Udemy is giving back to our instructors this month. We’re holding a November Challenge to recognize the instructors who hustle month after month to find new students for their courses. Here are the terms: For any instructor who earns $200 or more in the month of November from coupon code-driven course sales will receive a free Udemy hoodie! Trust me—you want one of these hoodies. They look great, and they’re comfortable! For our top selling instructor this month, we’ll fly…
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We’re very excited to unveil the Udemy Learning Feed! Quite a few of you have been asking us to add features that build the Udemy community and admittedly we know we could do more for you. So we created the learning feed — a place for you to communicate with each other and spread the power of learning. We hope the learning feed becomes your go-to learning destination. Just like the activity feed on Facebook, all your activity and the…
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Let’s get real for a second—Twitter is a tricky tool when it comes to driving more students to enroll into your courses. The reality is you’re competing with thousands of other people and their messages. The chances of potential students seeing your updates in their ever flowing stream of tweets is small. There are two ways to address this: Make every interaction someone has with your Twitter profile count Schedule tweets to go out more frequently. Make every interaction someone…
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When you have a course on Udemy, you have the capability to send all enrolled students emails related to your course. We affectionately call these Course Announcements. Did you know Course Announcements have an open rate of 20%? That’s right—1 in 5 people who receive a Course Announcement from you, open it. That’s pretty good! Yet, only a small percentage of instructors ever send out a Course Announcement. Here are two things you can do today to drive course sales with…
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There are two basic ways to construct your online course. One option is to create all of the fundamentals of a topic, and present the material in an organized and logical way. This provides a strong fundamental understanding of the material, as well as a long-term reference guide for that material. The second approach is to create a task-based course. This sets up a common goal for all subscribers, and each part of the course builds on that premise until…
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Resources for Creating a Case Study Course on Udemy This is a list of resources that I used to create my logo design course on Udemy that I talk about in the video. It also includes some alternatives that you can try out. Mind Mapping Software Mindmeister (Online and Mobile Devices):  Mindmeister is the software I use to do my mindmapping. It is a paid service, but if you look at the pricing page at the bottom there is a…
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Over the past year, we’ve seen truly tremendous growth in our catalog of online courses & our community of expert instructors. Over 4,500 courses have now been published on Udemy (up from 2,000 one year ago) by an amazing range of experts, in topics like: business, programming, entrepreneurship, photography, self-help, design, yoga, and more. With so many new courses being published every month, we knew that we needed to invest even more energy in supporting our instructors and helping them…
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Have $7? That’s all you need to promote your next Udemy course on Facebook. Facebook recently released the ability for anyone with less than 5,000 friends and subscribers to promote their Facebook status updates on their personal profile pages. That means whenever you update your status on your personal profile page, you now have the option to pay $7 to have your update appear towards the top of your friends’ newsfeeds. Once you post your Facebook status update, you will…
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If you have an email list, then you have a great opportunity to get people who admire you and want to learn from you into your Udemy course. Time and time again, I hear instructors say they tried promoting their course to their list, but only a few people enrolled in their course. A rule of thumb in marketing or advertising is that the majority of people need to hear your message several times (some sources claim “7″ is the…
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What is a Facebook Offer? Facebook Offers are a new feature for pages that have at least 400 fans.  These offers allow you to promote your courses (and special discounts on them) through your Facebook page. Facebook Offers drives people to your course page and helps you get discovered as people claim and share your offer with their friends. It is a great way to promote your courses to your fans!  Let’s take a look at how to create these…
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