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 Their courses are out of date, but they are still milking it.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.
- 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 Their courses are out of date, but they are still milking it.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.