Where/how to market my science videos, especially in China?

[simon43]

Well, I'm almost ready to 'hangup my hat' with teaching mostly primary grade science 'online'.  I've been doing this successfully for many years, but as I grow older, I assume that the number of young students who want to learn from an eccentric old man will diminish....

 

For that reason, I have been creating learning videos of the complete primary/elementary science school curriculum, from grade 1 to grade 6, covering every single science topic in the curriculum.  Typically, one school year of teaching science will have about 30 science topics to learn, and I have mimicked this with my own videos about each topic.

 

Thus, a student can use my video to revise a science topic that they have learned at school, or can watch the video prior to their in-class lesson about this topic.

 

So there are about 30 videos per grade - that makes 180 videos, each about 55 minutes long 🙂

 

I hope to create a residual income from marketing these videos.  But where to promote them?

 

My friend Mr Google suggests the Udemy website.  Hmm, that website has a huge range of content, but almost all of the content videos target adults.  My videos are aimed at young students.

 

YouTube?  Well, I would have to get my videos monetised first, and then I'm not sure that the pay-out would justify the effort.

 

A major problem is that my popularity as a primary grades science teacher is mostly in China and Russia, not in the USA/EU (this is because of timezone differences).  YouTube is blocked in China unless a VPN is used, and the payment methods on Udemy and other learning websites favour the western world (Google Pay etc).

 

Perhaps I should 'go it alone'.  I can host my videos on my own website (onlinescienceteacher.com I own the domain but have suspended the website for the moment).  Then I would have to pay for a large amount of web-space to store my hundreds of videos. I do have a suitable payment method (WeChat, Alipay, CC) set up with Stripe.  But I would still have to make potential end-users aware of my products....

 

Any suggestions?  I think my videos would definitely sell at the correct price (parents pay about $25 for a 'live' online lesson on a topic, so a video sale price of perhaps $10 would be attractive no?)