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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and fro... by justinmares on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @11:47AM (#8631035)
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...

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and fro... by stephancoral on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @02:19PM (#8632025)
How much work went into advertising your Udemy courses? Was it something that took significant advertising / reach to gain students?
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and fro... by justinmares on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @02:54PM (#8632213)
Honestly, no. One post to reddit, one to Growthhackers.com and the rest has all been organic.
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and fro... by stephancoral on Thursday November 20, 2014 @12:42AM (#8634571)
Pretty good ROI it seems like. Thanks for sharing!
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and fro... by tacon on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:08PM (#8632975)
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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