[brunoborges]

> The more someone is making at their solo business, the less they want to blab about it and attract competitors.

Exactly! And this is why every time I see someone selling a course while bragging about making a lot of money, I know for sure they are _not_ making money.

[mamonster]

"It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use wealth in this world, and neither I nor my friends, nor anyone else I have ever met, has so much of it that they are interested in putting themselves at a disadvantage by sharing their secrets."

Victor Niederhoffer, The Education of a Speculator

[thih9]

I’ve seen people bragging about making a lot of money selling a course about selling courses. That somehow felt honest.

[nemomarx]

Well you never know, maybe selling the course is the profitable part?

[thaumasiotes]

There are a lot of people out there hawking a lot of different schemes that they say will get you where you want to go. “Build relationships,” they’ll say, or “work smarter, not harder,” or “first, decide what it is you really want.” And it sort of seems like they must know what they’re talking about, because aren’t they successful themselves? Don’t they have trophy spouses and expensive haircuts and mansions on the coast? Surely they’re in possession of some secret system for achieving one’s dreams!

Well, yeah, they’ve got a system. Their system is selling hope to schmucks like you. Their seminars, their self-help books, their crazy diets and exercise plans? That stuff doesn’t help you. It helps them.

This text can currently be found in the blurb for a shirt at https://shirt.woot.com/offers/steamworks-operatica .

It's possible that's where I found it originally, but my memory suggests to me that I found it somewhere else, on a blog, and that the continuation was different.

[Ekaros]

I have always felt that online courses selling on how to sell online courses are underserved market... You do not hear too much about those, not that I have looked.

[bombcar]

They do exist if you dig - for example: https://johntreed.com/products/how-to-write-publish-and-sell...

[pipes]

A family member of mine has done really well out of Amazon fba. She took someone's course and that got her going. I did the same course but really struggled to get going. I gave up. It wasn't for me.

But yeah I'm guessing the guy selling the course makes more off that than his fba business