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The story of me earning $1k+ for the first time on Udemy.
Hi Everyone This is the story of my journey on Udemy to earning my first $1000. This post is almost long overdue. I wanted to write this post at the start of Aug, but I got very busy with my next course. I am going to start at the beginning. I graduated from university majoring in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. I had no…
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First month, 5000 paid student milestone achieved!
Hi I am happy to share I have completed, my first month as Udemy Instructor and have reached 5000 paid student milestone as well with enrolments from 59 countries. Really thankful to Udemy for creating this wonderful platform & changing lives of millions of students, and thousands of instructors. The insights and analytics…
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$100k milestone reached.....Thanks Udemy!
When I created and published my first course 2 years ago on Udemy, I expected my market to be fairly limited and sales to be lukewarm. If someone told me that in a couple of years I would be sitting at $100k earnings (much higher number in terms of sales) I would have referred that person to a psychiatrist. Thanks Udemy…
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Just passed 300,000 lifetime students
Thought I would share a milestone that is exciting for me. I just passed 300,000 lifetime students on Udemy! It's truly incredible. When I published my first course from my small desk next to my bed in my apartment, I never imagined even approaching such a number. I took a several year hiatus from producing new content,…
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Our New Home. Thanks, Udemy!
Today we bought our dream house, and it might be one of the greatest moments in my life. Some people will think: "What? Did you buy a house with money from online courses? You must be joking!" But that's exactly what we did. And it's all thanks to our students and, of course, Udemy. Udemy has been an excellent platform for…
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Planning Is Everything - Your Black Friday Short List - Start Preparing NOW
In 2014 - my first Black Friday - I had never heard of it before - caught me by a pleasant surprise. For some bizarre reason, my courses just started selling. Then I didn't know NOW I do. It isn't just Black Friday - it is much bigger than that. This is big so take advantage of these sales, you’ll be creating and…
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Tips to help you prepare your course for our upcoming Black Friday sale
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner. Next month, hundreds of thousands of students will be shopping for courses. To set you up for success, we have some tips to make your content even more compelling. Refresh your course Students can see the last time a course was updated or even filter search results…
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Top 5 Tips for building a FB Community Group
Hi folks! In response to a recent discussion that was posted by @Bella about Udemy instructors who host a support group for the students (on Facebook or some other platform) here’s a few tips on how to build a reasonably sustainable online community. In case you’re interested, my qualifications are a 65,000+ member FB…
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Do you run a group for your students?
Question We are starting the week with a community poll about student groups & communities. Do you run a group or community for your students outside of Udemy? If so, we’d love to know more about your group in the comments below! Answers My company (Dion Training) runs two student support groups. Our primary one is on…
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Instructor Tips: Youtube Content
YouTube is best way to get the word out. It free and everyone use it! 1. Start a channel featuring your own brand (if you haven't done it already) 2. Create and post new videos once or twice a week. (make sure you are sharing values - not promotions) 3. Place link(s) on the video description to direct interested viewers to…