Excellent ordinary people
Hello everyone, I am Lao Li. A blogger who focuses on collecting useful information on the Internet.
Today we are going to talk about characters in this issue. What character is it about?
First of all, we will not talk about some particularly well-known and awesome figures, such as Jack Ma and Lei Jun. Liu Qiangdong. Although these people are very powerful and successful, they have little to do with most of us ordinary people. Because their achievements cannot be achieved by ordinary people's hard work.
our channel. What we pay most attention to are ordinary people who are doing relatively well in specific fields. From them we can get some practical and practical experience and inspiration. As an ordinary person, it is easier to make progress by
learning from these outstanding ordinary people. It’s easier to get the results you want.
Programmers do self-media
The person we are going to talk about today is a self-media blogger named Enpei Computer Vision. He has posted a total of 38 videos on Douyin and has 150,000 fans. He has posted 28 videos on Station B and has 60,000 fans. , guess how much money he has earned through the side business of self-media in the past year or so?
The answer is more than 2 million yuan
So how did he do it?
First of all, Enpei was originally a computer vision algorithm engineer in a large factory. Now he quits his job and works as a technical director in a small factory. After work, he registered a Douyin account at the end of 2021 and posted some demos of the practical applications of computer vision in life
. Demonstration effects, such as using machine vision to check whether pedestrians are wearing masks, whether workers are wearing safety helmets,
vehicle flow detection on the road, parking space vacancy detection, gesture control of drones, poker card suit judgment, etc.
Then Enpei registered as a lecturer on the Douyin Xuelang platform and taught the course "Python Computer Vision 0 Basics to Advanced". The course was priced at 899 yuan. According to sales data, Enpei sold at least 2.1 million yuan. Moreover, the current fee for the Douyin Xuelang platform is 0, and only 6% of the payment channel fee is charged, which is negligible. So this is basically Enpei’s pre-tax income.
I have listened to several trial classes of Enpei’s course. It can be said that in this era of paid knowledge with overwhelming parallel import courses, it is one of the few courses that is indeed informative and valuable.
First of all, Enpei will not start from 0 to teach about CV algorithms and convolutional neural networks. This cannot be explained in a few hours. Enpei's courses start directly from practical applications and teach
you to directly use ready-made open source frameworks and models. Recognize the input graphics, get the position and coordinates, and then make some logical judgments to make a demonstrable demo.
We all say that interest is the best teacher. It allows you to make something that can be run and demonstrated as quickly as possible. It is a stimulant that stimulates people to continue learning.
As a non-computer vision programmer, I felt enlightened after reading this. It turns out that basic computer vision applications are not that complicated and do not require
you to start with linear algebra and learn various things bit by bit. CV algorithm. As long as you master the framework written by predecessors, you can make something that can run and be used by yourself.
Programmer's side job
So, what can we learn from Enpei? First of all, as a programmer, if you want to start a side job, it is not a good idea to choose one-on-one outsourcing. The
essence of outsourcing is to sell your time and use labor to get paid, and its marginal cost will not be reduced. So we should try our best to do one-to-many things.
There are two most common one-to-many ways for programmers to make money, one is to pay for software (selling software), and the other is to pay for knowledge (selling courses), and Enpei does the latter.
Any profession can sell courses
Not just the profession of programmers, but any profession with professional knowledge can do this. Open a self-media account after work and talk about your professional knowledge whenever you have time.
Don’t worry about the slow growth of fans. Knowledge-based content will definitely not grow as fast as general entertainment content. However, knowledge-based content attracts precise fans. After a certain number of fans are accumulated, the fans will grow
. You can consider recording a series of useful video tutorials for sale. There are still many precision fans who are willing to pay for knowledge courses.
music teacher
In addition to Enpei, there are countless examples, such as the vocal lessons of Xie Anni Wild Designer, Makayev, and Yisheng Oppa.
Let’s briefly talk about the vocal lessons of this big V with more than 4 million fans, Yisheng Oppa. He is a music teacher at Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He also made a Douyin account after work, and gradually accumulated it to the
present number of fans. I watched one of his live broadcasts some time ago. He was selling his vocal lessons in the live broadcast, priced at 398 yuan. He sold 600 copies in that live broadcast alone, totaling 230,000 yuan. Note
, That is just the sales volume of one live broadcast, not the total sales. This does not include his income from live broadcast gifts and window sales. Compared with his salary as a teacher at Shenyang Conservatory of Music, this income is simply unimaginable.
Therefore, a person does not have to join a big factory, but must quit his job and start a business, so that his income will qualitatively improve. The self-media platform is actually a platform for every individual to start a business.
Of course, there are only a few who can achieve millions of fans, but those who take action will definitely have more opportunities than those who wait and see. You don’t need to be like Yisheng Oppa to achieve millions of fans, you only need to be like Enbae
. If you have more than 100,000 followers, you may earn an income several times higher than your job.
Platform bonus
At present, platforms like Douyin Xuelang are also encouraging everyone to create paid knowledge content. The platform takes 0 commission and only deducts 6% of the payment channel fee. You must know that many knowledge payment platforms have very high commissions, such as Tencent Classroom. 10% will be charged, and NetEase Cloud Classroom will charge 30%. Therefore, we should seize the good opportunity when the Xuelang platform is free and start our own course selling business as soon as possible.
This is the dividend of current self-media. You don’t need to resign, you don’t need to start a business, you don’t need capital, and you don’t have the risk of losing money. You just need to take the time to try. Even if you fail, there will be no loss.
Okay, that’s it for this issue. Pay attention to Lao Li. We will tell more stories about outstanding ordinary people in the future, get some ideas and inspiration from them, and find a growth path that suits you.