In the Online education marketplace, quality rises to the top.  You want to know how courses with massive enrollments happen? Well, people aren’t fools. Nobody buys lemons anymore. To have thousands of students enrolled in your course, it has to be REALLY good – that means easy to listen to, easy to follow, and easy enough to watch for hours. And how do you do that for technical training? Quality screencasting is the currency of the realm for pretty much every technology training, so you’d better be sure you’re creating the best recordings possible

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Screencasting Checklist: How to Record Like A Pro

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More and more people are starting to get tired of paying up to 50,000 dollars a year for a quality education. Employers are starting to stop caring about degrees. All they care about now is skills, skills, skills! After all, what’s the use of learning (and paying for) philosophy in college if all you want is to be a programmer? Fortunately for you, there are many ways available online or offline where you skip paying high fees for a teacher, and you just teach yourself everything you need to know to get a job. Or, if you already have one, maybe you could use a new skill or two without classes 5 days a week

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Self-Learning: The New Master’s Degree [Infographic]

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Before We Get Started…… I just want to provide you all with a quick background of myself (my mother taught me good introductions go a long way!) My name is Linos Owusu-Asare, my family originates from Ghana (in a city you may have not heard of called Kumasi) but I lived in England (in another city you may have not heard of called London J ) my entire pre-adult life, before coming to Philadelphia to study at Penn (go Quakers!) for my undergrad degree. I would say that I am a pretty diverse person (how many people do you know can realistically fit three continents into their introductory sentence?!) and I have been given the great opportunity this summer to intern at Udemy. Their mission for the future of online education, the passion they have for their work, and the great community they have with each other are just three of the reasons why I am privileged to be working with Udemy and their staff to help change the online education space, one user at a time! If you want to get in further contact with me, feel free to e-mail me linos@udemy.com, or find me on Facebook/Skype/all over the internet Day 1 – Home @ the Ud House (5/10) First official day on the job.  (Side note: Came in yesterday even though I was due to start tomorrow, just because I was so excited to meet the team. Further side note: After meeting the team that excitement was definitely warranted!).

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Last week, I attended Elite Retreat 9 in San Francsico. The event was put on by Shoemoney Media Inc, and took place at the Clift Hotel. Jeremy Schoemaker, founder of Shoemoney Media, likes to describe the event as the conference you always wished you could go to but never seemed to find, and I couldn’t agree more! Some of the top tech minds in the country came together to learn from one another, make meaningful connections, and of course have some fun. I was lucky enough to have a chance to attend, and learned from some of the industries leading minds. Speakers at ER9 included: Jeremy Schoemaker, founder of Shoemoney Media Inc David Greenbaum, CEO of BoostCTR Tim Mayer, VP of Marketing at ShopAtHome.com Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc Isaac Saldana, President and Co-Founder of SendGrid Toren Ajk, Founder & CEO of Tapation Dave Snyder, CEO of SteelCast Vik Duggal, VP of Revenue and Operations at ReTargeter The overarching point of similarity between speakers and attendees was PASSION

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Passion: A Common Theme at Elite Retreat 9, San Francisco

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Twitter 2012 Facts And Stats

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“Often the biggest results come from the smallest actions.

Take Twitter hashtags, for example…

The concept itself is deceptively simple; just add the “#” symbol in front of a word or a group of words with the spaces between them taken out.

This tiny bit of detail lets Twitter organically categorize your tweets, as well as anyone else’s, that make use of the exact same hashtag. In a very big way, it is the 140-character equivalent of assigning keyword tags to documents and blog posts.

Just as anyone searching for content about a specific keyword gets pointed toward the articles containing that keyword, anyone searching on a hashtag gets a listing of tweets containing that hashtag. Reflect on that for a moment, for therein lies the power of the humble hashtag.

By including a relevant hashtag in your tweet, it becomes visible to people searching for that specific topic, adding your voice to the general discussion. Conversely, hashtags automatically narrow down your audience, allowing your tweets to reach and engage only those interested in the same subject matter.”

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In my article titled, 10 Tips for Split Testing Email Campaigns, I touched upon “Calls-to-Action (CTAs).” In ‘email marketing, as well as online marketing. There are a number of important elements associated with CTAs you can optimize to improve your click through rates (CTRs) and responses, or get your subscribers and visitors to engage in some other meaningful way. These include the words you use to issue the commands (actions), their physical appearance (color, design and scale), and placement (location, location, location). In this article I’m going to discuss how to create effective CTAs to grab the attention of your subscribers and prospects, and provide some examples of effective calls to action. Best Practices for Effective Email Calls to Action CTAs are one of the most useful tools in guiding your subscribers to take immediate action or leading your subscribers to the next step. In an email, the CTA can be hyperlinked text, a clickable button or image that solicits a desired action from a reader and then redirects them to a landing page that provides additional information. It’s an easy way to interact directly with subscribers and prospects and promote engagement with the content of your email to help extend your interaction with subscribers beyond their inbox (e.g., while they are visiting your website and blog, engaging with you via social media, etc.).

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Almost anyone can learn how to make a website. Software programs that create the code for the user have turned what used to be a complex process into a simple task that even a child can master. However, just because you can make a website doesn’t guarantee that your website will be easy to read or interesting for the reader. Fortunately, with a few simple techniques, you can make your website content engaging. Break up Content Studies show that people read information differently on the web than they do in print. For example, website users only tend to read small amounts of information at a time, and they are less likely to read all of the information. For this reason, experts call the web a “non-sticky medium,” meaning that readers won’t stick around to read every last sentence, especially if the information is poorly organized or if there is too much text on a page.

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Miguel Hernandez, Udemy instructor and CEO of Grumo Media, had 100 subscribers to his new course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, within 48 hours! Here’s how he did it:  “As soon as I finished my course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, I decided to test the theory of providing incentives to users and creating a sense urgency.  This is the first time I’ve used this approach, and my experience has validated that it works. Basically, I used the same techniques that Groupon uses.  Through my classes and business contacts I collected student e-mails, facebook, twitter etc.  But the FIRST people I reached out to were the students enrolled in my other courses.  As soon as I finished the course: I made a course announcement to all the people taking my demo video course and sent an email to 500 people on my email list. I told them “Because you’re an existing student I’ll give you a really juicy discount of 75% off,AND it’s a limited time offer AND there’s only 100 left.” That really enticed people to go out and get the course.

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Buzz Master: Miguel Hernandez hits 100 users in 48 hrs with new course. Learn how he did it.

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Ever since YouTube first launched its groundbreaking site back in 2005, the buzz online has been about – how video has been changing the face of the Internet. Yet while millions have posted video clips to this and other video portals, many website owners still haven’t figured out the connection between online video and online success. With the low cost of entry into this multi-media promotional extravaganza, there are a number of ways that any business owner can use video to give their website the Hollywood blockbuster treatment. When It Comes to Video, Size Matters In the first place, if you want to create online videos that people will want to watch and pass along to their friends and family, the first thing you have to understand is that when it comes to riveting online video, less is more. This means that you don’t have to shoot a feature film or documentary to make the scene with online viewers. In fact, if you have spent any time on YouTube, you will quickly come to find that most of the clips that generate the highest clickthrough are only one to three minutes long.

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Give Your Website the Hollywood Blockbuster Treatment

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