I make my first $200 on Udemy

[msufyanali]

I Posted My First Course on Udemy in 2019 and Since Then I Have Posted 20 Courses but haven't Seen Much Growth.

So Far the Money I Have Earned from Udemy Is Only About 200 to 250, I Have More Than 42,000 Students, Most of My Courses Are Free, and Very Few Courses Are Paid.

It Is Frustrating for Me That I Have Worked So Hard and Created Courses but Still I Am Not Getting Any Special Reward.

[pritam11 · Accepted solution]

I am new to Udemy, hence I don't know how udemy works, but from my personal experience on teaching and generating revenues from it, I can give you couple of pointers. Hope, that helps.
1. first do a market analysis of how your course stands from rest of the courses on similar topic and what you are offering new. In simple terms, why students will pay you money for your course. If you identify that,  put that everywhere starting from description, promos, free videos.
2. Take reviews very very seriously. Even you should ask what went wrong or right directly to students who haven't give you ratings but completed the course to some extend. Address those reviews and put those measures in the website. That will make a positive impact on rest of the students that you take reviews seriously and correct those.
I am sure you will generate more revenues going forward. All the best!

[RonErez · Accepted solution]

Hi Muhammad,

I looked at your courses and here is my opinion.

1. Stop creating free courses.

2. Your paid courses are extremely short. Your longest course is 3 hours. Nothing wrong with 3 hours, but some students do look at course length as a factor.

3. I took a quick look at your Wix course. Your first lecture is called "ntroduction Wix.com 1.mp4". You are missing an "I"! Moreover the name of your lecture is an mp4 file! The very next lecture is "Weccome to Wix Course". Welcome is spelled with an "l" and this is grammatically incorrect. Sorry, but from just these two mistakes I would never sign up for such a course.

4. I'm watching your promo video only because I want to help, but because of the grammar I probably wouldn't continue. The beginning is cool and then we see "you can earn 1k$ In Month". This is grammatically incorrect. It seems like you are doing everything possible to get people not to sign up for your course. I'm one minute into the video and the site looks nice, but you say "okay" too much.

5. Your English is fairly clear. However it seems like English is not your mother tongue. Perhaps you could also consider creating a course in your mother tongue. Arabic if I'm not mistaken. I would imagine you'd have quite a large audience. Even consider translating one of your existing courses into Arabic. (Recently I saw a successful instructor on Udemy translate one of her courses into Korean since she is fluent in that language).

6. Your Wix course has quite a lot of students despite only 37 reviews. That in my opinion is because you've been giving out your course for free. Don't give anything away for free.

Bottom line. You need your course to be more professional, don't give anything for free and stop creating free courses. Try to teach a course that is a little more in-depth. Correct spelling mistakes. Also consider the possibility of teaching a course in your mother tongue. I think this has real potential.

By the way your course "What's Meta - How Metaverse Change the World - Short Course" is grammatically incorrect. I noticed that most of your videos are under 40 seconds. I guess that's okay. Seems a little short.

As for the description:

"

If you really think you want to know about the Metaverse and make money from it or whatever is going on in your mind then share it with me.

Not only Metaverse, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain but also according to its related and as many topics as you want for which let me know. I will do my best to make a course on it so you also get to learn something, Will keep thanks

"

Use ChatGPT or a friend to correct the grammar. It simply looks so unprofessional. I actually just read a review complaining that the lectures are all under one minute.

It seems like you have valuable knowledge but you have to make a greater effort to create a quality course. At the very least correct the grammar.

Please don't take offense. I am trying to honestly help.

Good luck!

Ron

[AsgarMollayev · Accepted solution]

Hi @msufyanali Thank you for sharing your problem. I'm sorry your hard work didn't pay off. Frankly, I'm new to Udemy. But I know very well that, like many platforms, Udemy also attaches importance to viewing times. One of the biggest problems is that 16 out of 20 courses are free. I know well that many people say that creating a free course would be beneficial. Maybe that's why you created free courses. But you have so many free courses. The problem starts here: Udemy users usually enroll in a free course when they see it, even if it is not their area of interest.After watching a few lessons, they stop watching the course because it is not of their interest. So your courses are not reaching the right target audience because they are free. Thus, even if people take the course, they do not rate the course and do not comment on the course, and since the viewing time of the course is very low, Udemy recommends your courses less.

I hope your problem will be solved and you can make good sales. 🙂