OEP5 How to Maximise Your Monthly Course Promotions

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OEP5 How to Maximise Your Month End Promo

Running promotions for your online courses should be a regular part of your monthly content schedule

But how can you get the most out of it

New Courses and single course promotions can be good but this strategy shows you how to promote all your courses at once

In a simple way

Without being spammy

Decide on your Promotion code

This month I am going with “PYOAUG”

PYO = Pick Your Own

You will see why shortly

At the end of the campaign you will be able to judge the success of your promotional campaign by looking into your Revenue Report

Create a Google Sheet

Course Name

Course Link

Course Link with Coupon

Coupon

Expiry Date

Terms of Coupon

Open a browser and go to your instructors course page

For every course you wish to promote, in my case all 20 of my published and public courses - open a new tab

Keep this browser open for the whole exercise you will need all these tabs later

Go to your first course

Select promotions

Click on Create New Coupon

A window opens offering you four coupon choices - in the future this may change as Udemy is always making changes and improvements

Select “Current Best Price”, unlimited redemptions, expires in 5 days

A window opens offering you four coupon choices - in the future this may change as Udemy is always making changes and improvements

Select “Current Best Price”, unlimited redemptions, expires in 5 days

The box expands and you can edit your coupon

Change the list of meaningless numbers to your chosen coupon - in this case “PYOAUG”

Click Review Coupon

Check you are happy with everything

Then click on Create Coupon

Your coupon is now live

Click on the “Copy” button in the lower box to copy your course link including the new coupon

Take the link over to your Google Sheet and enter the link into the sheet

I also use this to copy a non coupon link and the title of the course

This sheet is going to be important later

Now complete the promo code creation and Google sheet update for all your courses

Now its time to draft your course message

Listing dozens of courses can be very confusing

So try to keep the promotional message simple and use images if you can

I am going to create a separate slide deck which I will later use for a short promotional video to my community outside of Udemy - These are the slides…

PYO Promotion

Coupon: “PYOAUG”

Is there a course of mine that is on your wish list but is never promoted?

Have you seen a course you want to enrol in but are waiting for a promo code?

Today is the day!

Welcome to my August “Pick Your Own” Course promotion

Three simple steps

Goto my Course Page

https://www.udemy.com/user/johncolley/

Choose one or more courses

Click on the course you want to buy

Click on the “Apply Coupon” button

Enter the coupon “PYOAUG” in the Enter Coupon box

Click Buy Now

Complete your purchase

Welcome to the Course

Coupons are unlimited but expires Midnight 1st September 2020

Don’t Miss Out

Enroll Today

Coupon: “PYOAUG”

Go back to your Course Dashboard and open the Communication Tab

Select Announcements

Promotional Emails

Make sure that you have your first course selected from the menu at the top

Click “Compose”

Now draft your message in the first course - but don’t send anything until we are quite finished…

Catchy title…

All My Courses - PYO - Best Offer Price - Ends 01 Sept

Tells them exactly what they need to know

Export the slides from the short promo slide deck - smaller images - and bring the two explaining the process into your announcement

A Picture is worth a thousand words

Embed links to your Public Profile Page in the text and on both images…

Add signature block at the end to make it more personal

Check all the links are right…

Now move to your next course

Repeat the promotional message creation process

Copy and paste the message from your first message

Copy the title

Don’t send….

Now create the draft message for every one of your courses but don’t send any of them yet!

This next bit is critical

In the exclude students who are enrolled in one of these courses, put in the course from the first message

Repeat this for all your draft messages

Repeat this for each message

This ensures that students will only receive one email from you regarding this promotion - multiple emails for students in multiple courses is very annoying and I have not yet found another way to handle this issue.

Let me explain this carefully

I call it my cascade email method

This message to my B2N Sales students is next out

So the next message to my Blockchain students has my B2B students excluded from the message recipients, as they have already received a message in the previous step

The next message to my Business Development students has all the others excluded PLUS the Blockchain students…

At the end of the cascade, you are sending the last message to the last course and excluding every other course you have sent a message to

This way every student only received ONE email message from you.

Its tedious to do but worth it as the students in multiple courses are your best students and you don’t want to upset them!

Once your messages are ready to go, send yourself a test email just to make sure everything is right

When you are happy with everything you can start sending out messages to your Udemy students

This completes Part 1 of the strategy - promoting to your Udemy audience…next step is to promote outside of Udemy itself!

Where are we going to promote

Facebook Groups and Pages

Twitter

IGTV and Instagram

How?

Combination of video and images

Lets start by recording the video from the slide deck we created to promote the course in our messages

Once that “Launch” video is done, and I am keeping it around 90 seconds so it can play on most platforms, I will make derivative videos from it for Day’s 2, and the final closing day

I have uploaded the three videos to my Facebook page and used FB to create the captions

I have scheduled Day 2 and Closing Day for my Page

Now I am going into repurpose.io which I use to create my videos for Social Media

I want to create Square videos for Twitter, Linkedin, my Facebook Groups

I will create Vertical videos for IGTV and Instagram, with close captions which is really important when posting to Social Media as the sound default is mute.

The Square videos I will take over to Promo Republic and I can publish and schedule to:

My 2 Facebook Groups

My 3 other Facebook Pages

Twitter

Pinterest (if I want to?)

Youtube I schedule directly.

To publish and schedule on IGTV and Instagram I use the Facebook Creator Studio

I have also used the video and some slide deck images to send out an email to my list - short and sweet!

This can be repeated on the closing day as well for additional impact!

So that’s it. A step by step walk through a promotional campaign making the most of email and social.

What else would you do? Let me know!

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OEP5 How to Maximise Your Month End Promo