Udemy

FrankKane · ‎10-26-2023

I don't think students really care. But, it can help with your own "personal branding" - whatever that's worth - to have some consistent wardrobe element that students associate with you. For me it's always wearing a flat cap when I'm on screen. There's also something to be said for the little bit of extra confidence you get from taking the effort to add some extra consistency to your videos.

FrankKane · ‎10-25-2023

Do you have multi-factor authentication enabled? It's under your account settings.

FrankKane · ‎10-11-2023

If you want to keep it simple, I believe Canon offers software that makes your DSLR look like a webcam to your computer. You just have to connect it with a USB cable, run the software, and it will look like a really high quality webcam to applications. Then you can just record video from your "webcam" together with audio from your microphone directly, avoiding the steps of importing audio and video separately and syncing them later. (I've done this on Windows, but I don't know if it's supported on Mac) Another approach would be to plug your lapel mic into the DSLR and record audio and video together on the camera.

FrankKane · ‎10-10-2023

Don't do it. Online ads have become less effective in recent years, and there's just no way you'll recover the cost of the ads for the few dollars you'll make from a sale on Udemy. Even Udemy has been shifting more toward the business-to-business world as they have been struggling to grow the marketplace, and their pockets are much deeper than yours. Even for higher-priced items it is challenging. I recently ran a Facebook ad campaign for a $50 10-course bundle on my website, and even that couldn't break even. I even hired a social media advertising expert to fine tune the campaign, and it still lost money. Stick with free channels, like links from YouTube video descriptions. Or just focus on driving organic traffic within Udemy by optimizing your course landing page and making your course as competitive as possible.

FrankKane · ‎10-10-2023

Sarah Cordiner comes to mind.

FrankKane · ‎10-05-2023

I like my coffee black, just like my Fridays 🙂

FrankKane · ‎10-01-2023

Are you teaching a language supported by Udemy’s coding exercise feature? If so that would be best I think. Some are in corporate settings where they are not allowed to install their own software at all. I always stick with free tools myself. Many Udemy learners are very price conscious.

FrankKane · ‎09-22-2023

This isn't Kickstarter - students aren't interested in buying a promise of future content from you. Just focus on finishing the course would be my advice. I'd also focus on aiming your title and landing pages around the concept of interview preparation; that's what makes your course unique in the networking space, and interview prep courses can do quite well on Udemy.

FrankKane · ‎09-21-2023

The three things that jump out to me: - You're only offering "part 1" of this course. Many students won't pay for an incomplete course, especially when there is no guarantee you'll ever finish parts 2 and beyond. Dropping "part 1" from the title might be best, when parts 2+ don't exist. I'd also consider just expanding this course over time as opposed to selling follow-on courses; marketplace students value comprehensive courses that stand on their own. - The title "Networking review" is ambiguous; for many businesspeople "networking" means establishing professional connections as opposed to computer networking. It might benefit you to make your title more clear. - Your promo video is just a single title slide with you talking over it for a minute. That's not a powerful first impression. Adding more visual interest in that promo video would go a long way. Free coupons tend to do more harm than good... there are lots of discussions about that here. Best of luck!

FrankKane · ‎09-15-2023

The short answer is no; policies like that are enforced by algorithms, not by humans with "wiggle room." The longer answer is: why do you want it to be free in the first place? Free courses usually just attract trouble. They made it harder to create free courses for a reason - they attract pirates, students who don't engage, and often negative reviews from trolls who have nothing better to do. And since you can't send promotional announcements to free students, it's not a great strategy as a promotional tool anymore either. You can however still use a judicious amount of carefully-sent free coupons to promote your course, even if the course itself isn't free.

FrankKane · ‎09-10-2023

Generally you should choose the category most relevant to what your course is about. If there's more than one category that is a good fit, choosing one is a balance between how much traffic each category attracts and how much competition you have within that topic. If you don't have much competition, then I'd lean toward the more popular category.

FrankKane · ‎08-15-2023

I don't get the motivation. What does anyone have to gain by posting a bunch of AI-generated responses here? Maybe people who aren't comfortable with their English language skills are using it to try and sound more natural? Unfortunately it has the opposite effect.

FrankKane · ‎07-12-2023

Since I wrote this 4 years ago, I've learned to love my Shure SM7B. The key was just getting really close to it, and having it on a boom arm helps make that possible. I still use a Blue Yeti when I'm on the road though; its simplicity can be a lifesaver sometimes.

FrankKane · ‎06-29-2023

You could mark all of the videos in the first section as free preview videos... you'll see a little option for that next to each video in your course curriculum UI.

FrankKane · ‎06-22-2023

Glad your courses are better than AI poetry! Congrats 🙂

FrankKane · ‎06-14-2023

I may have read your question a little differently - are you asking how to upload all of your videos at once instead of one at a time? There's a "bulk upload" button in the course editor that lets you do exactly that. It can even import videos from Dropbox and other sources, upon which it will go off and process them all together. Once they are all processed, you can go through and assign videos to lectures without waiting for them to process as you go. See https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/231537528-Using-the-Bulk-File-Uploader-

FrankKane · ‎06-09-2023

Can you make a substantially better and more comprehensive course around this asset pack than the one that currently exists? The one you pointed to has 11 hours of content and a 4.7 review score (which is really good), so that's your minimum bar for a student to consider choosing your new course over the other one.

FrankKane · ‎05-23-2023

The short answer: both. Marketplace students want the best value for their money, and the Udemy Deals program ensures that most courses are "cheap" to begin with. The longer answer: you need to study the existing top-selling courses in your category (they are easy to find via the Marketplace Insights tool.) If you expect your course to sell, it needs to compare favorably to whatever courses are already entrenched with large numbers of positive reviews, and large numbers of enrollments. That can tell you roughly how long a successful course needs to be in order to be competitive in your category. I took a look at your course, and it's a fairly niche category that may not have much competition to begin with. If you're struggling with sales, I suspect it's not really about your price or your course length, but how many Udemy students are looking for what you have to teach in the first place. Again, the marketplace insights tool can help you understand the demand for your topic. Udemy isn't the right place for everything; if Udemy isn't the place people go to learn about mining, then Udemy might not be the place for your course. Finally, if your course is destined for the Udemy Business program, then all bets are off. Udemy Business learners aren't paying out of pocket for their course, so they value their time more than the money. In Udemy Business, you may find that shorter courses attract more enrollments, because busy corporate learners can't afford to spend 20 hours taking some incredibly expansive course when all they need is some specific thing. However we are paid by the amount of time Udemy Business learners engage with our content, so you still don't want your course to be *too* short.

FrankKane · ‎05-18-2023

This does take a lot of new instructors by surprise, including me at first. It's best explained at: https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instructor-Revenue-Share and https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229232827-Instructor-Promotional-Agreements-and-Udemy-Deals Basically Udemy can offer your course at a lower price than your list price, and Udemy and many middlemen take most of the revenue before it makes its way to you. Driving sales with your own coupon codes will allow you to keep more of it. But you are correct - it does require a large volume of students to earn a good income here. Udemy has a very large audience though, so that is possible.

FrankKane · ‎04-25-2023

Udemy Business makes up over half of my revenue. Without it, I'd make less than half what I do now. The only case where you might want to opt out is if you teach a topic that isn't business or professional in nature, in which case the exclusivity terms may not be worth it.

FrankKane · ‎04-25-2023

That literally has nothing to do with the question, and sounds like something ChatGPT would say. Are you a bot?

FrankKane · ‎04-25-2023

Best wishes for your next chapter!

FrankKane · ‎04-23-2023

Be sure to understand the costs you will incur when student downloads 100GB for your course. It could really eat into your proceeds from the enrollment or even cause you to lose money on the deal.

FrankKane · ‎04-23-2023

I use Camtasia, others use Premiere or DaVinci Resolve. I think you'll find that video quality has more to do with your lighting and recording environment than anything, though. There are some good resources at https://teach.udemy.com/recording/ worth reading through. Welcome to the instructor club!

FrankKane · ‎04-23-2023

In reality the price you set is hardly ever the price students are offered, so it doesn't matter. You want to read https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229232827-Instructor-Promotional-Agreements-and-Udemy-Deals and https://teach.udemy.com/january-2023-pricing-update/ carefully.

FrankKane · ‎04-21-2023

I do wonder what the time window is for the pricing experiments Udemy conducts. The economy has been changing very quickly, and if they're looking at behavior over say, the past year, that may be too long. More aggressive testing might be needed when the world is aggressively changing. At the same time, asking students to pay more in such an environment is also a tough sell. I don't envy whoever's in charge of pricing at Udemy.

FrankKane · ‎04-09-2023

What's great about Udemy is that unlike other platforms, you have a lot of creative freedom in how you present your courses. If you want to film outdoors, go for it! It's of course more challenging to control the lighting outdoors and get consistent lighting as you record across different days at different times, but there's no policy against it if you're up for the challenge.

FrankKane · ‎04-09-2023

This isn't a channel to Udemy's trust & safety team, so you're unlikely to get any help here I'm afraid. What was your mistake?

FrankKane · ‎04-08-2023

No, but you can send out an educational announcement to let them know what changed and how it might affect their learning.

FrankKane · ‎04-05-2023

What are you an expert on, and what are you passionate about? Is there knowledge you can share from those topics that solves problems faced by a large number of people? If you can find a topic that is the intersection of what you know, what excites you, and what people need, that is a good place to start. Also check out the marketplace insights tool in your instructor dashboard for more guidance and information about the competitive landscape for your topic.

Udemy

Sundog Education by Frank Kane

FrankKane •
Community Champion

Founder, Sundog Education. Machine Learning Pro

Community stats

Re: Is it OK to wear multiple outfits in your on-line course?

Re: How do you protect your accounts?

Re: Software to combine Blue Snowball and Cannon DSLR?

Re: Paid Promotion Strategy

Re: Freelancers that help guide you through course creation?

Re: Coffee Chat Invite Let’s talk about Black Friday on October 13th!

Re: Paid vs. Free Development Environments

Re: Course not selling

Re: Course not selling

Re: can a course be slightly over 2 hours to be free?

Re: Deciding on Categories

Re: Udemy Community Posts and AI

Re: I miss my Blue Yeti.

Re: Option to Do Free First “Section” in a Paid Course

Re: A little tune from ChatGPT about a Udemy instructor

Re: Can I upload all my course video in one time?

Re: Asset Question

Re: Time Vs Price ?

Re: Payment

Re: Should i select Udemy for business?

Re: Should i select Udemy for business?

Re: Goodbye and Thank you!

Re: Any suggestions for students to download larger files?

Re: how to make a good quality video for the udemy courses

Re: Course pricing

Re: Why is Udemy not adjusting for Inflation?

Re: Are there any specific rules (or guidance around lectures filmed outdoo

Re: Udemy has banned me permanently

Re: Edit Course description/details

Re: I need a sincere and very accurate opinion

Sundog Education by Frank Kane

FrankKane • Community Champion

Founder, Sundog Education. Machine Learning Pro

Community stats

FrankKane •
Community Champion