6000$/Month Online! How To Sell Online Courses (2021)

                       

 I started teaching online and creating  online courses about 3 years ago

and you can see today I have like 78,000 students 

and if you go down you will see I have  like 4 best seller courses on Udemy

and if you take a look on my dashboard here

Go to performance, chart. You  can see I started like May 2017

My first revenue was $18 per month 

Then next month it was $124

Then I kept working until I reached around  $3,000 then $4,000 then $5,000 then $6,000

Then my revenue decline back to  $4,000 $4,500 and $3,000 and so on 

Maybe you are asking why my revenue declined

I will answer this question

Really it didn't decline, I'm still  earning this amount I will show you  

where and how in this short video

Where I will explain  everything about online courses

How to be successful in building  a business with online courses

Everything, my tips, my journey

So stay tuned and follow up

Hi everyone, I'm Hasan from H-educate

I don't want to waste time let's start directly

So the first question is: How to  create a successful online course

Simply we have 5 steps to create an online course

And to build a business with that online course

Number 1 is selecting the topic

Number 2 is planning the course content

Number 3 is recording and editing the videos

Number 4 is publishing the videos or the course

and number 5 simply is  promoting your online course

So these are the 5 main steps  that I will show you now

in front of you a practical example about  a course that I am creating right now

I will show you everything, the tools the tips  everything I do to create an online course

And how to promote it and everything else

So let's go to my Udemy dashboard again

And you will see here in my course section

I have a lot of drafts

You can see all these are draft courses  I am planning to create this year

Anyway I will pick this one YouTube growth  mastery how to grow your YouTube channel, okay

So the first step is to choose the course topic

In my case it's about YouTube growth

How to grow a YouTube channel

Now one tip before you create  a course or publish a course

If you can select a topic with low  competition and you are familiar with

It will be really perfect

How to do content research about topics?

You can simply go here to Udemy

And as an example in my case I want to  create a course about YouTube growth 

So I will search for YouTube growth

This specific keyword and I will search here

And I will see the number of courses available

You can see here if you go to  ratings as an example inside Udemy

By the way if you don't know Udemy it's an online  platform for selling and buying online courses

So it's a courses market place

It's one of the top platforms worldwide

We can see here, 4.5 and up we have 2,000 courses

We can see 4,000 courses here, we have  a lot of courses ranking on this keyword

Or not ranking, I mean under this  keyword 7,400 results for this keyword

So we have a lot of courses under this topic

Do you create one? Or no?

I will answer this question in a little bit

But another tool which is very nice inside Udemy

If you go here to the instructor dashboard

You will see here in the tools section  we have the market place incites

So here you can search for topics

As an example right here YouTube  audience growth, this topic

You can see here some analytics about  this topic YouTube audience growth

So in English language you can see  the number of courses is very high

And the student demand is also very high

But to be successful bring  your "A" game to succeed

So you need to create a special awesome course

Or you have to do some hard  work on promoting your course

And this I will mention in this video today

So these are some tips to search for content

Now I want to give you a simple secret about  my journey when I started creating courses

If you go here to my public profile again  you will see I have this course here

Web server IIS Mastery course

If you go to Udemy again and search  for IIS this topic about web servers

You will see my course is on top of Udemy, why?

Other than it's a best seller course  and its rating is very high and so on

This topic has a very low competition you can  see only 210 results on Udemy about this topic

Not only that, when I published this  course when I started about this topic

I was the only teacher or the only  instructor on Udemy teaching this topic

So it was very low competition when I started

So if you can find a topic with  low competition it will be perfect

If you can't it's okay you  can still create the course

but you will have to do some  work on promoting it later on  

as I will explain in a little bit in this video

Okay so we picked up the topic then  the 2nd step is to plan the course

What you are going to mention in this  course the curriculum of this course

If you go here and click on my draft now

Here is the draft of this  course I am creating right now

If you go here to the curriculum section

You will see I plan the full course

Section 1 what I will cover in

Section 2 what I will cover in

Section 3 you can see all these topics  in this course are included step by step 

Up to 50 lectures everything is planned

I know in each lecture what I will talk  about everything if I have some links to add 

If I want to mention some  notes, I write them down here 

You can see in the description  section, you can add description here 

And write whatever you want  in this curriculum section

So not to miss anything when you start  publishing or simply recording your videos

Okay so the 2nd step is to plan your video

I know I am going somehow fast I  want to make this video somehow short

And if you are interested in creating  full courses about this topic

I will be more than happy to create one  you can mention this in the comments below

Anyway so after you plan your  course you go and start recording it 

How to record your courses?

In my case I use Camtasia studio

Now I am recording this video with Camtasia studio

You can see this is my first  part of the video recorded

Here I record and edit the videos

And what's nice about Camtasia studio

You can record both the  screen and the webcam together

You can see here the webcam and  the screen now is being recorded

So if you are creating tutorial videos it  will be a perfect application to record  

and edit your videos

It's so simple, easy to use and you  can record your videos really easily

And if you like to learn more about Camtasia

If you like me to create a full course  about Camtasia studio here on my channel

Please also mention in the comments below

So I know that you are interested and I  will create a full course about it very soon

Okay so number 3 is recording  your video and editing it

Now I want to mention some tips

When you record your videos you know sometimes  I add some effects to the videos and so on

I want to give you some examples

If you go here to my online courses and  this is the course I am creating right now

If you go here as an example  to section 2 introduction

Let's open this video I will open it

So this section 2 introduction you will  see now in the video I have some effects

This one, these images from  where I got these images?

Simply I used Canva, if you go here to canva.com

Which I think is one of the best  applications worldwide really it's perfect

You can go here create a design as  an example custom size I say 500x500

And here what's nice about  Canva it has a lot of elements

As an example I want to get a search icon

I say search here I get this as an example

And then you can simply download as png with  transparent background and use in your videos

I do this a lot in my videos

Also I use VideoBlocks to get  stock videos and use in my courses

As an example if you go here to  section 2 I think this video let's see

Yes you can see here in the  video, you can see this one here

This is a stock video I got from StoryBlocks

Also you can use this website to get  stock videos and use in your websites

We have a lot of also free ones  like Pixels I think pixels.com

You can see here videos section

You can search here or simply go down and  select a video and download it and that's it

Okay so mainly I use Camtasia  studio StoryBlocks and Canva

To create everything about my  courses and videos also on YouTube

Now we have step number 4  which is publishing the course

Simply I publish the course  on YouTube the 1st platform

I simply go here and create a new  course and start publishing it

I will not cover this now it's somehow simple

You select a course and go continue and  start publishing the lectures and videos

Now what I do also and what I started  lately this year or like last year 

Is I created my academy my own academy

You can see academy.h-educate.com and I started  publishing my courses here on my academy

If you go here to my dashboard you will see  here my earnings for the last couple of months

So if you are wondering and asking  why my revenue declined on Udemy 

If you go here to performance  and go here again to all time If you are asking why my revenue declined here

It's simply because my own promotion  now is going to the academy 

So the difference here is what I  am earning inside my academy now So my revenue is splitting now  between my academy and Udemy

We have Udemy organic traffic and we  have my own promotion to my academy 

So this is why my revenue is  split between both platforms Also this month I started  publishing my courses on Skillshare I want to test this platform and see how it works

So I published my WordPress course on  Skillshare to see how things will go 

So mainly to publish the course  you will publish on Udemy Sorry here on Udemy, you  can create your own academy

If you are asking or wondering  how I created this academy

I am using simply Thinkific platform

Thinkific simply if you go  here search for Thinkific

It's a service that allows you to create  market and sell your online courses

Also have Teachable if you want you can use it  it's also a great place to create your courses

Teachable.com you can go and compare them

By the way I used both and both are really  great they have all the features and services

and tools that will help you  create your courses, market them

host them and do everything you  want to start your own academy

So this is about publishing your courses

Now the last step is promoting your courses

If you go back here to the char  you can see the first month

I earned only $18

if you go back to my courses I want  to show you this it's really funny

If you go down here to my first  courses now it's unpublished of course

It was somehow low quality it's  my first experience that time

If you go here yes this one, this  is my first course on the platform

It's about programming and application security

I remember when I published this course  the first day I earned $12 the first day

So I thought about it oh I got from  the 1st day $12 so it will be a great  

place to publish more courses

So I started creating more and more  courses like this one this one this one

But my revenue was still low, let's go  back to performance you will see here

It's only like $100 $75 $100 $83 it's nothing

So at that time I knew that  I have to do something else

Not only publishing courses  I have to promote the courses

This is why step number 5 is  really very very very important

You have to promote and grow  your courses by yourself

Especially today because we  have a lot of competition

So even if a topic has a  lot of competition you can  

still go through it if you  promote your own courses

Using your own platforms using your own audience

So at that moment I realized that YouTube  will be a great place to start with

So I started my YouTube channel  you can see here my YouTube channel

And started creating videos  related to my own courses

And today I have like 180,000  subscribers on my channel

So it's a good audience base to promote  any course I want when I publish it

And by the way by the way just memorize this also

You don't have or you don't need to say  in your videos in your YouTube videos

Hey I have a course go and check it!

You don't need to say this, just create quality  content, give value to people on your channel

on your social media, wherever you want

And people believe me people will come  and ask you about your premium courses

Will ask you how we can buy your course believe me

This is what will happen when you  give value on your YouTube channel 

or your other websites or whatever

So it's very important to grow  outside Udemy or outside your academy 

You have to grow by yourself

Create a YouTube channel,  create videos about your topics

Build your email lists, you can create a blog  as I do I have a blog where I publish topics

Also related to my courses so anyone  reading my posts and liked my posts

They will also love to join my premium  courses and learn more in detail and so on 

So create a blog, a YouTube channel, build  your email list, build your social profiles

Try to build audience outside  Udemy and your academy

and then you will see how  you will be successful online

Please go to my YouTube  channel and go to my playlists

You will find here the digital  marketing playlist, where is it

Here we are digital marketing playlist

I explained somehow in detail how to grow  from 0 in detail how to build audience

How to market your courses how to market  any product how to build your email list

And much much more so this is  about creating online courses

and being successful creating online courses

I tried my best to mention  everything as fast as I can

I mentioned all the topics, the important topics

Please if you like me to create a full course  about this topic in detail step by step

Please comment down below and I will be  more than happy to create a full free course

here on my channel

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