Does anyone use Udemy?

Hey guys, I've recently taken advantage of the weekly $10-15 specials Udemy has been sending to my e-mail. I've purchased a few courses so far, one of them I've completed and another I'm currently working on which is an Affiliate Marketing course to expand on the knowledge I already have.

While the course I've completed was pretty informative, the Affiliate Marketing course I'm taking right now is relatively informative but not very "hands-on". Essentially, the professor seems to be reading snippets of the downloadable book offered in the course on his videos for each lesson chapter.

I was wondering if any of you had any success with any of the Udemy courses that helped you in your marketing goals and if so, which ones?

Udemy has to get control of its quality or it's gonna go the way of a video format of ezinearticles.

archon10 said:

Udemy has to get control of its quality or it's gonna go the way of a video format of ezinearticles.

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Agreed. I'm noticing a pattern of low-quality courses or courses with the intent of being high quality before the sale and once purchased, the professor presents a low quality course that I could've easily looked up a YouTube tutorial for. The reviews can be misleading at times but I'm not entirely opposed to using Udemy during their $10 weekend sales.

Define "use"? If you mean "Udemy spams my email almost daily with worthless crap", then yes, I use Udemy.

archon10 said:

Udemy has to get control of its quality or it's gonna go the way of a video format of ezinearticles.

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I agree with that!
that's waste of time now!

I had a chance to see a Udemy course on Fiverr.
Didn't find anything extraordinary with the strategy. They were simple stuff that you could understand by just reading this Forum for a week. Not worth the time and money.

My opinion is of course based on just a couple of products, I've seen. But that was enough to judge the quality control in place at Udemy. Cheap stuff.

If you're looking to learn excel, they have a free course on there so you can sample for yourself. The reviews suck and there's only 2 or 3 and seem by the same people and all super high rating. Makes me worried they're just bullshit reviews.

It seems obvious to me that there is a lot of arbitrage going on now at Udemy as people look to sell their info (or someone else's) in different formats on different platforms.

So instead $7 WSOs now are $15?

I have collected about 15 udemy courses in the last 2 months. Some i paid for, some i did not. All comments above are accurate. I should also mention that what is really popular on udemy for sellers to do is create a course with 25 videos, and often the videos are less then 2 minutes long! How crazy.

I have had a team of people that work for me downloading every single video in each of the courses i acquired into VLC format and dropping them into dropbox for me. This way i can listen to every video at high speed. While i do that, i'm shaking my head trying to imagine how long it would take a normal personal under normal circumstances to watch 25 videos on udemy without the help of a team like i have. In fact, even with my team helping prepare the videos, i'm exhausted just opening and closing videos that are often less than 2 minutes in length.

As far as the reviews on udemy, they are highly flawed, meaning, not helpful, and not accurate. I've watched every single twitter marketing video on udemy and i can assure anyone, they are all terrible, totally out of date, and taught by people who really have never acheived success with Twitter. That is just 1 example.

But all the while, the majority of the reviews make it sound like the authors are fantastic. That is not the case. While i've learned a few tips, from the 15 or so courses i have, i honestly could have spent less time and zero dollars just looking for the same material on youtube.

I agree with the person who said that udemy is going the direction of ezinearticles fast.

There is "zero" quality control on the how-to IM market, and thus, the quality is terrible low. Hope this helps.