regressiveparty

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by regressiveparty 5y ago
They left a long time ago, and the company has raised a metric boatload of capital in the meantime.
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
Like Amazon, there is a ton of crap but also some real diamonds in the rough. The fact that you can take a $15,000 bootcamp from General Assembly OR a $15 Udemy course taught by the same bootcamp instructor teaching the exact same lesson pl
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
Everyone in the space has a different take on the best way to present online courses. Udemy is the wild west market approach. They let anyone make a course, and let the algorithm sort out whats worthwhile and what's not. That means you
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
For big categories, less than 5% of total sales comes from search traffic so if they're primary concern is ranking in search they've already missed the point. The vast majority of sales are from their personalized recommendation w
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
Man, you are just a firehose of misinformation. It's really impressive. I started on Udemy with 0 people in my audience, and I still have 0 people outside of my Udemy audience. I don't do any marketing or drive any external traffi
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
Yep. Udemy is just a different game and if you don't play their game, you're gonna have a bad time. Same story with YouTube. I do think Udemy is an easier path to meaningful revenue (courses are tedious and less glamorous so less
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
6 years ago? This is old news.
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
I think he's most likely disgruntled about the direct support they offer published instructors. It's true that all you get is a support email until you've made enough enrollments to get what is effectively an account manager.
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
The fact that you made $44k for your first course is great. The first one is the hardest because of the general learning curve of making it and figuring out what their system wants. Keep going.
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by regressiveparty 5y ago
I'm sorry but please do not believe anything this commenter is saying. I've been a "managed partner" with Udemy for 5 years now (600k enrollments) and I have never once been asked to sign a contract. Despite my repeated
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by regressiveparty 8y ago
D-DOSed?
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by regressiveparty 10y ago
So blowing up a bomb in a market thats specifically designed to target innocent civilians = shooting an enemy combatant corpse after its dead Great logic.
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by regressiveparty 11y ago
My experience with the FDA: I'm "congenitally limb deficient" below the elbow. Grew up in the 90s using horrible myo electric prosthetic limbs that had 2 hour battery life and were in all practicality a glorified claw machine