Don't fall behind - High income skills worth learning

High income skills for 2025.

I like doing this video every year

because I like to think and look ahead

at what high income skills are worth learning,

what skills are worth knowing

to make as much money
as possible with those skills.

I'm asked very often by you guys,

I'm asked very often by my own friends

what skills they should learn

to bring in a high income.

So in this video, I'm going to cover

some of my favourite high income skills

and skills that I think are worth learning.

Before we get into it,

I've put together a free resource

about high income skills.

It basically covers a lot of the stuff

that we're covering in this video.

Links to services, links to websites,

links to resources,

links to things that will help you
learn these high income skills.

So the first one, and I'm very biased here,

is video,

making video,

video creation.

Whether it's for TikTok,

whether it's for for Instagram,

whether it's for your own YouTube channel,

whether it's for your own personal branding,

or whether it's for a business.

Video right now,

it just doesn't seem to be slowing down.

Personal brands and businesses

are just thriving

when it comes to video content,

making video content,

sharing just anything and everything

about products, services, their life,

whatever it might be.

I think a lot of people do,

unfortunately, fall into the trap

and fall into this idea of that

you need to be showing your face,

that you need to be
building a personal brand,

that you need to be focusing

on making video about yourself.

Now, of course, that helps

if you're trying to build a personal brand,

if you're trying to become famous,

or if you're trying to

sell your own products or services,

then yeah,

you probably should be

sharing your personal stories

and things like that.

But I do think

if you already have a business

and you already have a service

or a product that you're selling,

you don't actually necessarily

have to build a personal brand.

You can make videos around those products

and services that you're selling.

I think what also makes videos
so powerful right now

is that it's become easier than ever

to make high quality video.

Of course, I'm using
professional camera here

to record this video.

So I have the nice depth of field

that you can see.

Looks nice and clean, very high resolution.

But that's just because I like it.

I do think to myself,

I can make this exact same video

with just an iPhone and a mic.

That's all I need.

I don't really need to have
this fancy camera setup.

I don't need to have an expensive lens,

an expensive camera, an expensive mic.

I can just do it with a sort of

handheld microphone
connected to my phone.

For some other reason

a lot of people think that

you need to be making
super high quality video

when it comes to doing
informational videos like this

or reviews or something like that

when you really don't.

Because the important thing

is the message, getting the message across.

Businesses are doing this
really, really well on Instagram and TikTok,

where they're just recording videos

with their iPhone of products and services

that they're selling, wherever it might be.

You don't need a professional camera.

I think the only reason

you need a professional camera

is if you're looking for certain look,

a certain aesthetic,

and maybe you're trying to shoot

like commercials or something.

High quality commercials

that advertise a product or service.

I almost feel like it's got to the point now

where when something looks too commercial,

too polished, too high quality,

it almost can put people off

because they're like,

"Hey, this is just an ad.
I'm not interested in watching this."

A lot of people also think
you need lots of followers,

lots of subscribers.

You need to basically go viral

to have success

on when it comes to making video,

sharing video on socials

and things like that,

when really that's not the case.

I have a friend

who has a channel

with less than 2000 subscribers

and he sells a very, very unique service,

very niche service,

which basically just helps people
set up their e-commerce store

on a certain platform.

And with those
2000 subscribers that he has,

he makes $10,000 a month

in just selling that service.

Because people are looking
for that specific thing.

People are obviously going on YouTube,

going on Instagram

or Google or whatever,

searching for this specific service,

this specific e-commerce platform,

then they're coming across his videos

and then realising,

"Hey, I don't have time to do this,

I'd rather pay someone to do it."

And that's exactly what he's selling.

He's selling the service of just setting it up.

And he's making amazing money through it.

Learning video editing software
is a very good skill to have

because video editing software,

especially now,

I feel like it's just become
a lot, lot easier to learn,

a lot more user friendly.

You don't need to be
some sort of Hollywood editor

to make super high quality edits.

So you can just do it

with simple software these days.

AI.

So in the last year,

AI, I feel like, has just continued to grow,

continued to blow up

and it has become a much bigger part

of my life recently,

very, very recently,

because there are lots of things

that I still don't know how to do,

I still don't know how to

properly program and code.

I know some code, I know HTML and CSS,

which isn't really coding,

that's more sort of markup.

I know some JS, some JavaScript,

but that's really where
my knowledge is limited.

But AI code editors right now

just make it so much easier

to make and build anything.

You have code editors like bolt.new

You have lovable.dev, I think it is.

These two services can help you make websites,

can help you make so many different things

and you're just using natural language

which really makes the barrier to entry,

to makes sort of SAS products,
to make websites,

to make e-commerce,

to do any sort of digital service,

nearly any sort of digital service,

makes the barrier to entry so much lower.

You don't need to spend lots of money

on a very expensive developer anymore.

You can get a sort of base product,

a base model going,

and then if it starts making money,

then maybe you could hire a developer

to implement features

that maybe an AI editor can't.

But AI right now, learning how to use AI,

learning all the different AI services

that can help you in daily tasks,

in daily things that you need to get done.

It's just gonna make such

a big difference to life going forward.

I don't think people realise

how much we're going
through this sort of AI revolution.

I also don't think people realise

how much AI is already used
in their day to day life.

It's just become part of our data usage.

Learning how to use AI

will be similar to learning how to use Google.

So there are people who go to Google

and can search stuff, basic stuff

like your mum and dad, your grandparents,

they can use Google.

But then if you're watching this video,

you're probably the type of Google user

that knows how to use quotations,

who knows how to search certain websites,

who knows how to look
for certain things with Google.

There is a big gap of knowledge there.

People know how to use AI
to do basic stuff.

And then there are some people

who know how to use AI
to do really complex things.

And I think learning how to use AI

to do the complex things,

that's where the high income skills
will come in.

Marketing.

So that can be any sort of marketing.

Marketing, digital marketing, email marketing,

social media marketing, video marketing.

There's just so many different types

of marketing, right?

And I think it's important, especially now,

to learn a specific type
of marketing, if you can.

I myself feel like I don't actually have

a specific type of marketing.

I do much more lean
into social media marketing

and organic marketing,

but I wouldn't say

I'm an expert at it.

I like to think of myself

as a sort of Jack of all trades,

and that has really helped me

market so different things.

It's helped me market my YouTube channel,

it's helped me market my digital products,

it's helped me market my services,

all these different things.

All because I know a mix of everything.

But I do think

there is so much room for very developed,

hyper specific marketing.

So someone who knows

just how to do email marketing,

someone who knows

just how to do sort of

TikTok marketing.

Maybe it's even more niche,

like TikTok product marketing.

Maybe it's someone who knows
how to do YouTube marketing.

There's just so many different types

of hyper specific places

where you can learn to do marketing.

And marketing,

the most powerful thing about marketing

is that you can show results,

especially in this digital age,

as long as you're not doing

sort of billboards and stuff,

you can really show results these days.

So things like Instagram marketing,

YouTube marketing,

Facebook marketing, things like that,

you can use tracking links,

emails, stuff like that.

You can actually show to a client

or your own business

if that form of marketing is working,

because you can see

how much money you spend,

you can see

where the customer is coming from.

There's just a lot of tracking involved.

And with that,

if you're good at what you do,

businesses will be more than happy

to pay for your services.

Because if you can prove to a business

that you can make them

say $5,000 month, $10,000 month,

$100,000 month,

and you ask 10% or 20% in exchange,

like, they're not going to say no.

But the problem is, of course,

you've got you have to be able to prove

that you can do it in the first place.

The best marketers I've worked with

have usually actually done

something for free to prove that it works.

And only once it starts working

do they start taking a cut,

because naturally, they're putting
the effort and resources

into helping marketing product or service,

they need to be rewarded.

But the great thing about marketing

is that it can scale so much.

If you have a good business that can scale,

yeah, it's just a win-win for everyone.

Sales is another thing

that does sort of lean
into marketing as well.

But I do think they can be

seen as quite differently,

because marketing is one thing

where you're advertising
a product or service,

but then sales is after that,

when you're trying to close a deal,

when you're trying to make relationships,

when you're trying
to get the actual customer

to make the purchase.

Because marketing is good for awareness

and things like that,

but sales is really where things deliver.

So for example,

I have videocreatorscourse.com

On videocreatorscourse.com,
I have a package,

which is $10,000,

it's an eight week program teaching people

how to make high quality video,

teaching people how to make video
for their businesses

and things like that,

just to expand their business.

$10,000 is obviously a lot of money to spend.

So when they see the website,

a lot of people aren't just going
to be willing to spend $10,000

through their credit card just like that.

Usually what they'll want to do
is have a call.

They'll ask extra questions,

they'll ask what the package can deliver,

what we can do for them,

all these different things.

That's where a salesperson comes in.

A salesperson would answer their call,

would answer their emails,

would answer their questions,

and really try to push them

into making that sell.

Of course, you don't want them to be too pushy

because you wanna make sure

that the customer is going to be getting

what they're actually getting,

it needs to be of value.

But a salesperson, a good salesperson

is someone who can close those deals,

who can make sure that the customer

actually makes the purchase.

And again, salespeople,

they work off commissions.

If you can get into something

where the commissions are high,

it doesn't really matter,

I feel like the percentage,

I think it matters

more about the commissions

because obviously 1% of 100,000

is going to be much bigger

than 5% of 10,000.

So I think if you're someone

who's comfortable talking to people

or just sort of communicating

with the customer,

trying to handle their needs,

trying to handle what they want,

sales can be such a good way

to make a lot of money.

Even though we talked about AI earlier

and AI coding,

I still do think if you're someone

who enjoys the idea of coding,

of learning how to code
and things like that,

coding is still one of the best ways

to make so much money.

There are developers

working for big companies

like Facebook, Netflix, NVIDIA.

NVIDIA is probably the biggest one.

If you can learn how to code,

I think a lot of people think

that you need to be super,
super smart to code.

I don't think you actually do.

Coding is just a lot of logic,

a lot of understanding programming

and sort of how things
should work in a specific order.

If that's what you're interested

and you like systems

and you think your brain can handle

that sort of thing,

coding can be such
a big way to make money.

I think it's something like
50% of NVIDIA employees now,

have a net worth of over
$1,000,000 or something.

Of course, there was
a lot of luck involved there

being at the right company,

getting stocks and shares

and things like that.

But if you can learn how to code

and you're somewhat good at it,

remember, you don't need to be an expert,

you just got to be somewhat good at it.

Companies are more than willing

to pay big bucks for those skills.

And with AI coming into play now

with things like GitHub, Copilot, and Cursor,

if you know how to code,

you can pretty much accelerate

how much code you can write

with AI program programmers like this.

UI and UX development.

So I am biased here

because I started doing UI development.

That was actually one of the main ways

I started making money.

Doing UI design for websites and for apps.

I still do think there is a huge market

and I still do think
it's a very high income skill

when it comes to UI and UX development.

However, UI/UX development

is one of those things

where I don't think

there is like one course or one place

or one way to learn it.

UI/UX development,

a lot of it, it's just arts.

It's just art.

UX development, I guess,
is not as much art

because UX development you can learn,

especially because you UX development

is usually patterns, systems,

and just logical thinking.

But UI development

and the sort of
creative side of these things,

that's where things can become
a bit more complicated.

And that's why UI designers
and UX developers,

they can earn a lot of money.

Because it's one of those things where

I feel like it's unfair to say,

but you either have it or you don't.

But I still do think you can learn it.

I think with time and effort and dedication,

you can very much develop
your UI/UX skills.

I know this firsthand.

When I first started doing
UI/UX development,

my designs and what I was coming up with

was terrible.

It's just going to be.

It's always going to be terrible
when you first start.

Very rarely, are you amazing at something

the first time you start doing it.

I'd say it took me quite a few years

to get into the flow

and really understanding

what looks good,

what works,

what people like

and what businesses like as well.

Because of course

you gotta be selling

these services to businesses.

So if you're someone who sees yourself

as a sort of creative person,

someone who likes art direction,
creative direction,

who likes making sure

things look good, but also are functional,

that's the main thing,

something that's gotta look good,

but also gotta be functional.

UI/UX development is such a good
high income skill to have.

Everything we use day to day

has had a designer

think about the UI and the UX.

When you use your phone,

when you use your computer,

when you use a website,

there is someone there

thinking about how it should look.

There's someone there thinking about

how it should work,

and the best UI and UX are things
that just work intuitively.

You don't even think about it.

It just feels natural.

It just feels like it should work.

It works without any issues.

The things that are frustrating

when it comes to UI and UX

are things like, for example,

say you fill out a form on a website.

You fill out a form and you put your name,

you put in your address,

you put in all this information,

but you've missed one of the forms

without realising.

You go to hit next on the form,

it tells you you've missed a format imput,

but then it's deleted
everything else in the form.

That is one of the most frustrating parts

of bad UX design.

Someone has made this form

and not thought about,

"Hey, if someone makes
an error in the form,

let's keep all the information
that's not an error

and leave it in there,

and only show them
the form that is an error."

It's just crazy that a lot of people

still don't think of these sorts of things,

and that's where UI
and UX development comes in.

UI design is something

that is very important to me

because it was the thing

that really helped sort of propel
and kick start my career,

learning UI design,

learning art direction,
creative direction.

If it weren't for me,

learning those sorts of things,

I definitely wouldn't be here

making YouTube videos.

It very much kickstarted everything for me.

So I do think it's a really
good high income skill to have,

but it's not something
that can happen quickly.

You've got to dedicate some time and effort

and you've really got to love doing it.

Make sure to check out
the free resource that I mentioned.

It has links to websites,

links to resources, a lot of things

that you can use

to learn a lot of the high income skills

that I mentioned in this video.

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