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On The Road To 30K In Udemy Revenue

September 25, 2016

The Revenue Road Starts It took me awhile to finish writing this post as July of 2016 marked my 2nd year on Udemy as an instructor now with 9 courses. The post I wrote back in September of 2014 on hitting my first $100 on Udemy continues to be popular. I thought that I would take the time to talk about my journey along the way and what I have been doing since then. I’ll break down my Udemy related revenue streams at the end of this post. I like many others starting on Udemy wondered what my next step was after publishing my first course which was about WordPress marketing. I started digging around and came across websites that allowed you to promote your course by submitting a coupon to the site. That gave me an idea and in October of 2014 I started the website Online Course Coupons which is a site to help instructors promote their courses. It was a place that instructors could get their courses promoted and I would take a small cut of the revenue as an affiliate of Udemy. I also compiled a list “Course Marketing Checklist” that remains popular to this day and is a list of other sites like mine and started the Facebook Group “The Online Course Promotion Group: Featuring Udemy, Skillshare and more!” where instructors can market their courses and learn about other marketing advice. The checklist became so popular with other instructor that I decided to turn it into 2 courses “Udemy Course Marketing: Increase Your Success” which is a starter course and “Udemy Marketing: Where to Promote Course Coupons”. Both courses offer instructors information on where to share their course coupons and how and have great reviews. “Udemy Live” Road Trip To San Francisco I took a road trip in late June to San Francisco from Idaho to attend Udemy Live and came back full of lifetime memories. I arrived into San Francisco on a Thursday evening a little earlier and picked up Dragoş Ștefănescu who came in from Romania. It was the first time meeting him in person but felt like we knew each other for years. We had a fun adventure getting lost on the streets of San Francisco on the way to pick up Jack Wilson at San Francisco International Airport and not knowing the GPS was set in biking mode.  I had a great time sharing a room with friend and Udemy Fitness instructor Jack Wilson. Both Jack and I hung out the first night and stayed up late enjoying Idaho beer with popular TOGAF Udemy instructor Scott Duffy. If you are new to Udemy make sure you check out his Udemy SEO course and his course on protecting your own courses from piracy. Meeting new instructors like Ravinder Deol the “Bitcoin Expert” I think has helped me build relationships that go way beyond online course creation and Udemy. Plus I got to meet instructors I knew through Facebook and Skype for the first time in person. That included Brandon Hakin, Dave Espino, Diego Davila, Jeremy Deighan,  Jasper Ribbers, Joe Parys, Laurel Papworth, Phil Ebiner “Video School Online” and several others. These are people that have a common goal in life and that is enjoying teaching others their passions so we can change the world and at the same time change our own lives. Keeping Focused On The Road Like a lot of Udemy instructors my revenue has dropped since Udemy’s price change back in April of this year. However I have been trying to remain positive by being creative by generating new revenue sources, creating new content while interviewing instructors and sharing their stories, answers instructor questions with “Ask Dennis“, grown my YouTube Channel to 660 subscribers, marketing my current courses and building my mailing list with ConvertKit. I had to completely shut down my website One Buck Courses which generated a lot of traffic and revenue as you would expect. I got the idea for the site after seeing several website that promoted Kindle books for a buck. I thought why not do the same with courses since we as instructors could discount down to one dollar. I already knew several instructors because I had also started a popular Facebook Group “The Online Course Promotion Group: Featuring Udemy, Skillshare and more!” with almost 4,000 members that allows instructors to promote their courses. That meant it was easy to build site that offered hundreds of courses for just a dollar. But I lost that revenue since after April the lowest price an instructor could discount their courses was $10. But still that’s not a bad price when you consider the value one gets from learning a new skill online. However it seemed like the bottom fell out and Udemy revenue came to what seemed like a halt. I have to fight off procrastination and even had to start a job which I quit because I couldn’t deal with people on the phone. But I have found a seasonal job to help cover the bills as I continue working on finding my path. I might not be rich at this point but I’m rich from the experiences I have experienced and the people I’ve met along the way. That is what I am most grateful for because we all work together to make our lives more rich. [convertkit form=4900669] The Revenue Streams I will admit that there are other instructors that have earned more revenue on Udemy than I have by far. But I’m in it for the long haul while others have already left looking for the next shiny object. Here is a little background of where my revenue related to Udemy comes from. There are a few places my revenue comes from and one of those is affiliate marketing through several websites, social media and email marketing. The biggest stream of revenue is the affiliate marketing through Online Course Coupons and Free Course Daily which I started after shutting down One Buck Courses due to Udemy’s price change.…
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5 Udemy Course Marketing Resources for Udemy Newbies

June 21, 2015

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

June 15, 2015

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+

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10 Free Tools For Udemy Instructors

March 16, 2015

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]

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Learn How To Increase Your Udemy Revenue–Hanging Out With Some Of Udemy’s Top Instructors

December 5, 2014

I had the opportunity today to host a Google+ Hangouts On Air with 4 of Udemy’s top income producing instructors. These are instructors that I personally admire, respect and am also very eager to learn from. My goal was to help other instructors like myself by asking questions about their success and what they would recommend for new instructors or those who might be struggling to gain their footing on Udemy.com. My hope is that webinar is the first of many more so we can help educated others become as successful as the instructors I was fortunate to spend time with on the webinar. You will be surprised that the instructor who earned $25,000 in October of 2014 only made about .34 cents his first month. In fact most of them only made a few hundred the first month they started on the site. We will talk about what they recommend to be a great instructor and suggestions on creating a great course and then promoting that course. Remember that what you earn is up to you and your results might be different than these instructors. Webinar Replay Registration Instructor Profiles: Alun Hill Dennis Smith Grant Weherley Matt Bernstein Rob Cubbon Resources: Udemy Studio Facebook Group Udemy Faculty Lounge Learn Udemy Course Marketing & Promotion Online Course Coupons – List Your Udemy Course Free Udemy Marketing: 50+ Places For Marketing Your Udemy Course

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