The single most important factor in both career advancement and personal satisfaction is a mastery of interpersonal skills. Although people often spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on medical degrees or software training, they tend to neglect the soft skills that mean much more to coworkers and loved ones. This is more important than ever in the tight marketplace and higher stress of the current economy. **Get into the negotiation mindset and learn how to negotiate your salary. FREE on-demand,…
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Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? **Learn how to write an autobiography. Check out this online, on-demand course from Udemy. FREE preview** There’s no greater gift to share with your loved ones than the story of your own life. Whether you want to share your special moments with friends, family members, future generations, or the general public, it’s definitely worth the time to record the important events of your life. They’ll also enjoy reading your recollections about past…
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You had worked hard to finish school, which you didn’t like most of the time. Then you might have gotten some further education. Maybe you have even graduated from university. And then? Well, you want to leave home and have meaningful, paid work! You want to make a living for yourself. And build up your future. But that looks like an increasingly distant dream, doesn’t it? It’s hard to find any job and you didn’t finish college to flip hamburgers…
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Need a nudge to create your online class? Here are a few reasons why instructors, teachers, trainers, adjunct and tenure-track professors, authors, speakers, and so many others build courses on Udemy: 1) Reach a new audience teaching online. How else can you reach thousands of thousands of students all around the world? 2) Make money teaching online. If you want to charge for your course (you don’t have to), you can earn real money and passive income teaching online. (For…
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1. Why make Android apps? One of the first things to consider when starting a technology project is the platform it will run on. What are the advantages of creating an Android app? Are there a lot of people using these devices today? The answer in this case is yes. According to Forbes.com, the use of Android smartphones rose 88% during 2012, accounting for 70% of all smartphones sold during the year. **Learn about Android App Development with this online,…
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Everybody wants the perfect lifestyle: owning a thriving business, money coming in every month from passive investments, living the four hour work week and having the freedom to spend your life doing something you love. For many people, creating mobile apps can be the key to unlocking this dream. Setup costs are relatively cheap – just a laptop and an Apple device. And what skills you don’t have you can find on sites like odesk.com and elance.com within the click…
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I conducted a live interview with Udemy Bestseller Pablo Farias to find out what tactics he used to scale up to earning thousands of dollars per month on Udemy in Instructor Promotion (revenue earned through instructor coupon codes). Pablo Farias used a combination of three tactics to find success on Udemy. I summarized them below so you can try them for yourself today. Ask relevant blogs to share your course with their audiences Find relevant blogs and content channels (incl….
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This post contains specific tips, tricks, and scripts for instructors who want to earn more from their Udemy courses this month. If that’s you, keep reading… One week after launching our Never Stop Learning campaign, we have instructors and students letting everyone they know about their commitment to #NeverStopLearning.    Wayne Ford is offering his training on Udemy at 30% off in honor of the campaign. Mark Lassoff is offering all of his courses for $19 which is a steal for…
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Did you see the Never Stop Learning campaign we launched Monday? Because of instructors like you, people on Udemy are landing better paying jobs, jumpstarting new careers, exploring their hobbies, and starting their own companies. What does this mean for you as an instructor? Now is a great time to invite your friends and followers to join you on Udemy. You can let followers know that you’re offering a discount on your course(s) to encourage them to #NeverStopLearning.   STEP-BY-STEP…
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Global Distribution of Earthquakes Since the 1970s Think about this – the words we use, the images we see, the multimedia we consume are all metaphors for reality. We have the real world and then there are approximations of that world. Words are metaphors for our thoughts. Images and video are metaphors of people, places, things, events.  We have the real and we have those things that re-present or represent the real. The map is a metaphor of reality. The…
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