Full Skillshare Review — Everything Teachers and Students Need to Know

If so, you’ve come to the right place!

This Skillshare review is about to commence.

To answer that question, we’ve gathered these pros and cons to give you an idea of the current state of Skillshare.

(Collected from platforms like Trustpilot and G2)

This section will cover everything the Skillshare platform has to offer for teachers and students.

Then you’d be glad to know that you can become a Skillshare teacher at no cost whatsoever.

There’s no application process, and no approval is required.

Simply click “Start a Class” on the teachers’ homepage to sign up, and then you’ll be prompted to choose a topic and define goals for your class.

(All classes must be approved by Skillshare before being published)

And there are plenty more that you can find in the dedicated teachers’ help center at Skillshare.

You might find it hard to get what you’re looking for at first, but some rules are crucial for you to understand, like:

If you commit 3 violations within a 6-month period, your account will be terminated.

Next, the experience you’ll have as a beginner Skillshare teacher depends on this question:

Do you have a following and reach on other platforms?

If the answer is yes, then that’s neat!

You’ll have an easy time generating enough sales on your own to gain traction and climb the ranks on Skillshare to be featured on top of your category page, trending sections, and even the homepage.

If the answer is no, though, then that’s not so neat, and here’s why…

Skillshare tends to recommend and promote video classes/courses that are already generating sales and getting good reviews (which makes sense from a business standpoint).

But here’s the thing, with Skillshare, you simply don’t have real marketing tools to generate sales and get traction on the platform.

That’ll leave you with a slow process to grow your online learning community with a platform that makes it hard to do so.

All you get is a free access link to give users the ability to watch your courses for free, and a referral program for users to sign up for Skillshare.

(With the latter, you’re putting Skillshare above your online teaching career)

But don’t expect things like:

(In a world where systeme.io exists and just by signing up for free you’d get all these tools and keep 100% of the profit, you start feeling like you’re missing out as a teacher)

And if you’re planning on just getting students organically through Skillshare, you’ll have to rely on a slow snowball effect where it may take years to bring in considerable income each month.

Speaking of which, here’s how you get paid as a Skillshare teacher:

You have 2 sources of revenue with Skillshare:

This is directly related to your total watch time, but you don’t earn an exact figure like $0.10 per minute, for example.

Rather, the system is set up in a way where 30% of all premium memberships — revenue from paying students — goes to teachers every month.

Each teacher’s watch time compared to the total watch time of all teachers would determine the percentage the teacher would get from that 30%.

When starting out, current reviews and data say that you should expect to earn $50 - $150/month.

That figure will grow with time as you’ll get more and more organic students — which is nice as a passive income, but will generally take a lot of months to compound into something considerable.

If you join the affiliate marketing program of Skillshare, you can earn a 40% commission of what students pay Skillshare when they first sign up.

(The commission is a one-time payment for each sign-up — not recurring)

Referrals get a free trial of 30 days before they’re automatically charged if they don’t cancel their account.

Skillshare tries to appeal to certain demographics of people, and that has led them to ban quite a few niches from their platform, like classes:

So, as a student, you won’t find Skillshare courses about such topics, and as a teacher, you’ll need to make sure that you keep up with the guidelines to guarantee that your account is in good standing with Skillshare.

The nature of courses available on Skillshare has a general theme of being short — you’ll rarely find Skillshare courses that are 120 minutes or more — and to the point.

They also have a focus on growing the skill set of the student by doing rather than just being taught passively.

(Note: teachers are only allowed to promote themselves in the intro and conclusion sections of a course)

Switching things a bit to the viewing experience for students, they’ll have a video player with all of the class sections on the right in a clear format:

All plans give unlimited access to all Skillshare online courses, plus curated features for each one like Single Sign On (SSO), reporting and business analytics, LMS integrations, and more.

And more.

The idea behind these perks is to make the annual membership more appealing and give you more than what you were anticipating when signing up.

Granted, those perks won’t help you extract more value from all the online courses on the platform, but they’re definitely a nice touch.

Sike! There’s no normal pricing page on the Skillshare platform.

— What do you mean it doesn’t exist?

Remember when we said earlier that Skillshare's professional reputation got hurt?

Yeah, here’s how and why…

There was a time when a Skillshare free tier was available to students and provided access to a good number of free courses.

There were different monthly plans as well — and for the most part, things were flowing normally.

But then, something happened, and Skillshare decided to ditch all that.

Now, you can only sign up for a free trial first — where you must provide your card or PayPal info — which is followed by an annual subscription to the Skillshare Premium Membership plan.

Current info suggests the Premium Membership cost varies by region, but for the US and Canada, you can expect to pay $168/year which translates to $14/month.

Still, that doesn’t justify the bad ratings on Trustpilot, so what is it?

Well, if you combine the fact that you must provide your card info when signing up for the free trial with:

You begin to understand why users are leaving such bad reviews.

So what do you do if you’re someone who:

Easy! You join systeme.io today — for FREE.

But why stop there?

Features like A/B testing, deadline funnels, evergreen webinars, and order bumps are all at your disposal.

Don’t just take our word for it — check out more than 1,000 reviews on Trustpilot with an amazing average rating of 4.9/5!

(If you have any questions, our amazing customer support team is ready to answer you 24/7 with an average response time of under 2 hours)

Free forever — get full access to the website builder and library of templates, a blog with unlimited blog posts, memberships, coupons, and run your own affiliate program.

Sell your first online course with 0% transaction fees.

Plus, get a free domain, a lifetime free SSL certificate, unlimited file storage, unlimited hosting, unlimited students, and the ability to send unlimited marketing emails.

The paid plans will give you raised limits on all the tools you have in the Free plan, and unlock new features like evergreen webinars.

Once you reach the Unlimited plan, you’ll have limitless access to our tools with no boundaries whatsoever — plus, hit the ground running with a 1-on-1 kickstart coaching session if you sign up for Unlimited.

You can also get a free migration for your entire online business — if you have one — when you sign up for the Unlimited plan or any annual billing plan.

If any of this sounds intriguing to you, go get your free account now and take our platform for a quick test run, we won’t ask for your card info!

At any point in time, you’ll have to deal with any changes in guidelines, pricing, payouts, and other aspects of Skillshare that you simply have no say in.

If you’re comfortable with such regulations, then go ahead and join Skillshare — but if not, then consider options like systeme.io, LearnWorlds, or the infamous Udemy before making the jump.

(You can always publish your courses on such platforms and then share them on Skillshare)

Now on the other side of the coin, if you want to become a Skillshare student, here’s what you can expect:

Your other alternatives include LinkedIn Learning, MasterClass, Coursera, and once again, Udemy.

Here’s what we learned today:

And the cherry on top, if you’re interested in creating an online business (that resolves around courses or not), make sure to get your free systeme.io account today!

Cheerio!