Students, working and non-working adults around the world have been at home now for over two months due to the COVID19 shelter in place orders. As a result of extended homestays, massive job cuts, and displaced college and high school students, the world has seen a major surge in online education over the last 2 months.
Elearners seek a Udemy review frequently. According to Ahrefs, these three questions are searched 2,600, 1,400 and 160 times a month, respectively. These numbers indicate that there’s a fair amount of doubt about the Udemy elearning platform.
Spring is almost here and do you know what that means? It’s time to do some “spring cleaning” and improve your online course (s)! It’s easy to think that after a successful holiday and/or Udemy January sales run that there’s no need to improve your online course. After all, your course is selling right? (Or, perhaps it’s not?)
Udemy’s January Sale ran from December 31 to January 10, 2020. Using Teachinguide’s database we’ve tallied up the results. You’ll recall we did a similar analysis for Udemy’s 2019 Cyber Week sale. We wanted to do a little comparison between these two big Udemy sales and see what the similarities and differences are.
‘Tis the season for shopping. And what better place to shop but online? Indeed just a few days ago the National Retail Foundation (NRF) in the United States predicted that 70 million consumers will shop online on Cyber Monday.
It also predicted online Cyber Monday sales to increase 14% over 2018 – wow!
How are you feeling about the size of your online course audience? Maybe you just uploaded a course in the run up to Black Friday your audience is zero right now. Maybe your audience is just not big enough and not growing to your satisfaction. Maybe you are selling a few courses but wish sales were more consistent or would propel you to the next level of “edupreneurship”.
An “eduprenuer” is exactly what the word conveys – it’s what you get when you cross an entrepreneur with the education industry. This concept has been around for at least a couple of decades. It used to refer mainly to trained professional teachers and educators who “branched out” in their work by creating side businesses such as speaking engagements, publishing, training, consulting and so forth.
Udemy sale season is on the horizon. Towards the end of October, typically Udemy course sales start to pick up a little. Udemy sometimes runs a “course creation” contest or incentives around this time of year.
Why? Because this is the time of year that potential students anticipate buying Udemy courses (or for that matter, anything) on sale. For over 5 years they have been “trained” to anticipate this time of year. So Udemy wants to be sure that the selection of courses is fresh and enticing.
That means you should be sure that your own online courses are fresh and enticing. We’ll go through what exactly this means in this article.
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.
It’s pretty clear to most online course creators that email marketing is critical to course sales and success. You just have to search Quora and other forums to find disgruntled Udemy instructors who thought that simply putting their course on Udemy would bring in the income. And it’s clear from our recent instructor survey that marketing and promoting a course is a real challenge for online instructors.
