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I'm around $5500 a month total from 2 Udemy courses and a launching Traction book. It breaks down like this (all links below):

My SQL for Marketers course on Udemy does about $1500 a month, and has been pretty steady since launching the course on Udemy in late April. This takes almost no maintenance, though I am starting to work on improving it in response to student feedback.

My other course, Productivity for Mac Users, is a simpler keyboard shortcuts one can use to be more productive on Mac. This one makes $400-800 per month, though average over the lifetime (launched in May) has been around $500.

Lastly, we launched Traction book 3 months ago, and it continues to sell really well. Even after splitting with my co-author, I make about $3500 a month from that. You can see full numbers breakdown in the blog post we wrote summing up our launch.

https://www.udemy.com/sql-for-marketers/#/

https://www.udemy.com/mac-keyboard-shortcuts/#/

http://tractionbook.com

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2014/10/getting-traction...



How much work went into advertising your Udemy courses? Was it something that took significant advertising / reach to gain students?


Honestly, no. One post to reddit, one to Growthhackers.com and the rest has all been organic.


Pretty good ROI it seems like. Thanks for sharing!


Udemy offered me the SQL for Marketers course on Black Friday sale for $10 (down from $199?). I couldn't pass that up.




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