#CreatorStories showcases the honest personal experiences of digital creators who monetize their knowledge of a skill and sell it on Selar. We share these stories every week to inspire you to create and sell a product out of your wealth of knowledge and be a part of the digital creator economy.

This week, we turn the lights on Josiah Precious, also known as the Digital Hustler online. Precious works as a Crypto trader, Affiliate marketer, and international speaker.  

Let’s get to know her, shall we?

Can we meet Josiah Precious?

My name is Precious and I’m 21 years old. I’m a crypto trader, affiliate marketer, and transformational speaker. I’m also an interior designer but that’s on the side.

What was your career journey like before becoming a crypto trader and affiliate marketing expert? 

I entered University when I was 15 years old and wanted to study Civil Engineering but I was given Building and Woodwork Technology. I was planning to change courses later but after my first year, my GP wasn’t good enough for me to change courses. So I decided to stick with Building and Woodwork Technology and graduate with first class.

I started thinking about how I’d make it happen and realized that I’d have to get a 5.0GP in my three remaining years in school. In my second year in school, I could not get a 5.0 for the first semester. I got a B in a 15-unit load course. So I just entered into business and forgot about making first class. In 2017, I wanted to start crypto trading, but I didn’t have capital. So I started learning furniture making and doing mini importation to raise money because I asked my mum to give me money for business and she refused (lol). 

How did you get started with crypto trading?

I took a lot of crypto courses. I’ve taken more than 5 crypto courses both from Nigerians and abroad. I was liquidated so many times. I lost millions of dollars in crypto because I felt like I knew everything but I didn’t. When I became a little bit solid early last year, I got more courses to find out why I was losing money. I found a lot of loopholes, so I had to unlearn and learn new things. I understood that I had to keep emotions aside, do technical analysis and have a strategy. Even now, I’m still learning but I’m not where I used to be.

How has your crypto trading experience been?

Crypto trading is cool for me now because I now know a lot of things and I’m still learning. If I want to make money in the market, I know what to do and what not to do. I don’t chase the market, I wait for the market to come to me for me to see its setup. I have my strategy and it’s working for me. Generally, it’s been a rollercoaster ride. 

Do you have any digital products on sale? 

Yes. I have 5 active digital products on sale currently on Selar.

What made you decide to create a digital product? 

It was because I wanted to create a community. My team and I would be launching my trading platform soon. A decentralized exchange built on Binance Smartchain.

I don’t think you’re successful if you don’t impact what you know to others. If someone didn’t teach me, I wouldn’t know. I felt like people have lost so much money in crypto and liquidated their life savings, some have even run into debts because they had no plan or strategy. It’s the lack of education that’s causing the high failure rate that’s why I decided to launch my course.

Also, I feel happy when I’m part of the success of someone. I just want to build people that are financially free and can make money from the comfort of their homes because crypto gives money if you know what you’re doing. And if they learn, it’d be beneficial to them. Most of the money I have today, I got from crypto. I created the course to impact people and make them know that there’s opportunity in Crypto and you can make so much money from it.

What was your first digital product?

The first course I created was a mini crypto course because lots of people kept asking me how they’d invest in crypto. It was a 10k course, where I showed them how to buy and sell.

Then I created a beginner course where I went in-depth. Later, I created the Crypto Money Engine Bundle where I taught everything from technical analysis to fundamental analysis, NFTs, Crypto, and the likes of them.

Apart from the course, I added a mentorship session and a bonus one-year signal so they can make money while learning. Doing this helped me empower people to trade on their own with little or no help.

When did you earn your first money (commission) from crypto?

It was in 2018. I got it and I lost it (lol). I felt like it’d happen like that consistently. I got the money luckily because the market was going well at that time. So I thought that’s how it works. But everything vanished. Mehn I liquidated my entire savings..

When did you earn your first money (commission) from creating and selling digital products?

I think in 2019. Then I was just teaching people more about sales and marketing.

What’s the average amount you make from trading crypto and affiliate marketing?

$10,000/month.

What is your sales strategy that other digital creators can employ for their digital products?

Most people don’t understand their customer avatars. Knowing your customer avatar is something that you need to do to make money. You can’t help everybody. You just need to figure out who your customers are and the problem they have that you are trying to solve. This way, you can have a clear understanding of how to help them.

Personally, I run ads and my minimum conversion rate is 1%. So if I want to sell 20 courses, I will need to meet 2,000 people. The money is in the distribution process. You just need to first understand who your product is for. Then, you can channel your effort to help them. Understand how the market works. Don’t sell the products., sell the benefits. Sell irresistible offers. This way, it’d be very easy for you to sell out.

People also think it’s by posting content and valuable tips, it’s more than that. Creators need to address things like limits, beliefs, objections, etc.  

Lastly, position yourself rightly. Positioning is everything. Since I relocated to Dubai, it’s been seamless. Position yourself in such a way that you’re the first option on your customer’s list when they need your services. It’s not just about you, It’s about them.

Would you say you leveraged the power of community to make sales as a digital creator?

Yes. For you to excel as a creator, you need to have a community. By learning and trading crypto, I started my community. For the past two months, we have recorded up to 300-400% success rate and some losses too because the market can never go in your favor. I learned so much about sales and marketing from Affiliate Marketing. I have a lot of people that want to be Affiliates for my product.

I’m trying to build a community that is all about making money digitally, that’s where the name diary of a digital hustler came about. I’m trying to build a community of digital hustlers. That way even people that don’t have money can get started by selling my products and making money.

What is Calculux Finance all about? We see you’re building that

Calculux finance is an advanced decentralized ecosystem built on Binance smart chain. It’s an all-in-one decentralized ecosystem. 

Our mission is to bring unparalleled access to all-in-one Defi products and empower users to an open infrastructure for launching tokens, minting NFTs, and swapping tonnes of Bsc tokens to enable fair and equal access to the financial ecosystem. 

The industry challenges are usually a lack of technological innovation, trust-based systems, permissions, and transparency.

We intend to empower technological innovation, trustless architectures, permissions essence system that brings transparency, currently some crypto exchanges that are centralized exchanges are restricting people’s accounts and funds. Anything can happen. But we want you to have full ownership.

We are working on Launchpad and Dex, creating a trading bot, creating our coin – CAX on the blockchain, and having our NFT marketplace.

Another product we’re working on is the Calculux tour. Calculux tour is a decentralized earning platform where users learn everything about web3.0, Blockchain Technology, and crypto from basic to advanced levels. At the end of any level completed, a user earns a certificate as NFT. You can think of it as a learn-and-earn platform. Generally, it’s going to be huge as we have a lot of things in store for you.

What’s one thing you’ve learned from trading crypto all this while?

Trading has taught me patience, humility, and principles. You just have to wait. And I love it so much because that’s what’s giving me legit money. It has really been a good one for me and I don’t think I regret it.

Aside from showing us what being a badass crypto trader and expert affiliate marketer looks like, what else do you do? 

I’m a transformational speaker, I speak for events, and I also do interior design. In fact, that’s one of the reasons I relocated to Dubai.

What advice would you give to digital creators and other crypto traders who are inspired by you?

Sit down and learn. Understand how the system works. It’s not about following the hype. Just learn and join useful communities too.

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The time to start is now. Start with what you know, where you are, and what you have. Selar is here to guide you through every step of your creator journey.

Package what you know and can teach as a digital product, then;

• Sign up on Selar.
• Set up your online store and bank details.
• Upload your product.
• Share store link with customers and start selling.