Hi @HilalHakla522 , I totally understand your frustration. I had a look around your course and you seem to have done everything right and the course seems high quality. I genuinely think you are on to a winner if you can hang in there and do your best for the next couple of months. It will be a shame to have done all the hard work and walk away from it at the last minute. I don’t have the many years of experience some of others here have, but let me explain why I think you have a good chance of making it and what you could be doing to achieve that. I am also an instructor making courses on Azure, but I focus on the data engineering space. I have been on the platform for just over a year and I have 27k students at the moment with 2 courses. My journey started pretty similar to yours! I did the same as you and created a quality course to my ability. Course duration is also similar to yours at 9.5 hours. When I launched, enrolments didn’t come immediately. I quite heavily promoted the course on my social circles (LinkedIn, Facebook and some messaging apps). First month and half was hard and at least half of the sales were from my promotions. I worked my hardest to keep the course rating high (around 4.6/ 4.7). I answered every question in Q&A and also engaged with students who approached me to solve all their problems. It not only helped keeping the rating high, but also helped improving the course. Needless to say, I was also learning! PS – I also had the odd 1 star ratings! There were 2 key moments that followed. Firstly, because the course was selling (even though I was promoting), the Udemy algorithm picked up the momentum and started promoting. So, I started seeing sales from Udemy advertisements and affiliate marketing. Second key moment was when the course got added to the UFB bundle which was around 6 weeks from launch, I think. Once that happened, enrolments increased significantly. To be honest I didn’t know that UFB would make such a significant impact. I think around 60 – 70% of my enrolments come from UFB. Little did I know that higher rating, number of reviews and demand from business customers are the key criteria for addition to UFB, but somehow all my hard work in the previous weeks got me there. I think the criteria for UFB is that courses need at least 25 reviews, 4.4 rating and demand from business customers. I can’t remember where I saw this, but it was from one of the google searches. So, it might not be 100% right! Let me address some of the points raised here Competition - There are a high number of courses on Udemy for Azure, but that shouldn’t matter for you. Your course is specialised on AZ-204 certification. There are only 2 other video courses for AZ-204 and one of them is the best seller and the other one has lower rating than yours. Rest are all practice tests and they are not your competition. So, you basically have only one competition and that’s the best seller. Best Seller - They probably take lots of enrolments, but as Lawrence says I don’t think it’s as much as 90%. Also, I think UFB will be very different and they will be more likely to try new courses. Most importantly, your course is the most recent and people are always on the lookout for new courses as the technology in this space is evolving rapidly. Number of courses – I am sure having many courses can help cross selling and increase enrolments exponentially, but I think there is opportunity to see small success like some people are seeing! So, I would encourage you to do the following Promote the course as much as you can to increase enrolments Answer every question and update the course as required to keep the rating high These are the only things in your hand and doing them will ensure that Udemy promotes your course (as it’s selling) and also the reviews and rating will help get into UFB. As I said you have done a brilliant job, but here are 2 things you may want to consider Your course is the most recent course on the platform for AZ-204. As Azure is evolving too quickly, people are always looking for the latest course. So, just say that in the title. New course 2022 or something similar You have listed 1-2 years of C# experience as required, but none of your competitors have. I am not suggesting we should oversell, but do students need work experience or C# knowledge sufficient? You may want to consider rewording. Sorry, it’s a long message, but hope this helps and good luck😊
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