{"id":490,"date":"2012-08-20T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scqa.hult.edu\/en\/news\/blogs\/2012\/august\/moving-my-offline-seo-courses-online-by-tommy-griffith-udemy-blog\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:23:46","slug":"moving-my-offline-seo-courses-online-by-tommy-griffith-udemy-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/moving-my-offline-seo-courses-online-by-tommy-griffith-udemy-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving My Offline SEO Courses Online By Tommy Griffith [Udemy Blog]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Griffith has been doing search engine optimization for the last 4 years. He was the co-founder of an online medical tourism agency based in Taiwan and worked at a boutique digital marketing agency in Singapore. He is currently the SEO Manager for Emerging Markets at PayPal. Last year he started ClickMinded, a San Francisco-based SEO training company, and has been holding live SEO training classes for startups in silicon valley on the weekends. <\/em><\/p>\n

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I was teaching an\u00a0SEO training class<\/a> \u00a0<\/a>at the Hult International Business School in San Francisco <\/a>when I first hard of Udemy.\u00a0In my classes, and when students have questions, I always tell them to ask via Twitter, rather than just raising their hands. During my first lecture, one of the students in the class asked if I had ever considered creating\u00a0a Udemy class. I looked it up and decided, almost immediately, to change my direction for the company. Over 250 students later I couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Making the Offline to Online Transition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Transitioning my class from the offline to the online world has brought on new challenges, and I\u2019ve been tackling them in a\u00a0dramatically\u00a0different style than I was previously. The process of converting my class into an online course was fairly straightforward, but rather than worrying about class handouts, paper quality, and where to go to lunch, my concerns in creating this class were more closely aligned with sound quality levels, what type of HD camera to use, and whether or not a particular segment needs to be cut short.<\/p>\n

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Here was the setup we used:<\/h4>\n
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