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Udemy Masters: Learn Online Course Creation - Unofficial (Udemy.com)

Gain freedom with your own online courses & Udemy courses: idea, validation, production, & promotion. (Unofficial)

Created by: Phil Ebiner

Last updated May 2025

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What you will learn

  • Create online courses that actually sell.
  • Build an automated sales funnel to sell your course while you sleep.
  • Validate your course idea to make sure it will be profitable.
  • Design an engaging and high-quality course.
  • Launch successfully, even without an audience.
  • Grow a loyal following for your own brand.
  • Use YouTube, webinars, blogging, and podcasting to sell your courses.
  • Know exactly what equipment you need to teach your course.
  • Increase your income by re-purposing course content​​.

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Course Description

What is your ideal life? Does the word FREEDOM come to mind? 

Freedom from stress. Freedom from worry. Freedom from money. Freedom from bosses. Freedom to be with your friends and family.

Freedom to do what you love every day.

Ultimately, freedom is what this course is all about.

I want to show you how I've built a life of freedom by sharing my knowledge with the world. It's a wonderful thing to make more money than I've ever made before... by teaching others skills that will improve their own lives.

You want freedom, and you're either:

  1. Someone who has never created an online course before

  2. Someone who is trying to sell online courses, but isn't having as much success as you'd like

I can help you, no matter what situation you're in. 

THIS COURSE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO:

  • Create online courses that actually sell

  • Come up with great online course topics

  • Validate your course idea to make sure it will be profitable

  • Design an engaging outline sure to get great student reviews

  • Understand the equipment needed to get started on any budget

  • Edit more engaging and super duper high quality videos

  • Launch your course successfully, even without an audience

  • Choose a platform(s) to put your courses on

  • Sell courses on marketplaces like Udemy

  • Self-host your courses with tools like Teachable and Thinkific

  • Build an automated sales funnel to sell your course while you sleep

  • Grow your own loyal following for your own brand

  • Use YouTube, webinars, blogging, and podcasting to sell courses

  • Increase your income by re-purposing course content


Along with the video content of the course, there are many bonuses.

BONUSES:

  • Downloadable resources and guides

  • An audio version of the course to listen on the go

  • Q&A videos the answer your specific questions

  • Assignments that make you productive while taking the course

  • An instructor who truly cares about your success

I SHARE ALL MY SECRETS IN THIS COURSE

These are techniques that I use every day to grow my 6-figure business (having sold over $1,000,000 in courses since 2012). They are techniques that other successful course creators are using to build their own businesses.

IT WILL NEVER BE A BETTER TIME TO START TEACHING ONLINE THAN TODAY

The key thing to know before starting is that you don't need anything to get started.

You don't need an audience.

You don't need to know how to make videos.

You don't need to know how to teach.

You don't need to know how market.

You just need to be persistent. You just need to believe in yourself. You just need to keep your eye on the goal (whatever that may be - financial independence, $100,000 per year, an extra couple bucks for coffee, an avenue to share your knowledge with the world).

WHY AM I DOING THIS?

Teaching online has changed my life. It's helped me pay for vacations around the world, pay off $107,000 in student loan debt, pay for our wedding, invest for a better future, and purchase our first home.

Now I want to give back. 

In 2013, I started teaching other people how to create and sell online courses. Since then, thousands of people have used my techniques to create their own online courses and change their own lives. 

A lot has changed since 2013 when I launched my first online teaching training course. I've spoken with and interviewed hundreds of other online instructors to learn what they're doing to grow their online course business. I started the Online Course Masters podcast to document some of these conversations. 

While the podcast, my blog, and my YouTube channel are all ways in which I give amazing, high-quality, and valuable training to people like you, online courses are still the best way to take a student from A to Z. 

That's why I created this course - to walk with you through the entire process.

With our 30-day 100% money-back guarantee, there's no reason to hesitate.

I'll give you two more reasons why you should enroll right this second:

Your investment in this course will quickly be paid back even just by implementing some of the techniques I share with you. There are hundreds of gold nuggets to choose from, making this course the best investment in your own education and future success.

While today is still the best day you can get started with creating and selling online courses, it will get harder for course creators as the markets get more and more competitive. You want to start as soon as you can (like today) to take advantage of this growing market. Instead of struggling and trying to do everything yourself, just learn from someone who has already figured it out. 

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR SUCCESS

In the first section, I give you 3 ways to improve your courses right now to get better course reviews!

See you inside!

Phil

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Instructor Details

Phil Ebiner

I’m Phil Ebiner, an educator, photographer, filmmaker, and founder of Video School and Photography & Friends. Through my online courses and creative community, I’ve helped millions of students around the world learn practical skills in photography, video production, design, and more. My goal is to make creative skills feel accessible, useful, and encouraging, whether you’re picking up a camera for the first time or looking to take your work to the next level.

My teaching style is clear, supportive, and hands-on. I break complex topics into simple steps, explain the “why” behind each technique, and share real-world examples you can immediately apply. As a photographer and filmmaker, I believe great creative work is not just about gear or settings, but about storytelling, intention, observation, and connection. My goal is to help you feel confident, inspired, and capable of bringing your own creative ideas to life.


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Reviews

4.2

4,645 ratings on Udemy

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By Stiliyan Slaveykov on 5/23/2026

I'm watching it right now, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it—it covers very basic and superficial topics, supposedly created by an expert. There's some pretty old content (like videos from 2016, 2020, and so on) I don’t see any integrated AI to help you create your own course. Overall, the content is pretty basic and simple—stuff you can find on YouTube or ChatGPT—it’s not even worth the small amount it costs

By La Roi Fier on 12/10/2025

The instructor presents his experience very forthright which makes the material far more relatable. Additionally, the fact that he takes you into his world and how he has developed over time as an instructor and stays on point really makes the material more personal and feel possible. I also like that the videos are not just talkign head but actually show hands on activities. Very good course.

By Rui Men on 12/8/2020

Amazing to the point, practical course. Phil has done his job beautifully. I give 5 stars for him. Half point will be taken away is because his assistant has not reply every Q&A soon enough (meaning some questions has not been replied for 4 months) This should not be accepted in a business world.

By Rosane Rech on 7/13/2020

The course is amazing. I have almost 20 years of experience in teaching face-to-face courses. I took this course to help me to build an online course on one of my i-class course. It helped me with several aspects of the course creation and helped me with tips to promote the course. Two weeks after officially launching and promoting, it is already the highest-rated course in its area. Thanks, Phil for all the invaluable tips! I already started to create my second course!

By Besma Abbaoui on 5/9/2020

Phil provided a lot of beneficial info but I felt at times a bit like he was tooting his own horn too much, ‘I did this and I accomplished that’ which can affect a student who is starting out’s self confidence a bit. But overall I think his heart is in the right place and he really wants to help people. Overall decent course, and it can inspire people to succeed in online course creation. Thank you for your help Phil :-)

By Chandra Lokupitiyage on 10/4/2018

The course was full of extremely useful topics. I didn’t have any experience in creating audio and video professionally and how to use professional devices in that regard. With this course, I got a wealth of knowledge about such things. Not only that, now I am equipped with the knowledge of how to create an online course and digital marketing, thanks to his personnel valuable experiences. Those were really helpful and encouraging for beginners like me. Phil explained everything about creation of online courses giving lots of examples from A to Z. The lessons were short and sweet. He is no doubt a very professional tutor. Only one thing I can suggest to improve this course is to include more exercises. Thank you very much Phil, for creating this exceptional course. Good luck on your future growing’s.

By Wlrs Wlrs on 3/19/2018

The course completely changed my perception regarding what's realistically required to succeed in teaching online courses, and how important is creating your own audience, mailing list, youtube channel, and generally a whole marketing mechanism, even if you completely rely on Udemy for the income. The support in this course is excellent. Phil answers every question and is really committed.

By Inanc Gumus on 12/9/2017

I know Phil from his cool Youtube interviews, I learned a lot from these interviews, actually, more than with this course. Because there are real-life tips in his Youtube interviews especially from programmer instructors. I find some valuable gems in this course and noted all of them down to my notebook. However, I'd like to see more practical examples from different industries like programming, basic intro to screencasting etc. I know this course is not about that but a basic practical intro to screencasting and audio recording would be fine. Especially for people like who are shy on camera and recording because of I never tried it before. Phil is creating high-quality material so I'd like to enroll his another course about screencasting, voice-overs, script-writing (tips for non-native speakers like me who can't improvise on intent quickly when recoding the audios), screenflow features and tricks etc.

By Dr Asher Sefanit-Wudasee on 8/28/2017

This is a good course which takes you through the basics. I like the fact that Phil started out just the same as everyone else and built his way up. This means Phil is able to share his personal experiences, including the things he didn't get right. This is a sure time-saver for novices like me! I took off a half mark because some of the assignments can only be completed once you have all the equipment etc. I think this should be stated at the beginning so if you are a complete novice like me, I am aware of what will be expected and will put some time into setting myself up so I can fully complete the course. I don't see the point of just recording a video, which will have obvious flaws, like sound quality and lighting - just to complete the assignments. Some of the assignments can be completed later, so I left them out because I wanted to get to the end of the course. Still a good course though!!

By Gareth Shawcross on 2/9/2017

I have been watching Phil's videos on and off for the last 10 years now. It is great to see that Phil has 'made it' so to speak and that he is now taking time out after all the effort put in in the early years. Thought I would try to give online teaching a go (even though the good times may have past) and thus can always rely on Phil's videos for the super content, hence returning to this course.

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