Memories :was it difficult to create your first course?

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  • Lizzy
    Lizzy Posts: 162 specialist rank

    Don't give up @MarouaOuakrim

    The darkest hour is just before dawn!

  • @Lizzy
    Thank you Lizzie for your encouragement, I wish you success:smileyvery-happy:



  • Thank you @MarouaOuakrim
    - my nickname is The Procrastination Queen lol.
    Strong message to you now though ( I am always better with other people remember)

    YOU MUST GET YOUR COURSE LIVE IN THE NEXT 4 WEEKS

    Why?

    BLACK FRIDAY SALES

    Black Friday is one of the peak sales periods so if you want to be successful then your course needs to be in prime position for the feeding frenzy. Let that drive you.

    IT CAN BE DONE

    The best thing to do about fear of failure is to treat the course creation as a continual improvement project rather that a one off get the course live. If it is a continous project then the first stage is to get it live - only then can you start to improve, tweak, add to and learn more.

    Fear of failure is a fail in it's nature. Because if you don't take the plunge and get it live then you fail already. Yes if you get your course live it might not be the big winner you hope for and it could be a fail HOWEVER you will be so much further on in your learning. And learning is the real path to success.

    GO FOR IT! Message me if you need a bit more ooomph!

  • @Lizzy
    If you have 2 nearly fully uploaded then you're nearly there. You just need one live ASAP -Go for it! Just because getting the course live is one challenge but the real challenge is once the course is live - the marketing is whole different game.

    Because of Black Friday the market place will be awash with new courses by the end of October which will mean your course will be up against lots of other new courses. So for you it would be good to get one course approved ASAP and get the social proof so you are primed for releasing the 2nd course in time for Black Friday :)

    Let me know if you need a bit more of a shove.

  • Lizzy
    Lizzy Posts: 162 specialist rank

    Thanks @DeniseFletcher

    I will get them all live by Black Friday. You are right. I am going to send the first one for Udemy review. I will check if it's all there and do that today.

    Thanks for the push. It helps!

  • @DeniseFletcher
    thank you so much, i intend to get it live before black friday.
    thanks for your kindness for helping us ,we newbies.:smileyvery-happy::smileyvery-happy:

  • For me, the first course was the easiest one to create. That's because my attitute was all wrong. It was just bunch of simple videos put together to a semi-concise way. Not much thought went into it and I didn't even bother editing the videos much at all. I made the course available for free, and got thousands of students in just a couple of days. Then made it paid course, and sat back and waited for the money...that never came. The course was of course a flop, and it deserved to be. I ended up unpublishing it and started to work on another course. This time, I put everything into it...and it was hard work indeed. But 10 courses later, I never looked back. The point is, the creation gets easier as you know what you are doing. The editing is done more efficiently, you pick up few tricks that make your workflow more fluent. But it still takes the same hard work as ever, if you are trying to create something great.

  • @PavolAlmasi
    Thanks for sharing your story , at first, I thought it was easy to make a course, but this is not true, it requires hard work and perseverance

    thanks

  • So I will do a quick response on @JasonDion
    's behalf. His first course was rough. He had been teaching in class and was about to transition into online teaching at the college he was at due to having to travel for his day job. So, the last session of his Network+ class he had, he recorded the entire thing and put it up on youtube for the students to reflect on. It was bad. It was a poor set of slides and him talking into one of those ball mics that was set up on a podium-but he paces while he talks, so sound would fade in and out. A friend of ours suggested putting it up on Udemy to see what could happen. He launched it the week after Black Friday 2016 and it made $56 in that short month-which was more than we ever expected.

    After seeing that this could be possible, Jason went and wrote and recorded a new course. First, he went and watched all the training videos Udemy provides about how to best create a course. That course did ok, so we did another, and another. Over time we now have over 25 courses, and have refined our skills so far beyond what they were at the start. I am now the full time video editor leaving him as the head instructor, and we have a team of VA's that help keep up with reviews, questions, etc.

    There are a TON of great courses on Udemy that will help you learn how to edit in what ever platform you are using, and other courses that show the benefit of different cameras and mics. I highly suggest doing a search of the community to look for posts about these things to find the right ones for you and your budget as you get started out. We started with $20 mic and a cheap but decent webcam.

  • @TameraDion
    Thank you for your reply and for your advice. I took some editing courses ,it was difficult for me to create a course and I never knew where to start , but it's easier now.

    thanks for sharing your story.
    I have read @JasonDion
    article . It has benefited me a lot and I changed some lessons because of it,
    https://community.udemy.com/t5/First-time-Course-Creation/Four-essential-tips-for-increase-your-chances-of-success-on/m-p/22143

  • Jason is a great teacher in any medium and loves to help others as time permits!