#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.
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.
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.
I can confidently tell you there are a lot of people I work with right now who are domiciled in India and work with people all over the world. The important thing, if you're living in a much lower cost-of-living country and attempting an arbitrage strategy to get paid way more than your local cost of living would mathematically suggest, is that you need to present as far away from cheap offshore talent or labor as humanly possible. Don't compete in the market as a commodity — compete in a market of one. Provide value, provide revenue impact, provide savings impact. Make sure everything you do isn't framed as 'I build systems' but as 'I build systems for a specific outcome.' As long as you position yourself as a high-value consultant, like I do, you can do this regardless of where you live.
No, as a beginner you should not target local businesses first. There’s a big list of things to target before going local—always start with digital, and consider hybrid or high‑cost‑of‑living countries before local. Local businesses are much harder to scrape leads for; you usually need to pull data via Google Maps API or address‑based scraping, which is hyper‑limited and raises the bar significantly. You’d have to invest far more money than for digital businesses, yet the pay is low, so the return isn’t worth it. Generally, these businesses have a high barrier to entry and offer little pay. If you want context, I’ll link a video about niches; three automation‑agency niches come with criteria I use, one of which is that they tend to be digital. For newcomers, that means definitely not targeting local businesses—it’s just a lot easier to pull the digital lever. If you’re experienced and see a genuine market opportunity with a particular type of local business, then I might consider it.