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The world's 50,000th best yoga instructor can probably make a living running a yoga studio.

I'm not sure the world's 50,000th best yoga instructor can make a living selling online yoga classes.

Good point, their advantage has mainly been geographic distance based. Where being within X miles trumps being in the top 100 yoga instructors if you are looking to go to an in person lesson.

Virtual removes that advantage and now favors expertise over distance to instructor. Definitely moves more of the win to the top 1% in each skillset.

It's a big win if you are in that top quantile, but means if you aren't maybe find the thing you are top 1% of? Not sure...just seeds for thought

someone needs to give you an award

EVERYONE here claiming 'just move your product online' and 'sales have doubled for people who moved online'

do not understand the nature of competition online

You have to be Top 1% online to survive

Top 0.1% to thrive

In the real world you can be the third best coffee shop or t shirt shop in your locality and still do well

I am not sure that is necessarily that bleak. With the right two-way camera system it seems like the Yoga instructor could provide a comparable experience whether remote or local. Seems like we just need better hardware and software.

Remote coaching could be huge. The demand for human interaction has never been higher.

i'm not even sure being good at instructing yoga has anything to do with selling online yoga classes. online engagement is hard, it almost seems antithesis what it would take to sell yoga classes online to the practice of yoga.

I've done biweekly yoga before the quarantine and have continued to do so online. I agree that it's hard to remain engaged in a group class when most of the participants keep their webcams and microphones turned off and the instructor can't comment on your breathing and / or form because at best they have a 2D video stream to work with.

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