Udemy vs SkillShare vs Self hosting with Teachable or Thinkific

[@ProfessorHeatherAustin]

Thank you so much for this breakdown. Exactly what I needed.

[@Targetter]

Very good comparison and summary. Thanks for your video, and for not using it to sell your own stuff all the time.

[@DhybassManagement]

Thanks for this great video with a great content. But i have a question, why should i use Teachable or Thinkific if i could just build a membership website on wordpress with a paypal integration? Thanks for the answer.

[@AmaniChannel]

I think it comes down to simplicity. We went through a bunch of WP plugins to try to create a course platform. Teachable makes it so easy. I know there are a couple of products out there like Course Cats, and Derek Halpern has a course plugin too. I haven't tried those, but they may be great solutions.

[@freeyourvoice3871]

I like the sound of consistent income! I'm currently in search of ways to do more teaching online.

[@PaperedChef]

Thanks for making videos which answer specific questions. I'm watching your content because I've recently developed a crafting course on Udemy. Subscribed.

[@usmanmajid8710]

Thanks for your advice. My question: is it okay to have the exact same course on more than one site at a time? E.g. Udemy, plus teachable? You mentioned started on Udemy and then going self hosted. Is this with the exact same course, or creating new courses when it's time to self host?

[@annaszostak4830]

You had mentioned that you can put the same course on different platforms but you need to change them a little bit. Is it because you can not please the same course on different platforms or just different platforms has different rules and expectations?

[@ChrisGatlinWorkouts]

In your opinion, is a basketball course for beginners something that could profitable?

[@sonleq987]

Hi, I was wondering. Why would you start teaching on udemy first? Won't it makes more sense to start out on skillshare first because it is a smaller video length? Then expand to Udemy since its for longer videos? Please let me know why you recommend Udemy starting out.

[@Tiffers963Hz]

Because he's an affiliate

[@jnscollier]

The real answer is, Udemy is a marketplace which gives your course more *POTENTIAL* visibility. Udemy has 30 million students (2019 currently) so the appeal is to stick your course up there and be seen without having to market the crap out of your course yourself. That's the initial appeal anyways. It's become a dumping-ground for lower-quality courses and self-proclaimed experts that try to jam a bunch of courses up on Udemy as a get rich quick scheme. Phil Ebiner is not one of those people though. He's legit.

[@AlexBooster]

From a student's point of view (and I bought probably 50-60 courses on Udemy): 99.9% of programming/web development courses on Udemy are complete and utter GARBAGE! And that includes courses rated with 4.9 stars! So, star rating or "bestseller status" is completely meaningless for determining whether or not a course is any good. It's extremely difficult to find courses on Udemy that are actually worth watching, let alone worth paying for. But hey, that's just a student's point of view!

[@coolunknown7846]

Alex Booster could you elaborate on the things you don't like about most courses? I am a future course creator (not on udemy) and want to add as much value to my students as possible. Would be awesome if we could have a chat via pm.

[@militaryupdates5243]

CoolUnknown I could relate to what Alex said, the thing is.. those high rate courses give high hopes for the students like, after this course you'll be able to build your own apps, and that is total crap.. the projects are not comprehensive, the instructors teach you to build crippled apps or games ... while in real life, a real app would have an architecture and so many other stuff that they don't take you through

[@FullStackLibrary]

Personally I don't like Udemy courses, as an example, if I want to update my skills on javascript I prefer to learn from masters, people who are already killing it on the industry, as an example I prefer frontendmasters, egghead or wesbos over a udemy course with more than 100 lessons. udemy is not a niche website, there is no selection of skilled teachers and anyone can teach, so quality will never be at the top in this case.

[@survivingBPDbreakup]

I have two e-commerce sites. What is an optimal way of making Video Courses available on my own websites? Thanks! Great Video.

[@RodneyDORBIS]

I have a question on udemy is free what about other platforms? Nobody says nothing about that?

[@anne-mariehuurre1154]

How does Udemy know if the sale came from your customer or their's? Is self-hosting mean that I have a plug in for a wordpress site or does teachable or thinkific link to my site? thank you.

[@JarrettHolmes]

How about Thinkific? I'd like to see a Teachable vs. Thinkific video!

[@MichaelRusPro]

Great video, I have a question. If I upload my courses to Udemy, then after some success upload them on Skillshare and then on a self hosting website. Why would people buy from the self hosting website when they can find and buy the same courses I uploaded on Udemy and Skillshare for much cheaper?

[@BartekOdias]

Teachable and Thinkific is not "self-hosting on your own website" as you say in the video. They host everything and you can brand it with optional white label pages without Teachable/Thinkific branding.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

that's true, but you could create an entire website with those two platform if you'd like.

[@BartekOdias]

+Video School Online it's not technically correct to call them self hosted though. Using a LearnDash plugin on your WordPress installation with an independent host is an example of self hosted course. Otherwise they're hosted by Udemy, Teacheable, Thinkific, etc. which removes majority of the issues that come with a truly self hosted option.

[@vailet101]

I see what Bartek means from a technical side although I do not think this information (what server a course is hosted on) is important for a content creator. Most content creators already assume that they will not need to worry about hosting by using another service.

[@pacmanlp8876]

vailet101 I do disagree. Host matters to creators. If I make my courses on teachable and they offer me to host all my content, the day I leave their platform I have no courses and had to make my course sute it all over from start in another place. That's the only big thing I don't like about those services. You are kind of hand tight to them.

[@johnnybeirnetraining]

@@BartekOdias Self-hosting is only true if you have an actually server :)

[@alemattosbr]

Thanks for the info, Phil! I have questions: only English speakers, or can be subtitled? Regards

[@MelanieKateLove]

Oh wow, thanks so much for all the advice, it was so helpful

[@gyerekpillanatok7157]

Hello You tried to use a mix of the two platforms? I mean, subscriber customers under their own brand. Udemy course shifted to the surface.(Cost, energy efficiency) Thus, the subscribers are well maintained and you can own your brand. At the same time it removes a lot of burden on the shoulder and stay in a nice area of learning, student satisfaction. Contact is maintained and can sell them other products.

[@joseadriangarciasanchez2932]

Thank you very much, Phil! A very useful video indeed. I started out on Thinkific, but I think I will also go onto Udemy (however, I'll have to split my courses into several parts so that I can sell them on there, since my courses' prices are higher than €150). Keep on working like that. Greetings from Spain!

[@johnburton9772]

Your personal opinions and experiences with Udemy are useful. Thanks!

[@brendasiragusa6173]

Thanks, Phil! I like Udemy, but my client's courses are all in the $100 range. Currently using EduOnGo, which has some great qualities. Have you reviewed them? I would welcome your insight. I'm in the process of researching additional platforms.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

I haven't checked out EduOnGo - I'll check it out!

[@Azam_Pakistan]

If you upload same courses on youtube and Udemy, why would students pay at Udemy?

[@TheFragrantMuse]

Great video Phil! My question is this: Suppose I sell a course on my website for $50 and the same course on Udemy for $10. Wont that anger students who discover they could have paid less? Thank you.

[@JagjotSingh]

Liz Fulcher that’s exactly what stopped me from creating my own site. Unfortunately sites like Udemy has spoilt the market for the rest of us by flooding cheap quality courses for very low prices.

[@juliareadscottishpiperandh4861]

maybe differentiate your courses. Put a lightweight one on udemy and the full course on your own website?

[@joseafalvel]

I only see one advantage by using Udemy, that is they do the marketing for you to a large number of potential students, unfortunatelly for my first course that I'm about to upload I need some promotion, nobody knows who I am, I don't want to use Udemy cause my lectures sums more than 10 hours of content but if I don't do it I would have to manage all the promotion and getting customers by myself.

[@AmaniChannel]

Nice analysis. I created a couple of classes on Udemy but didn't keep it up. Also have teachable but haven't done a consistent job of marketing to our list. I think they way you summarize how to be successful is a good model. Thanks Phil.

[@angelacuevasorozco2102]

Thank you. Do you know places that I can place my classes - videos in Spanish? thank you for your response.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Udemy is rapidly expanding into other non-english markets. So I would definitely recommend putting them on Udemy. Also, you can use self-hosting like Teachable or thinkific to sell your spanish courses.

[@hexprince]

Man, you are awesome! So informative video! Loved it :)

[@Vitalkinhs]

Thank you so much for your tips, you are very good and I appreciate the information.

[@user-rw4kb5um5m]

Great Video Phil. Can one embed Udemy courses created by him into his own website? How about skillshare for this one? Teachable has WP plugins so should not be a problem with teachable I guess.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

No, you can't embed Udemy or Skillshare courses on your own website. You would need to host the video content yourself somehow to do that.

[@user-rw4kb5um5m]

Thanks Phil.

[@truthspeaksgroup1569]

Thank you! You gave me something to think about. Udemy first, then teachable.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

glad to help!

[@teachavenue]

VS TeachAvenue. Who pays well?

[@str8tfromtexas]

Very informative. Thanks Phil.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Carlos Riojas Thanks for watching Carlos!

[@scottlaking]

Great information! Thank you!

[@CareercodexCoUk]

Thanks for a great video Phil. I'm trying to decide between Teachable and Thinkific - would you recommend one over the other please? Best wishes, Simon

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

I like Teachable myself, I haven't had many issues with it. But in the end, they're basically the same. I would just look at sample websites that they have on their sites to see what look/feel you like.

[@CareercodexCoUk]

Thank you - much appreciated.

[@TheLuckilea]

Is there a way that I can speak with you?

[@nattsurfaren]

Can I talk about different websites and their uses in my course or do they (udemy) see it as promotion of these sites?

[@dontrez8412]

Very insightful.

[@LorraineArams]

Thank you - answers the question well.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

you're welcome!

[@teachmetofish8710]

Thanks for sharing. I am not a fan of Udemy as a content creator because of price, as you stated. I simply don't think that 'everything' should be discounted. That seems to be Udemy's model.

[@Vroshall]

Helpful information, thank you!!

[@studentlearn7610]

Hi Video School, Thanks for this helpful video, would you be interested in doing a video review for our site when it goes live?

[@KenyaWright]

This is great stuff! Thanks. I'm thinking skillshare may be the one for me.

[@drjrodriguez]

I've heard that Udemy has changed their payment method since the time you made this video and you really can't get that 97% anymore. Can you speak to that?

[@Argonova]

How does Intellectual Property work with Udemy and Skillshare? If I create an online course and put it up on Udemy, am I in any way protected from having that material stolen and uploaded by someone else? Am I forfeiting any rights to it by using those services, the same way we all agree Facebook owns any content we upload to that service? What protections exist against this sort of thing? Is there any way to copy write my own video classes if I chose to self host? Sorry if my question is vague or overly broad.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

As the course creator on both Udemy, Skillshare, and most other platforms - YOU are the owner of the content. BUT because these are big marketplaces with all kinds of people, there are some piracy issues of people downloading courses and putting them on other websites. It's really up to you to protect yourself. While Udemy is doing a lot to prevent piracy, but the pirates are very smart and usually find a way. I figure that my courses WILL get stolen. And there's not much I can do. If you do find your course on another site, you can do a DMCA takedown via Google so that at least their website won't show up in the Google search results. hope this helps!

[@LesyasHowTos]

You can find lots of Udemy courses on pirate sites.

[@MohammadKhaleque]

Thanks - nice & informative video!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

you're welcome!

[@NANGSGARAGE]

Great vid man!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

thanks!

[@farukm7627]

Thanks Phil. much appreciated.

[@xtallyx1]

HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE A MONTH ??

[@guitarsolosecrets]

Great video. Well delivered. Thanks

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

THANKS!

[@hypnokinghypnoseverandertd8293]

Great video with great infos and motivation! :-)

[@beautifullife7917]

Will you please elaborate on how you can make 97% on Udemy? I understand you normally get just 50% unless you do this... What is that and how it works?

[@hellolorid]

Great video, thank you!

[@TwistedSisterHaratiofales]

How do you get paid as an instructor on KillShare?

[@gablab2357]

This was so helpful! I love the advice to be on all of them - and would also love to hear your opinion on how you break down what content you host where? I was thinking about having shorter content on Skillshare/Udemy and longer (more expensive) content on Thinkific. Thoughts?

[@pedrocesarti]

Great video Phill. I'm looking for a tool (kind of free) to create courses in my company. I dont want sell courses, I only want get a tool to upload video and material where people can get the content and share knowledge. Do you know any kind of tool that I could use? Or any good idea about? Thanks man.. best regards.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Are you the only one uploading? Or are students as well? You can create free courses with Udemy or with tools like Teachable.

[@LILA-FANAL]

Is it allowed to use the same course on SkillShare and Udemy?

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+zimtkopfliest yes. You are the owner of your content

[@howshouldidothings4693]

If i start a lecture series e.g., on advance wireless communication in two different languages e.g.,in hindi and english separately with same content in them only language is different... I upload hindi series on KZbin as KZbin is mostly popular in India and english lecture series on Udemy with same content as Udemy is mostly popular in western countries... Will it be any infringement in policies of KZbin and Udemy?

[@thinkcritically7314]

Great breakdown of platforms for publishing your own courses. Very useful. I've made notes. Thanks dude. cheers Jerome

[@wepranaga]

really love the video.

[@GehirnGoldmine]

Great Video!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

thanks!

[@GearWisePro]

very long winded...

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

:P

[@davidedwardsme]

Great video and very encouraging! Thank you :) I'm curious, what would you recommend to someone who has a lot to teach, but has a terrible British accent that most people can't understand? :) This is sadly my only barrier lol

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Hi David! There are a lot of very successful instructors with British accents, so I wouldn't let that hold you back. Many americans (and other people) might find your accent soothing and perfect as an instructor.

[@talgoldenberg-keren1137]

Add captions to your video! :)

[@LesyasHowTos]

Thank you. You have earned a like. I can't teach on either Udemy or Skillshare though - both only pay through PayPal. In 91 countries (mine included) we cannot receive payments through PayPal, only send. I have started this channel (btw, I'd appreciate if you check it out and give a feedback) to learn and then make courses on the subjects that were the most successful on my KZbin channel. But I cannot get paid on Udemy or Skillshare: both use PayPal.

[@carmilu]

Hi, Thanks man for great content. Can I Use the same course exactly on my site , udemy, skillshare and so on?

[@carmilu]

Answerd Haha

[@carmilu]

Other question! Can I drive traffic from my udemy course to affiliate links???

[@JeffBatesBoysandGirlsClub]

Great video...exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much! Feel like mentoring a nonprofit/Charity pro who wants to get into the online teaching space???? I might know someone who is ready to learn! :)

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Hey Jeff! thanks. Send me an email at [e-mail] and we can talk more about mentoring.

[@JasminRhia]

thanks a lot for this review, you're great!

[@EveWilliamsMusic]

I hate Udemy, I hate Udemy so much... their support is all stock answers, you get crazy stalkers, and currently I am making $300 on 13 courses, some of which are hot topics all of which are above the 70th percentile in the marketplace tool because of their crazy review system which really weights negative reviews and the total impossibility of maintaining SEO. I had a course recently which fell from 4.9 to 4.1 with only one review and the student had only done 35% of the course.

[@OlivierRebiere]

merci Phil :-)

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Olivier Rebiere de rien!

[@pelcenglishcourses1841]

get to the point more quickly

[@Jivolt]

Great video and even better shirt. #birdsaredope

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

haha thanks

[@donavonwest]

"That being said" (drink)

[@hasanmir5942]

u could have said all that in 3 min!

[@johnnybeirnetraining]

Why didn't you? :)

[@cooldudesunny007]

tl;dw You are not coming to the point. Nobody has time to wait for 16 mins... Make it 2-3 mins

[@Immigrationbiz]

great video! Thanks a lot!

[@WebGuru]

Thanks for sharing! The video was very helpful.