Udemy

No longer cares about their instructors. Neither responds to e-mails nor promote our courses like they used to.

[Edited by dmitch, April 18]

I've tried Udemy before and while it's definitely not a bad option..IF you can make it work for you..It's not ideal for MOST PEOPLE.

The downsides are:

• at any time can change their revenue share policies, you need to share your revenue
• You don’t own student data (emails)
• You must follow pricing guidelines set by marketplace
• No unique branding – all the courses look the same, it’s marketplace’s brand not yours, your competitors will be listed besides you
• less profit comparing if you used hosted course platform or your own WordPress solution
  You can read more on online course platform pros and cons here.

That's why I narrowed the choice down to Thinkific or Teachable..here are some benefits to use your own controlled environment:

• the ease of use, you can easily learn and build course platform yourself without hiring any designer or programmer
• you don’t need to worry about hosting of course videos and files
• you get page builder + membership site + shopping cart + learning/teaching tools = lots of solutions in one place
• speed – you can set it all up very quickly

Read more on comparing Thinkific and Teachable here..