Hey I am Julien, the creator of ViralOutlier.I am a Youtuber with 170k subs and 12M views. (@EatTheBlocks)Getting good video ideas has been the most important factor to my success.To get new ideas, I started monitoring competitor channels every week, manually.I got lots of good ideas that became viral videos. But the monitoring process is very tedious.I built a tool to automate the process, for...
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Disclaimer: I am the creator of EatTheBlocks
As well as a course to teach how to build an arbitrage bot using flashloans: https://eattheblocks-pro.teachable.com/p/profitable-flashloa...
(just to be clear I am not selling a magical money making machine, what you will learn is the process of building an arbitrage bot, and you will still need to do some work to make some profits)
And with crypto prices going up we are probably going to see the next DeFi bubble.
If you want to build a DeFi app, You need to learn DeFi development and I have a course just on that: https://eattheblocks-pro.teachable.com/p/defi-development-ma...
I also have a youtube channel for blockchain dev: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZM8XQjNOyG2ElPpEUtNasA
However, after sometime I realized that it would probably not be sustainable, because its not very defendable and tariffs are springing up left and right. The nail in the coffin was when me and my ex partner had an argument.
Is it possible to make a lot of money with dropshipping? Of course, but like everything valuable in life it takes time and efforts.
If you are interested in learning DeFi Programming (and by extension Blockchain programming), checkout my channel EatTheBlocks
Covers: - DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Development
- Ethereum
- Web3
- Truffle
- Solidity smart contracts
In order you need to learn: 1. Basics of web dev (mostly front, not much backend for Blockchain) 2. Ethereum & Solidity 3. DeFi programming
I run a youtube channel on DeFi and Blockchain development:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZM8XQjNOyG2ElPpEUtNasA
I also have courses on how to become a blockchain developer and how to build arbitrage flashloans. I recommend first following my free trainings:
A visual explanation of how someone made 12,000 USD in a single Ethereum transaction with front-running.
- it won't be passive income
- it will take some time to figure out how to do it
These are the problems you need to solve:
1. Pick a niche
2. Create your audience
3. Build your course
4. Sell your course
Let me share a few tips, as someone who started his own programming Youtube channel in late 2017, and last month made 7k. (https://www.youtube.com/c/eattheblocks)
1. Pick a niche
Web development is a large topic. There are already some very established channels on this, and as a beginner it will hard to compete with them.
What you need is to go for a specialized tech niche. Example: - React - Testing - Java - Frontend - Mobile - Devops - etc...
You can do some research to see how crowded each tech niche is.
You can also create your own niche by combining a tech and a business application. Ex: Python for finance.
2. Create your audience
You need to create a following of people who really like your content, because later some of them will become your customers.
And to do this you need to publish regularly helpful videos. By helpful, I mean helping them to solve their problems. So it's very important that you spend time to understand in details their problems. And their problems don't necessarily overlap with your own personal interest.
Now, let's get more specific to Youtube. There are 2 source of traffic on Youtube:
- Search
- Suggested videos
As a beginner, you want to focus on search. You will create videos that solve a very specific problem. That way you have a chance to rank for these keywords. You won't have a lot of traffic like this, but it will a good beginning.
Search is good, but what will really make your channel grow is suggested videos. Once you have a small following, you want to start optimizing for this. Youtube will show your videos as suggested videos IF if believes people want to watch them. And it will believe this IF the people who already watched your videos watched a good portion of them. Or better, if they kept watching other videos of your channel after.
To make this happen, you need to:
- Have a good title and thumbnail that make people want to click
- Have a good hook at the beginning of each video. i.e 10-15 seconds where you catch the attention
- A short branding where you explain the value of your channel. Ex "Hey I am X and on my channel I teach Y"
- A good main content, where one part follows logically the previous one. If possible try to teach while telling a story. You can search what is the "South Park rule".
- A conclusion that leads them to other videos on your channel.
3. Build your course
It's often difficult to decide what to put in the course, and what to make free on Youtube.
Here is an easy way to think about it. On Youtube, you will give useful, but very specific help. Ex: How to write a Redux reducer. And in your course, you will teach the whole process. Ex: How to build a Full React application.
There are 2 caveats:
- making the course too long
- making the course too broad
Beginners always think they have to make their course super long to make it attractive. That's exactly the opposite. Think of your course as a shortcut to achieve a goal. Students want to achieve their goal as fast as possible.
And your course also need to be very targeted. If you try to teach too much, and it's just a mix pot of various tips and tricks, it's gonna be harder to sell.
On a practical level, I recommend to use a service like Teachable (that's what I use) to host your course. Think of it like a white-label Udemy. They take care of hosting your videos and billing your clients. Huge time saving.
4. Sell your course
Now to the fun part, making money!
There are 2 main business models:
- subscriptions
- one-time sales
One problem with subscriptions is churn. Students want to learn something at a specific point in time. Once this is done, they might not want to stay.
Another problem is that you have to keep producing content. Which might be overwhelming, since you also have to keep producing content for Youtube.
With one-time sales, you sell a specific course. This is an easier sell: your course will help students reach a certain objective faster and more easily that if they were to do it on their one.
A big caveat is to price your course too cheap, thinking you will make many sales. At the beginning, you won't make many sales because your audience is small. So I recommend to start with an expensive course. At least 100 USD. Yes people for that and even higher. My main course is 250 USD.
To sell a more expensive course, you will need a more sophisticated sell process. Enter the wonderful world of sales funnel. The idea is that you will help prospective students to understand their problem better and better, until you introduce your solution (the course) at the end. Practically, that probably mean creating a sequence of 3-5 emails that will lead to your course. Your Youtube videos should have a CTA to register for this sequence of emails.
My final advice is:
- first try alone for a few month
- and then get help. That's what REALLY made a lot of difference for me. I took a course called 30x500 and that was really eyes opening. And now I hired a consultant specialized in online courses. 2 very good investments.
Good luck!
I am very bearish on the future of this industry, with de-globalization, trade wars and the ever expanding reach of Amazon.
Until I realized it was incredibly cynical, selfish and self-centered.
Not everybody has the same motivations, and this is not a zero sum game.
I love coding.
And I love even more teaching other how to code and help them get to where I am.
2. Before your youtube channel becomes popular to get noticed in a good or bad way, it will probably take a long time. Teaching code, being good at coding and being popular on youtube are 3 skills that dont necessarily overlap.
3. If you do get noticed, the (financial) benefits of it far surpass any developer job. And usually it actually help you to get dev jobs anyway.
I know that the answer depends on what kind of side projects, but it can be useful to have a go-to stack that you are familiar with and can use without much thinking.Otherwise there is always this huge risk of going down the rabbit holes of searching what is the optimal tech stack and wasting precious time instead of building something and focusing on the problems faced by your users.RoR?...
DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is coming for you guys.
It might take some time, but we’ll get there.
But these are outliers
Ex: wordpress developer vs react / frontend dev, who makes more? React / frontend.
This being said, for really high paying consulting gigs, i think that its definetely not in tech but in sales / marketing/ strategy.
We used to get our customers from seo only.
If I had to do it now I will probably try Facebook ads + email list.
How do you acquire your customers?
- Solidity smart contract with Remix
- Tests with Truffle
- Frontend with Vanilla Js + Webpack
- Deployment to public testnet (Ropsten) and Mainnet
- BONUS: some dad jokes at the beginning!
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