The month of August is effectively over with the end of the promotion and return to list prices. This month was FANTASTIC!!!! My enrollment numbers (not exactly the same as revenue, but it correlates) were up 97% year-over-year and beat the January numbers. For those of you who are new, November and January are always the best months of the year. Take a look at my enrollment data below.
Is this a pat on my own back? Definitely NOT! I didn't do this. I have had only one new course in the past year (the blue at the bottom of the columns) and that has been a minor contribution.
What most instructors do not think about, because they are invisible to us, is that there is a marketing team that sits in San Francisco who decide where to place ads, how much to spend for different ad buys, how to promote different categories of courses in which locations, etc. etc. This team is drawn from people with experience at Google and other major internet marketing companies. THEY ARE DOING A BRILLIANT JOB!!! We instructors owe them a huge round of applause for the brilliant work they are doing. They are responsible for that 97% increase in enrollments, not me. So let us instructors give them a well deserved round of applause!

