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Writing / Content Marketing · Beginner — no blogging or marketing experience assumed · English
There is nothing to buy here, so start with that. Opened in a browser on 2026-08-14, the class URL skillshare.com/en/classes/become-a-better-blogger-content-planning/1670991637 does not serve a class page; it ends at skillshare.com/en/browse. The same happens with class ID 1874687622, the ID this site's own 2025 review linked to and which the Wayback index holds no capture of. The last capture serving the real class is 10 July 2025. Skillshare publishes no removal notice, so why it went is not something this research can tell you. What the record does show is that it was good. Andrea Goulet — Corgibytes co-founder, now its Chief Vision Officer, and by her company's own account someone who "used her background in marketing and strategic communications" before she came to software — taught twelve lessons totalling 57 minutes 26 seconds, ending in a three-month editorial calendar built in a Google spreadsheet the class handed over. The arc was strategy, then inspiration sourcing, then the template, then how to run it with several contributors. Learners agreed: 11,414 students, 81 posted projects, and 62 ratings averaging 3.37 on Skillshare's 1-to-4 scale — 28 fours, 29 threes, 5 twos and no ones, which multiplies out to exactly the 3.3709677 the page published. Their top tags were Clarity of Instruction, Actionable Steps and Organization of Lessons; their loudest request was "More Examples & Tips". Two caveats belong next to that praise. The four reviews quoted on this page come from the "Highest Rated" tab, because that is the tab the archived page had loaded — the lowest-rated tab is not inside the capture, so the favourable end is over-represented here by construction. And the class was published on 10 October 2013 and was apparently never revised: as late as the July 2025 capture it was still sending learners to Zite, StumbleUpon and Google Currents to find inspiration, all long since shut down. The method aged fine. The tool list did not, and now neither the class nor its spreadsheet is reachable.
This course is no longer on sale. The report stays published as a record of what was offered.
Last checked · Evidence is labeled by source type and freshness.
Legitimate in every respect that can still be checked: a named instructor with a verifiable company and role, a published syllabus with per-lesson runtimes, a published rating that reconciles against its own vote counts, and marketing that promised a spreadsheet and a method and delivered a spreadsheet and a method. The problem is availability and age, not honesty. It is a withdrawn 2013 class whose tool recommendations had rotted well before it disappeared, and its one deliverable — the editorial-calendar template — went with it.
Quick verdict
Become a Better Blogger: Content Planning — listed on this site under its predecessor's title, "Become a Better Writer: Content Planning" — was Andrea Goulet's Skillshare class on planning blog content: 12 lessons, 57 minutes 26 seconds, published 10 October 2013, ending in a three-month editorial calendar built from a Google Sheets template the class supplied. It is no longer available. Opened on 2026-08-14, the class URL lands on skillshare.com/en/browse, and the last Wayback capture serving the class is 10 July 2025. While it was up it had no price of its own: Skillshare's JSON-LD listed the offer as "Subscription", and the class page's only purchase surface was a free-trial prompt. Its record was good — 11,414 students, 81 posted projects and 62 ratings averaging 3.37 on Skillshare's 1-to-4 scale — but it was never revised after 2013, and as late as July 2025 it still pointed learners at Zite, StumbleUpon and Google Currents.
Rating methodology
The two facts that matter most are solid. That the class is no longer served was established directly, in a headless-browser run on 2026-08-14 against both class IDs, with the screenshots kept as evidence. And the class as it stood is documented in unusual detail by the 10 July 2025 Wayback capture, whose JSON-LD, lesson list, review payload and vote counts are internally consistent — the published 3.3709677 rating reproduces exactly from the 28/29/5 breakdown, which is a stronger check than most seller pages permit. What holds confidence at moderate rather than high is everything time-shifted or gated. Every curriculum and learner figure is thirteen months old and cannot be refreshed against a live page. Skillshare gives no reason, date or notice for the removal, so "withdrawn" describes an observed state and not a known decision. The instructor's Skillshare teacher profile redirects to a signup wall, so what remains of her catalogue could not be checked. And the four learner quotes are drawn from the favourable tab of a distribution whose critical end is visible only as counts and tags.
Weighted total: 3.810, rounded to one decimal as 3.8/5. Read the rating methodology.
Course record
A 57-minute-26-second Skillshare class in twelve lessons, published on 10 October 2013 and taught by Andrea Goulet, credited on the page as "Co-Founder & CEO, Corgibytes". Skillshare filed it under Marketing & Business and Marketing & Sales, with class tags including Blogging, Writing & Publishing and Entrepreneurship. Its promise, in the class description: "In this class you'll complete a three month editorial calendar to help you map out your content and plan ahead", helping a learner "Create quality content on a regular schedule", "Use your blog to map back to specific business strategies", "Manage multiple authors or contributors", "Track publication and marketing efforts" and "Capitalize on trends and increase visibility". The deliverable was concrete and handed over rather than described — "This class comes complete with a link to a google spreadsheet that you can immediately implement for your own content" — and the class project was public, with 81 posted by the time of the last capture. There was no separate fee: the class page carried no price, the JSON-LD offer category read "Subscription", and its one purchase button read "Start a free trial to continue this class". As of 2026-08-14 the class is gone from Skillshare and the spreadsheet with it.
Co-Founder and Chief Vision Officer at Corgibytes; credited on the class as "Co-Founder & CEO, Corgibytes"
Source: bbw-corgibytes-about, bbw-wayback-class-2025Archived syllabus
Read off the last Wayback capture of the class page, 10 July 2025, and grouped under the four section headings the class description itself used. Lesson titles and runtimes are Skillshare's; the section groupings map the twelve lessons onto those four headings. This research did not watch the class — what is verified is the outline the platform published, not the contents of the videos. Nothing here can be re-checked against a live page, because there is no longer one.
Fit
Nobody can enrol today — this page exists as a record of a class Skillshare no longer serves, checked 2026-08-14.
It was aimed at complete beginners running a blog alone, who wanted a repeatable schedule instead of writing whenever inspiration struck.
It also suited a small in-house content owner managing two or three contributors, which is what Section 4 is entirely about.
It was never for anyone after SEO, analytics or distribution — 57 minutes does not reach those, and the class does not claim to.
Anyone who wants the same outcome now needs a current class; the editorial-calendar template this one handed over went with the class.
Twelve lessons totalling 57:26 with a runtime published beside every one, so the time cost was known before you started.
It ended in an artefact, not a feeling: a three-month editorial calendar in a Google spreadsheet the class handed over by link.
62 ratings averaging 3.37 on Skillshare's 1-to-4 scale, with 28 fours, 29 threes, 5 twos and no ones — and that breakdown reproduces the published average exactly.
11,414 students and 81 posted class projects by the 10 July 2025 capture, all shown publicly on the class page.
Learners' top tags were Clarity of Instruction (49), Actionable Steps (45) and Organization of Lessons (44).
Section 4 covered multi-contributor workflow — publication tracking, people and processes — which most short blogging classes skip.
No price of its own, and no separate charge: the offer category was "Subscription" and a free trial was the way in.
The instructor's marketing and strategic-communications background is stated on her own company's About page, live today.
The marketing was plain — a spreadsheet and a method were promised, and the twelve lessons deliver a spreadsheet and a method.
You cannot take it. On 2026-08-14 the class URL ends at skillshare.com/en/browse, with no class page and no notice.
The predecessor page's class ID, 1874687622, is not the class's ID either — the Wayback CDX index holds no capture of it; the real ID was 1670991637.
The Google Sheets template was reachable only through the class, so it went with it.
Published 10 October 2013 and apparently never revised: the July 2025 capture still linked to Zite, StumbleUpon and Google Currents for inspiration sourcing.
57 minutes buys no analytics, no SEO and no distribution; the class does not pretend otherwise, but the gap is real.
The largest improvement request from learners was "More Examples & Tips" (22 votes), with Audio Quality second (12).
3.37 out of 4 is solid rather than outstanding — 29 of 62 raters gave three stars, not four.
The four reviews quoted here come from the "Highest Rated" tab; the lowest-rated tab is not inside the capture, so the critical end is under-represented.
This site's own 2025 review of the class carried five testimonials attributed only to labels such as "Skillshare User" and "Reddit comment", with no name, URL or date; none could be traced and none is reused.
Risk review
The instructor was named and is independently locatable: Corgibytes' About page, live 2026-08-14, gives her as "Co-Founder & Chief Vision Officer".
The full syllabus with per-lesson runtimes was public before anyone watched a second of it.
Skillshare published the rating breakdown, not just the average — and the 28/29/5 counts reproduce the published 3.3709677 exactly.
Both sides of the learner tags were shown, including the improvement requests, not only the praise.
Class projects were public and browsable, so a prospective learner could see what people actually produced.
The class description made no income, traffic or ranking promise of any kind.
Skillshare's refund policy is published in its Help Center and was updated as recently as 2026-08-12.
The removal is undocumented. Skillshare sends withdrawn, unpublished and teacher-removed classes to the same /en/browse destination, so the observed state is certain and the reason is not.
The instructor's Skillshare teacher profile at skillshare.com/en/profile/Andrea-Goulet/9779196 redirects to auth.skillshare.com/u/signup, so whether any of her classes remain could not be checked without an account.
Every curriculum, rating and student figure on this page is thirteen months old and frozen at the 10 July 2025 capture.
The claim that the techniques were developed "while managing the social media content of one of the world's biggest brands" is the instructor's, made on her own class page; this research did not identify the brand.
The "Top 10 People In Software Under 35" recognition is asserted on Corgibytes' own About page and was not independently confirmed here.
The other Andrea Goulet class this research could identify by URL, "Find Your Brand Voice: Personality for Business Success" (ID 853672743), also ends at /en/browse — so both classes tested are gone, though two URLs is not her whole catalogue.
Skillshare's published price is a single plan, $13.99/month billed as $167.88 a year, but Skillshare itself says costs "may vary depending on your location", and the monthly and app-store figures on this page come from a third-party publisher rather than the seller.
Skillshare's refund window is narrow by its own description: a post-trial charge is refundable only if you "contact Support within 48 hours of the charge" and have not used Skillshare since.
Terms
Every tier, discount and plan the seller publishes, in one place. The analysis underneath is ours.
Checked on · prices in USD
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| This class, today | Not for sale | class URL ends at skillshare.com/en/browse in a browser run on 2026-08-14 |
| This class, while it was up | No separate fee | JSON-LD offer category "Subscription"; the page's only purchase surface was "Start a free trial to continue this class" |
| Skillshare membership | $13.99/month | a different product, not this class; seller's pricing page, read 2026-08-14 |
| Skillshare membership — billed annually | $167.88/year | a different product, not this class; "Annual payment of $167.88 USD" on the same page |
| Skillshare free trial | $0 for 7 days | "Start your free 7 days of unlimited classes", read on Skillshare's signup page 2026-08-14 |
The honest answer to "what does it cost" is that it costs nothing because it is not sold, and that state was established rather than assumed. On 2026-08-14 a headless Chromium session with a desktop Chrome user agent opened skillshare.com/en/classes/become-a-better-blogger-content-planning/1670991637 and finished at skillshare.com/en/browse under the title "Browse Online Classes for Creatives | Skillshare"; the same run against class ID 1874687622 — the ID this site's own 2025 review linked to — ended identically, and the Wayback CDX index holds no capture of that second ID at all. Because a redirect to a browse page is exactly what a blocked or broken fetcher would also produce, the same session was pointed at a class known to be live, Brent Eviston's "How to Draw: A Beginner's Guide - Part 1 of The Drawing Laboratory" (ID 1607370408): it returned its own page, its own title and full Course JSON-LD. The browser is served real class pages when they exist, so the browse landing is the class's state and not the tool's. A plain curl returns HTTP 403 to all of them, which is Skillshare's bot block and not a page state, which is why the browser run is what this rests on. The last capture serving a real class page is 10 July 2025. Even then there was no number to quote: the class's JSON-LD gave its offer category as "Subscription" and the page's single purchase surface was "Start a free trial to continue this class", so the class never had a price of its own and a learner's real outlay was a Skillshare membership they were probably buying for the catalogue. That membership Skillshare does price openly. Its pricing page, rendered signed-out on 2026-08-14, shows a single plan — "$13.99" "/month" with "Annual payment of $167.88 USD" beneath it — and the signup page offers "Start your free 7 days of unlimited classes" under the qualifier "All memberships will be billed automatically on a recurring basis until canceled." Two caveats travel with that figure. Skillshare's own Help Center says "Subscription costs may vary depending on your location", so it is not universal; and the page publishes no true month-to-month option, which is why the third-party figures Headway reports on 2026-05-18 — monthly billing at "$17.99 to $32" and app-store promotions "as low as $59.99 per year" — are shown separately and labelled as a third party's. Every figure in this paragraph is quoted as Skillshare's membership price and never as this class's price, which does not exist. They buy the platform, and the platform no longer carries this class.
Free within a Skillshare membership for the whole of its published life, as far as the record shows: the 10 July 2025 capture gives the JSON-LD offer category as "Subscription" with no amount attached and no per-class purchase button, and this site's own review as captured on 7 September 2025 recorded the same free-with-subscription arrangement. No capture found in this research shows the class ever sold separately.
The not-for-sale state was established by browser on 2026-08-14, and the refund wording was retrieved the same day from an article Skillshare updated 2026-08-12.
Homepage testimonials
These are seller-selected user posts and screenshots, not a representative sample. We preserve the visible wording and label what was and was not independently verified.
“This was one of the BEST classes. It had actionable, attainable steps. Something that won't be overwhelming. I'm also going to go back and do the project. I think this class had more projects completed by students than any other class I've taken. Shows how excited everyone is about it.”
Four stars out of four, posted 31 July 2022 (review id 1565118). Read from the review payload embedded in the 10 July 2025 Wayback capture of the Skillshare class page; the reviewer profile given there is skillshare.com/en/profile/Karen-Wilkerson/765949081. The double space before "Shows how excited" in the source is normalised to one here. Selected by Skillshare's pre-loaded "Highest Rated" tab, not by this research.
View source ↗“I like how thorough these lesson are. I do wish she put them in a PDA that I can download but I have every and it is clear, as will as doable. This is a great class to start writing a blog.”
Four stars out of four, posted 18 December 2021 (review id 1482871), profile skillshare.com/en/profile/TuQuay-Washington/545395913. Quoted as written, typos and all — the source reads "how thorough these lesson are" and "I have every and it is clear"; only the doubled spaces are normalised. From the same "Highest Rated" tab.
View source ↗“Very helpful and pragmatic advice when you want to start blogging”
Four stars out of four, posted 29 October 2021 (review id 1465411), profile skillshare.com/en/profile/Paul-De-Schacht/964456071. Character-exact, including the missing full stop. From the same "Highest Rated" tab.
View source ↗“Brilliant. Really useful and manageable. Thank you for making this resource.”
Four stars out of four, posted 14 September 2021 (review id 1447126), profile skillshare.com/en/profile/Robert-Howe/766648154. Character-exact apart from a trailing space. From the same "Highest Rated" tab — this and the three above are the only reviews inside the capture, and all four are at the top of the scale by construction.
View source ↗Evidence
Facts, claims, reports, analysis, and unknowns are deliberately kept separate.
Checked on 2026-08-14 in a headless Chromium session (1280×900, desktop Chrome user agent): skillshare.com/en/classes/become-a-better-blogger-content-planning/1670991637 does not serve a class page and finishes at skillshare.com/en/browse, titled "Browse Online Classes for Creatives | Skillshare". Class ID 1874687622, the ID this site's earlier review linked to, behaves identically, as does Andrea Goulet's other class, "Find Your Brand Voice: Personality for Business Success" (ID 853672743). The control for a fetcher artefact was run in the same session: Brent Eviston's live class (ID 1607370408) returned its own page, title and Course JSON-LD, so real class pages are served when they exist. Skillshare's pricing page shows one plan — "$13.99" "/month", "Annual payment of $167.88 USD" — and its signup page offers "Start your free 7 days of unlimited classes"; Andrea Goulet's teacher profile redirects to auth.skillshare.com/u/signup. Plain curl to any of these returns HTTP 403, which is a bot block rather than a page state.
Sources: Skillshare — Pricing (membership plan and price) · 1 further source recorded in the research fileFrom the last Wayback capture serving the class, 10 July 2025: Course JSON-LD giving name "Become a Better Blogger: Content Planning", courseWorkload "PT57M26S", instructor "Andrea Goulet" / "Co-Founder & CEO, Corgibytes", offers category "Subscription", and aggregateRating ratingValue 3.370967741935484 from ratingCount 62 with worstRating 1 and bestRating 4. The embedded page state adds numStudents "11,414", numProjects 81, totalReviews 553, publish_date "2013-10-10T20:51:26+00:00", a twelve-lesson list with per-lesson runtimes, and a rating breakdown of 28 four-star, 29 three-star and 5 two-star — which recomputes to 3.3709677, matching the published value exactly. The Wayback banner on that capture reads "8 captures / 7 Dec 2023 – 10 Jul 2025".
Sources: Wayback Machine — the Skillshare class page as it stood on 10 July 2025 (last capture serving HTTP 200)Four named learner reviews, all four stars out of four, embedded in the 10 July 2025 capture and reproduced verbatim on this page: Karen Wilkerson (31 July 2022), Tu'Quay Washington (18 December 2021), Paul De Schacht (29 October 2021) and Robert Howe (14 September 2021). The aggregated learner tags from the same payload show likes led by Clarity of Instruction (49), Actionable Steps (45), Organization of Lessons (44), Helpful Examples (37), Engaging Teacher (34) and Audio & Video Quality (17), and improvement requests led by "More Examples & Tips" (22), Audio Quality (12), "More Actionable" (7), Video Quality (6), Clarity of Instruction (4) and Organization of Lessons (2). Limits: all four quotes come from the "Highest Rated" tab Skillshare had pre-loaded; the lowest-rated and most-recent tabs load over XHR and are not in the capture, so the 5 two-star ratings are represented by their count alone. Outside Skillshare's own widget, two named first-hand accounts were found. The first is the blogger Lauren Anne, writing on 14 June 2016, "I use a Google doc for my content planning and I'm always curious to see how others plan and streamline their content calendars. Andrea breaks it down and while I stuck with my Google doc, I did take away a few tips to make my calendar work for me." — a partial endorsement from someone who kept her own system. A second named account, Jonathan E. writing on Medium on 17 October 2017, is warmer: "This is one of my personal favorites. Andrea lays out a easily workable program to take your content planning to the next level." Both are referral listicles promoting Skillshare subscriptions, which is a commercial interest the reader should weigh, and both are roughly a decade old — but only one of them says so. Jonathan E. discloses in his own words: "NOTE: This post contains affiliate links." Lauren Anne's page, re-fetched on 2026-08-14 (HTTP 200), carries the pitch "Skillshare is normally $10/month but if you click on this link, you can get 3 months for $0.99!" and cloaked skl.sh links, but no disclosure a reader can see — the string "affiliate" occurs only inside a link-cloaking plugin's JSON config and "disclos" does not occur in the document at all.
Sources: Wayback Machine — the Skillshare class page as it stood on 10 July 2025 (last capture serving HTTP 200) · By Lauren Anne — "Best Skillshare Classes for Bloggers & Creatives" (first-hand account of taking the class) · Jonathan E. (Medium) — "The 6 Best Skillshare Classes for Bloggers"Stated by the seller and the instructor and not audited here: the class description's promise that "you'll complete a three month editorial calendar to help you map out your content and plan ahead" and that "this is a class that you'll wish you had taken sooner"; the claim that the calendar techniques were developed "while managing the social media content of one of the world's biggest brands", with no brand named; Skillshare's own unaudited counters of "11,414" students, 81 projects and 553 reviews; and Corgibytes' assertion that Andrea Goulet's work "earned her recognition as one of the 'Top 10 People In Software Under 35' by LinkedIn".
Sources: Wayback Machine — the Skillshare class page as it stood on 10 July 2025 (last capture serving HTTP 200) · 1 further source recorded in the research fileThe class was published on 10 October 2013 and its inspiration-sourcing section still linked to Zite, StumbleUpon and Google Currents in the 10 July 2025 capture — three discontinued services — which is direct evidence that the tool material went unrevised across the class's published life even while the strategy and calendar material aged well. Combined with the withdrawal observed on 2026-08-14, the buyer-facing conclusion is that there is nothing to buy and the one deliverable, a Google Sheets template distributed by link inside the class, is no longer reachable.
Sources: Wayback Machine — the Skillshare class page as it stood on 10 July 2025 (last capture serving HTTP 200) · 1 further source recorded in the research fileWhy and exactly when the class was withdrawn is not established: Skillshare routes withdrawn, unpublished and teacher-removed classes to the same /en/browse destination and publishes no removal notice this research located, leaving only a bracket between 10 July 2025 and 2026-08-14. The independent record is thin rather than absent: searches run on 2026-08-14 ("Become a Better Blogger Content Planning" Skillshare; "Become a Better Blogger: Content Planning" review; Andrea Goulet Skillshare; Andrea Goulet content planning; site:reddit.com Skillshare "content planning" Andrea Goulet; youtube "Become a Better Blogger" Skillshare Andrea Goulet content planning) returned two named first-hand accounts — Lauren Anne's undisclosed 2016 referral listicle and Jonathan E.'s disclosed 2017 Medium listicle ("NOTE: This post contains affiliate links."), both quoted on this page — plus mention-only listings, including a 2018 post at theblondeabroad.com that describes the class but credits it to "Andrea Ford" rather than Andrea Goulet. Those searches surfaced no Reddit thread and no YouTube video about this class. That is the extent of what was searched. Two aggregator listings could not be opened at all: classcentral.com returned HTTP 403 directly and through a proxy, and coursetalk.com refused the connection. The instructor's Skillshare profile sits behind a signup wall, so how much of her catalogue remains is unchecked beyond the two class URLs tested.
Sources: By Lauren Anne — "Best Skillshare Classes for Bloggers & Creatives" (first-hand account of taking the class) · 2 further sources recorded in the research fileUnresolved
Why the class was withdrawn, and on what date. Skillshare routes withdrawn, unpublished and teacher-removed classes to the same /en/browse destination and publishes no removal notice or changelog that this research located; the bracket this research can give is between the last capture serving the class, 10 July 2025, and the browser check on 2026-08-14.
Whether Andrea Goulet still teaches anything on Skillshare. Her teacher profile at skillshare.com/en/profile/Andrea-Goulet/9779196, opened in a browser on 2026-08-14, redirects to auth.skillshare.com/u/signup, and this research did not create an account to get past it.
What critical learners actually said. The 10 July 2025 capture holds only the "Highest Rated" tab (currentSort "highest-rated"); the "Lowest Rated" and "Most Recent" tabs load over XHR from skillshare.com/en/reviews/reviewsLoadMore?sku=1670991637, which is not archived, so the 5 two-star ratings and the 22 votes for "More Examples & Tips" are visible as counts but never as text.
Whether any independent review of this specific class exists beyond the two first-hand accounts quoted here, and how widely the class was discussed outside Skillshare at all. Searches run on 2026-08-14 —"Become a Better Blogger Content Planning" Skillshare, "Become a Better Blogger: Content Planning" review, Andrea Goulet Skillshare, Andrea Goulet content planning, site:reddit.com Skillshare "content planning" Andrea Goulet, and youtube "Become a Better Blogger" Skillshare Andrea Goulet content planning — returned two named first-hand accounts — Lauren Anne's 2016 referral listicle (undisclosed: re-fetched 2026-08-14, it pitches "3 months for $0.99" with no visible disclosure) and Jonathan E.'s 2017 Medium listicle (disclosed: "NOTE: This post contains affiliate links."), both quoted on this page — plus mention-only listings on several blogs. They surfaced no Reddit thread and no YouTube video about this class. That is the extent of what was searched, and it does not establish that none exists. Two aggregator listings that would have helped could not be opened: classcentral.com returned HTTP 403 to both a direct fetch and a proxy, and coursetalk.com refused the connection outright.
What Skillshare's membership costs a given buyer. Skillshare publishes one figure — $13.99/month, billed as $167.88 a year — but its own Help Center says "Subscription costs may vary depending on your location", the pricing page shows no true month-to-month option, and the monthly and app-store figures on this page come from a third-party publisher. No checkout was completed by this research.
Which brand Andrea Goulet managed social content for. The class description says the techniques were developed "while managing the social media content of one of the world's biggest brands" without naming it, and this research did not identify it.
Whether the Google Sheets editorial-calendar template survives anywhere reachable. It was distributed by a link inside the class, which is no longer accessible.
The contents of the twelve videos themselves — this research read the published outline and did not watch the class.
Next options
These alternatives are descriptive only. We have not researched or rated them here.
The nearest like-for-like replacement is another short class on the same platform. Skillshare's browse page — which is, literally, where this class's URL now sends you — carries the Writing & Publishing and Marketing & Business categories the class was filed under. Check the class's publish date before you start, since being nine years stale is the failure mode on display here.
View current company site ↗The method survives the class. The four sections — define strategy and a brand statement, source inspiration into a library, build a three-month calendar in a spreadsheet, then add channels, cadence and contributor workflow — are all readable on the archived page, and the artefact was only ever a Google Sheet. Nothing in that sequence needs a video.
View current company site ↗The specific lesson of this page is that a 2013 class still recommending Zite and StumbleUpon in 2025 had gone unmaintained for years while remaining on sale. Whatever you take instead, check when it was published and when the tool sections were last revised before you spend the hour.
13 · Buyer checklist
Questions
No. On 2026-08-14 the class URL, skillshare.com/en/classes/become-a-better-blogger-content-planning/1670991637, was opened in a headless Chromium session and ended at skillshare.com/en/browse — Skillshare's generic browse page, with no class content and no notice. The same happened with class ID 1874687622, the ID this site's earlier review linked to and for which the Wayback index holds no capture. The last archived copy serving the class is dated 10 July 2025. One search result on 2026-08-14 appeared to offer the class elsewhere — classes.yourbrandvox.com/courses/become-a-better-blogger-content-planning — but that host does not resolve: DNS returns NXDOMAIN for classes.yourbrandvox.com, while yourbrandvox.com itself answers on 200, so the subdomain is a stale search-index entry rather than a working re-host.
Because the URL is inherited. This site's 2025 review published the class as "Become a Better Writer: Content Planning", and the slug is kept so existing links keep working. Skillshare's own page title, its Course JSON-LD name field and its document title all read "Become a Better Blogger: Content Planning", and that is the title used throughout this review.
It had no price of its own. Skillshare's Course JSON-LD gave the offer category as "Subscription", and the class page's single purchase surface was "Start a free trial to continue this class" — so the class came with a Skillshare membership rather than being sold separately. Skillshare's pricing page, read signed-out on 2026-08-14, shows one plan: "$13.99" "/month" with "Annual payment of $167.88 USD", after a trial advertised as "Start your free 7 days of unlimited classes". Its own Help Center adds that "Subscription costs may vary depending on your location", and the monthly and app-store figures in the pricing section come from Headway rather than from Skillshare.
By its own platform's numbers, yes — solidly rather than spectacularly. At the last capture it showed 11,414 students, 81 posted class projects, 553 reviews in total, and 62 ratings under Skillshare's current system averaging 3.37 on a scale running from 1 to 4: 28 four-star, 29 three-star, 5 two-star and none at one star. Learners' most-selected tags were Clarity of Instruction (49), Actionable Steps (45) and Organization of Lessons (44); their most-selected improvement request was "More Examples & Tips" (22).
Twelve lessons totalling 57 minutes 26 seconds, in four sections. Define Your Blogging Strategy (Strategy and Purpose; Audience, Style & Goals; Writing Your Brand Statement), Search For Inspiration (Overview & Content Pillars; Brand Journalism & Source Libraries; Guest Posts & Interviews), Create Your Calendar Template (Publication Channels & Frequencies; People and Processes; Using Google Spreadsheets) and Complete Calendar Details (Adding Details & Wrap Up), plus a trailer and a welcome lesson. The class project was a three-month editorial calendar, built from a Google Sheets template the class supplied by link.
Parts of it, visibly. The class published on 10 October 2013, and the capture taken on 10 July 2025 still linked learners to Zite, StumbleUpon and Google Currents in the inspiration-sourcing section — three services discontinued years before that snapshot — alongside ones that survive, such as Feedly, Hootsuite, IFTTT, Pocket and Google Alerts. The strategy, calendar and contributor-workflow material does not depend on any particular tool and reads no worse for the years.
Yes, and checkably so. Corgibytes' About page, live on 2026-08-14, lists her as "Co-Founder & Chief Vision Officer", says "In 2009, a friend asked Andrea to lead his startup as the CEO", that "Andrea used her background in marketing and strategic communications to develop new ways to work with legacy systems", that "In 2020, Andrea shifted roles to focus more deeply on developing the long-term vision at Corgibytes", and that "In her spare time, Andrea enjoys blogging about the intersection of social science and software". Those are her company's own words. She is better known today for software-maintenance work than for content marketing, but the marketing background behind this class is stated on her own site rather than only on Skillshare's.
Not through the class. The template was distributed as a link to a Google spreadsheet inside the class — "This class comes complete with a link to a google spreadsheet that you can immediately implement for your own content" — and the class is no longer served. The structure it produced is described in the archived class page: three months of planned posts, with publication channels, frequency, contributors and tracking columns.
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bbw-skillshare-pricingSupports: The seller's own published membership price, rendered signed-out on 2026-08-14. The plan card reads "$13.99" "/month" with "Annual payment of $167.88 USD" underneath and a "Sign Up" button; the page also claims "11 million+ creative people" and "9,000+ teachers", and lists "Certificates and Badges" among what the membership includes. Skillshare's signup page carries the trial offer as "Start your free 7 days of unlimited classes", qualified verbatim by "All memberships will be billed automatically on a recurring basis until canceled. If eligible for a free trial, cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged. Offer only valid for new paid subscribers." This is the membership figure quoted on this page — never as this class's price, which does not exist.
Limitations: Prices the platform, not this class, and this class is no longer on the platform. Only one plan is shown on the page; no month-to-month figure is published there, and Skillshare's own Help Center says "Subscription costs may vary depending on your location", so the figure a given buyer sees may differ. Checkout was not completed by this research.
bbw-headway-skillshare-costSupports: Third-party corroboration of the membership price, and the source of the figures Skillshare's own pricing page does not print. Published 7 May 2026 and last updated 18 May 2026 under the byline of Georgii Petrenko, Head of Product & UX at Headway, it gives the annual plan as "$167.88 USD per year, which breaks down to $13.99 per month billed annually" — matching Skillshare's own page exactly — and adds two figures Skillshare does not publish: monthly billing at "$17.99 to $32" and app-store promotional annual rates "as low as $59.99 per year".
Limitations: Not the seller. The month-to-month and app-store figures are Headway's reading of checkouts this research did not open, and Skillshare's Help Center says outright that "Subscription costs may vary depending on your location", so no single number is the price. Everything here is context for a class that is not for sale, never this class's price.
bbw-bylaurenanne-mentionSupports: One of the two first-hand accounts of taking this class found outside Skillshare's own review widget in this research (the other is Jonathan E.'s 2017 Medium post, also cited here). Published 14 June 2016 by the blogger Lauren Anne, who writes of it: "I use a Google doc for my content planning and I'm always curious to see how others plan and streamline their content calendars. Andrea breaks it down and while I stuck with my Google doc, I did take away a few tips to make my calendar work for me." It is a measured, partial endorsement — she kept her own system and took away tips — which is useful precisely because it is not a rave.
Limitations: A referral listicle, not a review — and an undisclosed one. Re-fetched on 2026-08-14 (HTTP 200), the rendered copy carries the pitch "Skillshare is normally $10/month but if you click on this link, you can get 3 months for $0.99!" and routes its class links through skl.sh short links, but it carries no disclosure a reader can see: the string "affiliate" occurs on the page only inside the JSON config of a link-cloaking plugin (`inbound_paths` labelling `/go/` and `/recommend/` as affiliate), never in the rendered copy, and "disclos" does not occur anywhere in the document. So the writer had a commercial interest in readers signing up and did not tell readers so. It is ten years old, it devotes three sentences to this class, and the $10/month Skillshare pricing it quotes is long superseded. It is cited as one named person's dated first-hand impression and nothing more.
bbw-jonathane-mentionSupports: A second named first-hand endorsement, published 17 October 2017 by Jonathan E., who ranks the class among six and writes of it: "This is one of my personal favorites. Andrea lays out a easily workable program to take your content planning to the next level." He describes Goulet as "an engaging instructor, with a profound knowledge of the topic" who will "motivate and inspire you to engage with your blog in a much more systematic and functional way", and closes "A definite must-take!" It corroborates the Clarity of Instruction and Actionable Steps tags that led Skillshare's own learner-tag counts.
Limitations: An affiliate listicle, disclosed by the author as "NOTE: This post contains affiliate links.", so the writer had a commercial interest in readers subscribing to Skillshare. It is nine years old, uniformly positive about all six classes it lists, and devotes a short paragraph to this one. The typo "a easily workable" is the author's and is quoted as written.
bbw-wayback-class-2025Supports: The single richest record of the class, and the only one that still shows what a buyer saw. Retrieved on 2026-08-14 (HTTP 200). Its Course JSON-LD reads name "Become a Better Blogger: Content Planning", courseWorkload "PT57M26S", instructor "Andrea Goulet" described as "Co-Founder & CEO, Corgibytes", offers category "Subscription", and an aggregateRating of ratingValue 3.370967741935484 from ratingCount 62 on a scale whose worstRating is 1 and bestRating is 4. The page state embedded in the same document gives numStudents "11,414", numProjects 81, totalReviews 553, a rating breakdown of 28 four-star, 29 three-star and 5 two-star ratings (which reproduces the 3.37 mean exactly), a publish_date of "2013-10-10T20:51:26+00:00", the twelve-lesson unit list with per-lesson runtimes, the full class description including its four named sections, the learner tag counts, and four named learner reviews quoted verbatim on this page. It also shows the class carried no price of its own — the only purchase surface was "Start a free trial to continue this class". The Wayback banner on the rendered capture reads "8 captures / 7 Dec 2023 – 10 Jul 2025".
Limitations: A snapshot, thirteen months old at the time of writing, of a page that no longer exists — every number in it is frozen at 10 July 2025 and none of it can be re-checked against a live page today. The student count, project count and review totals are Skillshare's own unaudited counters. The four reviews reproduced here came from the tab Skillshare had pre-selected, "Highest Rated" (currentSort "highest-rated"); the "Lowest Rated" and "Most Recent" tabs load over XHR and are not inside the capture, so the quoted four are the favourable end of the distribution by construction and are labelled as such wherever they appear.