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| 1/4/19 Stats | |
|---|---|
| Courses Sold: | 14 |
| Money Earned: | $48.81 |
| Earnings/Course: | $3.49 |
| Reviews: | 11 |
| Month To Date: | $228.99 |
| Total Students: | 45,640 |
| Total Enrollments: | 112,450 |
Transcript:
What's going on guys welcome to the daily udemy income report the show where I talked about making money on you to me walk you through what's working for me and teach you how to do the same thing my name is John Elder from Courserapy.com and today is Saturday January 5th 2019 this is a special Saturday edition a weekend edition we hardly ever do this on the weekend but a little free time this morning so I thought let's knock out one of these really quickly so it's gonna be a shorter episode today we're not going to get into anything sort of tutorial esque or anything unless we do but mostly I just want to look at the number so before we do that let's take a look at my you to me profile page udemy.com/user/johnelder3 and we have forty five thousand six hundred thirty four students the same 37 courses and two thousand
three hundred and eighty five reviews the bestseller tag that we got from my post krez course a couple days ago is still there the highest rated for the Ruby course is still there but the highest rated for this Django course has disappeared now the ring is still at 4.7 which is what it was before and if you look at the current highest rated course it also has a 4.7 so it might just be slightly stronger it might be a four point seven eight whereas - a four point seven six or something so we'll keep an eye on that these things fluctuate from time to time especially in Django it's a super competitive category so you know I'll keep an eye on it hopefully it'll pop back up in a few days but we'll see and we'll take a look at the reviews in a bit here and see if we got a bad review or two for this user authentication course and
that will explain that or it could just be that the other course got some really good reviews the other person's course and so sort of just swooped in and beat us so let's take a look at the numbers really quickly yesterday was the fourth Friday and it not a bad Friday 14 courses sold forty eight dollars and 81 cents the earned per course popped up a little bit to three dollars and 49 cents no refund so far 11 reviews and we'll take a look at those in a minute so month to date we're at 200 $28.99 as of the end yesterday of course it's old 68 so far for four days of the month that's pretty good 30 reviews so far no promotional activity like I've said in the last few videos I'll be sending out my next promotional emails probably towards the end of this month after you know me has finished their current marketing promotion sale
that they've got going on total enrollments one hundred and twelve thousand four hundred and fifty and our average rating has popped back down to four point five two so let's take a quick look at the reviews Lansky was last one yesterday's last one it was chef hot looks like not read pronounce that so let's take a look at the reviews and there's lance the last one so Scott's an Li five stars now this is the user authentication app so that's weird five stars that should be good three stars for this other my intro to django course that's not great Eduardo is very angry two and a half stars and some bad reviews us yesterday but look at this here he put it at two and a half stars but he says there's valuable information helpful practice activities accurate course description and knowledgeable instructor yet two and a
half stars that's weird alrighty so let's go forward to page one and let's find the last one I was it chef chef cat all right so again here's the user authentication app which has dropped it's lost the highest rating thing but there's another five-star and this is a good review let's look at it it's a great start and super great course but it might seem a bit like French for developers who are not used to web development anyway it was easily explained in very high detailed content plus what a cool project ok some contradictory things but seems to be overall a positive review at least Anna's five-star so if somebody leaves a five-star review they can say whatever they want I don't care as long as the five because it's the five stars that are really make a difference now I think udemy's algorithm does take into account
length of the content but it's probably not in a sophisticated way five stars for a little boy four stars here is another five stars for this user authentication it's an excellent course for beginner and advanced programmers straightforward and to the point that's weird so we're getting all these five-star reviews but we've lost the highest rating badge yesterday weird five stars five stars fronds two-and-a-half stars oh here we go this is what did it one two and a half star review for this course now I'm gonna respond or I'm gonna open this later and send a message to him and ask him why sometimes I'll do that and in this case I think I will because I'm curious why did why did you leave me at two-and-a-half star review everybody else leaves five star reviews for this course you know so well we'll see what happens there and
I'll let you know if he responds I'm I won't tell you what he says probably because privacy and all that but whatever so let's take a look one last time at the stats so yesterday was the fourth and a week before that was the 28th and a week before that was the 21st so here's the 28th and here's the 21st so this last week on Friday we sold 23 courses and made 115 dollars yesterday way they sold 14 courses but then two weeks ago we sold eight horses the weekends are always a little bit slower but oddly Saturday today right now this has been pretty good but that's because one person came in and bought like six or seven of my courses at five at nine dollars each and I got half of that so I got five dollars times seven so right off the bat we're at thirty five dollars for the day and it's really just one person so that's sort
of a fluke but I'll keep an eye on it and we'll talk about what happened on Monday you know how the day ended up but 14 is pretty good for a Friday Fridays or hit or miss sometimes they do well sometimes they don't the reason why this Friday did well I think is because oh I may be I sent out on Thursday I sent out yes I sent out that promotional email that Thursday I think and so a lot of this income was from people responding to that promotional email so all in all still I'll take 14 and 50 bucks on a Friday at the beginning of the month that's pretty good we had a bunch of reviews most of them were good a couple of bad ones but that just happens from time to time that's really the first time since we've been doing these reports since mid-december that we've had a couple of really bad reviews at all so you know it happens
and if you're not aware udemy drops off reviews after 90 days so even if you get a bad one three months later it disappears so you know just kind of have to bear your way through it and the longer your course is up the more reviews you have the less important reviews are they're still very important but if you've got a brand new course and somebody slaps you with a two-star review your course dies it just stops you know if your course has been out for a year and you've got a couple hundred reviews and somebody slaps you with a two-star review sales Bop down a little bit but you keep going and you recover from that it's just important not to get those bad reviews at the very beginning because it just it just stops everything and so that's that's no good so all not pretty good that's really all I wanted to talk about today
we're not going to talk about any real marketing or promotion things or course content creation topics today because it's a Saturday and I just wanted to do a quick check-in show you guys the numbers for yesterday and we'll pick this up again Monday morning so that's it for today's report if you liked this episode be sure to smash the like button below subscribe to this channel and check out Courserapy.com for more tips tricks and online course awesomeness my name is John Elder from Courserapy.com and I'll see you again Monday morning