#189 · live audit of a 287 sub youtube channel by a $400k/mo creator
Focus on your local market first – Saudi Arabia or the UAE. The cost of living and average service rates are higher there, so you can charge more. Once you have traction locally, you can expand to other markets. Keep in mind time‑zone differences make remote work with North America challenging.
Go directly into automations. There's no higher-income skill as of right now — it's a massive, exploding industry. Your buying-power arbitrage (roughly 20x in Ethiopia's case) means automation delivers a much higher quality of life per dollar earned, but that doesn't make it 20x easier — you'll face real friction, since a lot of people, especially in the West, look down on offshore workers from Ethiopia, Africa, the Philippines, or India due to unfair assumptions about work quality or English skills, even though that's silly. You'll also struggle at first because you don't have much business experience to know what to automate — you'll learn that through trial and error, but it'll make you a better business owner faster than something like copywriting, a traditional agency, or a cleaning business would. Even in the West, this skill delivers an extra 10-20x multiple on your time; the moment you land a client paying $2,000/month, that's roughly $40,000/month in US buying-power equivalent for you.
No, you don’t need to have knowledge of a specific niche or market to get into automation. I do have experience in some of the niches I show in my videos, but for others I don’t. What I do is go into a bunch of communities, read through all the pain points and problems people are talking about, and then use those pain points to formulate my offers. The process takes me a couple of hours, and anybody can do it—you don’t need to understand too much. As for the best country for entrepreneurship, hands down it’s the United States. Labor productivity there is about 1.5 × that of most of the developed world, let alone the undeveloped world. That means if you could sell a $10,000 project in Canada, you could sell the same project for $15,000 in the US. The reason is that people in the US work more and have systems that enable them to be more productive with their time, plus regulations that are very business‑forward. That’s also one of the reasons why the US is one of the hardest countries in the world to immigrate to. I’m bullish on the US; even if the age of American imperialism is coming to an end, the numbers show it won’t be anytime soon.
Yes, optimal niches for a market like Tunisia will be very different from the optimal set of services for, say, North America. But you don't have to sell to people in your local target country — that's really the whole promise of the internet: you can sell into a market that's already well-established with clear, well-understood solutions to needs, the kind talked about and demonstrated on channels like mine. There's nothing that necessitates selling to your local market. If you're in Bangladesh, you don't have to sell only to your local Dhaka market — you can go global. The tradeoff as you go further away is cultural norms and time zones become less familiar. As long as you control for those two variables — either by offsetting your own schedule, or by consuming a lot of media from your target country to understand how people there think, which, keep in mind, is quite similar to how people in your own country think (human beings are human beings, 99.99% the same DNA, just some superficial design tweaks like CSS on an HTML website) — you'll be fine. You can follow the exact standard playbook and achieve good results wherever you are.
He uses a simple success model (order value ÷ saturation × culture fit). Estimates Indonesian market: low order value (~$300), low saturation, low culture fit → ~0.5 success rate. US market: high order value (~$3,000), high saturation, high culture fit → higher potential. Concludes that doing both is fine; suggests starting with the US market then translating the approach to Indonesian, noting many other factors matter.