In this episode, I interview David Tucker to discuss his career and content creation.

• Started freelancing
• Digital agency in multiple roles
  • Software engineer
  • Leader
  • R&D
  • Sales Engineer
  • Created various types of content
• Back to being an independent
  • CTO consultant
  • Started creating content (again)
  • Content creation started to pay off
• Step back into how he started creating content originally
  • Blogging
  • Video series
• Networking worked for him
  • Meet people at conferences
  • Keeping up with people he knew from work
  • Follow-up with people he met at conferences where there was some commonality
• More on when he left the agency and started his own consultancy
  • Enjoyed the work but earnings being tied to working on an hourly basis was a factor to move to content creation
• Jason goes off on some long rambling question about how to predict income with content creation
• Content creation
  • Income is a lagging indicator
  • Skills can be learned and get better off
  • Production process should improve over time
  • Like anything some people will be better, but if you are intention about it you can get better
  • Get the production process to be as efficient as you can
• Other options for diversifying income
  • Micro SaaS application
  • Digital product of some kind
  • Sponsorship on Open Source, etc.
• YouTube content
  • Building an audience will take awhile
  • Marketing skills important
  • Social media important
  • You have to bring all the eyeballs to your channel yourself
• Working with a company that already has the eyeballs you want to reach makes it easier
  • David looked at Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru to aim at cloud related material
• Balance of income streams
  • Some consultant
  • Content creation
  • Other work like marketing, speaking and paid presentations
• Lessons learned/advice
  • Technology field makes it easier to try out content creation and/or diversify your income streams
  • Try it out, what do you have to lose?
  • Start off with per item basis and before moving into royalty type material
• Final piece of advice
  • Spend time preparing for live material to be efficient for the audience
• How to follow David social
  • https://www.davidtucker.net
  • Twiter: @_DavidTucker_
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtuckernet/