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, online course from Udemy** What are interpersonal skills? Answering that question may lead you down a long road of hard truths about yourself. At the end of that road, though, is a much better life
How To Write an Autobiography: Three Approaches to Writing Your Life Story
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 generations, so you’ll be preserving not only your experiences, but also those who came before you
Why Teach Online? 12 Reasons and Counting!
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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.
What to do after college?
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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.
How to Make an Android App
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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.
5 Resources You Need to Grow Your iPhone App Development Business
May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 of a few buttons. Or that’s what we are told. The truth is that success is indeed possible, but you need to learn about the market, educate yourself in the app business and put in the effort. Here are my top five resources you need to successfully grow your iPhone app development business
How Affiliates Helped Pablos Farias Become a Udemy Bestseller
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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. podcasts): Pablo performed Google searches for the top blogs in indie game development with HTML5. Instead of looking for any blog on game development, he narrowed his initial search to indie game development with HTML5. Narrow your search to very specific groups of target students.
#NeverStopLearning Course Promotion Checklist (for Instructors)
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 high quality training in web programming. These are just two instructors with campaigns in full swing. Today is the day to join the action. Below, I listed tips, tricks, and scripts you can use today to join the exciting #NeverStopLearning campaign. Consider this your magical Never Stop Learning checklist. It should take you around 2 hours to complete everything. My advice? Spend 1 hour on it today and 1 hour tomorrow.
Course Promotion: How to Get More Students to Never Stop Learning
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Create a coupon code offering your course at a discount or full price called “NeverStopLearning” since that ties into the campaign.
How to Make a Map Today – Everyone is a Cartographer
May 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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.
How YouTube Helped John Purcell Become a Udemy Bestseller
May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk here on the Udemy blog about YouTube…and for good reason. When it comes to promotional channels for your Udemy courses, you have a couple types: 1) Ad Hoc tactics that lead to quick wins 2) Long-term tactics that lead to long tail sales To further clarify, an example of an ad hoc, quick win tactic is the Reddit strategy—where past instructors posted a one-time notice about their courses and attracted hundreds of students from that one post within 24 hours. That’s what you would call a quick win. On the other hand, you have long-term, long tail tactics, such as YouTube. The expectation with YouTube is not that you will post your first video and get 100 students signing up for your course immediately. YouTube is slow and steady, but Udemy Bestseller John Purcell can attest that after investing about a year on YouTube, he’s consistently growing his Udemy course sales month over month. I spoke with John to find out why YouTube is his best channel for attracting new students to his brand and courses.
The Roundup: Instructor Promotion Resources (How to Promote Your Udemy Courses)
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Wondering where you can learn how to promote your Udemy courses? You’ve come to the right place. Below is a list of the resources published on the blog, designed to help you enroll more students into your courses. We will add more links as we publish more resources. Enjoy! How to: Get Record Course Sales Your First 30 Days on Udemy 1,400 students in 2 days—How did Udemy Instructor Justin Mitchel do it? How Slickdeals got an instructor 1,000 students in 3 hours Instructor Story: How Lee Varis became a Udemy Bestseller Market Your Udemy Course on YouTube (6 Easy Steps) How Bogdan Milanovich got 500 new students from Reddit What is Reddit, and how can it help you Promote Your Udemy Course?
Instructor Story: How Lee Varis became a Udemy Bestseller
April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Lee Varis joined Udemy recently and has already joined the ranks as a Udemy Bestseller. I spoke with Lee about why he chooses to publish courses on Udemy and how he got so many students into his course during his first two months. Lee teaches The Fundamentals of Photo-Illustration in Photoshop. Why Udemy? I heard about Udemy from a friend.
1,400 students in 2 days—How did Udemy Instructor Justin Mitchel do it?
April 24, 2013 By 1 Comment
Within just 2 days of publishing his Udemy course, Justin Mitchel is already interacting with over 1,400 students—all presumably enthusiastic about learning to code. I interviewed him to find out exactly what he did to achieve these results, why he’s focused on reach over revenue, and the one thing every instructor can do to attract more students into their courses. How did you get over 1,400 students into your course in 2 days? I receive and read all of the emails from [Udemy] for instructors on course promotion. I read the tip about Reddit and tried it out. I posted in the following subreddits: Python and Startups. As a result, I got over 700 students into my course
Making Games: 7 Myths About Who’s Playing and Creating Video Games!
April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Ever wonder how video games are made or been curious about making games yourself? If so, you’re not alone. You might be surprised who’s making and playing video games nowadays! Myth 1: The Typical Gamer is a Geeky Teenage Boy The entire gaming industry has been turned on it’s head over the past decade with casual gamers overtaking traditional hard core gamers and mobile devices overtaking traditional game consoles. If you imagine the typical average gamer today as being a geeky teenage boy, you’d be completely wrong.
