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RandyMinder · yesterday

@RekhaGarg - If you are getting a good amount of signups on your free course it's because these signups come from bots that look for free courses and then automatically sign up. You can no benefit whatsoever from these signups. They are not actual students. You will never earn any money from them.

RandyMinder · Thursday

@FabioCelent969 " Uff that is little bad for me." - What? "Maybe an english subtitle will help?" - It might help but I doubt it. I think most students will naturally look to native English speaking instructors first unless you are focusing on just the German market.

RandyMinder · Thursday

Hi @FabioCelent969 - I took a quick glance at your course and I would say you have two things working against you: 1) Your course is in German. Udemy is primarily English based and you have greatly eliminated a huge number of students who might be interested in your course. 2) There is a large amount of competition in anything related to accounting. So, even if your course was in English, you would be facing a great deal of competition from existing courses. Therefore it could take a long time for your course to get noticed, assuming it was in English.

RandyMinder · Tuesday

@drewprof " Udemy has steered its ship towards people who want free stuff " This doesn't even make any sense. How does Udemy benefit when courses are free?

RandyMinder · Tuesday

@drewprof " Udemy only works for me when I offer my courses for free." No, Udemy is not working for you when your course is free. 99% of the signups you get when you offer a free course are from computerized bots looking for free courses. None of those signups will ever go through your course.

RandyMinder · Monday

@drewprof " However, when I offer my courses for free, it's amazing how many people sign up everyday." These are probably not real people signing up for your courses. There are bots that roam the Udemy countryside looking for free courses. When they detect a free course they sign up. You can get hundreds or thousands of these. Most of these signups will never actually go through your course. There is little reason to offer a course for free on Udemy. Worse yet, if a real person did sign up for your free course, you could never send promotions to that person. Udemy doesn't allow it.

RandyMinder · ‎06-08-2021

@harshkumarkhatri - Pricing your courses... That is a real hot-button issue here. I would argue that for the average instructor, it really doesn't matter. Why do I say that? Because if you are like the average instructor, 90%+ of your sales will only come when Udemy is running a sale of some sort. So, even if you price your course at $99, Udemy will mark it down to somewhere between $10 and $12 and sell it at that price or maybe even lower depending on what part of the world the sale occurs in. Now, some may say this. If I price my course at $99 I might get a few sales in between Udemy sales and I'll make a lot of money. Yes, they might. But, you also run the risk of students paying the full $99 and then getting a refund because the course was so (relatively) expensive. What you have to keep in mind is that Udemy is basically treating our courses like they are a commodity. Each time they run a $10 sale they are treating our intellectual property as if someone is buying a gallon of milk. Would you pay $99 for a course when you know if you wait a few days, you can purchase it for $10? Of course not (not usually at least). Because of this, I generally price my courses between $19.95 and $34.95. Based on my personal experience, 95% of my sales come from some Udemy sale. So, my $34.95 course is sold for $12, maybe, and I keep $3-$5, maybe.

RandyMinder · ‎06-08-2021

Hi @harshkumarkhatri - I think most instructors, me included, would strongly suggest you never make a course free. It has almost no benefit. You said you crossed 3000 students. If those are from your free course(s) I can guarantee you that 99% of those signups will never go through your course. They were signed up by bots roaming the Udemy landscape looking for free courses. I don't know why this happens but it does. Therefore, student counts on free courses mean almost nothing. Also, Udemy will not permit you to do your own promotions on students who sign up on free courses.

RandyMinder · ‎06-06-2021

Thanks @UnitPeter688 - It was almost one year ago I asked this question and I figured it out since then. :)

RandyMinder · ‎06-04-2021

Hi @NCS4u508 - Welcome to Udemy. I would STRONGLY suggest, before you spend many, many, hours creating your course, you take a look at the number of Python courses that already exist. You care entering a VERY crowded market and it will be EXTREMELY difficult for your course to get noticed and gain any sort of traction. If you are creating this course because you love teaching and do not really care about making money, great, go for it! But, if your goal is to make money at this you should be aware how long it might take to get any substantial number of sales.

RandyMinder · ‎05-22-2021

@RupamDas00001 - You picked an extremely crowded and deep area in which to create a course. There are tons of Python courses to choose from and many are very highly rated. The competition is fierce. You are going to have to be patient and hope that somehow, over time, your courses gets noticed, and gets pretty high ratings. You're going to have to market your course yourself. Udemy will only promote courses that sell well and are highly rated. For the time being, your course doesn't fit that criteria. Therefore you will need to find ways to promote your course either through your own website, Facebook or LinkedIn.

RandyMinder · ‎05-22-2021

@PeterGoritschnig - First of all, reviews can take up to 48 hours to appear. Secondly, the list price of your course is not the amount you will earn when a sale is made. Udemy takes out their share, taxes, fees etc. On average you will keep 30-40% (roughly) of whatever the sale price is. Therefore, if your course sells for $10, you can expect to keep somewhere around $3-$4.

RandyMinder · ‎05-06-2021

@legalidiomas - You are going to sue Udemy? You will spend more in lawyer fees than you could hope to make on Udemy. That is if Brazilian attorneys charge what US attorneys charge. BTW, what exactly did Udemy ban you for doing?

RandyMinder · ‎04-21-2021

Hi @Derrickselu136 - Generally that's good advice. Hard work usually pays off in the long-run. However, Udemy is a bit different. You've got to combine some hard work with being smart. Frankly, I think being smart is more important than hard work. When I say being smart, I mean: Don't create a course when there are already 100 other courses teaching the same thing. No matter how hard you work on your course, it's going to be very difficult to compete against all the other courses. Don't price your course at a high level. Udemy students are accustomed to paying between $10-$15 for a course, on sale. It's rather unusual for a student to pay much more than that because they know they can just wait for the next sale. 90% of my sales come when Udemy is running a sale or promotion. Don't expect to get rich on Udemy. The average instructor earns $4 for each sale of his/her course. If you want to make $100 per month (which really isn't much at all), you will need to make roughly 25 sales. This can be pretty difficult to do, especially early on. Don't spend too much time making your course perfect. You simply don't earn enough to recover the cost of your time. You will be much better off spending that time creating additional courses. No matter how hard you try to make your course the best it can be, you will have students give you a 1 star rating. This is just the way it works here.

RandyMinder · ‎04-09-2021

Hi @JeffBonilla720 - You have to understand how the Udemy "game" is played. Virtually everyone on the planet who knows about Udemy knows to wait for the next promotion where almost every course is marked down to $10-$15. If you are like 90% of the instructors on Udemy, the vast majority of your sales comes when Udemy is running a promotion. This means your course(s) will sell for between $10 and $15. In general, you will keep 25% to 50% of that. So, on average you will earn about $4 for each course you sell. Very few instructors understand this before they put in 100+ hours creating their course. You can try promoting your course(s) where you keep 97% of each sale. However, this is very difficult to do and even harder unless you have several courses for sale. I have roughly 14 courses on Udemy and I can earn $200 per month just on my own promotions. However, if I didn't have all these courses I would probably earn next to nothing on my own promotions.

RandyMinder · ‎04-01-2021

@RealFelix , @devsmanship - I would be careful suggesting this. Udemy has ways of determining if instructors are trying to scam the system by having family and friends inflate ratings. I have no idea how they do it, but I know they do.

RandyMinder · ‎04-01-2021

@devsmanship - The price matters because if you keep your price at $95, the only time you are going to get any sales is when Udemy is running a sale or special promotion. This means you will only be getting sales a few times per month. Whereas, if you price your course at say $19.95, you might get some sales outside the times Udemy runs sales / promotions. Regarding the instructor accent, it really doesn't matter whether you agree with what I said. It matters how students feel about it. I have seen enough comments on this issue that I can conclude it does matter. In my own case, it does matter. By the way, I'm curious. You said, " Probably there are people that won't enroll because of that, but they are rare." How would you know this? You are a new instructor with one course and two students. I have been on Udemy for coming up on 2 years. I have 14 courses and over 4,400 students. And I am active in the instructor groups. I think I have a pretty good idea of what students like and don't like and what they will and will not purchase, if there are enough other options. But, of course, you are free to believe what you want. But, if your sales remain sluggish, consider what I've told you.

RandyMinder · ‎04-01-2021

Hi @devsmanship - The one thing that really stands out to me is the price of your course. Virtually no one is going to pay $95 for anything on Udemy. And, if they do, they are likely to buy it and then ask for a refund, as you have already run into. Another thing I noticed is the length. It's only 1.5 hours. You are asking a ton of money for a very short course. Have you taken a look at how many other people have created courses on writing clean code? I did a search and there are a lot of them. You have a lot of competition. I did watch your promotional video and, for me personally, I didn't really like it. I generally don't like authors who try to be funny for the sake of being funny. Also, your accent is very thick. This is going to make people spend extra effort trying to understand you. Some students don't mind this and some don't like it at all. For me, I will always try to find a native English speaking instructor if I can. I don't like having to spend extra energy trying to understand what the instructor is saying.

RandyMinder · ‎03-14-2021

Hi @rysic - It is not possible to sell your course for less than $19.95. So you won't be able to see it "very cheap". I wouldn't make your course free. You're going to end up with hundreds of signups from bots and virtually none of those signups will ever go through your course. Plus, you won't be able to send promotional emails to anyone who signed up in your free course because Udemy won't allow it. In my opinion, if you pre-sell a course, you're going to end up with a lot of refunds and/or bad reviews. For the most part, students are not interested in helping you make your course better. they bought your course to learn something they don't already know. You need to keep in mind your competition is selling courses that are already complete. Why would someone buy a partially made course from you when they can purchase a fully completed one with lots of good reviews and ratings?

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 @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.

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.

RandyMinder · ‎01-01-2021

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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 · ‎12-31-2020

Hi @DavidDiaz255 - Welcome to Udemy! You are making a mistake if you think that a longer course will generate better reviews. It all depends on what you are offering and quality of content. Now, regarding your question. I created a course that was five hours in length. I could have made it eight hours. But, I purposely cut if off at five hours and called it Part 1. I then created a Part 2, which was three hours. It was a good decision. I've made almost 600 paid (not free) sales on the Part 1 course and 300 paid (not free) on Part 2. There is no way I could have made an additional 300 sales if I had made a single eight hour course. In fact, I'm sure I wouldn't have made any more additional sales. It was an experiment and it worked very well.

RandyMinder · ‎12-29-2020

Hi @javascriptstudent - 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.

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 · ‎12-26-2020

Hi @SnehaNaik719 - Welcome to Udemy. One critical thing most new instructors overlook before creating a new course is to check how many courses already exist on their topic. If you do a Udemy search on 'Organic Chemistry', you will see there are 1,113 results returned. This means that your course is going to be competing against all those courses. So, before you spend a month or more creating a course, think about how you are going to get your course to stand out against so many hundreds of other courses on the same topic.

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?

RandyMinder · ‎12-20-2020

@BMahone_ng06 - You would have been far more discouraged had you spent a couple months creating a course and then come to realize you are competing against 10K other courses. No matter what sort of course you end up creating, you need to give a fair amount of thought about how you are going to attract students when there could be (and probably will be) hundreds of other courses already existing in whatever topic you pick. On the other hand, if you are looking to create a course or courses just to share your knowledge, and are not too concerned about what sort of money you might make, you're likely to have a much more enjoyable time.

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