I didn't start IM until I was 50, and that was almost 20 years ago and I didn't do too bad.
Jesus very helpful sir. What are your opinions on dropshipping? Its the business model that I identify and are most curious about.Of course it's meI wouldn't post some random dude in my profile. Although I'm 10 years younger in that picture. I'm old now.
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University is a total waste of time. Especially software engineering. You'll learn far more at home reading books and writing code.
But you aren't going to make money in that path now. Vibe coders who are successful are engineers who have been coding for decades. You don't have time to get the base experience before the software industry changes. It's a waste of time.
Learn marketing, sales, copywriting, funnels, product creation, getting product market fit, dealing with customers.. Real business skills. That's how you make money.
You can still vibe code something half-assed and make $5k-$10k/mo without being a real engineer. The models are *that* good now.
I'd drop out of uni tomorrow. Complete utter waste of time created to make worker-slaves.
Focus on BUSINESS SKILLS.
Read stuff by Alex Becker, Alex Hormozi and Alen Sultanic.
You don't need much. Go watch Alex Becker's latest couple of vids about starting a SaaS. He gives you the blueprint. That is the legit blueprint he's given recently.
Learn marketing from Alen.
Watch a bunch of Hormozi vids and get his books. They teach you good fundamental marketing/copywriting.
Read a few copywriting books.
Go to https://swiped.co/ daily and study 1 sales letter. (I do this every day)
Jesus, at 20, if you study 1 per day for the next 3 years, you'll be a monster.
It's that easy. Forget software engineering, uni and all the nonsense that comes with it. You are wasting your time. Uni is only good for partying, but if you want to get serious now, then quit. You won't regret it. But, when you do quit, GO HARD. Don't fuck around. It's a major life decision, and you need to structure your life like a university degree after you quit. Use your brain and map out your own course from a combination of becker, hormozi and sultanic. That's all it takes. Just those 3. And read any books they recommend. If you want a quick simple starter book on copywriting it's ca$hvertising by drew whitman.
Good luck.
Yeah and the guys doing that just got lucky mostly and are only making money "selling the dream". Being an influencer is such a waste of time. You have a 1 in 1000 shot of success. Real business, you have a 1 in 25 shot on your first attempt. 1 in 10 second attempt, 1 in 5 third attempt and 1 in 2 on your 4th.
Sorry for my ignorance but what’s IM?
Internet Marketing.
Any features they want, you MAKE THEM. These are your ALPHA TEAM CLIENTS.)
relax a little, time is definitely not running out
i think something deeper is going on, i recommend talking to a medical / mental health professional, you can google: psychology today - to find a psychologist near you (via zip code)
at twenty years old, you don’t really need to, you can do a bunch of different things, you don’t gotta stick to one thing right now, but just try to enjoy your twenties as much as possible
Don't.
I am also a believer that life requires balance but social media make me just feel bad and think I have to be all the time 100% “hustling and grinding”. I think I will follow a tip that someone commented here and look for professional psychological help.
I wouldn't outright say that 'hustling and grinding' all the time would be bad. Working is what keeps me sane.
Not a specific singular business model.
In general, dropshipping is a complete waste of time and money.
Listen to him. He knows far more than I do.
That is all the things the young generation should need. You are a kind guyThe first thing that comes to mind when I hear "dropshipping" is "giant hairy ball sack"
Completely stop watching youtube.
7 out of 10 to 8 out of 10 influencers are wankers who A) have no knowledge and B) don't give a shit about you or anyone else.
You won't be able to identify the other 2 or 3 out of 10 until you're more experienced.
And here's a great piece of advice from Dan Pena.
This is why you are poor.
This is why most people are poor..
He is right.
No one refuses to believe it's simple. Everyone wants to grossly over complicate it.
It's not EASY, btw. But it is simple.
It's hard and simple.
It's not hard and complicated.
It's hard in the sense that you have to be tough. Long hours. High resilience. You need a certain mindset to make it in business.
But it isn't complicated.
For example, I've literally given you an exact blueprint.
I can already see your mind is not accepting it.
But but.. What about dropshipping?
As Dan said there, you've got a blueprint, but no one's following it. They want to make it more complicated.
Here is all you need to do to guarantee you're a millionaire by 30 and very likely making 5 figures a month within 2-3 years or sooner.
1) Watch
2) Watch
THIS IS THE BLUEPRINT. Listen to every word he says. Watch both 2-3x.
If you are a monster. The sort of person who's going to be killing it in 6 months.
The immediate thing you do after watching that video is go investigate markets. Find your niche market and a product you can build.
Focus on product market fit.
Once you find it, you go build a fast prototype using claude code and/or codex.
I recommend $200/mo codex. It's more sane.
3) You build it. Fast.
4) Call up a bunch of businesses. Tell them what you've built. You're giving them the product free. You tell them you're building a great company and want to make the best possible product so you don't care about making early money, you care about early feedback to make a monster product.
5) Get 10, 20, 30 of them onboard for free.
WHen they love the product, ask them for referrals and reviews. (Tell them you're going to start promoting your product. You're young, you don't have a big marketing budget and you're going to cold call. Ask if they can either refer you to anyone who might like the product OR ask if you can use their name/business when you cold call for social proofing. Remember, these guys get your product free for life, and they get instant feedback. You are their bitch. They will help you.
6) You then build your website/sales page.
7) You then go promote your product. It's not hard.
Cold call. Cold email. You'll hit $10k/mo.
Job done. You're on the path now.
If you are that monster, you'll be making $10k/mo in 6 months.
If you're like everyone else, you'll be watching Joe Wanker Influencer in 6 months talk about the latest shopify method.
Thanks a lot man, just one more thing. Any tips on beating procrastination and relief stress? I know the things I have to do and the ideas I have but I simply just don’t do nothing and scroll all day. I think the most productive things I do is go to university (to just exist all day) and then the gym. I also think university and everything behind it gives me a lot of stress and I have the thinking that if I study to university I don’t have the time to do business and work on my ideas, which also leads do me not starting at all.
You're most likely procrastinating because you haven't yet found the thing that really 'ignites the fire' within you.
That's purely a mentality issue.
Most techies have no clue about business, which means they're always available to hire. If you have $30k to $50k you can get a great SaaS built. That's NOT a lot of money if we're talking real business.
Think about it in terms of
Do I spend 5-8 years becoming an amazing software engineer, and that's the MINIMUM. You are not going to go from scratch to a great dev in a year. AI lets the top engineers absolutely dominate you, it doesn't let you be on their level playing field, or do I spend 2 years becoming an insanely good marketer and copywriter, scrape together a small micro-SaaS(which you can vibe code yourself) and make $5k-$10k/mo, put by $5k/mo, and in 12 months I can go hire a firm to build me a SaaS.
You can easily buy tech talent.
You can easily buy marketing talent if you know where to look
Your real asset if you want to make big money(9 figure valuations) is neither. It's vision, managing people, energy, scale, systems.