. I recently posted about my latest accomplish of hitting $100 in revenue this month in the Udemy Studio group on Facebook. I’m always impressed by the praise and support of others in the group and by those like Alun Hill, (How I Make $4,000 A Week From Udemy Courses – And No Filming) and Benjamin Wilson (Double Your Udemy Course Sales (In Just 2 Hours!) Guaranteed) who share how they have been successful with others in the group through courses they created. Several people in the group asked me how I am marketing my courses and I thought this would be a great way to share that since blogging is one way that I promote my courses. Watch The Google+ Hangout I Did With Udemy’s Top Instructors – Including One Who Did $35,000 in November I launched my first Udemy course “Marketing Your Business With WordPress” (Course Coupon Offer) back in the middle of July 2013. Being that it was a new platform for me I didn’t know what to expect. I had a launch party and created a Facebook event and invited friends and followers to show up at 8 am to grab a coupon code to take the course for free. I am admitting this now but I overslept that morning and was late to my own launch. But I was able to recover and had over 13 take advantage of the launch coupon. Lesson learned. I also promoted the course on several of my Facebook Fan Pages, my personal Facebook profile, sent several tweets on Twitter and pinned it on my Pinterest Pinboard so I have my courses in front of several hundred followers. This is what I call “Be Everywhere” on social media on getting your product in front of those who want to learn. I had 4 other students redeem coupons that month and after Udemy’s cut I ended up earning $14.80 for July which I received payment for the first week of September. Not much but it gave me encouragement to keep going. Update: I ended the month of September at $109.41 and just received my payment of $40.85 for the month of August. The month of October is already starting off well for me and I am getting ready to do another cross promotion with other Udemy instructors.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Save On My Udemy Courses [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][divider][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Would you like to experience a course on Udemy.com and learn something new? Take my 5-star “WordPress Marketing: Profits With Powerful WordPress Plugins” FREE by entering your first name and email address in the form below. Save $20! In August I added a 2nd course “MailChimp: MailChimp’s Forever Free Email Marketing Plan” to the mix. That month I saw 9 purchases mostly my “Marketing Your Business With WordPress” course and mostly from “Udemy Organic”. Which according to Udemy is “Purchases of your course driven by either organic traffic on Udemy’s site (typically at full price), or by Udemy email marketing campaigns to existing Udemy users (often at a discount).” August was also the first month that I distributed “Free” coupons in the Facebook Udemy Studio group which has almost 19,400 active users. You can learn a lot about Udemy course creation and marketing by actively participating group and the Facebook Udemy Facility Lounge once you are an active instructor on Udemy. I ended up with over 2,259 new students which gave me social proof and several 5-star reviews for the course. My book “Promote Your Business or Cause Using Social Media – A Beginner’s Handbook” has over 25 reviews with an average of 4.5—stars. I have sold almost 1,000 copies of the book since its launch 2 years ago so I know the importance of good reviews. It gets those who are on the fence on board with buying your book or taking your course. I also had a free webinar “Building Your Online Audience” in August and have a link to my Udemy course that displays in the replay of the webinar. Webinars are a affordable way to build your email marketing list and get your Udemy course out in front of fresh eyes. I use RunClick which is a premium plugin that works with WordPress. I finished up the month of August with $40.85 and should be receiving that the first week of October. Most likely I will reinvest it and try promoting my courses with Facebook Ads.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][divider][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Right now I am in my 2nd full month of having my courses on Udemy and I continue to promote my courses on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and my website. I also came across the courses I mentioned in the beginning of this post by Alun Hill and Benjamin Wilson. I’m starting to try their suggestions and toying…
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Grow Your Audience With Social Media and WordPress

Grow Your Audience With Social Media and WordPress – Free Google+ Hangout Join me Thursday August 7th at 5 pm Mountain Time for a Live Hangout on Google+. Learn how to use social media, MailChimp and WordPress to grow your customer base. We will discus Social Media tools, how to get a free MailChimp account and WordPress plugins along with best practices. Here’s what I’ll show you… Social Media tips to grow your audience. Building Custom Fan Pages for Facebook Starting an affordable mailing list with MailChimp. Learn which WordPress Plugins help to grow your customers base. Plus more… Register Today

New Course “Marketing Your Business With WordPress” Launched on Udemy.com–Take The Course For Just $17!

How do you like to learn? Do you like to read? Watch videos? Take classes at a local community college? I’m not sure about you but I like to learn online and at my own pace around my busy schedule. That is why I have been focused on creating courses for those with busy lifestyles. I just launched my first course this week to teach small businesses or those who are self-employed like myself how to market their business with affordable WordPress. I did a video so you can see what you will learn during this course with over 20 video lessons and lesson  notes you can download.  There is also a list of lessons below the video or you can get started and register today for just $17 buck! You save $30! Why only $17 for so much information? Because I want to make it affordable for anyone to take my first online course and learn how to market their business with WordPress. Register Now For Just $17 [custom_list style=”list-7″] Brief Introduction to WordPress Hosting Your WordPress Website Installing and Setup of WordPress Themes for Marketing WordPress Plugins for Marketing Widgets for Marketing Smart Blogging for Effective Marketing Optimize WordPress SEO Marketing Connect with MailChimp Connect with Social Media Connect with Facebook Create Great Custom Forms with Gravity Forms and Formidable Build Beautiful LeadPages Selling Product With WordPress WordPress E commerce with WooCommerce WordPress for Authors WordPress for Local Small Businesses Host Webinars With WordPress WordPress Resources for Marketers Getting Mobile With WordPress WordPress Stats With JetPack – Bonus [/custom_list] Register Now For Just $17

How-To Host a Webinar With WordPress, MailChimp, LeadPages and Google+ Hangouts

How-To Host a Webinar With WordPress, MailChimp, LeadPages and Google+ Hangouts Have you ever wanted to host your own webinar? Webinars are great for promoting your business, a  products, a book, teaching a course and more. With today’s technology it is totally possible to host your own affordable online webinar. With WordPress, MailChimp, LeadPages and a Google+ account you can be hosting your own revenue generating webinars for less than $50 a month. The best part is you don’t even have to setup a full WordPress website if you don’t already have one. Watch the video below to see how easy it is to broadcast your first webinar in less than a few hours or less. These are the Steps to Hosting Your Own Webinar With These Tools: Here’s the steps I have used to broadcast my own webinars. I have taken this information and put it in a full Udemy course with 40 lectures to teach you how you can do it too. Learn how to use these same free and affordable tools to broadcast your skills to the world with a LIVE webinar or a REPLAY of your webinar. Webinar Success: Broadcast Live Webinars Like A Professional – ENROLL IN COURSE The Tools I Use Are: WordPress, LeadPages, Goggle+ Hangouts STEP 1 – Find WordPress Hosting and get domain name GreenHostUSA Hostgator WordPress Hosting STEP 2 – Install WordPress WordPress More About cPanel STEP 3 – Set-Up Your MailChimp Account and Create Mailing List (Free Forever Plan) MailChimp STEP 4 – Get LeadPages and Create 4 Pages Webinar Registration Page, Registration Thank You Page, Live Webinar Page, Webinar Replay Page LeadPages LeadPages WordPress Integration STEP 5 – Get Google+ Account (Free) Google+ Hangouts Live STEP 6 – Broadcast Your Live Webinar Launch your Hangout On Air (HOA) Live on Google+ then copy and paste the embed code from the  Hangout to your Live Webinar page you created with LeadPages. The webinar will be live from this page and also available on YouTube live for the world to view. STEP 7 – Create Your Webinar Replay When you are done with your live webinar take the embed code from the video that was recorded on YouTube and use it to create a webinar replay. This is a great way to continue to promote your business, product, books and more long after your live webinar has ended. Webinar Success: Broadcast Live Webinars Like A Professional – ENROLL IN COURSE Want to watch one of my webinars? Watch Webinar Replays Have questions or a comment? Leave them below and I will be happy to respond. Thanks for reading. Dennis [divider]

Marketing With WordPress–21 Ways In 21 Days

“Marketing With WordPress – 21 Ways In 21 Days” is my first online course designed to let you learn at your pace starts on Friday June, 20th 2014. It is combination of video and text in an easy to understand format sent to your inbox each day. Start off with an Introduction to WordPress by learning what WordPress is and who can use it, how much it cost and finding a local WordPress Meetup group. Then we will move on and talk about getting affordable hosting for your new WordPress website along with how to install WordPress and get you familiar with cPanel. We won’t spend much time with getting to know the ins and outs of WordPress because the course if focused on “Marketing With WordPress”. But I will leave you to some great resources so you can get familiar with WordPress. Plus I will give you a list of other valuable resources at the end of this 21 day course. Week One Course Outline [custom_list style=”list-1″] Introduction To WordPress Hosting WordPress Installation and Setting Up WordPress Themes For Marketing Plugins For Marketing Widgets For Marketing Smart Blogging For Effective Marketing [/custom_list] [divider] [custom_button text=”Reserve Your Seat” title=”Reserve Your Seat” url=”https://dennisjsmith.com/marketing-wordpress-course-registration/” size=”large” bg_color=”#FF5C00″ text_color=”#FFFFFF” align=”center” target=”_self”] [divider] Week 2 starts off with optimizing your WordPress website for Google, BING and Yahoo to get the best SEO results. Then we will talk about using MailChimp for effecting and affordable email marketing. I will show you how to get connected to social media, build forms to sell product and collect important information to grow your business. We will finish out Week 2 by talking about Optimize Press and LeadPages which are 2 tools to build beautiful landing pages. Week 2 Course Outline [custom_list style=”list-1″] Optimize WordPress SEO Connect With MailChimp Connect With Social Media Connect With Facebook Build Gravity Forms and Formidable Optimize Press 2.0 Build Outstanding Leadpages [/custom_list] [divider] [custom_button text=”Reserve Your Seat” title=”Reserve Your Seat” url=”https://dennisjsmith.com/marketing-wordpress-course-registration/” size=”large” bg_color=”#FF5C00″ text_color=”#FFFFFF” align=”center” target=”_self”] [divider] The course wraps up with Week 3 and more on selling product with WordPress. I show you how Woo Commerce is a great ecommerce solution for those wanting to sell physical and digital product online. If you are a self-published author like I am I will show you how to sell more books with WordPress. The week will finish up with tips for small local businesses, hosting your own webinars with WordPress, mobile apps to use WordPress on the go and those WordPress Resources I promised you. Week 3 Course Outline [custom_list style=”list-1″] Selling Product With WordPress WooCommerce For WordPress WordPress for Authors WordPress for MLM Businesses WordPress for Local Small Businesses Host Webinars With WordPress Get Mobile With WordPress WordPress Resources [/custom_list] BONUS: WordPress States With JetPack [divider] [custom_button text=”Reserve Your Seat” title=”Reserve Your Seat” url=”https://dennisjsmith.com/marketing-wordpress-course-registration/” size=”large” bg_color=”#FF5C00″ text_color=”#FFFFFF” align=”center” target=”_self”] [divider] The course ends with a Bonus Lesson to show you how to check your WordPress website stats with the JetPack Plugin so you can find out more about your visitors and what areas of your site are most popular. Ready to get started? Signup and register today to reserve your space and watch your inbox for details. [divider] [custom_button text=”Reserve Your Seat” title=”Reserve Your Seat” url=”https://dennisjsmith.com/marketing-wordpress-course-registration/” size=”large” bg_color=”#FF5C00″ text_color=”#FFFFFF” align=”center” target=”_self”] [divider]

Dominate Your Niche With Online Marketing – Free Webinar

How are you marketing your business online? Would you like to learn more about the tools you can use to market your business online in 2014? I’ll be teaching a free online webinar on Sunday February 9th at 6 pm Mountain Time. I’ll show you the tools that I’m using to grow my business online and not break the bank. Space is limited to the first 20 who register for this free webinar so I can answer questions a the end. Here’s what I’ll be talking about: ▪What is WordPress and why you should be using it? ▪How Instagram and Vine can be your 6-15 second commercial ▪Create Training Video For YouTube ▪Why you need MailChimp. The money is in the list! ▪Grow Your List With Beautiful Opt-In Forms ▪Custom Facebook Fan Page ▪Become An Expert By Writing An EBook ▪Promote Products with Landing Pages From Lead Pages ▪Host a Webinar Like This One [gravityform id=”22″ name=”Webinar Registration” title=”false”]

Affordable Blogging With WordPress – FREE Webinar

Is your business online? Are you keeping content on your website up-to-date? Blogging is an affordable way to let customers know about what your business offers. In this free webinar I’ll show you the basics of WordPress, how to install it, setting up a theme, your first post and how you can use it as a tool to generate new clients for your business, sell product, generate leads and more. Don’t delay in signing up because I’m only allowing between 20-25 registrations so I can take questions at the end of the webinar. It only takes a minutes to get your space. Scroll down to see more on what will be covered in the webinar. Here’s some of what you’ll learn… Blogging 101 What is WordPress? Blogging for Business Personal Blogging Posting Editing Categories and Tags Editorial Calendar Creating Compelling Blog Content Grab Your Space…

Get More Likes, Shares and Comments on your Facebook Fan Page – FREE Webinar

Get Huge Engagement On Facebook – Free Webinar October 6th Are you struggling with getting your fans to like, comment and share your fan page post? Reserve your space for my upcoming free webinar on Sunday October 6th at 6PM Pacific Time and I’ll teach you tips on how to get more likes, more comments and more shares. That means more clients and business for you by engaging your face to talk about your business, share your business with others and leave positive comments about your business. It’s hard to get others to like, share or comment on your post but there are tricks that help you get your fans excited about your content. Are you just posting are you doing things like asking questions to get people commenting and sharing their thoughts? Are you adding photos and videos which are proven to get people sharing them with their friends? Did you know that short post are more liking to get engagement than a long drawn out post? Join me and I’ll show you how to get it right and on your way to success on Facebook! Here’s some of what you’ll learn… Learn how to get more likes on your post Learn how to get more likes on your fan page Learn techniques to get more comments How to get others to share your content Posting Tips There is limited space so that I can answer questions at the end of the webinar so grab your space today and I’ll see you on the webinar. Dennis J. Smith Author Promote Your Business or Cause Using Social Media – A Beginner’s Handbook Register… [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]

Social Media Made Easy Workshop – PowerPoint Presentation

Social Media Made Easy Workshop – PowerPoint Presentation Below is the PowerPoint Presentation from a Workshop I hosted in Boise, Idaho for small businesses. It covers the basics of social media including reasons why a business should be on social media, social media statistics and covers the basics of all the popular social media sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and the website creation tool WordPress. There are social media tips and helpful resources towards the end of the presentation. Please leave a comment below if there is something you are different with your businesses social media. [convertkit form=4847631] Social Media Made Easy! – Workshop by Dennis J Smith

Tools To Create Beautiful Custom Facebook Fan Pages

Tools To Create Beautiful Custom Facebook Fan Pages Get Rid Of Your Boring Fan Page Forever! Are you tired of having a boring fan page? Wondered how others have beautiful fan pages? Wanting to sell your products or services on Facebook? Wanting to create a form to capture information? Add video to teach, sell, inspire others. Show off your businesses Pinterest page right in Facebook. Display your latest Tweets without leaving Facebook. I’ll show you the tools you can use to create beautiful looking custom Facebook fan pages and show you a special offer created just for attendees. Enter code “Free” at registration to attend for FREE! Offer expires 11/24 at midnight! Special offer for attendees of this webinar. Don’t miss out! Registration is $9.95 after 11/24 so register today. Register Here!