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ScottDuffy · ‎05-08-2020

It takes about 24 hours for search to index new courses.

ScottDuffy · ‎05-06-2020

I guess "no".

ScottDuffy · ‎05-06-2020

One thing to learn about how Udemy works is to ask the instructor questions in the Q&A section of the course. Not the forum for other instructors.

ScottDuffy · ‎05-06-2020

Send the course to Udemy at policy@udemy.com and ask them to look at the reviews.

ScottDuffy · ‎05-06-2020

If I was to guess, my first suspicion would be the reviews. How does a course on "Earth Pressure" get all 5.0 ratings from 40 people? Are these your real-life students?

ScottDuffy · ‎02-25-2020

Yes, I'll take a high quantity of reviews every day. If you want 90% fewer reviews, I wish Udemy would let you opt-in to that. Imagine a course marketplace where 90% of courses had no reviews. How would students decide what courses to buy? More reviews equal more sales. What you need to combat one bad review are more reviews. Try to get 5 or 10 more reviews. Good luck!

ScottDuffy · ‎02-19-2020

Congrats Team Udemy! Looking forward to more innovations in the learning tools available to students with this money.

ScottDuffy · ‎01-19-2020

Sadly, there's no one at Udemy that can help you fill out your US Government tax forms. The risk that some of those forms would contain mistakes, and that some financial consequences such as taxes or penalties would happen, is too great. Everyone is in the same boat. I had to stuggle to fill out the form and even when I submitted, I was not sure. But I did it.

ScottDuffy · ‎01-19-2020

The ID for your account is 46789762. You might have received this in an email. Subject Line "Udemy - Important Announcements: Submit your tax info and New Coupon System" I got this number from your profile photo. https://i.udemycdn.com/user/100x100/46789762_fb40.jpg That's your picture. And the number is part of the URL. That's the only way I know to get it.

ScottDuffy · ‎01-18-2020

Export them from where? Where did you record them?

ScottDuffy · ‎01-04-2020

Udemy has a number of free courses on various things: https://www.udemy.com/user/udemymanager/ I would also suggest you look for free courses from your fellow instructors. https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?kw=udemy&price=price-free&q=udemy&src=sac Yes, watch a few courses yourself before making a course. Accept that it's overwhelming. You can't achieve perfection in the first week or month. Or maybe even ever. But do you know how you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

ScottDuffy · ‎01-04-2020

Be careful with who you pick. It's so easy to appear to be successful when you are in fact not successful because instructors can give out free coupons and enrol 10s of thousands of free students. Look for "number of reviews" being the indicator of success, not number of students.

ScottDuffy · ‎10-02-2019

Goals? Udemy Live! See you there!

ScottDuffy · ‎09-18-2019

Maybe what you want is PayPal or Payoneer to support bitcoin withdrawal. But they would never, ever do that for the same reasons as above. Plus PayPal makes its money on fees so they don't want to do it.

ScottDuffy · ‎09-18-2019

Of course, the real answer is the complex money laws around the world. Particularly laws around terrorism and anti-money laundering. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp A company like Udemy cannot just send $100 million per month to 30,000+ people in 180 countries so easily. The US government in particular has strong laws about sending money to countries like Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cuba, etc. So that's why Paypal (and now Payoneer) is needed. And that's why Udemy will never, ever, ever send cash directly to your bank account. Or bitcoin. Udemy is not big enough to have enough lawyers and accountants to deal with all the complex money sending laws around the world and they will gladly pay 30 cents per instructor to Paypal to deal with that. Think about that. PayPal charges Udemy 30 cents per instructor and they take away thousands of dollars per month worth of financial reporting headaches. How can anything beat that? This is the answer. This is the only answer. Money laundering, terrorism, and the US government watching where money flows around the world.

ScottDuffy · ‎08-30-2019

Thanks! I think you have been doing great on Udemy. You did all the hard work, and are getting the rewards from that. Speaking of Tokyo, I want to go to the Japan 2020 Olympics! I don't know if I can, but I would like to.

ScottDuffy · ‎08-20-2019

I don't know if any of this is really "changed". So you're saying it's harder to be successful on Udemy than it was 5 years ago? Yes it is. Harder to be successful on Youtube than it was 5 years ago? Yes it is. Harder to be successful on Amazon FBA / Amazon Kindle / Facebook ads / Google Ads / Making money from Adsense / ..... yes. All that is true. Udemy is not "making" it harder. It's harder as more people enter these markets looking to make money. Yeah, a JavaScript course will have a hard time being successful. You can learn Javascript for free all over the Internet. Pick a better topic.

ScottDuffy · ‎08-15-2019

All new instructors must go through an identity review. I believe they sent you a message about recording a video of yourself reading a specific sentence, and sending it in. https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229234067-Instructor-Identity-Verification-Process

ScottDuffy · ‎08-14-2019

This is a video training website. If you think "written information is better unlike video can be reviewed quickly" then you're looking to write a book.

ScottDuffy · ‎08-03-2019

Some people are so negative. You have to let whatever biases you have against Udemy go. You're wasting your own time posting here if you have such a negative opinion of Udemy.

ScottDuffy · ‎08-01-2019

@MarkLassoff now I can print that out too! Best day ever.

ScottDuffy · ‎07-31-2019

Print this out and put it on your wall.

ScottDuffy · ‎07-27-2019

Been a good month and a good year here. Working a little every day and starting to get excited about the second half of the year.

ScottDuffy · ‎07-27-2019

Congratulations Udemy! Keep going up, up, up!

ScottDuffy · ‎07-27-2019

Double, not 10X.

ScottDuffy · ‎07-23-2019

It doesn't change magically. You have to change it. What are you doing to attract more people to your topic?

ScottDuffy · ‎07-11-2019

Yeah, sounds fine.

ScottDuffy · ‎07-09-2019

You didn't ask this, but I'm going to provide my opinion anyways. It's very hard to get any success in teaching "web development". There are 4000 courses on web development. You need to be something special and unique. Maybe you already know why your course will be unique among thousands of other courses. But odds are against you. Maybe it will be fun for you to create a course. Great. Don't want to dissuade you from that. But you will not find very much money. Is that OK?

ScottDuffy · ‎07-09-2019

Legally, sure. But I don't think this is a great student experience and you'll likely get lower ratings than if you just explained the concept yourself. You're the teacher. Not wikipedia.

ScottDuffy · ‎07-05-2019

Let me say what remains unspoken. Someone with an "not activate" version of Windows is using a pirated version of Windows. That's what people think when they see that. That's what people will think about you. I would expect your ratings to suffer. Don't crop it out. Buy a license for Windows.

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