Udemy is a great place to create online training courses and sell them for free. For each sale you make, you get 50% of the commission. One of the factors that determines how many sales you get is how many reviews your training course has. A training course with 1 review gets less sales than a training course with 30 reviews. If you want your training course to get more sales, the people who land on the sales page need to be enticed to buy your training course. Having a lot of reviews is a great way to get more sales.
This strategy to getting more reviews for your Udemy course almost never fails. All you need to do is find other training courses that are similar to yours. Then, contact all of the people who left 4-5 star reviews for that training course. When contacting someone through this method, tell them
- How you found them (the name of the training course)
- If they are interested in getting your training course for free in exchange for an honest review.
That’s all you have to do to get more reviews on Udemy. If your Udemy course already has students, give the first 25 people who review your course a free coupon to another one of your courses. Unlike selling a physical product, giving a training course away for free will not cost you money. As you get more reviews, more people will buy your training course.
One of the great things about Udemy is that the average review is 4.1 stars. That means you just need to get a quantity of views, and by the definition of average, you should mostly end up with 4-5 star reviews. A big quantity of positive reviews will give customers a strong reason to buy your training course.
By getting more people to review your training courses, more people will end up buying your training course. Giving 50 people your training course for free in exchange for 50 five star reviews can lead to over 100 sales that you may have never had.
Nice post – but how do you get the emails of other udemy students doing similar courses, udemy doesn’t seem to support this?
Getting your students’ email addresses is a challenge. I don’t like getting barred from that access, but my thinking is that too many people would then think of Udemy as a way to get the students’ email addresses instead of actually interacting with the students.
With that said, the best way to get some of your students’ email addresses is to lead them to your blog and have a CTA that invites them to enter their email address. I now use a welcome mat that greets every visitor and entices that visitor to enter his/her email address. Udemy students will see this welcome mat too and that’s okay with Udemy’s rules.