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Just a word of caution from someone who paid a ton of money to a lot of the people mentioned in the article in the last 2 years and was part of more than a few
by throwaway202288 4y ago
Just a word of caution from someone who paid a ton of money to a lot of the people mentioned in the article in the last 2 years and was part of more than a few of these communities. Note these are my observations and opinions.
- Read any testimonials these people out with a dollop of salt. Success rates seem to be around 1-2%(if you are lucky) with most of the others leaving or barely getting by. Easier to make way more money as a software dev in an established company than in the "creator economy".
- Copy what they do to sell their courses rather than buying their courses. Their courses are out of date, but they are still milking it.
- Assume any financial number you see from these people or people in similar spaces as suspect. It is either massaged or an outright lie to make it look much better than it is most of the time.
- Assume you are being marketed to with any content they put out
- There is a TON of luck. A million people put in the same hard work but do not make it. But most of these people spin it as hard work.
- Most of these people cannot teach. Great at marketing themselves, but not much else.
- klodolph 4y ago> - There is a TON of luck. A million people put in the same hard work but do not make it. But most of these people spin it as hard work. The “Excel Girl” also spins it as manifesting. You can see more of that at r/lawofattraction, or you might be familiar with The Secret (2006).
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- ldoughty 4y ago> - Assume you are being marketed to with any content they put out "Man, I really want to make some side money" "Good news! Look at my book|podcast|article|youtube|etc on how to do that!" It's like writing a "how to get rich book" explaining you should write a "how to get rich book" to get rich... an informal/unstructured pyramid scheme.
- fxtentacle 4y agoFully agree. I know a completely non-famous #1 bestselling author for courses on how to develop iOS apps. 99% of the revenue is coming from the books and courses. 1% of the revenue is cheap app re-skins + good marketing. In the early days, they actually used course revenue to subsidize their app operation to keep it afloat. So yes, they teach you how to build iOS apps. But those apps have a negative ROI.
- Existenceblinks 4y ago- Fluke and becomes guru to boost pseudo trust - Willing to flood social media. Something is only good in moderate, if everyone doing the same, the ecosystem becomes uninhabitable. - Willing to be a bullshit person