You’ve just published your Udemy course, it’s passed the Udemy review process and it’s LIVE! Now what!?
This a challenge many new instructors face. How to get your online course out in front of prospective students.
Once you have two or more related courses it’s a little easier because you can promote your courses to your existing students.
But what if you don’t have any students to promote to?
A great place to start is with family and friends. Send them a free coupon and ask that they go through the course and leave you a review. Social proof is very important when it comes to promoting and marketing your course.
There are many channels available for offering your course for free to build up student numbers, and there are a number of very good, comprehensive courses on Udemy on where to find these sites. I personally know of approximately 50 sites where you can promote free and discounted courses – way too many to go into here 🙂
Many believe the best place to start is the Udemy Studio Facebook group.
The Udemy Studio Facebook group has stringent guild-lines on how coupons must be posted and this video will take you through the process, step-by-step.
You can only post free coupons to the group and you cannot blatantly ask for reviews.
This is a good place to promote your course because chances are other Udemy instructors will take up your coupon offer, complete the course and leave you a review. We all know how important reviews are and will happily give a good review if we feel the course warrants it.
It should also be noted that if you post the full link to your free coupon in the Udemy Studio it could very well end up on other sites. People watch the group for new coupon offering and post into other coupon sites such as Best Black Hat Forum.
This isn’t bad as it gets your course offering out to a broader audience. If, however, you don’t want your coupon code posted all over the internet you can request that members of the Udemy Studio send you a personal message requesting the link.
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