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    The very first step in your journey to becoming a Udemy online course instructor is the course research phase.  If you are already well experienced in your Udemy course topic(s) of choice, it may be tempting to skip this step to online course creation.  But even before you settle on your course category or topic, and before choosing a title and creating a landing page for your course, researching Udemy course topics is a key step to ensuring success. Whether you are new to Udemy or already a Udemy instructor, researching course topics and categories as a matter of ongoing practice can help you gain an advantage over your competitors and improve your chances of making money selling courses on Udemy. Why and how? There are several good reasons for doing Udemy course research - many of which are highlighted through Teachinguide’s Udemy course database. Here are a few:
    • Know how much competition you have in your chosen course topic or category. Understand if there are too many or just a few competitors, who is successful, and why.
    • Understand how big the audience may or may not be for your category or topic (topic validation).
    • Understand what price people may be willing to pay to take into consideration content and competition.
    • There may be niche topics that are valuable to your course category.
    • Understand the trend in your chosen topics – are enrollments and/or google searches increasing or decreasing?
    • You need to evaluate and understand what keywords related to your Udemy course rank high and what are the keywords and trends.
    • Udemy is a very crowded online course marketplace and it is getting more challenging to stand out from the rest in any given course topic.
    So, course research helps you to identify your topic more specifically, to evaluate the potential value of creating a Udemy course in this area, and to understand the demand for your topic as well as existing competition. In this Udemy course research section, Teachinguide covers many areas on how to conduct Udemy course research and which course research tips and tools exist.  Themes include:
    • Topic/category research
    • Keyword research and selection
    • Optimizing course titles and categories
    • Understanding current student demand for a topic
    • Understanding competition for a specific topic
    • What channels and tools to utilize to find your next online course topic
    • How to validate your chosen topic
    • Udemy specific tools for research and validation
    By incorporating some of the tips, tools, and ideas for course research included in this section, Teachinguide hopes to guide you in finding the right niche/space to start with on Udemy or to grow into to differentiate your Udemy online course. Teachinguide’s Udemy course database and analytics app provides a lot of information to help online course instructors research and validate a high potential Udemy course idea. It also provides other information that will help you learn about best practices and how to create a competitive course. Feel free to try it out or reach out to the experts at Teachinguide anytime for assistance in understanding how Teachinguide can help you with your online course research needs. Happy researching!

    5 Trends in Online Learning for 2019 and beyond

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    With tips for how to incorporate them into your online courses

    The Online Learning Industry Evolution

    Online learning platforms come in several forms – MOOCs, online universities, corporate elearning, K12 education, learning management systems like Teachable, and of course, Udemy and similar platforms such as Skillshare.

    The online learning industry is clearly here to stay – and growing still. Estimates vary as to how big the online industry will become over the next few years, but they generally range from $200– $300 billion.

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    Udemy Competitors – Avoid Them With Niche Topics

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    In a previous post in which we discussed options for researching online course ideas, one recommendation we made was to find niche topics that are not yet highly competitive, and/or pick an increasingly popular and growing niche topic for which you could carve out a place that is differentiated from other Udemy competitors. 

    This week we are bringing you some examples of niche course topics we found that have few Udemy competitors, but which include courses with “Hot and New” badges – demonstrating there is some level of demand for the niche. We’ll look at whether or not these topics are viable as a niche strategy and why, and discuss why courses in them might or might not be successful.

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    10 Tips for Generating Online Course Ideas

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    Generating online course ideas that will make money seems to be getting more difficult for the masses of entrepreneurs who have flocked to Udemy and other online course platforms in search of financial freedom. It’s one thing to daydream about online course ideas you’d like to create. It’s another thing entirely to determine if you can turn your idea into a money-making machine.

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    Top Tools for Validating Your Online Course Ideas

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    Why Validate Your Online Course Idea

    With all the people and platforms making it possible to become an online course entrepreneur, the space is getting crowded. There are numerous examples of people making a living selling courses about all manner of topics – crafts, yoga, book binding, dog training and more.  You can literally create an online course about anything – but would you want to?

    Just because you may have a long list of online course ideas it doesn’t mean that courses covering these topics will sell.  So, the questions to ask every time you have an online course ideas is: Is this a course that will people will buy?  And if so, how many people will buy it?

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    Udemy for Business – 7 Things to Know

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    There’s over 130,000 courses on Udemy marketplace, but only about 3,500 courses on Udemy for Business.  Ever wonder what that’s all about? Maybe you aspire to get your course listed on Udemy for Business? How do you get to be one of the chosen few? 

    In this article we take a look at what Udemy for Business is and how it’s evolving.  In light of this, we look at what it takes to get listed in Udemy for Business and what you can expect.

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    20 Top Udemy Courses This Week

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    Udemy courses are still in high demand, despite the proliferation of other online teaching platforms. Teachinguide stats show that 1.17 million new enrollments were made in Udemy courses just in the past 3 months. 476 new courses were launched and 127,000 new Udemy course reviews were made.  These numbers are staggering when you think about it.

    So, with numbers like these you might be wondering what then are the top Udemy courses among the thousands and thousands on the platform?  Where are all these new enrollments going? What topics are hot?  If you are serious about getting your own courses to rank among the top Udemy courses, then it’s important to be up to date on trends.

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    12 Skills Employers Will Look For in 2020

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    Looking for new course ideas? Create online courses for these skills employers look for!

    The skills employers look for in their workforce and future job applicants are changing rapidly in 2020 and beyond. So if you’re an online course creator looking for new course ideas or you’re looking to enhance some courses you already created perhaps this list will inspire some creative thinking for which direction to take. Tackle any aspect of these skill categories and you’re sure to see some success!

    Even if you aren’t creating Udemy for Business courses or other corporate eLearning courses, employees, job seekers and learners, in general, will be looking for courses that can help them gain skills that employers are looking for in 2020.

    So what are the top skills employers look for going forward?

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    How to Choose Your Next Udemy Course Topic

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    Udemy Course Demand Has Exploded

    We recently wrote about the huge uptick in enrollments in Udemy classes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – consumer enrollments were up 425% in the first two months of the pandemic.

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    Global demand for Udemy courses exploded the last 2 months

    As a Udemy instructor, you might be considering jumping onto this trend by creating more courses.  If so, it might be helpful to reconsider once more how to go about choosing a profitable Udemy course topic.

    Why?

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    The Post-COVID19 Outlook for Online Learning

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    Udemy’s recent report found COVID19 spurred huge online course growth

    We recently wrote an article about the impact of the COVID pandemic on Udemy course enrollment.  In it, we highlighted several findings from a Udemy report on the first two months of course enrollment during the pandemic.  As a reminder, Udemy found that the following increases:

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    Building Your eLearning Business – 5 Pitfalls to Avoid

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    An eLearning business has become a very legitimate career option for just about anybody who is willing to put in the time and effort.  It does take a lot of time and effort to build an eLearning business, just like any other brick and mortar business. The beauty though is that you never have to leave your desk chair (not that we advocate laziness)!

    Yet we read about and hear from those who have tried to launch their own eLearning business, but are still barely bumping along revenue-wise.  So we decided to put together a few common issues that research shows prevent some online instructors from building up their eLearning business.

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