*Official Black Friday 2024 Megathread*

MarinaT
MarinaT Posts: 2,148 Udemy rank
edited November 22 in Community News

Hello, Instructors! 👋

We’re thrilled to announce that our Black Friday sale is officially live!🎉 This is our biggest event of the year, and we’ve set up this thread to host all of your questions and discussions.

Feel free to use this space to ask about the promotion, share insights from past Black Friday experiences, or discuss how you’ve prepared for this year’s sale with fellow instructors.

Drop your thoughts in the comments below—we can’t wait to hear from you!

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  • ScottDuffy
    ScottDuffy Posts: 897 rolemodel rank

    Good luck, everyone!

  • KylePew
    KylePew Posts: 140 specialist rank
    edited November 22
  • I'm a first time instructor here on udemy, and it's been fun coming up with courses. I'm looking forward to seeing it how it goes.

  • Marious
    Marious Posts: 393 mentor rank

    COME ON. Let's bring back some memories of old, good BF days. Come on!

  • Doing well on my end

  • Hello Respect Udemy Team

    Thank you very much This is fantastic news Black Friday is always such an exciting time! So far, it has been going great on my end, and I’m excited to see how things progress. great News for us .

  • amulia&8
    amulia&8 Posts: 43 trailblazer rank
    edited November 23

    Dear fellow instructors…I am really excited to update and enlarge my 7 courses. I hope this year Black Friday becomes fruitful to me..God bless all the Instructors.

  • Veasna, M.
    Veasna, M. Posts: 179 storyteller rank

    I think it's not a big difference comparing to the normal day.

  • Till now, nothing much going on for me

  • Hello everyone,

    I'm new instructor in Udemy.
    Could you please share what should we do to promote our courses in this biggest sale season of the year? 🤔⁉️

    Thank you very much.

  • Hi I am a first time course creator.
    Do I need to create a special code for Black friday or just see if my sales see an uptick?

  • FrankKane
    FrankKane Posts: 1,881 rolemodel rank

    Nothing yet…

  • Cyvitrix
    Cyvitrix Posts: 30 traveler rank

    Usual performance, hope it will get better as we approach next Friday!

    wish the best for everyone!

  • Udemy system is ending. There is no other explanation for this. I earned around $2000 in November last year. Now it's not even $500. Udemy ignores instructors because it will earn more. If this is the income of the most active month, Udemy is really finished and we need to look for alternatives. I started to create alternatives on my own. If Udemy remains in decline this month, it is illogical to invest in the Udemy system anymore.

    It is clear that Udemy has lost its former glory days.

  • My sales are really slow this month. I have only made 2/3 of a normal month a d so far about a third of my usual Black Friday takings with 2 new courses this year.

  • FrankKane
    FrankKane Posts: 1,881 rolemodel rank

    Well let's remember it's not actually Black Friday yet… too soon to say how the month will end.

  • AHardin
    AHardin Posts: 578 visionary rank

    I'm starting to see some small increases in sales the past few days, with a fair amount of Udemy Black Friday coupons, so that's good, but nothing earth shattering. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday now being two week long events, I wouldn't expect a few days of huge spike in sales, but instead small incremental gains in sales over the next two weeks.

  • Not much here as well. Last year's BF was not spectacular for me.
    Hopefully it will pick up, the last few days of the sale are usually the best, Cyber Monday has often been better than BF.

  • Waleed
    Waleed Posts: 5 observer rank

    Hello, fellow instructors and Udemy team! 👋

    I was really excited about the Black Friday sale, but so far, my experience has been similar to a normal day—no sales yet. 😔

    I’d love to hear from others: what strategies do you use to promote your courses during this huge sale season? Are there any specific tips or tricks that have worked for you in the past to boost visibility and attract more students?

    Looking forward to your insights—let’s make this Black Friday successful for everyone!"

  • Esther
    Esther Posts: 126 specialist rank

    No uptick so far …

  • yeah nothing here either, last year was noticeable. I think something changed.

  • ThomasMitchell
    ThomasMitchell Posts: 463 visionary rank
    edited November 26

    Ironically, my enrollments are DOWN since the start of the sale. Am I supposed to be excited by this? Really glad I didn't get suckered into relying on Udemy as a full-time gig. Learned my lesson as an eBay PowerSeller back in the day. The parallels are strikingly similar.

  • Niels
    Niels Posts: 65 storyteller rank

    Yeah…no recognizable uptick in sales. Way lower than a few days ago when i ran my own sale.

    It wouldn’t even be that disappointing if Udemy itself hadn’t set such high expectations with this thread and the announcement of the biggest event of the year.

    Didn´t we all learn while creating courses that it´s about: "underpromise and overdeliver" to get good ratings and make people happy? ;-)

  • Kamil
    Kamil Posts: 49 storyteller rank

    This has been my sales performance so far this month.

    The Black Friday sale is not over yet, but so far the results have not been spectacular.

    The beginning of the month and mid-month bumps are my own promo, which I thought would be less effective than the Black Friday bump. But it seems to be the other way around.

    Let's see how it goes until the end of the week! :)

  • Thor
    Thor Posts: 2,331 rolemodel rank

    Sent a promo on 22nd.