Hi, I am fairly new
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@Monja Wessel
Totally agree that it should not be about the duration but the ability to impart a meaningful learning experience. Courses in my domain tend to get longer because it draws from a number of disciplines and I struggle to justify courses which are less than 10-12 hours in runtime. However, your point is fair.1 -
@rasu84 When I look at myself I'm a bit confused as well ;-) - when I purchase a course I like it to be longer but then as a learner I'm happy to learn as quickly as I can and have not spend tons of time getting through the course. Oh well, a bit of a dilemma! Thanks for considering my point as well :-)2
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Update: It seems that my external ad is driving most of my enrollments. I now have over 5700 student enrolled from one ad that ran for 5 days. That ad generated 21K+ of activity.
The ones that signed up, they were for the free courses only.
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Really interesting! You can market your new course to them later😉 my question: how much did you spend on these ads?0
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$10
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Is there a mass message within a course? I seem to have found a one-to-one communication and even then, I am not sure if the message reaches the student within a free course. In addition, am I allowed to make them aware of a paid course from within Udemy, specially when I come up with new material?
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Definitely! You can send promotional emails twice a month to all your students or just from specific courses so you did marketing wise a fantastic job although I don’t remember if you can still send messages to students from a free course, it worked but a lot changed so I don’t remember0
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My conversion rate on my free courses has been between 90% to 68%. I am confused! If they seem to like the free stuff, why not try the paid stuff?
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Because it is not free.
Conversion rates on free courses mean absolutely nothing. If you stand on the street handing out your brilliant new book, 90% of the people passing by might take it. What does that tell you about how it will sell in a store? Absolutely nothing.2 -
>> My conversion rate on my free courses has been between 90% to 68%.
>> If they seem to like the free stuff
Wrong conclusion. Those numbers do not mean anything. What really counts is the completion rate.
What percentage of your free course have those students watched? If it's not close to 100%, they don't actually like it. They enrolled just because it was free.
We keep telling you that, but you're not listening.
Why do you expect a different result if you keep doing what you've been doing? Anyway, I'm done here.1 -
@drewprof
wrote:My only problem will be that my lectures will be between 12 to 30 minutes. It's just too much content that I want to explain.
You keep saying that, but it doesn't make any sense. Even quantum physics can be explained in 5-minute chunks. You just need to organize your material better.
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@KarolyNyisztor
I am not arguing against your points. I am merely expressing what I see from how I understand this platform, at this stage. Actually, I must thank you for clarifying the facts and I appreciate them. Stay tuned, I might pull something off and not look so useless or clueless, I just need time. Again, forgive me for appearing abstruse...1 -
@drewprof
It really doesn't matter about the length for now. I know you're getting a lot of different opinions on here, but I now a millionaire who has lectures that are 30+ minutes, it certainly works for him, so you just need to make it compelling. And just get on and do it. You can break it down so the 'topic' has a start, middle and end and they can be small topics. Or a portion of a topic. Just do what feels natrual for you, you'll learn what works.Mine vary from 2 minutes to 25 minutes and I have NEVER had a complaint that it's been too long, ever, or too short for that matter. You just need to get it done and you'll see what works and what does not.
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Yes, the opinions on length are certainly interesting. I am sure there will be a sweet spot for my kind of delivery, I just have to find it. Thank you @KevinOxland
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@drewprof
wrote:Must a promo video show my fi also want to know if i must show my face
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You do not have to feel that way, of course you can always improve your material. When I started a few months ago, I had similar experiences, for my first paid course, there was over 30% refunds. I felt my contents were terrible to. But that was the last time I had such experience. I improved on my next course to.
@drewprof
wrote:I joined Udemy about six months ago and posted a single course at that time. It was priced in the lowest tier but sat there with no subscriptions until I changed it to free.
Within days the subscription numbers skyrocketed. That encouraged me to publish another free course and a paid one. Again the latter in the lowest pricing tier.
Subscriptions for the free courses kept increasing to 1600 while nothing for the paid one. Take it back, yesterday someone signed up for it then somehow withdrew.
I am probably coming to the conclusion that my material must be horrible and that I should give up. I have been teaching for decades but I think I must not fit this medium and should forget about it. Or, is it possible that this platform attracts people looking for free stuff and I might as well stick to youtube if that's the case?
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I couldn’t agree more
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Its quite common for most of the instructor in Udemy facing challenges with free users versus paid users but just promote your course link using social media platform definitely your sales will start
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Don't give up! It must be a non-stop mission.
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I have reduced the number of free courses and now I only have two to three enrollments a day. So far, I made a fortune for November: $9.00 (zero on Black Friday LOL).
So may hours of work for that; I must really suck at this dazzle me with fluff and short snippets of feel good ADD compatible stuff. I don't think Udemy is for me. I should move on and start my own platform with my own marketing.
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HELLO KEVIN,
CAN YOU KINDLY ELABORATE ON HOW A COURSE SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED
REGARDS
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