[blackandblue]

> Adam built a massive following...

say no more. that was my first thought. online popularity is a real thing and most people tend to ignore that.

i want to say it's less about what you are building but the number of people you can convince. the result of years of online socializing...

in fact, i have been, sometimes, utterly impressed by people who build large followings and supporters on patreon. having people believe in them while they are still figuring out their journey.

and on the other hand, i have seen i have seen people i have admired for years and considered role models try to build an online following and fail.

things have changed...

[Kovah]

Totally agree on that. Popularity is the major factor for selling things. There are so many articles out there about people selling their ebook, making 200k from it and then tell you how to properly write an ebook. It's way easier to make a large figure in sales if you have 20k followers. If just one percent of your followers buy it, you have 200 sales out of nowhere.

If you are noboby, nobody will buy your stuff.

[AlchemistCamp]

Yes, and I'd say his following was earned and his methods can be copied... they're just a lot of work and take time.

The quality of his work has definitely been a key factor, too.

[nkrisc]

The age-old magical formula of: high quality content + good marketing + loads of effort = success.

Seems as though he's put it lots of effort over the years creating valuable content (and giving much of it away for free) and marketing it widely and effectively, and he's being rewarded for that.