[janesvilleseo]

The HN crowd not her target audience. We all have been in offices where people are not able to use what most of us would consider basic functions of Excel.

I know even in my group once I learned vloolup I was considered the excel wizard. What I knew was that I was far from an actual Wizard. There is so much more.

Either way there are millions of people that her courses are ideal for. Good for her.

[ren_engineer]

the thing that might be more interesting for HN users is that she basically has no presence on Twitter or Facebook. Instagram and TikTok seem to be king for monetizing anything. Twitter and Facebook have horrible organic reach and make it hard to grow without paying.

TikTok is especially good because they'll promote your video based on quality and account size really isn't a factor, that's how this person went from 0 to 1,000,000 followers in a year. Something to keep in mind for your own business

[wheelinsupial]

I’m not sure how monetization is being used here, but the intro to the interview says that Instagram and TikTok are used for advertisement.

In the podcast (I think the transcript is taken from there) it’s mentioned that most (95%) of the money is generated from course sales that happen on the thinkific website: https://miss-excel.thinkific.com/collections

[Jugurtha]

"You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

[illwrks]

Pivot tables are the real tools of an excel wizard ;)

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Makes me kind of sad that OLAP cubes are going out of style. Pivot tables are incredibly powerful tools that a layman can use without much difficulty. One of my previous jobs made it pretty easy to get a cube into Excel pivot tables and the amount of statistical analysis that could be done over a few minutes of dragging things around in the pivot table was just staggering.