How many students do you have?
Hello fellow Instructors. For inspiration, I thought it might be fun to share student numbers. Plus any tips you might have on growing your student base?
Personally, I have been working very hard since christmas to hit my goal of 15,000 by end of april 2019. I have been active in many facebook groups, not advertising, but helping, offering advice and positioning myself as knowledgable in my niche. I have seen a lot of growth since I started this push (approx 300!). Many have come from organic growth, but quite a few have followed my social profiles back to udemy and ended up buying one or more courses.
What have you been doing to promote yourself and your courses? Share below.
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Well, it is the day after the superbowl, so I am going to measure my numbers that way. I've been on Udemy for 26 months now, and I have taught enough students to fill up the stadium for the Super Bowl. That's over 65,000 students!
As for marketing, the best marketing you can ever do is to serve your students well. My students are the ones out there marketing me. When they succeed because of my courses, they post about it on Reddit, Facebook groups, and all over the internet. I never asked them to do it, they just did because they were so happy with their results.
Beyond that, I also help in various Facebook groups, have held livestreams, and do a small bit of email marketing during new course launches, but for the most part, I rely on Udemy and my students to market my courses, and I continue to work on my part: making the best courses with the most value possible!
Jason
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I like how the next step after 100,000 is 500,000... Going to take me a year or two to get there. But I love the optimism...
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Wahow you get great numbers :smileyvery-happy:
Personnally I am 6 000 students for more than 1 year. I hope finish this year with 10 000 students, that will be awesome
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I'm in a similar position to you Robin. Hope to hit 15,000 soon enough!
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I've got 23,000 students and have been on Udemy since 2014 and full time since 2015.
I write books, blog, have a Facebook group and do youtube to keep people aware of me, build a reputation and promote my courses.
All the best
Dan
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6109 students and proud.
It's just one free course and advertised it a little bit on youtube! 6 -
Soon I will get 15,000. Very much excited!
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Great thread topic, Robin! I have found that spending time with each student who asks a question or posts a project is essential. Not only do they come back to purchase other courses but the usually give you higher review ratings, giving you a better chance to rank higher organically in search. I have a student facebook group which helps to foster this relationship as well. I offer feedback on every project posted as well as holding monthly design challenges where I give live video feedback on all projects submitted. So really, just taking care of your student base, every single day.
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Nice numbers dear colleagues.
I wish I could have also posted this big numbers, but I am on 54 at this moment :smileyvery-happy:
In case you have any suggestions/advices as super experienced instructors, will be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Gubaz
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Wow. This is great. As I see you're also teaching technical stuff. My first course is on the way. Good luck !2
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I've been on Udemy for over 3.5 years - eveyrone starts at the same place.
Keep going set your goals and you will achieve them.
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I agree with Jason in that your best marketing is a good product. I get a lot of word of mouth enrollments. Some things I've noticed that help:
1. Building courses that are adjacent to each other in topic. It's much easier to build user affinity if you have several courses that all meet their needs (if they like your first course, then they would also like x.y,z courses you offer)
2. Making sure whenever you pick a topic, you know you can win the category. There's no point really in making the second best course on x topic
It's also worth thinking about what is unique about your teaching style. Is there something you do differently than other instructors? Thinking outside of the box can make the experience more memorable and share-worthy
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Hi everyone,
I'm on the brink of 90,000. But the more important metric is number of reviews and course star rating. Thousands of students can be had overnight through BestBlackHatForum but reviews have to be worked for and earned. I find that providing quality product and quick response to support questions are key to maintaining my star rating.
I have one important and easy "trick" for getting good student reviews. I'm wondering whether I should post it to this forum?
---Brian
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I’m curious as to your “trick”. Jason1
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I'm impressed by your 261 courses. That's almost 1.5 courses a week for 3.5 years.
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Yes please share if you can
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Thanks, I always have a plan for more and enjoy making them.
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Jason,
In a nutshell:
1) Sort your students by percent completed.
2) Send Udemy messages asking for a review to those who have completed 100% of your course and haven't left a review.
Don't ask for a 5 star rating, just a review. Students who have completed your course are more likely to leave 5 star reviews anyway.
Say something like...
Hi {name},
I see you completed my "" course. Congratulations!
Could I get you to do me a favor and leave a review?
(Instructions on how to leave a review)
---Brian
I get a lot of good reviews I would have normally missed this way. Of course, I miss a lot because many Udemy students don't know how to receive Udemy messages ;-).
Hope this helps,
---Brian
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Good idea!
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You have to be very careful when asking for reviews, I was told before by Udemy , "instructor can't explicitly or implicitly request reviews of a certain type. Also, some students can report this and it can negatively impact your course, which we are trying to avoid. "
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Actually, you could include this request in the "Congratulations Message", that's sent only to students who complete your course.
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On my way to 20,000! Working on creating more shareable content to speed things up. I have a step by step eye illustration that went crazy on Pinterest. It got over 80,000 repins and hundreds of students created their own version of the ART! I noticed that I get a lot of traffic from students sharing their completed art and saying that my course content helped them as well. Got to love free advertising!
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50K, here I come!
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You are really close to the next milesone, nice
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Thats awesome thanks for sharing your success
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Mostly see new students from my Facebook group, but it really is the product that has to sell you.
This week I saw a few reddit posts about how amaziballs my courses were and they helped the person pass their certification, that advertising is worth so much, that is how you grow fast.2 -
I'm really killing it. LOL
It's a start and getting better every day. Most of these are freebies. My course has been up for about 2 months.
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