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FrankKane · ‎01-14-2024

You cannot use trademarked terms such as Star Wars without permission from Disney under US copyright law. Not legally, at least. Udemy's stance is at https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/8926724282519-Trademark-Guidelines-For-Instructors#:~:text=When%20creating%20a%20course%20with,including%20monetary%20and%20statutory%20damages.

FrankKane · ‎01-10-2024

Getting some similar complaints from students here as well. It's not just you. Contact instructorsupport@udemy.com

FrankKane · ‎01-03-2024

Hearing the same complaint from students lately too. Try instructorsupport@udemy.com if you haven't already. I've also been trying for weeks to get some pretty big issues addressed, but with so many people out for the holidays I'll cut them some slack for now!

FrankKane · ‎12-26-2023

Yes, it's possible to launch a course as private such that only people with a password can access it, or people you invite. That would certainly be less risky. Udemy does have policies against duplicate courses however, so again you should clear this with policy@udemy.com to be safe.

FrankKane · ‎12-26-2023

You should contact policy@udemy.com to be sure, but I don't see anything in the policies prohibiting you from sharing your personal information with students - you just can't solicit personal information from students. However, this is a terrible, terrible idea. The entire premise of Udemy is to expose your course to a large audience of millions of users. Not all of them are nice people. Do you really want them all having your personal phone number? Also, Udemy's audience is global. 1 PM to a student may be 3 AM to you. Do you really want your phone ringing with students asking questions in the middle of the night? Finally, keep in mind that on average you will only earn $3-$4 per course enrollment. Are you willing to be on-call to students for that amount of money? Don't say we didn't warn you!

FrankKane · ‎12-15-2023

Best you can do is split up your lectures such that the "pause" happens between them. So you could end one lecture saying, "go off and try this, then we'll pick up in the next video" or something.

FrankKane · ‎11-13-2023

Sure, as an aid for idea generation and a starting point it is awesome. I wasn't clear on your point from your original post. Thanks for clarifying.

FrankKane · ‎11-13-2023

ChatGPT is not known for its accuracy. I would not rely on it as a primary source, or you may be teaching people things it just made up.

FrankKane · ‎11-02-2023

Udemy cannot provide you with what amounts to legal advice. Your immigration is not their problem. You are not an employee of Udemy; they are not sponsoring you for a work visa. Sorry to be blunt but you really need to work with someone locally who is qualified to give you advice. It is incredibly complicated, competitive, and difficult to navigate on your own.

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?

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