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021 - From Freelance Web Designer to YouTube Star with Darrel Wilson
Web Design Business with Josh Hall
Darrel Wilson, someone who you've likely seen when Googling any tutorials on WordPress or Divi, has a YouTube channel that at the time of posting this podcast episode has over 167,000 subscribers and over 17 million views. We get into how he went from being a freelance web designer and working a regular job to starting his endeavor to create WordPress training videos on YouTube. It was fascinating hearing how it blew up and how his life, both personally and professionally has changed with his massive YouTube success.
In This Episode
00:00 - Introduction
03:42 - Greeting to Darryl
05:03 - Path to YouTuber
10:01 - Web Design journey
17:18 - Need for Divi video
20:41 - Teach not showoff
23:39 - Long game mentality
25:49 - Keeping dated videos
27:24 - Better than Google
29:26 - Making money
34:46 - How to monetize
37:59 - Deciding to do YouTube
40:45 - Dating & Divi
45:38 - Prioritizing
47:45 - Video during up times
52:59 - It shows attitude
57:07 - Travel opportunities
1:02:14 - Maturing in finances
1:08:03 - Adapting to success
1:12:41 - Positive reinforcement
1:17:14 - Josh’s thoughts on Divi
1:24:16 - Darryl’s thoughts
1:31:52 - Equipment used for video
Get all links, resources and show notes at:
https://joshhall.co/021
