How many students do you have?

Hello fellow Instructors. For inspiration, I thought it might be fun to share student numbers. Plus any tips you might have on growing your student base?

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Personally, I have been working very hard since christmas to hit my goal of 15,000 by end of april 2019. I have been active in many facebook groups, not advertising, but helping, offering advice and positioning myself as knowledgable in my niche. I have seen a lot of growth since I started this push (approx 300!). Many have come from organic growth, but quite a few have followed my social profiles back to udemy and ended up buying one or more courses.

What have you been doing to promote yourself and your courses? Share below.

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RobertLunte

Hello high acheivers. This is my student count in the 14 months.

My advise to other creators that want big numbers is to make sure that you provide a HUGE amount of value that far surpasses any other course in your category. Value is defined in many ways, but I know that is one thing I am doing that has helped me kill my numbers in my category, in addition to offering legitmate, good training that isn't just fluff and "circle-talking" which can be a big problem in my business. Be legitimate.

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DanKelly

Thats what I've striving for!

DanKelly

Hi Gubaz,

Don't feel bad. I have 524 and out of those only about 6 have paid.

Good luck and hang in there.

JohnThompson

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Been on Udemy since January 2015.

Laurence-Svekis

Congrats on the 50000 milestone

AliciaPaz

I started in 2013 and left Udemy to self-host shortly after as I was teaching "live" and the feature was never made to fruition (still hope of mine to see it working!) Left for 4 years due to life, work, moves, and 2 kids and now back so the numbers are mostly from the last year.

I do a lot of social media interaction, podcasts, word of mouth and referrals from Psychiatrists. I (almost) never turn down another respected person in my field wanting to chat, podcast, write an article, etc. for both selfish and selfless reasons.

Overall I think especially for my field, mental health being genuine and authentic is my best sales tool.

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Robin_Slee

Loving it! You are nicely ahead. I am going to have to crack on and get my next course wrapped up soon.. ;-)

Robin_Slee

Awesome Dan. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing ;-)

Robin_Slee

And rightly so. 6109 Students are all learning from YOU! Way to go ;-)

Robin_Slee

54 Is a respectable number. That is more than a large classroom, packed full of people eager to learn form YOU! Keep pushing. Get the word out that you have knowledge to share, make forum posts, start a blog, create a youtube channel, post to twitter, even talk to your local learning centres. It all helps to get eyes on your courses. BUT, above all else.... have fun. Enjoy the journey and know that you are changing the lives of many people with your content. Well done ;-)

Robin_Slee

These numbers just totally blow my mind. Totally makes spending hours in my video editor worth it!! Great job Kyle and thank you for sharing ;-)

Robin_Slee

Thats a good idea. Sort of like a friendly reminder. "Hey thanks for completing my course and getting your certificate! If you enjoyed the course, dont forget to leave a review..." or sum'ting. ;-)

Robin_Slee

So close.... I hope you are planning a celebratory event? Good luck ;-)

Robin_Slee

More than half way!! Keep pushing. I know you got this ;-)

Laurence-Svekis

I don't believe you can say "If you enjoyed the course" thats what was told to me anyway

Laurence-Svekis

I agree important to celebrate and mark those milestones - keeps you motivated

rayanmaia

Everything has a beginning and I'm still crawling around you rs...

Success to all!

-Rayan Maia

SharonRamel

Today - I spotted 32,000 student friends! - I have two FB groups, a YT chanel and I am a very lazy blogger. Occasionally I tweet - my YT vids were automated to Twitter but they dont allow that anymore. Plus I send our regualr educational annoucements and one promo per month. I try not to be too active in the FB groups as I dont want to spread myself too thin! Luckily I have a great admin and she loves it. I dont think there is one measure to increase - I think it all works together in a relationship that looks after and feeds from each other. I have an ambitious desire to double my student numbers this year.

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DanielEvans

Certainly a vodka or twelve!

AndyPandy

11,900 but I think almost half were free coupons so really about 6000 which is still great I think. I'm very pleased with the results of becoming a Udemy Instructor

JamieWells

Can you tell me more about your Facebook group?

JamieWells

I'm interested in your Facebook groups. Can you tell me more about them?

CosminGrigore

Just started... 300 and counting

Laurence-Svekis

Great idea - count me in

Laurence-Svekis

Great job it will just keep growing

CosminGrigore

Exactly

. Thanks!

MikePagan

I have found the challenge is getting the quality return for your efforts. Having just launched two new courses the take up has been really positive to start with and then the numbers have dropped off very quickly and new reviews have been hard to come by.

Everyone wants and needs positive reviews and numbers - for those, like me, who do not use Udemy full time where are the best threads for gaining quality students?

Thanks

Mike

Laurence-Svekis

I find contributing to social media groups is a good way to connect to audiences outside of Udemy. Although this takes a lot of time and sometimes the results are not easy to measure. I use Google Analytics to track the sources of where students come from and use that as a way to point me in the right direction.

GrahamNicholls

There are amazing numbers on here, I’m not in that company yet but will be!

Ive been on Udemy since Sept 2017 and have just crossed the 14000 student mark which I’m really happy with.

like so many others have said, the best marketing is top quality courses.

Robin_Slee

14000 is a great number! Well done ;-)