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I sell a poorly marketed (but well-loved) "Project-Based Linux" course on Udemy. Most of my business there comes from my YouTube channel. Since launching the course two years ago, the average price students have paid has hovered around just over $9.00.

I think of Udemy as the Packt of online course platforms. There are certainly some gems to be found, if you have the time to look for them and don't mind getting a few duds in the process.

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Two points of context:

1. I have a friend with a well performing Udemy course and he's doing about the same price/unit sale as you are. I think it's just a volume thing.

2. Udemy courses are so inexpensive and as a result does it matter if there are a few duds? Again from the stats my friend shared, about 80% of the people buying the course don't even start it.

Thanks for that.

And just to clarify, I didn't mean to sound negative. I actually think it's a good thing -- I've picked up several really good courses on real estate investing, machine learning, and other stuff.

A few misses at $10/pop come out in the wash when you also get courses that can add tens of thousands of dollars' worth of knowledge to your life.

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