Maybe people aren’t stupid enough to have an auction on Thanksgiving for your exact reason.

OP makes it sound like he just stumbled into a RE purchase like he found it in a sale bin at the fle market.

“The use cases are up to you” that’s the most sales antithetical position I’ve heard. You are basically putting the burden of selling on your customer to “figure it out”.

Fiverr is great for freelancers but risky if it’s a major % of client acquisition for a company. But marketing is more expensive so its an interesting balance. I can see both the appeal and concern.

Absolutely! It worked for me at your age. I used the first few years to grow the revenue and got a comfortable living. While all my friends were out partying I was working on my business. I think it kept me out of trouble looking back.

Some tips:

Pay close attention to your ordering and payment process. Make that the most seamless experience as possible (without buying much tech or software).

Get to know your customers problems. Try to offer prepackaged solutions that help connect the dots from the areas the customer doesn’t have opinions on. You will sometimes find if it’s consulting the customer doesn’t know everything they want so if you can speed that up and help them great but if you can upsell even better.

Be organized with all money coming and and going out. This will help when it’s time to pay taxes.

Website, seo, and marketing are great but see what you can do with word of mouth and recommendations first then. Still need a website but keep things simple as possible as far as marketing spend until you really know your customer.

Books books books. Read non stop and make it part of your day. Take notes.

Listen to advice from everyone but don’t waste your time with people that think you are too young.

Build your network and look for ways to sell through other channels. If your line of work allows.

Today I learned OP wants to be rich in the future. Good to know.

How does this NOT seem like a scam? Like how is a second opinion needed?

None of my customers asked if I had a college degree or how well I did on exams. They wanted my services so they paid me for them and referred business to me. This worked for me in the US. I understand your country is very much based on formal education so I can’t say in your case.

Reading books is really important. In fact reading many many books is key. Test scores don’t matter in my opinion. Test scores have never paid my bills.

It could be more simple than getting lot of action videos or more dangerous videos. But the world wants to know what’s going on since the taliban were given the capital city back. You could get a lot of views just by showing daily life, cooking, buying food, transportation small things like this. It would take some time for the channel to get monetized. But eventually you can make good money. It’s all about telling a story from a perspective few people get to see.

Somehow a couple customers turned into a website then with networking I leveraged a resell channel (not knowing thats what it was called). That sort of exploded small scale that got me a terrible office. I wasn’t even old enough to buy alcohol then.

The first few customers proved a market need for me that I just kept trying replicate that before I actually realized I was in business for myself. I don’t recall ever “making a jump” or having a windfall of funds and it was by no means effortless.

Looking back on my first business I hated the idea to hire employees for order intake or delivery. I hated the idea so much I got burnt-out for a while. I wish I did it sooner with a growth mindset.

The company does a great job at looking valuable to investors. Being valuable is most of the time based on speculation. Being valuable is also largely confused with the word profitable. It operates for a period of time on capital raised from investors. If on a long enough timeline it can’t turn a profit those investors lose their money.