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LawrenceMMiller · ‎04-21-2021

@RandyMinder Respectfully, I need to disagree with a couple of your points above. 2. On pricing: This is something that Udemy marketing has researched. Let's assume that the price of your course when on sale is $12.99, a typical sale price. If you have put a list price on your course of $19.99 it will not sell as well as if it is priced at $99.99, for example. What matters is net sales and revenue. If you price your course low, your net sales will be lower than if you price your course to reflect its value. 4. You create your personal brand value on Udemy. I would argue strongly that you should take as much time as required, six months if necessary (I did that several times), to create the highest value course possible. Students buy value which is indicated by your ratings X the length of the course X the quality of preview videos. Once you have created the best possible course it will sell and you will create your own "fans" or followers who will buy your next course. Do not sacrifice quality. JMHO.

mubashir1 · ‎04-06-2021

No. You can change anytime but before updating the price of your course, please be aware that switching the price of your course between free and paid more than once will result in restrictions to your promotional announcements.

MattBarnett · ‎03-28-2021

Wow.... interesting insight, enlightening even ........Perception is Projection.

rysic · ‎03-15-2021

That sounds reasonable. Thank you!

Monica2021 · ‎03-02-2021

I agree with you 100%. The sky is the limit go for it. You never know which one will give you the high score until you create it. All the best.

AmandeepKaur Sodhi · ‎02-27-2021

Was able to access this link. Thanx a lot

www.suryanarayana.in · ‎01-13-2021

Hi @RandyMinder Very good tip for newcomers like me. Thanks for your advise. I certainly follow your suggestions. @RandyMinder wrote: Hi @SelormKomla - Welcome to Udemy. Before creating your first course I would strongly suggest searching to see how many other courses already exist that cover the topic you intend to cover in your course. New instructors rarely do this. They then spend a month or two creating their course, publish it, have maybe a handful of students after a couple months and wonder what's wrong. They failed to realize there are 500 other courses already teaching this topic.

www.suryanarayana.in · ‎01-12-2021

I must congratulate Madhu-Nag-Shety for initiating this topic for discussion. I am a newcomer on udemy and initially got the same doubt as to whether my Indian accent is received on udemy course. After reading the view points here, now I am confident that I can go ahead with creating my first course soon.

RandyMinder · ‎01-04-2021

Hi @HaiderAli - That question is almost impossible to answer. However, one key factor will be the number of other courses that already exist covering your course topic. I see you created a course on Python. If you do a Udemy search on "Python" you will get 10,000 results back. This means your course is competing against potentially thousands of other courses that are very well established and highly rated. There is simply no way to guess how long it might take to get 100 paid students. But, given the competition you have, six months to a year might not be unrealistic.

RandyMinder · ‎01-03-2021

Hi @2DZ - I see questions of this type often. You really do not want to offer courses for free. First of all, there are bots that crawl the Udemy system looking for free courses and then acquire them. 99% of these people will never go through your course. Secondly, Udemy does not allow you to send promotions to these people. Another thing to keep in mind. You have created courses for a topic that has hundreds or thousands of other existing courses. I did a search for "2D Illustration" and got back 3,800 results. This means your course is competing against all these other courses. So it's going to be very difficult for your courses to stand out against all those others. Unfortunately this is something most new instructors are not aware of when they create their first courses.

DavidDiaz255 · ‎01-02-2021

Thank you so much, Randy! I'll keep that in mind

RandyMinder · ‎01-01-2021

Вы получите больше ответов, если разместите это на английском языке

RandyMinder · ‎01-01-2021

Hi @LukasBurger202 - I can answer some of these questions for you. #1: There would be no issue with you creating a course on AutoCAD #2: I did a search on Autocad and got 1,877 results back. Even if only 10% of those are 4 stars or higher, you are looking at competing against almost 200 highly rated courses. How do you plan to make your course stand out? You might be a fantastic teacher, but students searching for AutoCAD courses won't know that. Therefore, it could be very difficult for your course to get noticed. #3: Selling your course to students in your academy. You could do exactly as you describe. You could create a coupon (easy to do) and then distribute the coupon to your academy students. #4: No #5: You probably don't need to do this #6: Don't know about this.

RandyMinder · ‎12-29-2020

Hi @Anonymous - Here is my take on what you want to do: Udemy courses on JavaScript number in the thousands. So, you will need to find a way to get your course to stand out among all the competition. This will not be easy to do. You want to create your course in Hindi. Of course, by doing so, you will be greatly restricting your course to those students who speak the language. So, not only are you creating a course where there are thousands of competing courses, you are limiting your students to those who speak Hindi. You should be prepared to to have it take a long time for your course to gain any sort of traction. I don't believe you will face any difficulties with Udemy checking your course because it is in Hindi.

GuilhermeMP · ‎12-28-2020

I do

RandyMinder · ‎12-28-2020

Hi @Muskansingh488 - Let me give you some tips: Before creating any course, do a bit of research on how many Udemy courses already exist on the area of math you intend to teach. New instructors rarely do this. They will spend a month or more creating a course and after a couple months they have maybe one or two students. The reason is often because there are 100+ other courses on Udemy teaching the same thing. Realize that most of your sales will only come when Udemy is running a sale. You will probably earn between $1-$5 per sale made. So don't expect to get rich quick as a Udemy instructor. Don't price your course to high. Most Udemy students are not accustomed to paying more than $10-$15 for a course (when they are on sale) Learn to spell Mathematics. It is not "Mathmatics". 🙂

RandyMinder · ‎12-25-2020

Hi @Muskaan1414 - From my experience, there are four huge mistakes most new instructors make: They don't research how many courses already exist for the topic they want to create a course around. It is VERY difficult to find a topic on Udemy that doesn't already have dozens of courses already created. Therefore, it is very difficult for any new instructor to get noticed. If you intend to create a course in English, for English speaking students, make sure your potential students can understand you. A thick accent will turn away many students. If I struggle to understand the instructor, I will not purchase the course or I will get a refund. They price their course too high. Most Udemy students are not accustomed to paying more than $10-$15 for a course, and, then, only when the course is on sale. They don't realize that Udemy is a volume business. Udemy makes money by selling lots of courses very cheaply. Therefore, don't expect to earn very much. On average you will only earn $1-$5 for every sale. And it can often be less than $1. Are you willing to spend a month or more to create a course and make $1 when a student buys your course?

Jack_Bosma · ‎12-21-2020

Welcome to the team! I have achieved success by developing courses with interested students.

Jayant2003 · ‎12-12-2020

@RandyMinder Thanks Sir for your concerned behaviour and advice. I will certainly do what you have suggested me. Much obliged by your suggestion and guidance. Thank you Jayant

RandyMinder · ‎12-08-2020

Hi @Anonymous - Welcome! Before you create your first course, you might want to take a look at how many accounting and cost accounting courses already exist. I did a Udemy search for 'Accounting' and got over 8,000 results back. I then did a search for 'Cost Accounting' and got 10,000+. This means that your course is going to compete against many thousands of courses that already exist. So, be prepared that it might take many months, after you publish your course, for it to get noticed.

RandyMinder · ‎12-06-2020

Hi @okyanusfatmayazici - Here are a few suggestions: Before you get too far into creating your course, do some research, if you haven't already, into how many courses already exist that cover your topic. It seems that so many instructors create a course and then wonder why, after a couple weeks or a month, they only have 1 or two students. Many times it's because 100+ other courses already exist that cover the topic. Don't overprice your course. Most Udemy students are not accustomed to paying more than $10 for a course, and a good number of them never purchase a course unless Udemy is running a sale (I am that way too). Others may disagree with this, but I would recommend not trying to make your course perfect. Your average earnings per sale will only be $1-$4 so it's just not worth going for perfection. I'm certainly not saying you should create junk. But you will be much better off creating multiple good courses instead of fewer, or one, perfect course. Udemy is strictly a volume business. If your course is in English, make sure your accent, if any, is minimal, speak slowly and make sure your grammar is correct. If I purchase a course and I have a difficult time understanding the instructor I will get a refund. I'm sure others will chime in with other suggestions.

RandyMinder · ‎11-26-2020

Hi @Fawadkhan137 - It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. In order to have your course appear on the very first page of Udemy search results, you are going to have a lot of sales with pretty strong ratings (4.4 or higher). There are close to 600 courses on Matlab, and your course currently has a rating of 3.2. So you have a lot of competition in your area and your course rating is very low. So it's unlikely your course is going to appear on the first several pages until your rating gets much higher.

debra1111 · ‎10-23-2020

Agreed. They can just watch my intro videos and decide it is not what they want without getting into the real lessons.

RandyMinder · ‎10-13-2020

Hi @monad98 - What I would suggest you do first is to search for "Graphic Design" in the Udemy search box. You will get many thousands of courses already teaching this. Unless you want to compete with hundreds or thousands of existing courses, I would recommend you pick an area of graphic design that isn't already saturated with courses.

Kelly_Fidei · ‎10-12-2020

Thank you both, I really appreciate your replies and will look into these

RandyMinder · ‎10-09-2020

@HerStylistPro - It won't hurt to try to engage these free students. But, remember, 99% of these students, have no interest in your course. So, the only thing you have to lose is your time (and patience perhaps). Offering your course for free is, in my opinion, a bad idea for at least two reasons. I've already mentioned one of them. The other is that Udemy will not permit you to send promotional emails to students in a free course. You have to remember Udemy's philosophy on free courses. They have stated they should only be made available so students can get a feel for your teaching style. This is why they are limited to two hours. One other comment I'll make. I took a look at your course and it seems to be centered around bridal hair styling. Do a search on Udemy and search for "bridal hair styling". How many results do you see? I saw at least 8,500. This means your course is competing against 8,500 similar courses. Don't be discouraged if it takes months to get more than a few real sales, assuming you change your course to a paid course. You are in a very crowded space.

BillHuffhine · ‎10-07-2020

Hi Randy! Thank you for your feedback. I do see how I can make a change to the title to include more search-friendly terms. I'll make that change. I did a lot of looking around at other courses in my niche; titles, length, price, etc. I was surprised to see courses about the same length priced in the $70 to $80 range. That felt high to me. All of the stuff I've been watching on youtube from other instructors who've sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of courses say to not price your course below $100 and that people actually prefer shorter courses because we have shorter attention spans and people are more interested in the content and not the length. So much conflicting information out there! I've read so much, and watched so much through courses here and on Youtube, and so much information is inconsistent from instructor to instructor. Although my course has 1.5 hours of video content, if the student does the quizzes and assignments they'll spend closer to 2.5 to 3 hours with the course. I landed at $49.95 knowing that most of my sales will come in at the $12 to $20 price point though sales and promotions. I also have my course hosted on Thinkific where I'll keep all of the revenue versus splitting it like we do here. My thought is going after volume to the mass market here, with all of my own marketing strategies pointing to my Thinkific page. You've given some great feedback and I appreciate it!

drradhikavj · ‎10-05-2020

Hello! Just had my new course live now, its "Learn to speak French from Scratch-Part 1" Me so excited ! Its a basic course for beginners, have a look please!! Dr Radhika Vijay

SocialWrkMentor · ‎09-22-2020

I don't understand the questions....why would someone even want to offer a coupon in the introduction? Wouldn't they already be in the course of they were seeing the introduction? Or is it referring to the video on the page that you see in the marketplace?

AtikaIslam · ‎09-12-2020

Yes you are very right. Now i have to make another course in total English language.

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