As a Skillshare teacher, having been on the platform for a couple of years now, I wouldn't recommend it at all anymore. The idea of building an audience there and driving it to your own website looks good in theory, but there are some problems. 1. The audience is dying out. My Classes have seen a significant drop in students. My latest classes hardly get students anymore. 2. Skillshare is actively hunting down teachers now that use their platform for promoting their own venues. The well know teachers get away with it, smaller teachers are asked to remove promotion and even classes are shut down that contain promotion, even though it's allowed by the rules. 3. New teachers have to go through a process to becoming teachers now. Anyone could sign up, that's not the case anymore. New teachers are screened. 4. Skillshare is actively pushing smaller teachers away from the platform, even harassing them. 5. The algorithm blocks new classes from small and new teacher to rank well. 6. The teacher payment was cut 60% last year, beginning of this year it was cut another 10%. This month another 10% cut is happening in payments. It's a lot of effort with little in return. 7. Perhaps the biggest one.... students are leaving Skillshare in hige numbers. Not only students, but a lot of teacher as well. 8. Classes that attract few students each month are now systematically removed. The whole idea of evergreen classes is not valid anymore. Having older classes generating an income has become harder because of new rules. A class must meet a minimum engagement once it has been a year on Skillshare. Doesn't meet it? It will be removed.
@@HannahCoziCorner the only other platform I teach on is Udemy, but that's a different platform. Not for classes, but for full courses. The teaching market is oversaturated, that's a huge issue. Before covid I made 4 times more revenue than I have done in the last year. The first year of covid profits were still great, due to a lot of people being at home. Then a lot of people started teaching as well, but now people doing courses during covid are back to work and regular life, but the teachers aren't. Less students, but at least 3 times as many teachers as before covid, the pie has to be divided by too many now. Most platforms have seen a huge decline in students and revenue. There will be one less teacher though, after 5 years of teaching online I'm going to focus more on other things. As said, I'm now on a quarter of what I used to make, but it takes more time and effort to reach that quarter of income. I'm quitting teaching in the new year. Skillshare is going to cut the teacher's share next year once again and also Udemy is gearing up for changes and payment cuts to survive. Some platforms are offering their courses/subscriptions for next to nothing in order to attract students. They're all fighting over the decreasing number of students. Time for me to try other things.
Really good video. I'd heard about the changes Skillshare made late 2022, and this has helped me decide whether to create some courses on Skillshare to start out and build my audience.
Hey, thanks for this useful video. You've helped me make up my mind. By the way, I love your accent and the way you express yourself. I liked and subbed. Good luck in growing your CZcams channel 😁👍
Skillshare isn't what it used to be. I regret promoting them so heavily now. They have reduced the teacher pay without warning and it really has hurt a lot of people that mistakingly relied on the income. Also I have watched them shut down teachers that were working hard to promote Skillshare's brand. Invest in your own company and your own brand. It's not as easy but you don't want to wake up and see your pay cut dramatically or shut down completely. Teachable, Thinkific, and others allow you to host your own content without the potential changes that companies like Skillshare and Udemy will keep making because they need to retain more profits to survive. I am speaking from experience since I have taught online for 10 years now.
Hey LAMZ, I have been a teacher on skillshare and so far I have published 3 classes. My royalty earnings have significantly dropped down since October 2022 and I would like to know how to partner with some marketing agency as you mentioned in the video. By the way your past videos are also really good, keep up the good work 👍
Sure, unfortunately they are out of the game for now. You can ask on reddit or on facebook groups for people that specialize on what you need. Let me know how it goes
@@theRealLAMZ by the way my royalty earnings lie between $0.01 to $0.03 per minute and earlier it used to be around $0.07. I don't know if it's only me but when I view the teacher dashboard and view the minutes watched in the morning it's really high around 700 to 1.5k minutes a day and by the end of the day when I view the dashboard again the minutes are dropped below 100 or sometimes around 250. Is skillshare deliberately trying to show low minutes to teachers so that they have to pay less or is it because now we cannot see free and premium minutes watched separately?
@@prerakmehta9827 that happens to a lot of teachers. Skillshare has an automatic fraud detection system, but it's broken. It deducts legit minutes from your account. Skillshare is making an effort to drive away smaller teachers in favour of well known teachers. Every new rule they think of is for that purpose. It never hurts larger teachers, only the small ones.
As a Skillshare teacher, having been on the platform for a couple of years now, I wouldn't recommend it at all anymore. The idea of building an audience there and driving it to your own website looks good in theory, but there are some problems.
1. The audience is dying out. My Classes have seen a significant drop in students. My latest classes hardly get students anymore.
2. Skillshare is actively hunting down teachers now that use their platform for promoting their own venues. The well know teachers get away with it, smaller teachers are asked to remove promotion and even classes are shut down that contain promotion, even though it's allowed by the rules.
3. New teachers have to go through a process to becoming teachers now. Anyone could sign up, that's not the case anymore. New teachers are screened.
4. Skillshare is actively pushing smaller teachers away from the platform, even harassing them.
5. The algorithm blocks new classes from small and new teacher to rank well.
6. The teacher payment was cut 60% last year, beginning of this year it was cut another 10%. This month another 10% cut is happening in payments. It's a lot of effort with little in return.
7. Perhaps the biggest one.... students are leaving Skillshare in hige numbers. Not only students, but a lot of teacher as well.
8. Classes that attract few students each month are now systematically removed. The whole idea of evergreen classes is not valid anymore. Having older classes generating an income has become harder because of new rules. A class must meet a minimum engagement once it has been a year on Skillshare. Doesn't meet it? It will be removed.
Is there another platform that you suggest instead of Skillshare?
@@HannahCoziCorner the only other platform I teach on is Udemy, but that's a different platform. Not for classes, but for full courses. The teaching market is oversaturated, that's a huge issue. Before covid I made 4 times more revenue than I have done in the last year. The first year of covid profits were still great, due to a lot of people being at home. Then a lot of people started teaching as well, but now people doing courses during covid are back to work and regular life, but the teachers aren't. Less students, but at least 3 times as many teachers as before covid, the pie has to be divided by too many now. Most platforms have seen a huge decline in students and revenue.
There will be one less teacher though, after 5 years of teaching online I'm going to focus more on other things. As said, I'm now on a quarter of what I used to make, but it takes more time and effort to reach that quarter of income. I'm quitting teaching in the new year. Skillshare is going to cut the teacher's share next year once again and also Udemy is gearing up for changes and payment cuts to survive. Some platforms are offering their courses/subscriptions for next to nothing in order to attract students. They're all fighting over the decreasing number of students. Time for me to try other things.
It is very useful video. I found exactly what I wanted. Thank you!
Really good video. I'd heard about the changes Skillshare made late 2022, and this has helped me decide whether to create some courses on Skillshare to start out and build my audience.
Hey, thanks for this useful video. You've helped me make up my mind.
By the way, I love your accent and the way you express yourself.
I liked and subbed. Good luck in growing your CZcams channel 😁👍
Hey thanks a lot for your comment! Good luck on your journey!
Skillshare isn't what it used to be. I regret promoting them so heavily now. They have reduced the teacher pay without warning and it really has hurt a lot of people that mistakingly relied on the income. Also I have watched them shut down teachers that were working hard to promote Skillshare's brand. Invest in your own company and your own brand. It's not as easy but you don't want to wake up and see your pay cut dramatically or shut down completely. Teachable, Thinkific, and others allow you to host your own content without the potential changes that companies like Skillshare and Udemy will keep making because they need to retain more profits to survive. I am speaking from experience since I have taught online for 10 years now.
Thanks. Subscribed 😊
thank you so much! this was a very useful video!
Is It Still Worth it in 2024? I'm thinking of it but not sure if I should Upload the Classes on skillshare or other Platform
I am a guy with a passion to teaching, is it worth teaching online nowadays ?
Which platforms should I start with and which topic should I teach ?
your videos are very well done I hope you continu thank you
Thank you for your comment!
Hey LAMZ, I have been a teacher on skillshare and so far I have published 3 classes. My royalty earnings have significantly dropped down since October 2022 and I would like to know how to partner with some marketing agency as you mentioned in the video. By the way your past videos are also really good, keep up the good work 👍
Sure, unfortunately they are out of the game for now. You can ask on reddit or on facebook groups for people that specialize on what you need. Let me know how it goes
@@theRealLAMZ by the way my royalty earnings lie between $0.01 to $0.03 per minute and earlier it used to be around $0.07. I don't know if it's only me but when I view the teacher dashboard and view the minutes watched in the morning it's really high around 700 to 1.5k minutes a day and by the end of the day when I view the dashboard again the minutes are dropped below 100 or sometimes around 250. Is skillshare deliberately trying to show low minutes to teachers so that they have to pay less or is it because now we cannot see free and premium minutes watched separately?
@@prerakmehta9827 that happens to a lot of teachers. Skillshare has an automatic fraud detection system, but it's broken. It deducts legit minutes from your account. Skillshare is making an effort to drive away smaller teachers in favour of well known teachers. Every new rule they think of is for that purpose. It never hurts larger teachers, only the small ones.
What kind of website it is, if it's going to disable your account just because your earnings are way to high??? Red flag.
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From what I hear, these are gangster racketeering methods.
Do you have any alternative of skillshare
Teachable, udemy
@@AnaProfee I mean who pays like skillshare.
@@AnaProfee according to watchtime
@@nero28891 Would love to know such alternatives too
Udemy is a cool platform. You can upload your skillshare courses there and generate more revenue. I have a video analysing how to grow on Udemy
Skillshare shoots itself in the foot, unfortunately ...