Dev Influencers

Charles Max Wood explains how podcasting has repeatedly opened up opportunities for him to move his career forward. He dives into how it helped early in his career, how he was able to use it as a tool to find freelance clients, and how it can take you beyond a full time senior developer job into coaching or courses.

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Charles Max Wood explains the default path that developers seem to follow in their career and why that doesn't give developers the fulfillment they're looking for.

He then walks through some of the options to change the direction of your career.

If you're making a difference, you can make much more of a difference if you can go full time.

In order to do that, you're going to need to replace any income that comes from things that are not on mission for you.

You need to start thinking about monetizing parts of your mission. This doesn't mean not putting up free content, but it does mean that some folks are in a position to pay for more help than you can provide for free. You can help them accelerate and they can help you open the door to help more people.

Once you're making a difference you need to start measuring your impact and figure out what you can do to make more of a difference.

Chuck talks about what you need to do to figure out which problems to solve and how to provide solutions that really make a difference.

Many people want to become influencers because they want to make a difference. This episode dives into how to make a difference or how to figure out what it's going to take to get people the outcome you want.

The most common objection that people put up when they are approached about becoming an influencer is that they don't have enough experience. Chuck breaks down the flaws in that thinking and tells some stories of people he knows who started a show even if they were new.

Charles Max Wood talks about becoming a Developer Celebrity. He breaks down the idea of being famous or a celebrity and how he's come to terms with the ideas around prestige and squared that up with where he wants to go.

In the last episode, we talked about building a reputation and how that leads to trust so that people will buy from you. This episodes explains how to show up over and over again so that people can find you and then how to address your audience to know what they want so you can build the course they need.

It also explains how to make a proper pitch to get them to take the next action.

Building a reputation is building trust. It shows people that you have the skills necessary to get them what they want, which means that they can buy from you or hire you without much risk.

Chuck walks you through how a podcast will help you build your reputation and how to use it to build relationships and how to parley that into opportunities you're looking for.

In the trifecta of Skills, Relationships, and Reputation, Chuck explains how relationships make the difference in getting what you want.

Essentially, but offering to give people what they want over and over, you begin to see some of those things come back to you.

You shouldn't build relationships focused on what you get, but you should be strategic about who you try to build relationships with in the first place.

To learn how Chuck does this with his podcasts go to https://devinfluencers.com/apply