Share your skills...
Document your journey...
Make a Book...
Get rewarded from the proceeds...
We all live in a Challenging Environment out there. It's
cynical, dog-eat-dog world, competitive as ever.
We need to impress our boss to lengthen our career in the company
that we are working in.
We sometimes have to handle our co-workers as adversaries because
there is a possibility that they could take our spot in the
future.
When we build something, we compete with
472 million startups. We have to convince the consumers
that our business is better than our competitors.
But even with all that competitiveness and challenges, win or
lose, we have gained something for ourselves. That something good
came out of it... We have acquired our very own "Skills".
Yes, we have mustered that talent from the numerous time of
reading books, watching coding tutorial videos, and plenty
sleepless nights of fixing a bug.
Whether you are an expert on
Front-End or Back-End development. Or building
12 small Startups in 12 months, or pretty good at
Structured CSS & Sass, or have a knack on creating a very
reliable Serverless Architecture like Amazon Web Services
(AWS).
Whatever it is, you have become a specialist in that field. An
expert for the number of years you've been doing it.
So whatever you are doing right now, whether you are working in a
company or managing your new startup, it won't hurt if you spare a
little of your time to "Document your journey".
This journal of yours does not only relive and recount your past
accomplishment but much greater than that, you can create another
money making machine in the form of an eBook or your own
Membership site.
The contents of it are the skills and talents that you have earned
and been using for your Web Development career and business.
If you are a master of
"The Grand Stack (GraphQL, React, Apollo, and neo4j)", then
why don't you share your expertise to the rest of the world by
putting all that you know in your book.
Are you well connected with Angel Investors and Venture
Capitalist? Why don't you build something that will teach startup
newbies to connect their company to the right investor?
Your opinion, remarks, and stories will matter to your readers
because they find it useful. They will believe in your work
because you are an "Authority" in your field.
Like Pieter Levels for example. A 33-year-old Dutch
programmer, designer, entrepreneur, and indie maker.
He is well known for building 12 startups in 12 months while
traveling the world (mostly in South East Asia). He has no fixed
address, lives out of a single backpack, and works from coffee
shops and co-working spaces.
Pieter is earning $55,000 a month from the startups that he
built. His top grosser is
NomadList.io
It is a database of cities in the world where nomads want to work
in. A paid online social platform that is
earning $32,000 per month.
The next best income earner is
RemoteOk.io
A large collection of Remote jobs from any parts of the world. It
is a place to find and list remote jobs and probably the biggest
remote job board on the web today. That site who's helping people
to get freelance jobs is earning $21,000 a month.
And of course, Pieter's very own published book called
MakeBook.io
It is a book that talks about how to make a successful product
based on your idea. It's educating people to bootstrap profitable
startups the indie way.
That book has sold 5,044 copies and giving Pieter that
could be in the range of $2,500 a month. That is
$30,000 per year. A small project for him, but a year
salary from a Junior Web Developer.
Now imagine if you published your own book with your expertise in
it.
It may not make money as huge as Pieters but it might help you out
with your mortgage, student loans, and car payments. You can also
save all that money for your travel to Bali, Siargao or Chiang
Mai.
It's a different age that we are living in right now. We can't
fully rely on one income. Even if you're married and have a
working spouse, that wouldn't even cut it. We are not even in the
ballpark of calling it safe.
Heck, even big companies like Microsoft with a revenue of
$32.5 billion is still adding income resources to boost
their revenue and earnings.
As we all know, Microsoft bought LinkedIn, Skype,
Github, Nokia, etc. They have products like
Xbox. They also bought Mojang, best known for
Minecraft.
And let's not forget the code editor that we all loved using...
Visual Studio Code which includes debugging, embedded Git
control, syntax highlighting, and code refactoring.
We can be the very small version of Microsoft. Or the tiny
version of Pieter Levels.
Creating small businesses here and there. Writing content and
publishing books of your expertise. Earning revenue from your
email list by making use of your Membership site.
A little bit of this and a little bit of that... can go a
BIG way for you. All you need to do is just...
"Share your Knowledge"!