Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps. Now today, I want
to talk about why sometimes those first few dollars you make through apps is the
most important.
Alright, so I'm doing this video bit earlier than normal. I came into the
office like at 2:00 o'clock this morning, as opposed to the normal time of 4:30
because I wanted to catch the last few innings of the World Series game 5.
I've never been much of a sports fan but I'm a baseball fan and I always have
been. So the games start like at 1 o'clock in the morning here, so if I want
to catch any of them, I have to get up really, really early. So, last week was
a big week for us in terms of our design services. We've always done the apps, we
have app clients and everything like that. But we've been marketing Overpass
Design too to quite a lot of people. And last week, we sent off our
first few invoices on that and it was a huge thing. I mean, it wasn't a lot of
money. This is the thing, I was talking my designer about it,
we've been working on it for a while, trying to get word out and all this
kind of stuff. But we haven't really been that successful with it. A lot of it's
been because I've been preoccupied with the apps and everything like
that and the other side of things. But we had a first few
invoices going on for for Overpass Design and she said, "It's a shame it's
taken us this long and it's such a small amount of money." And I thought exactly
the opposite. I thought this is working, right? The possibilities of it. And I told
her, this reminds me very much of when I first started making a bit of
money with apps. Like it would - when I first put the apps on
the app market and I saw that little trickle of money coming in. I mean, just a
few dollars, a few pounds a day or whatever. And you know,
everybody said, "Oh, oh, that's cute!" Everybody was saying how much money
you're making, I was still working at a contract and everyone's saying
that's cute and everything like that. I was thinking this is just like - to
them they thought, you know, beer money or whatever, it's cute that
you're doing that little thing. But for me I wanted it to be much more.
The fact that I made even a little bit of money was showing me that it was
possible. Because on a logical level, I know that it's possible. I've seen other
people do it, and all that stuff, but it's not until you do it
yourself that you realize, "Oh, this is it! I thought of it
very much as being - if you were - if you were like drilling, if you're
making a well or whatever and you dig in a hole, then you find a little trickle
of water, you don't stop there and say that's not enough water. You think, I'm
onto something here and that was that first bit of money I made from the apps.
The way I feel, okay, we're onto something here. This is working conceptually,
you know, we got new motivation because we got a little bit of effort
there. Or a little bit of success. Even though it's not the success
that we wanted, I wanted to just - I wanted to hit the home run, straight
going back to baseball here, hit the home run straight, you know, first at-bat but
it rarely ever happens. Sometimes, things are a little bit harder than
we anticipate. But it's great! And for those of you out there who are
making a little bit of money, I hope that you don't get discouraged
because it's such a small amount. Because it's very rare to do that. It's very
rare to be able to to make passive income. In fact, it's funny
because I can remember when I came to England, I just got out of
university and I was looking for a job. And I thought, it's so hard to find a job.
Nobody's hiring, all this kind of stuff. Like if I could just get - if I
could just impress enough people, I can get a job, right? And now, that's like
that's plan B or C or D or whatever. right because that sounds easy. Finding a
job is easy. Making money through passive income, that's a lot more
difficult. It's a lot more challenging and you know, I'm just hammering away
at it. So, and sometimes - okay, let me just tell you this little story
here and you, guys, you can stop watching now if you want. But you may
notice I have a bunch of baseballs around me in the background. Sometimes -
so, this is one of my favorite baseballs here. It's, you know, for years I
was going to - if you go to a major league baseball game and you catch a foul ball,
or a home run or whatever, you get to keep it as a souvenir. Ever
since I was a little boy, we'd go to baseball game, so my mom and dad
bring me to the baseball game. We bring a baseball glove and it never
caught anything. And finally in 1997, I'm 25 years old, all those years of never
catching anything, I caught a foul ball off the third-base
line hit by Jody Reed late in the season. You know, Padres weren't that
good, although they went to the World Series the following year.
And after doing that it was so like I brought a glove with me every time.
My aura - I always watch every - because it gave - like all of a sudden
after all those years, I knew that it was possible to catch a foul ball.
In fact, like two years later, I got another one at the Royals game
in Kansas City. Just because it just showed that it was possible, and
sometimes when you're getting started out, when you're doing the apps, it's just
getting that first little bit of success just to show you that it's possible, is a
huge thing. I'm excited about the design side of things. I'm just - yeah, I'm just
excited about the fact that we're branching out into something else. We got
the app revenue, we got the client revenue, we've got the
passive income as well. But we're starting to do new different things on
the design side of stuff. It's all very, very exciting. Anyway, I
started ramble on again. That's it for today! I hope you, guys, have a great day
today and I'll talk to you tomorrow!