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by xenopticon 2053 days ago
Wow, so on Udemy you cannot reach your students on an ad-hoc basis? That's both clever and evil.
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You have no visibility to your courses' students or their contact info.

You can send a couple of "marketing emails" per month for each course. Inside those emails you may only have links that go back to Udemy, so they are used primarily to market your other courses on Udemy. If you try to include a non-Udemy URL, the system detects it and won't let you send.

Plus, someone on Twitter just pointed out that every one of my Udemy courses is available on multiple pirate sites. So, at this point, I think I'm just going to shut those courses down. I certainly won't be expanding them anymore.