In this video I introduce the course and explain the six steps we are going to take together in order for you to discover how to become a successful Udemy Affiliate marketer.
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As I said this is not a get rich quick scheme. In this lecture I show you exactly how much I have made through my Udemy Affiliate marketing. The best news is that as I have created this system, I am doing far less work every day on the process and making more money. That is why I wanted to put this course together!
In this audio interview, Mark Timberlake interviewed me about Udemy Affiliate Marketing. It has lots of actionable great tips in it which you can use.
I have made this previewable so that you can get a real flavour of my approach to Udemy affiiiiate marketing and decide if this course is going to help you.
Are you struggling with your online courses, your affiliate business or anything else Udemy related? Watch this video to see if I can help?
Lets get started with the course. This lecture is a brief introduction to the section. I want to give you a heads up on what is coming in this section and what you need to focus on.
When I started out I did not know anything about affiliate marketing or how to sell affiliate courses online. Nonetheless in the first six months I managed to sell over $700 of courses through the affiliate scheme which nicely complemented my earnings from my Udemy courses sales. It was all a bit hit and miss and now I do things in a much more organised and process driven way as I am going to show you. But take inspiration from my story, you can do it too!
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
If you are just starting on Udemy, then the easiest place to start is with an Affiliate account. While you are creating your first course, make some money selling other peoples' courses. You are not going to get rich doing this but you will make some useful money which will help you to fund the costs of making your courses, particularly software and equipment.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
The first step is to sign up for a Udemy Affiliate Account with Ratuken Linkshare who run Udemy's affiliate programme. This is relatively straightforward but make sure that you do it as comprehensively as possible as not all applicants are accepted. I explain exactly what you need to do as well as some of the details you need to know about the programme itself.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
To create an affiliate link you need three components: A course URL, a coupon code and then you need to process these two through the Linkshare system to create the third: the affiliate link itself. Once you have done that you end up with a very long link indeed which is, for all practical purposes, useless. The final step is then to use a link shortener to create a short link that you can work with.
Note: the coupon codes have to be created by the instructor who created the course or by Udemy. You cannot attach random coupon codes to random courses. It will have no effect and when someone tries to purchase the course with an invalid coupon code it will tell them that the coupon is not valid.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.This is a quick round up of the main points covered by this section including a brief check list of the major points you need to have grasped before moving on to the next section.
This section will help you to discover how to find courses to promote. The key factor you must take on board is that you have to be sure that the coupons you are promoting are valid. You will discover where you can find great valid coupons, the benefits of going direct to instructors as well as some excellent Facebook groups where you can interact with instructors as well as obtain valid coupons to promote.
When I started I did not know any instructors or where I was going to get discount coupons from. This was the original reason that I started the Online Learning Podcast - it gave me a reason to have a weekly conversation with a Udemy instructor who then was happy for me to promote his courses with exclusive coupon codes through the affiliate programme. Thats why I started the podcast and how I came to meet all these amazing instructors - the rest is history
Note: If an instructor creates a coupon code for you, you can be reasonably confident that it is valid. If you find a coupon code on a facebook group it is worth trying it out in the first instance to see if it works and secondly, going back to the original instructor who created it and asking them how many coupons are left and when they expire. While you are doing this, why not ask for your own exclusive coupons?
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Finding courses to sell is easy but what you need is courses to sell with a discount coupon. This is not as difficult as it once was as there are now several Facebook groups where you can find courses with coupon codes posted by the instructors who are seeking affiliates to sell them on their behalf. Don't rule out approaching Instructors directly and don't forget that Udemy itself regularly runs promotions and you can bring these into your affiliate programme too.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
There a number of Facebook groups where you can find coupon codes to promote. In this lecture I take you through 8 such groups (new ones are being created all the time so definitely go out and do your own search on Facebook) to help you get started finding courses to promote.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
So what have you discovered in this Section?
- The importance of valid coupon codes is fundemental
- The best place to get valid codes is direct from instructors
If you take an indirect route, you can find code on Coupon Code sites but my preference is to steer you towards Udemy related Facebook groups and I introduce you to eight where you can find instructors and their courses.
This video introduces the next major topic which is centred around establishing good relationships with Udemy instructors. These are, after all, the guys who are creating the courses and working with the best of them will be at the centre of your successful Udemy affiliate business. I am providing you with extensive data on the Instructors with the most courses, most students and most reviews to enable you to research and identify your best future partners.
My relationships with Udemy instructors has meant more to me than just a source of great coupon codes. Through my interviews for my Online Learning Podcast, I have met dozens of them and learned a great deal about creating great courses from them. Its like having an extended mentor group. I encourage you to create your own network of fellow instructors, perhaps a mastermind group, so that you can share ideas and learn together.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
As part of my Master Udemy Course, I have a detailed database which I update periodically of the Udemy market place. This enables me to take a very detailed and analytical approach to Udemy when necessary. In this case I am able to identify the most successful Instructors in Udemy and these are the people I want to be working with in my affiliate business.
I have also interviewed them on my Online Learning Podcast which you can find here as a course on Udemy - just do a search as I cannot provide a link here.
The next three lectures provide 3 data sets for you:
- Courses with the most reviews
- Instructors with the most students; and
- Instructors with the most courses
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Update: following a helpful student comment (thanks Rob!) I have included the three excel zipped files as resources here as well - belt and braces to make sure you can find them!
In the following lecture, Developing Relationships with Best Selling Udemy Instructors, I also share a large data set which covers every course which comes up on page 1 of Udemy's category and sub-category pages.
These data sets should provide you with the information you need to identify the best instructors to work with for your affiliate business.
Update: 23 Feb 2015 I have also added two jpegs to the additional resources which are two of the images showing the top instructors and the courses with the most students to the additional resources for this lecture.
This lecture contains a zipped excel spreadsheet extracted from my Udemy Database of the Udemy Courses with the most reviews. You can use this to evaluate which courses you might like to promote.
This lecture contains a zipped excel spreadsheet extracted from my Udemy Database of the Udemy Instructors with the most students. You can use this to evaluate which courses you might like to promote.
This lecture contains a zipped excel spreadsheet extracted from my Udemy Database of the Udemy Instructors with the most courses. You can use this to evaluate which courses you might like to promote.
In this lecture I explain the importance of reaching out to the most successful instructors in your niche so that you can promote courses with the highest chance of getting sales. To help you to do this I have provided you with an excel spreadsheet and a Visokio IOK file of the instructors
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
You will find a .zip file in the additional resources section of this lecture which is downloadable. It contains the Excel spreadsheet file which contains the records of 1,332 best selling/most popular courses in the Udemy market place. These are the courses that appear on Page 1 of search for their categories and sub-categories. You can use this spreadsheet to identify the best instructors for you to reach out to with a view to promoting their courses in your affiliate business.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
This lecture explains how you can download the free Visokio Data Visualisation Software Reader from the Visokio website. Using the .iok file provided in the next lecture, you will be able to do your own analysis of the best Udemy Instructors to reach out to.
You will find a .zip file in the additional resources section of this lecture which is downloadable. It contains the Visokio.iok file which contains the records of 1,332 best selling/most popular courses in the Udemy market place. These are the courses that appear on Page 1 of search for their categories and sub-categories. Follow the instructions in the preceeding lecture for downloading the free visokio reader from their website and you can discover how to to do your own data analysis.
In this section we have discovered who are the most successful instructors on Udemy and why you should want to partner with these instructors. You have the data to identify the instructors you want to work with and whose topics best suit you and your audience.
In this topic you will discover how to put together a campaign, how to craft a message and the importance of hashtags. I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to spend time on your campaign messages and to get them right first time.
Then you will discover how to use social media tool Hootsuite to schedule your messages both manually and using the bulk messaging tool. It is this facility which brings scale efficiencies to the system.
When I started by Udemy affiliate business I had no idea about the importance of constructing messages correctly. I did not know the importance of hashtags for example. I have slowly learned about the importance of creating carefully crafted messages and I wanted to make sure that you benefit from my learning experience to fast track you and save you masses of time and wasted messages
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
The difference between an effective message and an ineffective message is how you write it and what it includes. This lecture explains the core components that you need to try to squeeze into your message in order for it to have maximum impact.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
This lecture discusses the difficult subject of how often to post on which platforms and at what time of day. This is important to get right otherwise you will get marked as a spammer and in the worst case your account will be closed.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Hootsuite is my social media management tool of choice for this task. No affiliate links here! In this lecture I show you how to manually schedule one message using Hootsuite so that if you chose to use the free version of the programme which does not include bulk scheduling you know what to do.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
You are going to be creating a lot of these and its really very simple. All you need to do is create a three column CSV or comma separated values file which I explain in detail here. You will also find a blank file, zipped, in the additional resources section of this lecture which you can download and use straight away!
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Once you have created your CSV file it is the work of a few minutes to go into Hootsuite to use the bulk uploader to schedule that campaign. This lecture takes you through that process and then I provide a screen cast demonstration of exactly how to do it.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
I created this lecture as a result of a question asked in the Online Learning Club by Daniel. This takes you through the step by step process for adding images to tweets that you want to schedule
Watch the video and come and join the Club!
In this section you discovered how to craft effective messages and how to incorporate hashtags to help your messages to be found in social media. Then I introduced you to the social media tool, Hootsuite, so that you can schedule your messages and campaigns ahead of time, both manually and using the bulk messaging tool.
Lets take a time out - I would love to get your feedback on the course - start a discussion or message me.
This would also be a great time for you to help out other students by telling them what you think about the course - why not leave a rating and review now? You can always go back and edit it at any time later if you wish.
The Promotional Campaign is at the core of this system and I would like to offer you the opportunity to submit your 3 column CSV files to me for evaluation. Maximum 100 rows. I will take a look at how you have put them together and give you feedback on how I think you can improve them.
Creating campaigns and scheduling hundreds of messages can create a real management headache so in this section I want to introduce you to the system I have created for managing my campaigns and the entire affiliate business system.
I run this with three spreadsheets, all provided for you. A Posting Times spreadsheet, a Scheduled Posting spreadsheet and a Campaign Library spreadsheet. I will then show you how to use my system to make your affiliate business very efficient.
I really enjoy selling through the Udemy affiliate scheme but it can be a very time consuming process. One day I realised that while I was earning 20% of my Udemy income from the Affiliate programme, I was spending 80% of my time on it. I should have been spending 80% of my time creating courses. Something had to change. So I set about creating automated processes and systems to make my affiliate marketing much more efficient and much less time consuming. I made this course to help you avoid this time trap.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
This is the key secret sauce to this whole course and I thought it would be helpful to explain how the automation process works before taking you through it step by step. This is the core of the course and if you can successfully implement this your affiliate marketing of Udemy courses will be reduced to a daily task taking minutes and not hours leaving you free to work on other tasks such as creating your own courses.
In the additional resources section of this lecture you will find a zipped Excel spreadsheet which is the Times Spreadsheet that I use for changing the times when I want to reschedule a campaign. This is the spreadsheet that is featured in the demonstration in the previous lecture.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
The secret to managing the automation of posting times is to have a spreadsheet prepopulated with every permuatation of date/time and frequency that you are going to need. Making an update is simply then a case of selecting the range of values that you wish to use and pasting them into your campaign. In this lecture I explain how this works and in the subsequent lecture provide you with the spreadsheet itself so that you do not need to reinvent the wheel.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Once you have a library of campaigns set up and the Times Spreadsheet that I am providing you with, it is the work of seconds to bring any campaign right up to date and ready for re-publication in another promotion. This lecture explains how you can do this and provides an actual screenshot demonstration to show how easy it is.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
This is one of the core lectures in this entire course. You need to record which campaigns are scheduled when and to which channels and this must be done on a daily basis. This enables you to see at a glance where you are day to day and as a consequence be able to judge what is working and what is not when you see the sales come through.
This lecture also included a zipped excel file in the additional resources which is the template I show you in the lecture. This means you can get up and running straight away.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
This library is where you keep a record of all the campaigns you have created, when you scheduled the messages, which days the messages went out on and the channels you promoted through. This enables you to go back and find campaigns which you may have created some weeks before and may have forgotten about. It also gives you a very useful overview of your scheduling on a campaign, channel and day by day basis.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
In this lecture I want to bring together a demonstration of how to use the Affiliate Marketing system I have devised, combining the Campaign messages, scheduling in Hootsuite and using the Scheduled Posting and Campaign Library spreadsheets. This takes you through each step and then shows you in a screencast how to do it. Don't forget the PDF is available as a download below.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
How to Create an Affiliate Campaign from a Udemy Promotion
Udemy regularly runs promotions for groups of courses and these are great sources of codes and discounts. I show you how to find a promotion and then capture the information and create a campaign for your social media channels.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
In this section we have pulled our skills together to use them in a simple system which enables us to run a scalable affiliate business which takes up only a few minutes a day.
I have introduced you to (and given you) my three controlling spreadsheets which I use to run my affiliate business. With these I always know what I have posted, when, how often, how many messages, through which social media channels, for which campaigns.
This section deals with Social Media channels and to start with I just want to focus on Twitter, which I use for 90% of my affiliate business marketing.
You will discover how to quickly establish a Twitter channel or more than one and how to scale it. You will discover how easy it is to use your smart phone Twitter app on a daily basis to grow your followers and not get swamped by people who do not follow you back (and why this is important)
I must have spent hours unproductively on Social Media - its a very seductive and non productive medium. Please don't make the same mistake. Treat Social Media as a tool. It is a channel to your potential customers. Focus on it and do not get sucked into browsing, messaging and friending un productively - like I did!
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Twitter is a fantastic channel for promoting courses and done the right way you can grow this channel very quickly. I have experimented with the best way to do this and share with you what I have discovered and the techniques I am using today to get my Twitter accounts growing as fast as possible.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
My iPhone Twitter App is an excellent free tool for managing your Twitter accounts and implementing some of the techniques outlined in the previous lecture. Through the power of the Mac, I show you what I do with the App - and these are things you can do every day when you are out and about and have a spare five minutes!
You have now discovered how to become an effective presence on Twitter where I recommend you focus all your marketing efforts to start with. As Twitter is a conversation rather than a full blown relationship platform, it is much quicker and easier to build a following and thereby grow your affiliate marketing business.
In this wide ranging conversation with Dennis J Smith, we discuss what is working for Udemy Course promotions including a number of aspects of affiliate marketing of Udemy courses.
I hope this will give you fresh ideas about how to market your Udemy courses and help you understand what is working for us at the moment.
Now you are ready to create your Affiliate business! Congratulations. In this lecture I summarise briefly what we have covered in the course and share with you how you can contact me if you have any questions.
There is a downloadable PDF of the Slidedeck from this lecture which you can find in the Additional Resources section. Click on the blue "View Resources" button at the top right hand corner of the page.
Download this PDF and gain access to valid coupon codes for 10 of my Udemy courses. All you need to do is to put the course links with the coupon codes attached through the deep linking system in Linkshare and then use a url shortener such as the one in Hootsuite to shorten the links for use in your promotional campaigns.
This lecture contains a downloadable PDF which is a simple check list for all the major points taught throughout this course. I hope it will help you to understand the structure and content of the course better.
I have been asked several times how do you leave a rating and a review. I thought it would be a good idea to create a short video to explain. Its very simple but very helpful to new students, to the courses ranking in Udemy and to me as it makes my day! Please consider leaving one when you have completed more than 50% of the course.
Before you go, I would like to show my appreciation to you for taking this course. In the attached and downloadable PDF you will find exclusive offers for all my courses as well as more great ways that we can engage together. So grab the PDF and find your next course right away!
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