Hello Tom, yea pls - id love some insider tips 😎🙏🏾💛

How do you know you don’t need tips from him? Lol

Just saying KZfaq teachers are better than Skillshare teachers

Hi Tom, thanks for your comment, food for thought. I wonder if success in Skillshare is also knowing what people want to learn on this platform. It seems that there's a lot of illustration/graphic designers who are adding to their skills with the new technology, for example. As far as celebrity status on Instagram, you may not think you're a celeb but I think having 31,000 followers is a big thing. In the Skillshare teacher application they ask for a website or instagram or online video even before you've made a class. How to start from ground zero?

I have seen teachers on skillshare who are also artists with strong followings have their classes removed because of the skillshare algorithm, it is claimed to be based on views and teachers are being notified with a threatening e-mail that says the content is not their own because the AI flagged them. Skillshare is not entirely transparent, they provide guides and links to their policies but you are on your own. Some teachers do have their content put back up only to have the same thing happen repeatedly. It makes you think that it is not good quality or they are not attracting the right users, or maybe they aren't talented. I have seen amazing artists with huge followings have their classes removed without warning and they are sent an e-mail that accuses them of fraud or that the content is not theirs, and the accusations do not match up. The e-mail they send is a low-res j-peg copy of a template they use internally for everyone. Like Etsy, Skillshare has a look and feel and a format they want to follow and it limits the free expression of artists. They need teachers who will make money for the platform so they do prefer you to have a following because they will search you online (they use third parties for data capture) to see this as well, you are representing them and if you are independent forget it, Skillshare uses your content to market itself. Similarly, the platform fishbowl does the same thing, they want you to have a specific type of job title for the industries they promote, I.e: Art director at Ogilvy, Nurse at Mount Sinai, etc. then your content or what you write is used on job boards on top of the reviews, Glassdoor now uses them but it's usually not authorized by the person who wrote the piece, it's taken from the fishbowl forums. If you are a private person who avoids SEO their AI can't match you and it will reject you so that is how it works, yes it does base it on having a following or a way for the platform to make money from you, you are a personal brand for them. When you create a class it immediately goes live and there is no formal review process, it gets "reviewed" by their system but not in the formal sense, u-demy does in fact provided a formal review of your content and will give you feedback before going live...so skillshare sets you up to fail in a lot of ways.

Glad it was helpful!

I couldn't agree more. Thanks for your input.

Agreed. The difficulty is getting people to actually give you feedback.

@@RuedRiisCom "Logically answered" made a better video about Skillshare, because showed much more the bigger picture from both sides. 1 person's exp can be written down as an exception, but trends are much more difficult to deny.

A good take away, yes!

Self hosted means you aren't relying on someone to have your courses on their platform (i.e. Skillshare or Udemy), but you have it on your own platform, like a personal website. Hope this helps!

Thanks - I try to be :)

Facts

You should at least consider these pros and cons :)

Fresh video from Rued! As a custom mapper (for online games) I know that it's a BIG risk to spend a lot of time on _that perfect map_ only to find out that players don't like it ;-) So, I agree with the fast-feedback-loop idea!

Yes, I've looked into it as well. Many good options for self-hosting out there :)

Thank you!

Amazing to hear that - thanks! 1. Get good at/excited about something 2. Start creating solid content about it 3. Offer coaching/consulting on the subject In time you’ll learn what course to create, and then you work on promoting that course.

You're very welcome :)

Thanks! I have a whole course on this - called Video Made Simple university: www.ruedriis.com/vms

Yeah, it's not really worth the time it takes to earn real money. Better to establish your own channels, generate your own traffic, and host your own products-claiming the full payment for them.

You use a course platform of some sort. Don't know about a Google Website, but if you buy a domain then connect it to e.g. Kajabi which is the one I use, you can have your videos, blog posts, email tool, everything on there. Watch this one to learn more about it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/naqdd8Jq373WlWw.html

Thank you 🎉 more to come in the future 🤗

Don’t worry about copiers. Be yourself, unique, and you will always be one step ahead.

Thank you so much ! 🙏🏻

Haha, happy to hear that you liked the little role play :)

lol nice one

You’re welcome 👍🏻

I started with Heights, then switched to Kajabi. You can see all the tools I use right here: www.ruedriis.com/resources

@@RuedRiisCom Thank you! Hope you succeed in your efforts 😊 Also, great video! I’m considering KZfaq myself as a part time thing. I know how to make video content, as i study film and TV production in University and i work as an editor for a local company. I’m just a bit worried if the audience is big enough to make a future living out of it, as i want to make videos in my native language (Norwegian) which is an even smaller language than Danish 😂

Waaay too little. Host your own courses instead :)

Yes, these platforms hold on to our content!

Kurzgesagt / in a nutshell :)

@@RuedRiisCom oh... my bad... I meant the 2nd to last content creator @4:52 ???

@@JB_iAm It is a video of Dr Shini Somara from the channel Crash Course

@@Maanastvm Thank you so much

@@JB_iAm Welcome

It's great for market feedback. If you know what you're doing already, I'd say no.

Thank you - warms my heart. I got inspired and did my best to make this work - especially the intro was tricky but fun :)

@@RuedRiisCom I think u did great. It's kind of sad to see how Skillshare goes down that path as you said in the video. But it's a good experience at the end. Just subscribed looking forward to see what u will make. Take care!

I made over $120 last month, but they changed the algorithm. Looks like it'll be about $30-$40 this month. Last month was my highest month. I was on an upward trend until the change this month.

@@mslegalista Oh no, that must be shocking to you. Hope it’s just a temporary trend and things will return to normal for you.

No, search up youtube videos because it's the same information there

That does sound pretty horrible..

Forget about this immediately - it’s not a viable way. Make quality courses and have people buy it from you. Don’t try to hack these platforms - they’ve seen it all.

@@RuedRiisComOk. I have to focus on creating more good courses. Thank you !

they may flag it as suspicious, it's part of one of their violations and they aren't nice about it

No. Depends on the teacher, teachers can also create videos in other languages other than English.

Thanks Jon :)

@@RuedRiisCom you're welcome

By self-hosting, I mean having your course on your own website. You buy a domain, access to a course system of some sort, and then you set up the whole platform on your own territory - as opposed to using Udemy or Skillshare to host and sell your courses. Self-hosting allows you to charge more, but it also requires you to market your courses yourself.

@@RuedRiisCom got it thanks

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