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Re: Plan Your Course Marketing Before You Publish, Here are Proven Marketing Ideas
Hi Anonymous,
I had also wondered about the benefits of using the Udemy platform. Like many of us, I have been courted by other learning platforms to feature my course(s). However, after attempting to host my own courses and considering working with a different platform, I have decided to give Udemy the entrepreneurial attention that they suggest.
I realized that I did not want to 1) spend the time doing my own marketing, 2) staying abreast of and complying with regulations, 3) responding to customers that might have technical issues or 4) want to request refunds, etc. These are integral administrative, technical and compliance issues that Udemy manages for us.
I send people to Udemy because they may need courses that support what they are learning from me. I trust that Udemy holds instructors to a minimum standard, so I feel comfortable recommending this platform to others. I have experienced the scrutiny firsthand.
I began with Udemy many years ago, but have only recently decided to get serious about building my e-learning brand. I plan to give this time serious effort and see what happens. Also, I glean so much from the community of fellow instructors and hope to continue enjoying and suggesting Udemy courses to my students. So far the benefits of working with the Udemy learning environment far outweigh any shortcomings.
I would like to know how to get paid for my recommendations as well.
DrMJ
Re: Advice Needed: Reusing Existing Course Content
Hi @hamzaGuenbouri
,
Udemy policy doesn't allow us to include an entire course in another one. From what I remember each course should have at least 50% unique content.
The rules & guidlelines page here states the following
- Courses should not contain content that is duplicated in other courses published on the marketplace. Any overlap in content across your courses must remain minimal.
You may want to check with policy team to be sure.
Also, you are likely to have unhappy students seeing the same content in the advanced course for which they had already paid once. This may impact the ratings too.
That leaves you with the option of creating a separate advanced course or update the existing one with advanced topics. I personally would update the existing course as longer courses in tech do better in the market place in my experience, and your existing course is just 2 hours.
Hope this helps!