Wide or narrow topic?

Hi!

Just signed up today to be an instructor as I want to create a course on creative writing for kids.

Do you find a course is more successful when the topic is pretty wide, like one course that encompasses the whole of 'creative writing' for kids, or narrow, where I might start with one course on something like writing vivid descriptions, and then add other courses on other topics as time goes by?

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  • HSE-Trainer
    HSE-Trainer Posts: 252 storyteller rank

    Wide topics work best on Udemy. This is what I noticed while working on Udemy. The more the topic is narrow, the less the number of students!

  • DanielEvans
    DanielEvans Posts: 440 mentor rank

    It depends entirely upon the topic and your target audience.

    Products in tight niches can be very successful for the fact that they can be filling a space that is in demand, yet barely occupied. In which case, competitive interest ensues.

    There's often nothing that's already established for to use as a base of judgement. This is where market research (and subsequent marketing) proves its worth.

  • Thanks. The thing is that 'creative writing for kids' is such a wide topic that I feel completely overwhelmed trying to work out what to include. Writing descriptions is a really important part of creative writing for kids at school, and narrowing to that helps me create a course that's really good quality. But obviously not if that means I won't get any takers...

  • DanielEvans
    DanielEvans Posts: 440 mentor rank

    In cases like this, the best thing we can do is focus on the topic by means of a case study.

    By doing so, you are showing the principles within the context of that project.

    That gives you opportunity to create more courses for more case studies.