01-25-2019 06:51 AM - edited 08-21-2021 05:36 AM
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Some version of this question is one of the most common by instructors so I thought I would write this, which is a summary of advice from many experienced instructors.
I have compiled a list of things you can or should do to market your course. None of these are short term or an instant path to riches. But, they are things that work if you are serious about building an online business on Udemy. Think strategically, not short term. It often takes a few years of effort to begin to make a significant return on your efforts.
The above is only my advice, but informed by the experience of many other successful instructors,
Larry Miller
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01-25-2019 08:44 AM
Go to solutionThis is a great list with a lot of value... every new instructor should take the time to study it, thanks for posting it!
02-05-2019 06:31 AM
Go to solutionNice post. Thanks for sharing.
02-05-2019 11:14 PM - edited 02-05-2019 11:16 PM
Go to solutionHi Lawrence,
Nice and to the point post.
Regards,
Haytham | realarabic.com
02-06-2019 04:12 PM
Go to solutionThanks Larry, I have had a very bad experience with free coupons. Never again.
Blessings for the advice.
02-24-2019 12:16 AM
Go to solutionSuper Awesome.
Adding few more points.
1) Answer the questions in quora related to your course and provide course link.
2) Apply same strategy in reddit.
03-04-2019 09:07 AM
Go to solutionGreat advice, thanks for sharing.
03-22-2019 06:32 AM
Go to solutionwell written
09-05-2019 01:31 PM
Go to solutionGood post Larry!
Agree with pretty much all your points; my takeaway: don't waste money on FB ads directly; also I appreciate the hindsight to only offer FREE coupons to those who have visited/liked our course-related Facebook page - great idea.
Thanks!
Susan
02-08-2020 06:02 PM
Go to solutionnice; and, also, if I could add: don't let One course determine the feasiblity of your teaching efforts. Have a couple of courses on--before, you panic!
04-27-2020 06:13 AM
Go to solutionwonderful suggestions Dear Larry
i have just started 2 days back and was trying to send a message through announcements but could not find thw way.
Can you help me fix the issue. I am not sure its activated to me or not?
with best & Kind Regards
Oh one more question I could find price of Camptasia $100 at some page of Udemy How can I buy this software through Udemy
God bless you Sir
05-27-2020 07:21 PM
Go to solutionHi Lawrence,
Very well written and to-the-point post. Thanx a lot for sharing.
I got my first course published a day ago. Though I have offered a few discounted coupons to people I know might show interest of learning, however, I feel I need access to students from all over. Creating a separate FB/LinkedIn Page part is also done where I am now sharing links to my course. But till now course got 0 reviews and in the search list too it's not easily found. I a, very much worried and I fear that if my course won't be seen to students coming on Udemy, how are they going to enroll for it?
01-25-2019 08:44 AM
Go to solutionThis is a great list with a lot of value... every new instructor should take the time to study it, thanks for posting it!
08-31-2020 07:25 PM
Go to solutionThank You
12-10-2020 06:44 AM
Go to solutionThank you so much, Larry, for this incredible list! My first course launched about a month ago, and I created a free coupon and sent it to 5 people - the close friends's circle - and i asked them genuinely to watch it and do a review, and that's what they did, their feedback was very helpful. I did this absolutely intuitively, and I am very happy Larry backed that up 🙂 I am only learning all the tools of promoting here, and absolutely, we have to be here for a long haul, that's the only way it's gonna work. I am already preparing the second course, and it's been fun so far. Good luck to everyone in this amazing community!
06-05-2021 04:17 AM
Go to solutionGreat information thanks for posting
12-24-2022 11:46 AM
Go to solutionHey @MassimilianoAlf
Love that quote. Failure can be such a nice learning experience. I quickly checked your YouTube channel and was surprised to see a fellow artist... Loved it! I might also be able to help you with your channel if you would need some help...
I currently reach 551K people/month on YouTube and would be able to answer all your YouTube questions for FREE. Questions concerning title & thumbnail creation, intro's, SEO, getting more views, getting more subscribers, topic research, etc... ). I love helping, I love sharing knowledge and growing together. I believe those who help each other out are the ones who come out on top.
In exchange for my knowledge I would like to tap into your knowledge about Udemy courses. I would love to ask an experienced Udemy instructor questions about Udemy (course marketing, reviews, social proof, course creation, advertisement, etc.) Let me know if you would be interested in exchanging information.
For your information here are my YouTube stats:
- @DriesKetels (YouTube handle)
- 551K people reached/month
- 230K watch time/ month
- 400 shares/month
- 18K subs total
- 700 subs gained/month
- 55K interactions/month
- 52% aged between 25-44
Hope to hear from you, let's grow together and educate each other,
Friendly,
Dries
12-24-2022 02:46 PM
Go to solutionFYI clicking on your website and youtube links, both don't work. You might want to check them out.
12-25-2022 03:04 AM
Go to solution@LawrenceMMiller You're right... old links. Just fixed it. Thanks Lawrence.
08-13-2023 01:05 AM
Go to solutionI agree with you.
01-25-2019 09:30 AM
Go to solutionHand down my favorite post of yours Larry and there are quite a few! Thanks for sharing it here as well.
01-30-2019 06:13 AM
Go to solutionHi Lawrence, great posti! do you mind if I translate your posting in Japanese and share it with fellow Japanese instructors? Your widsom is definitely we should know.
02-02-2019 01:06 PM
Go to solutionShigeru, Please feel free to translate and share as you wish.
02-03-2019 02:16 AM
Go to solutionThanks! Lawrence!
02-04-2019 01:25 PM
Go to solutionLove this post. A good strong place for people to start!
02-05-2019 06:29 AM
Go to solutionGreat advice, Lawrence.
02-05-2019 06:31 AM
Go to solutionNice post. Thanks for sharing.
02-05-2019 06:46 AM
Go to solutionAwesome post. Thanks! Looks like I need to revamp my landing pages. They're too robotic.
02-05-2019 11:40 AM
Go to solutionGreat list to follow and very constructive advise. Thank you for sharing.
02-05-2019 06:46 AM
Go to solutionYour last point "Have patience" caught my eye. I am doing everything in my power to market my courses but always finding everything worthless in the end....One must possess the power of patience in order to get the best out of anything.
Thank you so much for such a inspiring, educational and motivating post.
02-05-2019 01:29 PM
Go to solutionThank you so much for sharing your experience.
Very inspiring for me !
02-05-2019 01:53 PM
Go to solutionGreat info.Thank you for sharing
02-05-2019 02:10 PM
Go to solution@LawrenceMMiller Loving your posts! Thank you for valueable information!
02-05-2019 04:17 PM
Go to solutionThank you very much for posting this! It is very helpful! *****
02-05-2019 11:14 PM - edited 02-05-2019 11:16 PM
Go to solutionHi Lawrence,
Nice and to the point post.
Regards,
Haytham | realarabic.com
02-06-2019 05:15 AM
Go to solutionThank you Lawrence for getting the ball rolling with listing the top tips for new (and old!) instructors on Udemy. One of the problems with the previous facebook community was that the same questions got asked over and over again. Hopefully with this new community for instructors we'll be able to find the importance stuff much more quickly and there will be less repetition and more new isights as they arise
02-06-2019 02:54 AM
Go to solutiongreetings. I am turkish. I created a course with an English language. my friends are also turkish. How do I sell my English course?
02-06-2019 05:49 AM
Go to solutionHi, I recommend you use the search function in this forum to find your information. I am moving this topic to the main topic created by Lawrence Miller who is an authority in this domain.
02-06-2019 11:51 AM
Go to solutionI don't know what I earn from udemy but I know udemy have such a thoughtful instructors like Larry Miller. Really this post is the conculusion of 600 pages book and I am saving it and I will read it until I am working on udemy. Awesome
02-06-2019 04:12 PM
Go to solutionThanks Larry, I have had a very bad experience with free coupons. Never again.
Blessings for the advice.
05-31-2019 12:49 PM
Go to solutiontotally agree
I haven't done any free coupons for over a year and couldn't be happier.
02-23-2022 01:55 AM
Go to solutionYes, people only sign up so they can "watch it later" which I don't think ever comes
02-06-2019 11:07 PM
Go to solutionAwesome!!!! Definitely keeping these tips.. thanks Lawrence
02-08-2019 08:36 AM
Go to solutionGood marketing insight
02-08-2019 11:35 PM
Go to solutionExcellent marketing advice. Thanks for sharing
02-09-2019 09:04 AM
Go to solutionNice checklist. Very helpful advice. Thanks for contributing to all of us, Larry.
02-13-2019 08:47 AM
Go to solutionReally great post, and I can really see what mistakes i made.
On my way to fixing them
Thanks a million
02-20-2019 08:38 AM
Go to solutionExcellent tips. Thank you for sharing with us.
02-21-2019 02:25 AM
Go to solutionNew to Udemy as an instructor. Stuggling with marketing right now. This is inspiring and insightful. Thank you
02-24-2019 12:16 AM
Go to solutionSuper Awesome.
Adding few more points.
1) Answer the questions in quora related to your course and provide course link.
2) Apply same strategy in reddit.
06-16-2019 12:50 AM
Go to solutionI concur with Quora as there’s a ton of opportunities to share what you know, answer specific and targeted questions, and elevate your status as an expert in your area.
Also - pro tip, you can link your course in your signature, and drive readers and respondents interested in your solution to check out your course. I recommend only one course per answer responses.
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07-04-2019 09:13 AM
Go to solutionBe careful with Reddit. I posted a response from my phone which included a link to one of my courses and was immediately flagged as SPAM and was banned for a couple of days until I explained what happened.
I think it depends on the Reddit forum and the moderator, but answering the questions is a great way to present yourself as an expert (if not the expert) in the field or area.
05-25-2020 07:55 AM
Go to solutionnot a bad idea
02-23-2022 01:56 AM
Go to solutionGreat addition
I do that on Quora but never liked Reddit.
03-04-2019 09:07 AM
Go to solutionGreat advice, thanks for sharing.
03-07-2019 07:17 AM
Go to solutionGreat post! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
03-22-2019 06:32 AM
Go to solutionwell written
04-06-2019 06:41 PM
Go to solutionThank you, that makes sense. I appreciate the information, just what I'm looking for. Thank you
Katrina
04-08-2019 07:54 PM
Go to solutionThank you very much for sharing the tips. I consider it as a guidance to my marketing strategy.
04-08-2019 08:47 PM
Go to solutionHi;
Great!
Thanks;
04-14-2019 01:27 PM
Go to solutionExactly what i was looking for. Thanks very much Larry. i was actually brainstorming marketing strategies for my udemy course and i came accross this. I'm going to keep on working with this list untill am done exhausting it. Then i will go over it again
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