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I wouldn't be surprised if there was more money to be made in teaching people how to dropship. I've seen a lot of "how I make 30k per month with dropshipping" ads over the last five years or so.

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This is 100% the case, and it's not just dropshipping. A lot of popular "side income" plays are like this. It's a meme in trading subreddits that the most successful day traders are the ones who sell courses on day trading.

(Note: Not critiquing the idea of side hustles or diversifying income streams in general—just making an observation about some specific dynamics in these communities.)

Yeah exactly, Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) bloggers/authors are another. Inevitably in any sort of thing you'll have people who are storytellers who parlay storytelling + the thing they're into (which sounds fun) so agreed on not critiquing. One might want to be aware of how much of that is going around though, at least in calibrating expectations to reality.

Yeah, those guys who want to retire early on dividend payments from companies whose products they condemn because consumerism is horrible.

If you sell a course you made 100% profit, basically very little chances of loss, and your business can go to zero overnight, but not negative, and very little needed to scale up.

Compare that to running a real business where things change all the time

Sure and if they'd market their courses like that there would be no critique. But this is not how these things are sold. They promise unlimited upside and no downside.

Ad costs eat into that 100% profit.

So do production costs

There are so many courses, that s not true anymore. The real money is in “how to make a course about dropshippin”

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