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.
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.
The work associated with online course development can be a daunting prospect, especially for new online instructors. Even for experienced online instructors, keeping up with all that needs to be done to run and grow a legitimate and successful online course business can be daunting sometimes.
One solution to these challenges is to outsource some of your online course development tasks. Outsourcing is the process of hiring (usually via an online job platform) someone or a team of people to do some of the online course development work.
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.
In a recent blog we provided 6 tips for marketing your online course. In that article we mentioned that in our 2019 instructor survey online course marketing and promotion was one of the most frequently cited challenges by instructors. As a continuation of our coverage of the most basic steps you can take to market your online course, we have included four more online course marketing strategies in this article.
Skillshare is the most comparable online course marketplace to Udemy. Both platforms market your online course to the masses and pay instructors a course revenue share monthly. That’s about all the similarities in the Udemy vs. Skillshare comparison, really. They are pretty different platforms.
So, let’s say you are a new instructor and trying to decide which is best to start with. Or, perhaps you are already creating courses on one platform and considering hopping to the other. What would the impact be on your online course business and the way you go about it?
In our 2019 online instructor survey responses one of the biggest challenges cited by online teachers was the promotion of their online courses to increase sales. Many are left scratching their heads on How To Market An Online Course. In this article, we present 6 very straightforward things Udemy instructors should be doing to promote their online course on Udemy. No fancy click funnel strategies here, just a reminder of some basic but necessary steps to take set the foundation for growing your course sales. These tips will focus specifically on the Udemy platform, but they can also be applied to marketing other online courses. Here we will teach you how to market your online course.
Most people who decide to create their first online course or who want to start an online course business are primarily focused on how much money they will make. However, what they fail to assess is the cost of online course development. Just how much does it cost to develop an online course? As with any business, thinking about making money is the fun part. The cost of getting into the business, however, not so fun. Yet, it’s worth doing some thinking upfront about whether you are looking to spend closer to $0 in costs to create your online course, or if given your goals, you might want to spend more here and there on certain things.
Udemy vs. Coursera – which one is for you? There are soooo many MOOC platforms out there now it can be quite confusing for learners to decide which route to take for their specific online learning goals. Udemy, of course, is one of the most well-known platforms. So is Coursera. The Udemy Coursera battle is tough and has a lot of pros and cons. In this article, we will provide an overview of the key differences between Udemy vs. Coursera.
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As we all know from shopping on Amazon or eBay, doing something in the physical world versus the virtual world differs in many ways. How do you shop on Amazon? Well, you’ve probably had a lot of practice shopping in the brick and mortar world. So you use what you know from that experience and then adapt it to shopping in the virtual world. Over time while shopping on Amazon, you try and learn new things – for instance, Amazon Prime or Subscribe and Save, and then tweak your shopping experience accordingly.
