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drewprof · ‎06-23-2021

@MikeXCohen that is what I am doing. All new material will be published elsewhere. What's on this platform will remain and I will answer questions to help students.

drewprof · ‎06-16-2021

So far, Skill Share and my own website have done well. On the latter, I do all of the marketing, hosting, configuration, administration and cost of bandwidth use. I was hoping that Udemy lived up to the hype when I first looked at various platforms based on youtube postings on the subject. It didn't, at least not for my type of courses. It's probably okay for arts and crafts maybe.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

The screen casts were done using QuickTime Player. Nothing fancy!

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

@NickolasInd234 thank you, I know that my actual students get a lot of value from my teaching. Some in here on Udemy were engaging and completed their exercises for my TIMELY feedback, but those were a few compared to what I get on other platforms, including my own. I just don't see why I should invest my time here. I would rather do so where it works.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

@NickolasInd234 now you're getting it!

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

I am at peace with fading away from this platform. I am just not going to add any new content, unless there is a favorable strategic shift to encourage instructors to be more involved.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

Cool, since you know everything go and publish your own course then get back with me about how you feel things should be.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

I realized that... No need to to put stuff for free to get students interested in my ware. That was my mistake! I am sure the reviews from these bots were fake as well.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

@NickolasInd234 No need to do anything drastic, I just stopped contributing. There is no need on my end to add value to this platform, maybe my stuff is useless after all... Let it be!

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

It's a numbers game. The more people sign up, the better the odds of getting students to pay for something. Cumulatively it will work for Udemy but not for instructor offering free stuff to entice students towards his/her own paid material. How do I know? it's June 15 and I have two students that signed up for my courses at deep discounted prices. If I open up the flood gate by putting one of my courses for free, I will be getting 100s of students a month. I have tried this scenario, I am not making stuff up.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

Udemy is not the center of the world for course delivery. I am in other places and the performance there isn't an issue. So, giving up here will simply mean that I don't need to add new courses on this platform, trust me, I will not be missed. All of my new content will not be shared here, and I have a lot of it it. It just a matter of audience; in my opinion, Udemy has steered its ship towards people who want free stuff or real cheap deals no matter what the content. It's not for me.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

I am adapting, I find other platforms much more receptive to my content. Udemy only works for me when I offer my courses for free.

drewprof · ‎06-15-2021

Let's just focus on price and leave the rest for students to judge; go look at my ratings. It doesn't matter what you price your course at, it will most likely sell for $11 and the instructor portion will not exceed $4 at best; none of my courses sold for face value. That is not up to you the instructor, it's Udemy's way of getting volume. You simply provide content for this to happen.

drewprof · ‎06-14-2021

@MariaG , I am just going to stop adding courses and referring students to this platform. You can read my responses to other posters below to get the idea.

drewprof · ‎06-14-2021

Giving up on Udemy isn't giving up on my business. Udemy is just not right for my courses or my style of teaching. However, when I offer my courses for free, it's amazing how many people sign up everyday. That would be okay if they signed up for paid courses eventually, but they never do that. This tells me a lot about this platform: it's not for me!

drewprof · ‎06-14-2021

What marketing? Udemy is supposed to do that, that's why they take a huge chunk of the revenu. I had however directed some of my "real life" students to some of my content and published links on facebook and other social media. What else do i need to do? There was a reason I picked Udemy, Skill Share...etc. for some of my courses. In the end, Udemy ended up being the least performant for my courses. Maybe my stuff isn't for its audience, or it's utter garbage. I doubt the latter to be true since I am doing well elsewhere. As to marketing, on my own, on my platform(my own website), I am doing well there, thank you.

drewprof · ‎06-14-2021

I could only get those numbers when I offered my courses for free. As soon as I lock them to be monetized, I get a trickle. To this day, since I started with Udemy a year ago, I have accumulated $255. I might as well sell my ware in a bazaar in the middle of nowhere. On the other hand, I am getting better results on other platforms... MUCH better results. This is why I am going to stop publishing additional courses here. Oh, before I forget, did I mention somewhere else that my courses on Udemy are being pirated? Yep, they were lifted right here from this platform.

drewprof · ‎04-13-2021

I have been here a full year by now. At this stage, I am convinced that this platform is not for me. How do I delete my courses and take my toys home?

drewprof · ‎03-02-2021

What an adventure! I hope to improve my performance this month by beating the last one by one dollar. I have high aspirations and faith in this platform to accomplish this goal. I am planning on saturating Facebook and other social media outlets, as I usually do, to generate traffic for revenue. I have never felt so alive while doing business and developing courses exclusively for Udemy. This beats the hell out of working in a classroom. How do you feel about your accomplishments on Udemy?

drewprof · ‎12-04-2020

I have reduced the number of free courses and now I only have two to three enrollments a day. So far, I made a fortune for November: $9.00 (zero on Black Friday LOL). So may hours of work for that; I must really suck at this dazzle me with fluff and short snippets of feel good ADD compatible stuff. I don't think Udemy is for me. I should move on and start my own platform with my own marketing.

drewprof · ‎11-26-2020

Zero on my end but a lot of action on my free stuff... I even have a brand new course with zero visits. Of course it took Udemy 3 days into this event week to publish it, I guess they're overwhelmed.

drewprof · ‎11-15-2020

Yes, the opinions on length are certainly interesting. I am sure there will be a sweet spot for my kind of delivery, I just have to find it. Thank you @KevinOxland

drewprof · ‎11-15-2020

@KarolyNyisztor I am not arguing against your points. I am merely expressing what I see from how I understand this platform, at this stage. Actually, I must thank you for clarifying the facts and I appreciate them. Stay tuned, I might pull something off and not look so useless or clueless, I just need time. Again, forgive me for appearing abstruse...

drewprof · ‎11-15-2020

My conversion rate on my free courses has been between 90% to 68%. I am confused! If they seem to like the free stuff, why not try the paid stuff?

drewprof · ‎11-15-2020

Is there a mass message within a course? I seem to have found a one-to-one communication and even then, I am not sure if the message reaches the student within a free course. In addition, am I allowed to make them aware of a paid course from within Udemy, specially when I come up with new material?

drewprof · ‎11-15-2020

$10

drewprof · ‎11-15-2020

Update: It seems that my external ad is driving most of my enrollments. I now have over 5700 student enrolled from one ad that ran for 5 days. That ad generated 21K+ of activity. The ones that signed up, they were for the free courses only.

drewprof · ‎11-14-2020

I have now turned that particular course for free. I am working on a larger course that will be over 5 hours. My only problem will be that my lectures will be between 12 to 30 minutes. It's just too much content that I want to explain. My audience will not be typical, but I am okay with that as long as I have at least one paid subscription. I will call that a victory!

drewprof · ‎11-10-2020

@KarolyNyisztor I get your point, but what I am teaching is a process if you will. Yes, it's lengthy because it starts from scratch using a step-by-step approach. It's a different style than lectures as well. I have attended many where instructors hide implementation and just talk about concepts. It takes time to show the actual coding, that's what I am showing; that experience! Maybe, I should have an introductory video that explains my aim and why the videos will be lengthy; because of the amounts of details to consider, and to experience the flow when coding. Think of physics concept being derived rather than being applied with a given formula. The process of deriving the formula makes it memorable. My videos are not meant to be simply watched. They are guides to actually do the work. Think of them as lab work rather lectures. Yes, I will need to repackage them to make sure that's understood. Do you think that could be a better compromise, or just scrap it and copy other people's proven styles?

drewprof · ‎11-09-2020

Personally I despise PP Slides. I like to delve into coding and hopefully get the students involved. They can always follow along, pause, code and learn the concepts along. But, I see some of the points in this discussion and they have merit. I am now thinking that I should have small lectures in the first session, then take the hands-on projects to illustrate the concepts in context in the following sections. I am just thinking out-loud...

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