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RandyMinder · Friday

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.

RandyMinder · ‎12-19-2020

@BMahone_ng06 - Just go to the Udemy home page and type in "Resume Writing" in the search box.

RandyMinder · ‎12-19-2020

@BMahone_ng06 - You have to ask yourself three questions: How many age 50 and over adults need help creating, or making over, a resume? Of the number of people in #1, how many would come to Udemy looking for help? There are 10,000+ courses already existing on Udemy related to writing a resume. How would you make yours stand out against all these? If you want to create a course for the joy and satisfaction of creating a course, go for it. It will be an interesting experience. If you are looking to make more than just a little spending money, you might be in for a tough time.

RandyMinder · ‎12-19-2020

Hi @EmmanuelP - Some things you should do, or be aware of: Before spending weeks or months creating your course, do a bit of research first to find out how many courses already exist covering your topic. So many times I'll see a new instructor release a course and, after a couple weeks or a month, he or she has maybe a couple students and they wonder why. They never bothered to notice that 100+ courses already exist on their topic. If you are going to have Udemy market your courses, you will receive, on average, $1-$5 for each sale. If you are expecting to make hundreds of dollars per month, within the first 3-6 months, you will almost certainly be greatly disappointed. Don't price your course too high. Many Udemy students simply won't pay more than $10 for a course because they wait for the next Udemy sale when prices are marked down to $10-$20. Most of your sales will come only when Udemy is running a sale. 95% of all my sales come when Udemy is running some sort of sale. Udemy students know how the game is played. All they need to do is to wait a week or two for the next Udemy sale and purchase a course 90% off regular price.

RandyMinder · ‎12-12-2020

@Jayant2003 - Yes you should as long as you know what you are getting into. First of all, do your homework and make sure the course you want to create doesn't already have 100+ existing courses covering the topic. Otherwise it will be very difficult for your course to get noticed. Secondly, if your experience is like most instructors on Udemy, you will average no more than $1 to $5 earned for each sale of your course. Sometimes less than $1. Most new instructors have no idea about this. If you want to create a course to try your hand at teaching and don't really care too much about how much money you might make, go for it. You will probably enjoy the experience. However, if you are doing this thinking you are going to make hundreds of dollars per month in the first year or two, there is a very high chance you will be greatly disappointed.

RandyMinder · ‎12-08-2020

Hi @Remon safwat - 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 · ‎12-07-2020

@Kain_Ramsay - Doesn't this problem tend to take care of itself? If instructors are creating quick and dirty courses just to get on Udemy, these courses will be poorly received and rated, which means they essentially become invisible in the Udemy marketplace because they will not appear in searches.

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.

RandyMinder · ‎11-21-2020

I had 25 sales yesterday and 1 so far today.

RandyMinder · ‎10-14-2020

Hi @MichaelMoses - The Udemy rating and review system is just flat broken and lends itself to gross abuse. Lot's of instructors gripe about it but Udemy hasn't done anything about it, at least as far as I know. So, if you want to be a Udemy instructor, you'll have to put up with it.

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.

RandyMinder · ‎10-12-2020

Hi @Kelly_Fidei - Your situation is not that unusual. New instructors often grossly underestimate how hard it is to sell courses on Udemy. The competition is fierce and there are tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of courses from which to choose. I took a look at what you are offering. My first thought was, "What the heck is Agile & Emotional Intelligence?" You have to think like a Udemy student. How would any student find your course? What would they enter in the Udemy search box to find it? After reading your introduction, my best guess is that you are a life coach, of sorts? If I have a hard time figuring out what you are offering, potential students might also. I did a Udemy search just on "Listening". I got back almost 2,600 results. This means you potentially have 2,600 courses competing against yours. This means you will probably need a lot of patience and time for your course to gain traction. Finally, I see your course is priced at $34.95. I don't think you're going to find many Udemy students willing to pay $34.95 for a brand new course, from a brand new author, that is only 1.5 hours long. You need to keep in mind that most Udemy students are accustomed to waiting for the next sale, and paying no more than $10 for a course, and often much less in other countries. If I were you, I would lower my price to $19.95 (the lowest you can offer). But, even then, it will could take a significant amount of time attracting students.

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.

RandyMinder · ‎10-09-2020

Hi @HerStylistPro - Did these 180 students acquire your course for free? If so, this is expected. Offering a course for free will generally generate large numbers of students, but, 99% of those have no real interest in the course and will never actually take the course. I don't know why this is, but it's a fact. It's almost as if these students are running some sort of bot, looking for free courses, and they just acquire them. Because of this, you really cannot get too excited about students signing up for free courses.

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