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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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10 Free Tools For Udemy Instructors

10 Free Tools For Udemy Instructors BestBlackHatForum.com This online forum is the best way to launch a new course and grow your student enrollments for social proof. If you have already post a free course coupon in the Udemy Studio it might already be listed on Best Black Hat Forum. Register and the search the site first then make sure you read their guidelines for posting free and discounted course coupons to the site. I launched a new course a few weeks prior to posting this and have almost 1,600 students enrolled in the new course. Now I can cross promote my other Udemy courses to these new students. I’ll talk more about cross promoting Udemy courses in a future blog post so make sure you sign up to receive word of my future post. The Udemy Blog Udemy has a great blog full of free information for instructors including this article “Guide to Grow Your Traffic”. Blog readers can also get 50% OFF on any Udemy course. OnlineCourseCoupons.com Letting others market your course through affiliate marketing lets you make some extra money from your courses even though you split some of the earnings with someone else. This site is one of many where you can list your course coupon typically for free and also provides a Course Marketing List for Udemy Instructors of all the sites you can post discount coupons or free coupons for your course. Watch Instructor Hangouts Watch Hangouts with other Udemy Instructors includes these 2 Hangouts with some of Udemy’s Top Instructors like Alun Hill, Diane Darling, Phil Ebiner, Rob Cubbon, Grant Weherley, Matt Bernstein and myself moderating our discussion. Watch “Learn How To Increase Your Udemy Course Revenue – Hangout With The Expert Instructors” and “Chart Your Udemy Course For 2015 : Hangout With The Expert Instructors” for some great advise from marketing your course, making more revenue and course creation. Mix for PowerPoint Office Mix is a free add-on for PowerPoint that lets you get interactive with your PowerPoint presentations and lets instructors embed elements like video. Microsoft Office itself has become quite affordable and you can access Office 365 for less than $10 a month for all the Office apps. I use them on both my Windows laptops, my Chromebook via the Chrome browser and my Android tablet with their new Office apps for Android. It makes it easy to build your course presentation while on the go and create some great looking courses along with building a relationship with your students. How to Create Your Udemy Course Watch this free Udemy course on how to create your own Udemy course. Taught by the Udemy Instructor Team and offers lots of useful advice to those just starting on the platform. Google Docs If you aren’t a Microsoft Office fan I recommend you use Google Docs for everything from outlining your course to building your slideshow presentation with Google Slides. The apps are free and you can access them from any device including your Android Smartphone. How to Market Your Udemy Course: Instructors with Audiences Another free course fro the Udemy Instructor team for new and current Udemy instructors who want to learn more about promoting their course and keeping it fresh over the course of time. I recommend you watch this course “How to Market Your Udemy Course: Instructors with Audiences” several weeks before launching your course to be ready to start off with your own marketing plan. Udemy Secrets: How to Create and Sell Courses on Udemy Learn how to source sites like Amazon, Google Keywords, Udemy and more to find out which topics are popular and will most likely translate into a top selling Udemy course. This is a short course but offers some great information for being free. Enroll today! Listen to The Online Learning Podcast with John Colley My friend and fellow Udemy instructor John Colley is the host of The Online Learning Podcast which I was fortunate to be a guest on. You can check out Episode 93 here or listen to the show on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or on his Udemy course “Online Learning Podcast: Interviews with Udemy Instructors“. Enroll today! Sign up to be notified of the most recent blog posts for Udemy Instructors [optinform]