I started as an instructor almost 2 years ago (April 2017). I had never made online training courses, had 0 following, and was completely unknown. I started with somewhat random courses to see if Udemy was for me and it could work for what I wanted to do. Those courses are now retired, and I made less than $1,000 on them, but they proved the concept. I then spent 15 months making a course series on the side while working full time, as I built my following, my sales rose, and 4 months ago (Oct 2018) I was able to leave my day-job and focus on course creation and teaching full time. I now have 20,000+ students, a large(ish) Facebook group, and I keep expanding my course offerings and my student base. Crazy, amazing, hard working ride.
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