SkillShare Review
Name: SkillShare Online Courses
Website: skillshare.com
Price: FREE 1st month/ $15 per month
Owners: SkillShare
Overall Rank: 80 out of 100
SkillShare, Product Overview
This is a membership site that gives you access to online courses on a variety of different topics. You will learn anything from cake decorating to YouTube domination, pay per click advertising, search engine optimization and everything in between. It gives you the chance to learn from a variety of instructors on many topics.
The courses are not too long. Some of them can be completed in an hour. Other courses can last up to six hours or more. The courses are broken into modules that can be completed at different times, so you have the flexibility to learn when it is convenient for you.
Many of SkillShare’s courses have accompanying PDF s or worksheets that help you follow along. Ideally, you should be taking your own notes as you go along. This will help you to reinforce the knowledge. Some courses have assignments for you to complete as you go through them. This is ideal for hands on learning. However, it is not required to have worksheets and assignments to submit a course to SkillShare and there are many courses that lack accompanying material.
The SkillShare courses are video based courses that have been uploaded by experts. Many of the courses are introductory courses. The instructors give you a sampling of their instruction style and are hoping to get you to check out more courses that they have on their website or engage in their community. This is not necessarily a bad thing. It is just how they have chosen to get their message and their brand out there.
In addition to taking cool courses, you can become a teacher for SkillShare and increase your online presence. This can help you build your audience as SkillShare will show your course to its viewers that are interested in similar topics. Your course doesn’t even have to be very long. Many instructors have courses that are only an hour in length. You just have to come up with a topic and a fun outline.
The Good & the Bad
The Good:
PRO #1: The free first month! This will give you an idea of whether SkillShare is a good place for you to learn what you want. I think the trial basis is excellent. It is very reasonable at $15 per month or $99 per year. This fits nicely into almost anyone’s budget.
PRO #2: The variety of courses. There are a ton of courses to choose from. If you are learning video marketing, there are courses for how to upload and edit you YouTube videos, grow you YouTube audience and make money with YouTube. There are courses on search engine optimization and pay per click marketing. You will learn how to Design a Sales Funnel the Converts, How to Vlog and even How to Promote Affiliate Offers without Running Ads. You will definitely find something that can enhance you affiliate marketing skills or your life.
PRO #3: The courses are broken up into modules that you can complete whenever your schedule permits. You don’t have to go through it in one day. You will learn a concept and come back the next day. It is done at your own pace.
PRO #4: You will interact with the instructor through their website.
The Bad:
CON #1: Some courses are very basic and introductory. You may not get as in depth and detailed as a class that you take at a local college.
CON #2: The pacing of the courses can seem a bit rushed with some instructors. However, you can always pause the video and rewind if you didn’t get the information.
Who is SkillShare for?
Skillshare is for the busy individual who loves to learn. Skillshare will feed your desire for knowledge with online videos on many topics. There are many creative courses that will teach you how to do interesting and fun things. You can learn how to be more productive, get healthier or ditch the diet and bake a cake. It’s up to you! 
It provides interesting courses that the whole family can enjoy. Your artsy kid can learn how to design sports logos, while your wife checks out the cake decorating. A business professional may benefit from the course on PowerPoint. LinkedIn Marketing Secret Sauce can help the recent graduate find their first job and make the most of their online profile.
It is like having a library of courses at your fingertips! The biggest downside is that you may get overwhelmed as you peruse the courses.
SkillShare Tools & Training
SkillShare itself doesn’t have tools or training. It is a membership site that simply requires that you log into it. Once you are there, you can access training for the different topics that you discover.
SkillShare Support
SkillShare offers support through a help center online. You must fill out a request for at this website – https://help.skillshare.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. You will select whether it is related to general questions, technical issues or billing. The will respond to your inquiry via email.
SkillShare Price
Skillshare offers you free courses without a membership. You will sign up for a free trial month. After the first month, if you wish to continue, you will be billed $15 per month. You will choose a yearly subscription and spend $8 per month.
My Final Opinion of SkillShare
I really like SkillShare so far. There are a lot of very cool different courses that you can learn about. I joined SkillShare to enhance my knowledge of video marketing. There are a lot of different video marketing courses and I have been able to glean some wonderful nuggets of information from them.
Some information can be found on YouTube free, but it is nice to go through a course on a topic that has a study guide with it and learn without the hassle of viewing advertisements.
SkillShare at a Glance…
Name: SkillShare
Website: SkillShare.com
Owners: SkillShare
Price: FREE for the 1st month/ $15 per month after the first month
Overall Scam Rank: 80 out of 100
VERDICT: LEGIT! This is a great way to learn some intricacies of affiliate marketing if you can’t afford Wealthy Affiliate. I do recommend that you check it out. It won’t cost you anything and you can learn about many different fun and interesting topics!
12 comments to “SkillShare Review”
Todd - March 5, 2018
Great review of Skillshare. I will check them out. It is nice to see an option for people that doesn’t cost a house payment to participate in. Self-paced video-based courses are great.
Yes this is a good alternative to those who cannot afford the Wealthy Affiliate premium membership. People are looking for a good deal without getting scammed. This looks like a can’t miss option due to the affordability and options for topics to learn from
Great Post, Thanks for the information
Melinda Curle - March 5, 2018
You get a great value for just $15 per month. You can do fitness classes as well as learn business skills!
Jerry Huang | Smart Affiliate Success - March 5, 2018
Thanks for this awesome review! So we pay a monthly fee and we can access ALL the courses available on SkillShare? So it’s not like Udemy where you purchase courses individually, right?
Melinda Curle - March 5, 2018
Right. You gain access to all the courses. I haven’t seen any upsells just yet. I’ve only been a member for a few days and taken a couple courses though. They do have some free courses to non-members to entice you to join.
Gary De La Cruz - March 5, 2018
Hello Melinda
Thanks for the review, it seems that what Skill Share has to offer could be found around the internet without joining a paid program,
You Tube itself has an awesome array of tutorial videos to set you on the path of becoming an excellent You Tuber, you just have to spend some time researching, I will check out Skill Share ion depth, but on the surface I do not see value in joining. All the best.
Gary
Melinda Curle - March 5, 2018
I would have to agree with you. You can find everything you need on Youtube now. However, the benefit of taking a course sometimes is that you learn what you don’t know. By this I mean, you discover a step or two in the process that you didn’t know about and wouldn’t have known to google. Some people just like the structure of courses more than random Youtube videos.
This is true of any membership site though. All the information is already out there. I joined Wealthy Affiliate to learn affiliate marketing. There are youtube tutorials that show you how to do as much, but sometimes when you are paying for something and have skin in the game, you stick with it a bit more.
Norman Richards - March 5, 2018
Hello, your post is awesome and well detailed with tons of information That will be a good help to all of your readers and the good part is that this program is very affordable. For what you are getting and you paying for is really great.
Melinda Curle - March 6, 2018
You aren’t paying a lot, so what you are getting is just a step above the free stuff you find on youtube. It is a bit more professional. You have some worksheets and assignments, which is more than you get on youtube. Paying a little bit means you have some skin in the game and you will be a bit more committed to take action.
Grant - March 6, 2018
Hi, Melinda. With all the products and courses that a person can spend money on online it wouldn’t be long before I would be broke! Skill Share sounds like an interesting concept, but I don’t know if it’s what I would be looking for if I wanted truly professional training. Are the instructors who submit courses vetted? Do they supply background information about themselves so people taking their courses know that they are knowledgeable on the subject matter they are teaching? I guess that’s not really a big deal for most stuff, but occasionally I’d want to know I was learning from someone who knew what they were really talking about. Anyway, I enjoyed your post. Thanks.
Melinda Curle - March 6, 2018
No kidding! There are tons of things out there. I think anyone can create a course for SkillShare. However, lots of experts sell very expensive and professional looking courses that don’t have as much information. Since there is a 30 day free trial, you can always check it out and see if it fits your learning style. Best of luck to you!
Ssemanda Bosco - March 10, 2018
Wow! An excellent review. I like the way you balanced your thoughts in the review by providing pros and cons.
Faith Taylor | WFHR - August 6, 2019
I’ve used skillshare and I like them. What’s your take on Lynda and Treehouse for online learning? Thanks.