Wide or narrow topic?

[MiriamCraig751]

Hi!

Just signed up today to be an instructor as I want to create a course on creative writing for kids.

Do you find a course is more successful when the topic is pretty wide, like one course that encompasses the whole of 'creative writing' for kids, or narrow, where I might start with one course on something like writing vivid descriptions, and then add other courses on other topics as time goes by?

[HSE-Trainer]

Wide topics work best on Udemy. This is what I noticed while working on Udemy. The more the topic is narrow, the less the number of students!

[DanielEvans]

It depends entirely upon the topic and your target audience.

Products in tight niches can be very successful for the fact that they can be filling a space that is in demand, yet barely occupied.  In which case, competitive interest ensues. 

There's often nothing that's already established for to use as a base of judgement.  This is where market research (and subsequent marketing) proves its worth.

[MiriamCraig751]

Thanks. The thing is that 'creative writing for kids' is such a wide topic that I feel completely overwhelmed trying to work out what to include. Writing descriptions is a really important part of creative writing for kids at school, and narrowing to that helps me create a course that's really good quality. But obviously not if that means I won't get any takers...

[DanielEvans]

In cases like this, the best thing we can do is focus on the topic by means of a case study.

By doing so, you are showing the principles within the context of that project.

That gives you opportunity to create more courses for more case studies.