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Creating Udemy Courses: A Step-By-Step Guide - Unofficial (Udemy.com)

The most comprehensive guide on creating, publishing, launching, and growing a Udemy course. Contains Udemy growth hacks

Created by: Scott Britton

Last updated April 2016

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What you will learn

  • You will know exactly how to take your expertise or knowledge and turn that into a highly profitable course
  • Understand a system that helps you attract students every single day automatically
  • Obtain effective marketing strategies for growing your course on and off Udemy
  • How to leverage Udemy to grow your personal platform (blog, youtube, social media accounts, email list etc)
  • How to tweak your course to maximize profits
  • Generate passive income with just a few hours of effort each month

How it compares

Against the other 503 rated Udemy courses in Teaching & Academics on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 58% of them
  • Reviews214#352 of 504 by number of reviews
  • Length14.8 hourslonger than 89% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2016earlier than 96% of them

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Course Description

This course is not sponsored by or affiliated with Udemy, Inc.

**UPDATED OCTOBER 2017** - Called "The most comprehensive and tactical course on making and marketing highly profitable courses on Udemy."

You may have seen other courses on “how to dominate on Udemy" on here…

Before I get into exactly why this is different and what you'll learn here that only a small percentage of people who've replaced their full time income with passive earnings on Udemy here's what I've done:

  • Drove over 29,000+ Students to my courses
  • Made over $100,000 in passive income on Udemy (and growing)
  • Generated over 480+ positive student reviews
  • Used the momentum built here to develop my own platform mailing list of over 15,000+ subscribers and a top 20 business podcast on iTunes

In this course, you'll learn step by step and get of insider's view of how to create the same results.

Creating a course isn't too tricky...the real secret sauce is understanding how to market the heck out of it and set it up smart so that it markets itself and builds your personal platform which is exactly what I'll be teaching you.

Whether your goal is to create your first course and have no idea to start or you're looking to double your sales from your existing courses on the platform this has plenty of meaty tactics for you.

We'll cover the basics of creating your course, but also more advanced strategies and resources like:

  • Multiple ways you can drive 1000's of students to your course in a day
  • Levers to increase your ranking in the Udemy marketplace
  • How to implement a simple testing procedure every few week to maximize your revenue
  • All the sites you can promote your course to drive Students off of Udemy
  • The 80/20 for setting your course up for optimum passive income
  • How to structure content to automatically grow your personal platform
  • Strategies to maximize the number of people that click "buy" when they see your course

There's plenty of other material on “creating a course" but they felt outdated and I didn't feel like they covered all the tactics available to really crush it on Udemy which is why I created this course.

Whether your goal is to start developing passive income or simply grow your thought leadership online this is the course for you...

From others who were just starting out…

"Scott is the man when it comes to Udemy (among other things!). What I learned from him helped me decide exactly what niche to focus on, how to create a high-value course and then how to launch and leverage Udemy platform for passive income. I will never forget a day when I made my first 1$ online and then after a few days, first 100$ online (I am now well into thousands per month). Thank you Scott!" -Bozidar Jovicevic

"As a fitness instructor and business owner, I knew I wanted to create something that would get me paid without requiring me to show up and log all the long hours of labor that are usually required in my line of business. Scott introduced me to UDEMY and changed everything for me. The man is a total beast on the platform and was very helpful in getting me started making passive income with a Udemy course. Could not be more grateful for his help!" -Brandon Epstein

To Instructors who already had courses...

"I published my first course on Udemy two years ago, and it became one of the Top 5 Business courses on the site. I had worn out all my traditional marketing strategies and didn't know what else to do to attract more students and grow my income. Scott gave me one idea that allowed me to get 2,000 new students in less than a week - and I didn't need to spend a dime on marketing! I can't wait to continue riding the wave with Scott as Udemy explodes" -Tom Corson Knowles

"When I created my recent Udemy course, I followed many of Scott's best practices for social proof, reviews, pricing, promotion, and more. The course earned over $3500 in the first 2 months. It was a lot of work to create the videos and the material, but now I have what I hope to be a passive income asset that will serve me for months or years down the road." - Nick Loper

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Instructor Details

Scott Britton

I'm Scott Britton. I'm currently a software entrepreneur at Troops.ai, a venture backed Saas startup that was named one of the top 100 startups in NYC in 2016. Before this I was a business development executive at SinglePlatform, a company acquired by Constant Contact for 100 million dollars. I also maintain a personal site called Life-LongLearner which publishes content to 20k subscribers weekly on sales and marketing.

I'm passionate about personal development, marketing, and travel. I've taught over 50,000 students online and been featured in Lifehacker, The Next Web, and Business Insider as one of the top 25 rising stars in New York Tech Under 25.

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Reviews

4.6

214 ratings on Udemy

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By Majdoleen Abumusallem on 12/4/2019

The course included a lot of information, but I didn't find it as a step by step guide at all. it is not systemically organized into steps, and it discuss some important points very briefly though it should be detailed in order to be understood and applied. I did not feel that the instructor really shared his own experience or his shortcuts to help those who are willing to launch their online courses. At the end, it is good for knowledge, but for practice, there are more useful courses on udemy on the same. I hope it will be improved.

By AKINCI Training on 8/14/2015

Content of the course is comprehensive and informative, and production quality is really good! I really liked marketing strategies and pricing tips. This course is really well prepared that you should get and start learning from it. My favorite section is "Growing your empire" section. This part of course was really good. As a result, I'm really happy to get this course, and YOU SHOULD TRY THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Thanks for everything

By Alan H. Jordan on 8/12/2015

I learned about this course off of Udemy, and postponed buying it, but I'm delighted that I did. I have at least 20 tips that I'm going to implement. They range from promotional methods to how to focus on building a quality course, both of which are necessary for success. The course is presented in a relaxed, easy-to-listen to voice, has a mix of talking head and screen captures. It's filled with real world examples. Highly recommended.

By Justin Green on 8/10/2015

Before taking this course, I already had a rather broad knowledge of what to do and what not to do on Udemy in regards to making money and marketing. But I just could not find my sweet spot and my course was really suffering for it. I was missing components to my courses and did not even know where to start. Scott literally transformed my udemy instructor experience and now my passive income is steadily rising every month! The course was also really easy to follow. The videos were short and to the point and there was virtually no filler talk. Awesome job!

By Mustafa Horasanlı on 8/8/2015

First of all He's talking very clear, all the time he controls his voice pace and tone as it should be, therefore i think he's trying to make you concentrate on the subject, keeps you awake. Second, at every single side, he's literally drawing you a physical frame to take you to a tunnel blocking the noise outside and make you think on only one subject at the moment. Udemy ask me now if the instructor's delivery interesting and engaging. I think Udemy should remove this question for all Scott's courses review section. If you had taken one of his courses, you would understand why this question is so unnecessary. I basically recommend you to give a shot to Scott.

By Janis Bryden on 8/6/2015

Having completed 80% of my course I was looking for help in putting the final touches to it. And I have found exactly what I was looking for in Scott's course! Armed with the excellent advice contained in this course I feel inspired to publish my course very soon. For anyone just starting out with their course I highly recommend that they take this course as I now can see in hindsight that I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort had I taken Scott's course from the get go! Scott's enthusiasm for his work shines through in his lectures which I find very motivating. Good work, Scott!

By Demir Gjokaj on 4/15/2015

I've purchased most of Mr. Britton's courses, and as usual, he gives you exactly what you're looking for! This course reviews all the basics in detail - a lot of detail. While I watched in first in one sitting, I also referred back to it often and I prepared to publish my first course. Buy this course now if you are really committed to getting a class launched on Udemy in the highest quality, as fast as possible.

By Clinton Buelter on 4/14/2015

Great course here. I've new to building courses on udemy and Scott covers it in detail. Even when I left and got lost with what I needed to do to move forward. When I came back, the next lesson was the exact info I needed to keep going! He's engaging and super prepared, no death by powerpoint. And the audio I give it 3/5 stars. Some is great, some not so great.

By Amberly Miller on 3/30/2015

Scott has done it again! With this course, Scott teaches you start to finish how to develop, create, produce, and profit a course from ANYTHING that you know. I've taken several courses that lacked in actionable information and were full of fluff. Definitely not the case here- Scott gives us a clear recipe for Udemy success with this course. 91 modules of focused information essential for anyone interested in creating passive income from their skills or knowledge. I can't wait to finish my first course- and I'm already planning a second! UPDATE - Finally have completed my content and digging into the promotional strategies in real time- WHOA! Applying only one of these ideas seems insanely profitable- I can't wait to see what all of them stacked together help me achieve!

By Richard Fricker on 3/28/2015

Great job with course, provides a lot of detail and explanation on how to develop, launch and market a Udemy course. Slides are clean, crisp and simple as opposed to overpowering and convey the subject manner clearly. Content is well written and clear. Instructor is confident in his topic and has a clear speaking voice. The course sections and lectures are laid out in a sensible manner and flow well. In summary, this course is definitely a keeper for someone who wants to learn how to launch a serious, money-making course in Udemy.

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