The Ultimate Unofficial Udemy Online Course Creation Guide
What you'll learn
- Choose the best topic for you to teach, and understand how to beat the competition
- Create a marketing plan to launch and continually promote your course
- Optimize your course landing page for SEO
- Create talking head videos with clear audio and crisp video
- Create visually interesting screencast videos
- Create a launch plan to maximize the impact of your new course release
- License your course to other platforms to generate more revenue
- Transition responsibly to creating courses on a full-time basis
Requirements
- All you need is a computer, and some specialized knowledge you want to share with the world.
Description
Here's the truth: the vast majority of instructors on Udemy aren't having the impact they desired. But many instructors are successfully making a lucrative, full-time career from producing online courses on the Udemy platform. You can learn the strategies that will set you apart as an instructor, and position you for that kind of success.
Frank Kane has been producing online courses on Udemy since 2015, and has sold over 1.2 million paid course enrollments earning over 3.5 million dollars. In this course, Frank shares all the stuff he's learned the hard way during that time about what works with course creation, and what doesn't. You'll learn:
How to choose the course topic that's best for you, and most likely to succeed
Audio/visual tips for producing clear audio and crisp video for different budget levels
SEO tips to make sure students find your course when they're looking for your topic
How "flywheel effects" should inform your course marketing and course creation strategy
How to construct a pre-launch checklist to make your course launch as strong as possible
Effective course marketing strategies - as well as strategies to avoid
Maintaining your course to keep it selling for years
How to vet other platforms that want to host your content
Techniques for discouraging piracy of your course
How to get more reviews for your courses
A plan for making Udemy your full-time job, in a responsible manner
This course is intended as a supplement to Udemy's Teach Hub and resources in your course creation dashboard - it's all the stuff most instructors only learn through experience. Avoid common mistakes in your strategy as an online instructor, and apply proven best practices used by Udemy's top instructors right from the start.
Any instructor on the Udemy platform who wants to make more of an impact will benefit from this course. It's packed with tips, tricks, and lessons learned that can make the difference between a course that flops, and a course that changes the world.
Who this course is for:
- Udemy instructors who want to maximize their odds for success, both financial and in terms of impact.
Featured review
Instructors
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 175,578 Reviews
- 1,003,046 Students
- 36 Courses
Sundog Education's mission is to make highly valuable career skills in data engineering, data science, generative AI, AWS, and machine learning accessible to everyone in the world. Our consortium of expert instructors shares our knowledge in these emerging fields with you, at prices anyone can afford.
Sundog Education is led by Frank Kane and owned by Frank's company, Sundog Software LLC. Frank spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. As an Amazon “bar raiser,” he held veto authority over hiring decisions across the company, interviewed over 1,000 candidates, and hired and managed hundreds. He holds 26 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own company, Sundog Software, which has taught over one million students around the world about machine learning, data engineering, and managing engineers.
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 164,445 Reviews
- 941,779 Students
- 27 Courses
Frank spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. As an Amazon “bar raiser,” he held veto authority over hiring decisions across the company, interviewed over 1,000 candidates, and hired and managed hundreds. He holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own company, Sundog Software, which has taught over one million students around the world about machine learning, data engineering, and managing engineers.
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- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 148,037 Reviews
- 890,878 Students
- 19 Courses
Our mission is to make highly valuable skills in machine learning, big data, AI, and data science accessible at prices anyone in the world can afford. Our current online courses have reached over 500,000 students worldwide. Sundog Education CEO, Frank Kane, spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, all the time. Frank holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own successful company, Sundog Software, which focuses on virtual reality environment technology and teaching others about big data analysis.