I'm a self-improvement junkie and I love taking online courses and I've gotten
this question a lot, are udemy courses worth it? And so I'm gonna deep
dive into if you udemy courses are worth it? And if so, what subjects are worth
taking and what criteria you can use to determine if you'll get your money and
your time's worth out of courses on udemy.com? Let's check it out
John Crestani here, I run a internet business I'm an internet entrepreneur
and I've been running my own business online for many years now I have no
employees and I am a learning junkie. I love learning and it's it's really the
reason why I've been able to be able to work for myself and become skilled and
what I do which is you know add analysis and you know copywriting and blah blah
blah. But the point being udemy's come on my radar because they have such a
plethora of courses they've I believe thousands of online courses on there.
And I've gotten questions from people ask me you know "are udemy courses worth it?"
and I've wondered that same thing. It's hard to pass judgments on so many
courses because udemy has thousands of courses. And I've been through
very very very few courses on udemy just a couple. So keep in mind that my
judgments and my opinions on udemy are limited to a few courses. But what I can
also give you is from my research. Okay? How to pick the best courses to take
online. And that'll kind of explain my reasoning about why my thoughts on udemy
are as such. So first off I want to separate kind of I want to make really
clear distinction between two major subjects. Here there's kind of what I
call like life subjects and then there's business subject. Life subjects are
things such as cooking or you know how to cook a good hamburger or how to
repair your house or how to edit photos etc.
A lot of these courses don't necessarily pertain to hard results and then there's
business which is pertains to learning how to make money. And there are a lot of
courses on udemy that are focused on business and specifically sales and
marketing courses on udemy they're there quite a bit of so that's kind of one of
the reasons why I separated these two subjects because they're very different
in what their outcomes are. So first let me address life subjects. I don't take
any courses on dancing or or you know cooking or any of these life subjects. So
I don't have much to rate them on but what I can tell you is udemy has a great
so many courses it's it seems to be really good for a lot of subjects that
are just kind of life subjects. I know they show you how to do pet care, how to
do health, how to do Fitness, how to edit photos and a lot of these specific
subjects around life or different like kind of soft skills, I think are very
helpful. I haven't personally been through the courses, but from what I've
seen no other places offer courses or do they offer courses as cheap as udemy
does. Udemy essentially discounts all of their courses and offers all of their
courses for something around ten dollars okay? So if you are not buying a udemy
course for ten dollars, just wait a day and they will discount the course to ten
or eleven or twelve dollars it's really that easy.
I see like courses that are like two hundred dollars and they'll be going for
ten dollars. So it's kind of crazy. The next subject is business subject. Many
people nowadays at least many of people subscribing to my channel are looking to
work for themselves or looking to work from home so understanding if your goal
is to make money and work from home, that's the results you want from a
course as you want to learn how to make more money. Now unfortunately from what
I've seen on udemy it really doesn't do very well in these subjects such as
making money and working for yourself okay. The reason is I look at a few
different criteria. The first thing I look at is does this teacher
that I'm learning from have what I want to have? Am i learning from somebody that
is you know in my case I wanted to learn from people who were multi millionaires?
Am i learning from somebody who is a multi millionaire? or are they an
employee for a company? You know just trying to show up on search results for
something. More often than not I found that the business instructors are not
particularly successful. They're usually employees for for some
sort of corporation or they are udemy instructor you know they're paid to put
up courses on udemy and they don't actually have success making money doing
that. If I wanted to learn how to be successful on Amazon, I want to learn
from somebody who made their first million doing Amazon not teaching Amazon.
Not somebody who worked for Amazon. I want to learn from somebody who actually
made money by running an Amazon business themselves. And unfortunately I don't see
a lot of those people on udemy. I think udemy courses are worth it if
you are taking a life kind of subject or if you're learning photography or video
editing or some of these other skills. But if you're trying to learn how to
work for yourself, I don't think udemy does very well in that subject the
other sad part about udemy that I've noticed is again I mentioned the
discounting beforehand I am an instructor I am an online teacher that's
one of the businesses I'm in about half of my income comes from teaching others
how to be affiliate markers. I would never put my course on udemy and the
problem is udemy has created a horrible platform for supporting creators and
teachers like myself. Because first off you have no control over who who buys
your course or who who what you can sell your course for. You don't actually even
get direct access to your students. If you want to talk to your students you
need to message them through udemy. So udemy in essence is owning your student
base and they determine what they sell your knowledge and your programs for.
That's not very friendly to teachers and for teachers and business subjects, I
want to be able to speak to my students I want to be you know learning how to
make money online is a very serious and frustrating process and to be able to
work closely with my students is very important so not having that control or
access is a huge mark against udemy and I frankly don't see why so many people
use this company in the first place. Now if you learn something from this
video, hopefully, you took something away from this or hopefully I helped you out
in some way. Leave a like, subscribe to my channel hit that notification bell and
leave a comment for me if you agree with me let me know if you've taken to udemy
course let me know if you agree or you disagree in the comments below
now all of these are my own opinions but I'd love to hear from other people who
have taken courses from udemy what your thoughts are in the comments agree with
me or totally disagree with me and let me know why talk to you soon