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Influencing vs. Plumbing
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Transcript
Introduction and Focus on Statistics
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Baker Plbg
Okay, everybody. Hope everybody's having a fabulous start to their week. um I'm here with numbers today. I said it before, and this is off of ah this is for Canada, obviously, but um you can do the old Google search for the States as well. ah There are 49,000 plumbers.
00:00:25
Baker Plbg
plumbers that that are working in the trade, 49,000 of them. There are only 16,000, where's my number, again? All right, where go? Let me get back over here. There are 16,690.
00:00:37
Baker Plbg
According to StatsCan, let's see here. Oh, that's the one want. six hundred and ninety according to stats can um ah see here that up on
00:00:54
Baker Plbg
um there are 4,285 job openings within the plumbing trade.
Comparison of Plumbers and Influencers
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Baker Plbg
Now, everybody was shocked and, whoa, that's crazy. So i was thinking about it this weekend.
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Baker Plbg
And do you know how many influencers there are in in Canada? Are you ready for this? This is across, this is ah the Nielsen report of 2022. So it's obviously more than that now.
00:01:20
Baker Plbg
And this is across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. 882,000 influencers just in Canada.
00:01:37
Baker Plbg
there are that's insane active influencers eight hundred and eighty two thousand active influencers compared to sixteen thousand actual certified plumber so
00:01:50
Baker Plbg
Like, do you want me to spell it out for you guys? Do you want me to spell it? And it's, I guarantee you the number, the the percentage. What is the percentage of that? ah Can I even do that off off the fly? 16,000. We'll compared plumbers to influencers, it's...
00:02:05
Baker Plbg
ah so compared to plumbers to to influencers ah it's like 1%. That's insane.
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Baker Plbg
That's insane.
Income and Success in Trades vs. Influencing
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Baker Plbg
In Alberta, and i I'm going to use Alberta because every time I use ah like, ah um you know, ah what you can make as a plumber, ah people in Florida and California freak out.
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Baker Plbg
Anyway, ah the average salary for a plumber in Alberta, their hourly wage is $39.24, which translates to about $83,000 as an average salary. do you know what the average salary for an influencer is?
00:02:52
Baker Plbg
The average, $35,000. thirty five thousand dollars And yet there are so many people that think they're gonna make it big in the influencer world in this space.
00:03:03
Baker Plbg
The chances that you are successful in that are like slim to none. um
00:03:11
Baker Plbg
You need to get the skill set. you The opportunity is not in influencing. The opportunity is not in
00:03:20
Baker Plbg
and doing TikTok. I mean, in in Canada, you can't even make money off of it. because it's legislated, uh, whatever. our government I mean, the government sucks. You should be able to make money off of
Challenges in Influencing and Trade Opportunities
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Baker Plbg
anything you want. Uh, there's no doubt about that, but, um, the, the numbers just don't bear it out. The influencers that you see that are pushing this stuff that are doing really well.
00:03:44
Baker Plbg
And, that you know, you can look at, there's all the stats out there. I'm not telling you guys anything you don't know. Um, you can look at the OnlyFans thing if you want.
00:03:56
Baker Plbg
You know, they'll tell you the top 10 OnlyFans chicks make millions and millions and millions of dollars. And yet the average OnlyFans girl makes like $15 a month or whatever. Maybe it's $150. I have not Googled that. I am not going to Google that because then that's going to corrupt my entire algorithm to insanity.
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Baker Plbg
um But...
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Baker Plbg
The people that are doing well, I've said it before, are are like the Amway guys. Or what's the new one? The new one is that World Financial Group. And i've gone I've been to their meetings. I mean, it's been a decade or more.
00:04:34
Baker Plbg
But I went to go check it out. And you know there's five or six people up there that have done incredibly well with that system. And they're like you can do it too. And mean, the audience is 2,500 people.
00:04:46
Baker Plbg
All, yeah, we're going to do And how many actually do it? Slim to none. It's probably the same percentage. Like 2% of the people actually do make a living wage out of that.
00:05:03
Baker Plbg
If you will focus, I'm going to look right into the camera here. If you will focus on your trade and get the experience and the skill sets that you need, ah the opportunities are absolutely unlimited. And I think you're selling yourself short.
00:05:20
Baker Plbg
And I've said it to all of those guys, every single one of them from Replum to Page to, I don't know, who else have I had ah little sparring matches with? um They all say, you know, you can make money out. Yes, I'm not saying you can't, but you your competition, like you have 100 times the competition in the in in the influencer world than you do in the plumbing world.
00:05:49
Baker Plbg
And if you would, and and in the plumbing world, it's real. And you can turn it into something real and be incredibly successful. So as a recap, there's 16,000 certified plumbers, which I take, I tried to dig into it farther. It doesn't really break it down too much further, but it's, I'm taking that as certified journeyman plumbers.
00:06:15
Baker Plbg
And yet you have almost 900,000 plumbers ah influencers in Canada. That is a banana stat. And that's who you're competing with. you're Do you want to compete with 900,000 people or you want to compete with 16,000 people?
00:06:32
Baker Plbg
What are your odds of being successful? It's the 16,000. And that's just plumbers. you know i I mean, I could do electricians, I could do framers, all that stuff.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Baker Plbg
If you will focus on what you're good at the money will come. My thoughts, not yours. Have a fabulous Monday. ah the world is an evil place. I wish everybody well in their little journey here. There's a lot of horrible things going on. I am going to address what happened over the weekend. Um, and not today because I'm still trying to process all that craziness.
00:07:09
Baker Plbg
Anyway, that's it. Have a blessed day. Good luck out there, everybody. And get your ass to work.