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I wouldn't be surprised if there was more money to be made in teaching people how to dropship. I've seen a lot of "how I make 30k per month with dropshipping" a

I wouldn't be surprised if there was more money to be made in teaching people how to dropship. I've seen a lot of "how I make 30k per month with dropshipping" ads over the last five years or so.

ChefboyOG 6y ago
This is 100% the case, and it's not just dropshipping. A lot of popular "side income" plays are like this. It's a meme in trading subreddits that the most successful day traders are the ones who sell courses on day trading. (Note: Not critiquing the idea of side hustles or diversifying income streams in general—just making an observation about some specific dynamics in these communities.)
- awinder 6y ago
  Yeah exactly, Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) bloggers/authors are another. Inevitably in any sort of thing you'll have people who are storytellers who parlay storytelling + the thing they're into (which sounds fun) so agreed on not critiquing. One might want to be aware of how much of that is going around though, at least in calibrating expectations to reality.
  - dna_polymerase 6y ago
    Yeah, those guys who want to retire early on dividend payments from companies whose products they condemn because consumerism is horrible.
emit_time 6y ago
If you sell a course you made 100% profit, basically very little chances of loss, and your business can go to zero overnight, but not negative, and very little needed to scale up. Compare that to running a real business where things change all the time
- dna_polymerase 6y ago
  Sure and if they'd market their courses like that there would be no critique. But this is not how these things are sold. They promise unlimited upside and no downside.
- xenihn 6y ago
  Ad costs eat into that 100% profit.
  - dexterdog 6y ago
    So do production costs
return1 6y ago
There are so many courses, that s not true anymore. The real money is in “how to make a course about dropshippin”

I wouldn't be surprised if there was more money to be made in teaching people how to dropship. I've seen a lot of "how I make 30k per month with dropshipping" ads over the last five years or so.

ChefboyOG 6y ago

This is 100% the case, and it's not just dropshipping. A lot of popular "side income" plays are like this. It's a meme in trading subreddits that the most successful day traders are the ones who sell courses on day trading. (Note: Not critiquing the idea of side hustles or diversifying income streams in general—just making an observation about some specific dynamics in these communities.)

awinder 6y ago
Yeah exactly, Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) bloggers/authors are another. Inevitably in any sort of thing you'll have people who are storytellers who parlay storytelling + the thing they're into (which sounds fun) so agreed on not critiquing. One might want to be aware of how much of that is going around though, at least in calibrating expectations to reality.
- dna_polymerase 6y ago
  Yeah, those guys who want to retire early on dividend payments from companies whose products they condemn because consumerism is horrible.

emit_time 6y ago

If you sell a course you made 100% profit, basically very little chances of loss, and your business can go to zero overnight, but not negative, and very little needed to scale up. Compare that to running a real business where things change all the time

dna_polymerase 6y ago
Sure and if they'd market their courses like that there would be no critique. But this is not how these things are sold. They promise unlimited upside and no downside.
xenihn 6y ago
Ad costs eat into that 100% profit.
- dexterdog 6y ago
  So do production costs

return1 6y ago

There are so many courses, that s not true anymore. The real money is in “how to make a course about dropshippin”