What is your relationship with Udemy? I sound kind of like a minister. It sounds overdrawn, overblown. But it really is important to think about your relationship with Udemy. Udemy has become bigger, more powerful, more dominant. And I find it's like a lot of relationships in life.

If you ignore it, it will ignore you. If you nurture it, spend time with it, communicate with it, it will grow and build. I have found that if I spend time in Udemy, improving courses, adding elements, responding faster to people who leave reviews, even the ones that are not glowing, if you respond to people's questions faster, if you occasionally send out free promo coupons to friends and supporters, all of these things help build a relationship. Now I'm not a master on how all the algorithms that you're going to be working And I'm not holding myself and certainly I'm not affiliated with you to me in any way other than like you, just an instructor that anyone can be. But what I can tell you is, it is a relationship. Relationships take time.

There are jealousies. So for a long time, and I'll talk about in another lecture, I tried to essentially play the field. I wrote about 150 online training platforms. And after a while a bunch of them started approaching me too. So I think I'm on about 50 platforms, most of them, the vast majority of them. They give you about that much every month.

There are a few that do a little but Udemy is there for me. Udemy provides the largest amount, month in month out of income revenues and sales. I have many many thousands of sales every year on Udemy Sometimes approaching 1000 sales in one month. So you simply don't get that from most other course platforms. If you can find others, that's great. But if you're perhaps a knucklehead or have any sort of in competencies or any weak links, my advice, nail the relationship with you to me first.

If you're wildly successful, and you're making tons of money, and you've got students coming in from everywhere, sure, try other platforms. Try your own platform. We'll talk about that later. But first and foremost, get your relationship right with you to be what all does that mean? It means actually looking at their emails that they sent I, I put the Udemy emails into my spam folder. Idiot so you miss things when they're new innovations you you miss announcements about new courses.

So because I missed announcements on other courses on how to make better online courses, As I missed tips, like the fact that you can sell other things in your final bonus lecture, and I missed tips from other experts on how to get more reviews and get better reviews, because the standard practice is or the best practice is early on your course, just ask people, which I want you to do right now, by the way, rate, the course give me feedback. If you think there's something about this course that needs to be improved. Don't leave it on the rating. Now send me a direct message. That way I can try to improve the course. If you think the course couldn't be better, then go ahead and leave the appropriate score and rating right now.

So that's a perfect example of little things you do, but it can make a huge, huge difference because the difference between a course that has a 4.1 rating and a four point five rating could be wildly substantial in terms of 10s of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue over a several year period. So it really behooves you to get the most ratings possible and get the best ratings possible. So part of that is simply asking what I just did there relatively early in the course. And asking people to contact you first and not just trash you in the reviews. And by the way, I hope I've been very upfront with you about what this course is, it's not the course where you're going to learn everything about the best camera and the best green screen and the best microphone because there's a zillion courses out there that give better information on that than I do.

This is not a course that's going to have the most interactive quizzes and fancy graphics. You're not hearing a lot of special effects. You're not hearing seeing a lot of graphic ethics. This is me sharing my experiences of blunders so that you don't make them and your own online course creation career can be faster and more profitable earlier than mine was. That's what it is. So, take a moment if you haven't done the evaluation yet and you've been given the option to rate, go ahead and rate if it's not, in your view, perfect.

Send me a message. also realize you can also go back at any point and change your evaluation to make it lower or higher. Either way, as you see it