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. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed it. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter.

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