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Learning to code has changed my life.
It's allowed me to pay for some really expensive stuff like:
• Getting married in Thailand (2015)
• Buying my first house (2018) and then moving (2021)
• Having three kids (2019, 2021, 2022)
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@lawrencekingyo
These numbers are a bit random...Monaco is definitely more expensive than Switzerland.
I'd watched a video of some expat saying you could probably consider moving there with a net worth of around $30 million or so.
Germany on $150K would be pretty solid.
🇹🇭 In 2009, my gf and I moved to Thailand to teach English for 6 months.
We stayed for nearly 2 years.
We spent roughly 18 months working at a school that has now closed on Koh Samui and had a really sweet life for ourselves.
@Lukealexxander
Aside from the total lack of soul, history or culture...it's particularly disturbing to see bus loads of South Asian workers who probably haven't had their wages paid in months getting bussed out of the city to some camp with no functioning sanitation.
@tyromper
Big fan of Tweets like this mate. I started paying attention to my wife in these ways a few weeks ago.
Significant dividends.
Read from that what you will 😅
Hey, Ecom store owner!
Paid ads have probably served you well so far but they're getting expensive. Amirite?
This thread will show you everything you need to know about basic email marketing for your ecom store:
🧵
Inspired by
@IAmAaronWill
, here's the path I took to making $20K/month:
Back in 2007, I decided that I wasn't a massive fan of my mechanical engineering degree and started looking into building a business after reading The Four Hour Workweek.
I wasn't very good at
With everyone complaining about paid ads...
Here's I'd add an extra 20% to your store's bottom line in 45 days or less using a single automated flow.
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I try to train in the middle of the day, 3-5x/week.
Anyone else find you can sit at your desk for hours and get nothing done or go and train to find new avenues of creativity when you return?
Top debugging tools:
1. Going to the gym
2. Walking your dog
3. Putting your kids to bed
4. Sleep
Your brain is solving the problem without you realising.
Let it do the work while you do something more valuable than stare at Stack Overflow
In 2009, I took on my first commercial client and built a WordPress site for them.
It took roughly 2 weeks and I billed £400.
In 2023, I charge more than that for a single day of labour.
Keep pushing.
🧪 Split-test your opt in popup
Here's some ideas for you to consider when split-testing your popup.
Remember, you should be aiming for 8-10% CVR.
Once you hit that figure, you don't need to worry too much...focus on something else.
Having kids has been both the hardest and most rewarding thing I've ever done.
With each child, my capacity for love has grown.
Vastly more emotionally intelligent than I was pre-kids.
I reached new levels of maturity and focus that I didn't know I had.
Want to invest for your kids?
Your health and wellbeing as a Father is going to impact them far more than their bank balance or investment portfolio.
Take a look at
@benbarkerfit
's content.
(He'll also show you how to best them in a 100m sprint)
@Rob_NBF
Check our Nathan Anthony (Bored of Lunch)'s air fryer cookbook.
If you're really short of ideas just season some chicken breast and throw it in there.
Thank you Johnny and Damian from
@manchesterfire
who were kind enough to show my kids the fire engine on Davyhulme Road last night.
My lad (being held out of shot here) was a bit scared but the girls loved it!
I've worked in software engineering for more than 15 years.
I think it's a great place to work. Wages are good and you're typically very well looked after.
It's probably similar to having worked in oil and gas in the 20th century...more work to do than people to do it.
The
A couple of months ago, I had 80-something followers and was reading advice about commenting on bigger accounts to get attention/traction.
Now, people with 400ish followers are commenting on my shit.
Whatever you're working on, these things take time.
Be patient.
I visited Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido and Tulum on honeymoon back in 2016.
2nd most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the World after Italy.
Most of this stuff was only 'discovered' by Europeans in the 16th century. It's pristine and you can climb over a lot of it.
Why use a long welcome sequence?
Too often I see stores capturing the user's email, hitting them with a discount and then expecting a sale in the first email.
Don't do that.
Here's why...
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@CreeCoder
I find this sort of thing interesting but it's always worth bearing in mind that there can be quite a lot of variance around these figures.
I know some devs who make $25K/yr and others who make more than 10x that amount.
Everyone on Twitter likes to shit on LinkedIn.
It _is_ a bit (a lot) of a recruiter circlejerk.
But guess what?
Recruiters can put you in a job!
99% of my work has come through recruiters and LinkedIn over the past 10 years.
While you're here, don't get too caught up in Money Twitter.
You don't need a Rolex and a Lambo to be happy.
Earn enough cash to eat well and pay for a gym membership.
Get out in nature. Spend time with the people you love.
It's funny that engineers always bang on about how much they hate sales and being sold to.
What is it you're doing then when you dust off your C. V., write a script to bulk apply to LI jobs and put on a shirt for that Zoom interview?
Don't neglect sales and marketing
@Mike_Scully_
Less obvious, but cyber security is chronically under-resourced if you wanted a less competitive skill.
Check out
@BowTiedCyber
to see how easy it is to get a high-paid secops job in 90 days or so.
I used
@Mike_Scully_
to help me to grow to (almost) 1K followers.
I definitely could have done it more quickly if I'd been more consistent with my content and followed the advice more closely.
It can be difficult to know if what you're doing actually works when you start out
I've not had to look for a gig in at least 5 years.
If you do good work for long enough, your network hits a threshold and you find that you'll have more work than you can handle.
The trick then is to figure out how to leverage that inbound business.
@lawrencekingyo
Having had three kids, 50-50 is not both of you waking in the night.
It's "I can see you are knackered and I have a bit more in the tank here. You go to bed..."
Spent a week in Ireland seeing family. My Mum is from North Antrim and they filmed a lot of Sons of Anarchy and Game of Thrones up that way.
Stunning scenery but shite weather!
When I returned to the UK from Thailand in 2012, I had been freelancing as a WordPress developer on Upwork.
I made maybe £1K/month which was fine in Thailand as it was roughly 150% of my wage.
Back in the UK...it was less appealing.
I started looking for work.
Rather than send the user to a free trial, send them to a welcome sequence that hooks them with a lead magnet.
Solve their known problem with the lead magnet but use the process to unearth the bigger problem they didn't realise they had.
That your SaaS just so happens to solve
I've been spinning my tyres a bit these past few months trying to figure out what the hell to market myself as.
Life/work/family have told me to go for the easiest option.
Nobody can sell 'me' better than I can.
Stop trying to be what you are not.
@IAmAaronWill
Think it's interesting to see how challenges affect you depending on your perspective.
@tyromper
is great at listing reasons he's grateful for something shitty happening to him like his car breaking down meaning he gets to spend more time with his kids or something.
+ve outlook
As a software engineer, I've learned that I can sit at my desk for 8 hours/day and do less work than if I sit at my desk for 6 hours/day and take a lengthy lunch break to go and train.
I alternate lifting heavy with rehab and light cardio but all clear the mind.
It's been great working with
@theejoellopez
over the past few weeks.
It's paid massive dividends and helped me to communicate better with my wife.
Husbands, issues in your relationship are yours to address.
Take ownership.
You are the leader of your family.
@DrChrisUllom
You know, I hadn't even thought of this.
My wife and kids were banging on at me today about how we need to get a new one.
Previous pup was put to sleep a year back.
Always increase your prices.
@maxwellcopy
, pointed out that for his first client he suggested $4K/month on a call hoping to drop to $1.5K/month.
Client settled on $3K.
Agree that he might not have taken you seriously if you'd started at $1.5K/month
@TaylinSimmonds
@TaylinSimmonds
, do you like him?
I find myself wanting to disagree with any point he makes and then nodding my head within a few minutes of him explaining himself.
👉🏻 Your welcome series is the first email marketing automation a new subscriber is going to interact with after they enter your list.
If done right, you could see as much as 20% of your store's revenue being driven from this single automation.
📰 Email
#5
- Niche content
In your next email, offer some niche-related value.
>> What's a particular problem your customers face?
>> How can your customers overcome said problem?
>> How do your products help with that process?
>> CTA linking back to the store
Took the kids to soft play last week.
Loads of other parents sat on their phones looking bored.
Fuck that.
@theejoellopez
told me to "be where your feet are"
Work hard, but work hard on being present too.
@TheJackForge
I work as a consultant JS engineer at the moment...not sure if I agree.
There's so much work on and while there's a reasonable degree of competition for entry-level positions there is a real shortage of more skilled developers.
Companies are also not in a hurry to offshore.
👍 Email
#1
- Welcome & Coupon
Assuming you've added this subscriber via a popup on your store that contained a coupon code:
>> Welcome the user to your list
>> Give them the coupon code
>> CTA should link back to your store and pre-populate the coupon
🚀As a software engineer, you can easily make $10K/month.
Here's how I got into software without a degree in computer science:
...
For anyone outside Money Twitter, that's a decent income and certainly enough to live in luxury if your living costs aren't too high.
🎓Here's
As I've gotten older, I've realised the most fun you can have is when it's shared with someone you love.
Money Twitter, you can keep your Rolexes/Lambos/cigars. I'm going fairy-hunting with my Dad and my daughter.
Your landing page should allow a prospective client to qualify themselves before they book a call with you.
If you can do that, the call becomes an opportunity to build rapport with the client and the sale itself becomes a triviality.
One of the best uses I've had for Chat GPT this year has been pasting in code blocks and having it spit out a mostly-complete unit test suite.
You still need to go back to what it gives you and flesh it out/polish it a bit but it gets you 90% of the way there.
@wtravishubbard
Haha...so true.
The CTO of the last place I worked is currently making a fairly decent career in my city as a freelance CTO for hire who basically tells you to
1. Use common tech
2. Use off-the-shelf tech
@ZutaAbouch
@ecomwithbrook
Over time your data will tell you that. For example, using these averages:
Daily search volume: 1000
Click-through rate: 1%
Clicks: 100
Cost per click: $6
Conversion rate: 1%
1 customer for every $600 in adspend
Building a new landing page? Here's a tip for you:
Have a single goal on your landing page and make it abundantly clear to the visitor what you want them to do.
When presented with a range of options, your user will likely pick none of them.
@pxue
@JudaNeira
Nice, I've seen this biz model working well with Design Joy specifically seeming to be in receipt of quite a bit of attention right now.
Best city you've ever visited?
Tough call for me but Rome (in spite of all the hype) was fucking ace.
✅ Great food (especially coffee and gelato)
✅ Amazing history/architecture
✅ Beautiful people
✅ Tip: All CTAs should send the user back to the store with the coupon code pre-populated at checkout.
Use a 'welcome mat' popup or something similar to notify them that the discount has been applied.
This stops them abandoning their checkout in search of a coupon code.
You can use a browse abandonment flow to follow up with customers who have looked at products but didn't add anything to their cart.
Showcase what they've looked at and tempt them back with a flash sale.
Great way to make extra $$$
Seeing a lot of interest in dropshipping on Etsy, at least from
@craigtyr
who seems to be having a lot of success in the space.
What's your thoughts on FBA and Shopify dropshipping? Now overly saturated and too competitive?
🧪 This thread offers a starting point but isn't exhaustive.
Experiment with additional reminders, shorter/longer sequences and potentially sending messages over a longer/shorter time period than just daily.
Refine it until it works for you and your store.
@TheJackForge
This is a big driver for me right now. The market for contract JS developers has been great in the UK the past few years but there's no guarantee it'll stay that way.
I'm surprised they even bother reaching out to you.
If you're starting out, it can seem like a massive leap to get from "learning to code" to "solo dev agency making bank".
It took me years but the good news for you is that the path is actually quite well defined and reasonably easy to repeat.
Small steps.
Big wins.
Seems to be a lot of decent advice to learn a skill and start making...say $10K/month for yourself.
Seems also to be a lot of accounts of young dudes who love
@Cobratate
and want to sell you on their $2500 course (with Discord channel).
Passed step 1 but too cynical for step 2