| I started making paid content this year. I have made around 7k USD so far. My take-aways: - Pick a niche you know really well. A lot of sales come through reputation, since there is always going to be other competing products out there. My niche is Vue.js (not that niche). - It is a lot of work. I'd estimate my profits around 5 USD / hour after it's all said and done? - You need to build a brand! Start using Twitter and Reddit, interacting with your community. I am NOT a twitter or reddit guy normally, I do it for my professional image and content primarily. - Build an audience first. I collected emails starting in Jan (day I decided to make a course). Around 500 ppl left their email before my launch, which was in June. Majority of my traffic from from my free ebook [0]. - Practice screencasting before you make a course. I did by posting free screencasts on my course website to get my skills up and show my content was worth $. [1] - I rolled my own platform, hard to say if it was worth it. I posted my content on both my own platform and Udemy. I made around 5k from my platform, 2k from Udemy, but sold way more courses on Udemy (since they take a cut and they reduce the price based on country. - Rolling your own platform has costs. Dev time, hosting videos (vimeo) hosting content (digital ocean), domain (namecheap) and the overhead of maintaining your stack. - Udemy, while they take a cut, do a lot of marketing for you. Since I have put less time into marketing, sales on my personal site dropped, but Udemy is consistent (around $500 a month - I only spend around 3h answering questions a month). I am now writing a book and will sell on Gumroad. Easy to set up, and they handle payments etc. I will write a more detailed blog post soon on this topic. [0] https://lmiller1990.github.io/vue-testing-handbook/ [1] https://vuejs-course.com/screencasts |