Generating Ideas For Successful Udemy Courses
Unfortunately there are thousands of courses on Udemy that have made very few sales and some that have not made any sales at all. You have to create courses that people want to be successful on Udemy. In this article we will explain how you can generate some great ideas for Udemy courses.
Identify your Passions and Interests
We recommend that you spend some time generating an ideas list. The first thing to do is to write down a list of things that you are passionate about or you have an interest in. Don’t make any judgments at this stage – just write everything on your list.
The reason that this is so important is that creating a Udemy course will be so much easier if you are really interested in the subject matter. Not only that but your passion for the subject will shine through and your students will pick up on this.
Look at what is Selling Elsewhere
If you do not have many ideas on your list then you can take a look at some other websites to generate more ideas. There are a number of successful websites that sell products and services every day that will help you here.
Amazon.com is the world’s largest online retailer. They have a very large book section where you can look at all of the different categories and get more ideas for your Udemy course. Look at the nonfiction books that are selling the best.
The world’s largest marketplace for digital products is Clickbank.com. You can take a look at the various categories and sub categories there and also look at individual products. Use their “gravity” system to find the products that have the highest sales.
In this digital world that we live in it is amazing that people are still subscribing to magazines but they do this. Go over to Magazines.com and see which publications are selling the best. You will get plenty of ideas for course subjects here.
One of the most popular book series for learning how to do thing is the “Dummies” brand. They have the Dummies Guide to hundreds of popular subjects available. So go over to Dummies.com and take a look at their categories and find out which books are the most popular so that you can add some more ideas to your list.
YouTube
YouTube.com is the largest video website by far in the world. There are thousands of videos uploaded each day and some of the channels on their have millions of subscribers with individual videos with thousands and even millions of views.
Spend some time on YouTube and find out which videos are the most popular that would lend themselves to become Udemy courses. Look for videos that show how to do things and add the most popular subjects to your ideas list.
Look on Udemy for Ideas
You can search for courses on Udemy to see which are the most popular. There are courses on many different subjects and you can see how successful they are by the number of students enrolled and the number of reviews that they have.
Once you have created your list of ideas for a Udemy course you will need to validate them to see which are the best. We will explain the best ways to do this in a future article.
