🥊 Mentorship Minute: Monetize Your Programming Skills Part 2

✅ Join Us In The Virtual Python Community ➡️➡️  https://virtualpythonmeetup.com Welcome to part 2 on tips you can use to monetize your programming skills. Stay tuned for part 3, where we dive into more golden nuggets Concept #1: Choose to switch on suffer mode Going into suffer mode means you choose to suffer today for a future gain.  It is the concept of pruning the todo list because you have clarity on a goal you want to reach and clarity on what needs removal from current processes accelerate goal achievement  It is the thing we do not want to do to our family, but If we do it now, we will never have to do this again. Concept #2: Cash is trash, cash flow is king Only put money into things that return you cash.  Going back to suffer mode, if you have the clarity on what will provide cash flow, you will have clarity on how to deploy your capital.  This step requires discipline but makes a lot of sense. Concept #3: No sales strategy works if there is no one to share that message with Our first goal is to get a funnel and consistently fill it up, which is known as building traffic online.  Once we get a funnel and traffic, then we can start to worry about the sales tactics.  Often people will begin the optimization process to build out the strategy before they consistently have traffic, and according to this nugget, that is plain wrong to build a plan when traffic is still the issue.  You can even make sales at this step. The process might not be optimal at this point; do not worry, trust the process, and focus on first things first.  First things first, we must focus on building consistent traffic. Concept #4: Be good at what you say After you have traffic, you can start to integrate strategy.  Part of the strategy is to make sure you are good at what you say.   Being good at what you say can manifest in a few forms.  One way could be with the copy you use in your content for SEO purposes. It could also relate to the message you broadcast to your audience or even the language you choose during a sales/coaching phone call. Concept #5: The one skill you want If you could make one wish, the argument here is that you should wish for the skill to move through the traffic.  Once your funnel is consistently full, you must figure out how to leverage that traffic as well as optimize the contact.  I am pretty sure there are entire books written on this subject.  One takeaway for me is the order of operations and how moving through the traffic should be prioritized.  Another takeaway for me is building a machine that can operate at scale.  If you can get the traffic and effectively leverage it, can you triple the traffic and get similar or better results? Concept #6: Charity selling Help another person sell, go into charity mode and help someone else if you are building skills or trying to get out of a slump.  One way of doing this is to help build someone else's brand, which could manifest in social media promotion or affiliate marketing promotion.  The rationale behind this concept was not immediately apparent to me, but it does make sense the more I think about it.  The ninja thing happening here is you are going out of your way to curate value for your audience, and it gets rid of the ego. For me, I like the concept of building relationships with other content creators in the niche. 🐍 https://profitablepython.fm 🐍 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/profitablepythonfm/message