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She also rode through diamond mining country in Africa last season, and I'm sure everyone knows her former professional career was as a specialized geologist. I don't remember her exact area of chemical geology, but she has worked for oil companies and mining companies.
I can just imagine how a few years of healthy salary, combined with good money management and her frugal lifestyle, financed her initial wandering and vlogging, that have evolved through the years ŵith savvy e-commerce and her popularity and clever marketing , which should by now be pretty close to sustaining her current travels.
Until or unless she writes a book, all of this is purely speculation on my part, but knowing what I do as a marketer, it's more than plausible.
We all see her professional development and the increased technical quality of her travel logs, in addition to her online store and increasing subscribers season over season.
A very select few are good enough or popular enough to actually support themselves in this fashion, although there are many who attempt likewise in their own niche or specialty.
She simply has a unique and attractive combination of skill, production, curiosity and temperament to make it all work.
 
Sadlsor said:
Riding and sweating.
I hate it when sweat drips onto my keyboard...
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I changed three tires, and did an oil and filter change, serviced the variator on the Vespa, I was sweating and the sweat was dripping onto my glasses, making it hard to see.
Looking forward to Sundays episode. ;)
 
Sadlsor said:
I can just imagine how a few years of healthy salary, combined with good money management and her frugal lifestyle....
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From what I've read online, her net worth is probably in the 3 to 5 million range now. USD, not some of the funny money she has been tossing about in her recent travels.
 
SMSW said:
From what I've read online, her net worth is probably in the 3 to 5 million range now. USD, .
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I would take that number with an extra pound of salt. Very few YouTube subscribers have any inkling of how hard it is to actually make money with YT.
Now she does have a growing subscriber base, and she does have an online store, but less than 2 million subs is not a million- dollar income by itself.
I'm not saying I know how much she is worth, but I know there is a lot of misunderstanding and hype about YouTube monetization.
 
Sadlsor said:
I would take that number with an extra pound of salt. Very few YouTube subscribers have any inkling of how hard it is to actually make money with YT.
Now she does have a growing subscriber base, and she does have an online store, but less than 2 million subs is not a million- dollar income by itself.
I'm not saying I know how much she is worth, but I know there is a lot of misunderstanding and hype about YouTube monetization.
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For the big players YouTube isn't about making money. YouTube is about amassing a huge subscriber list to get to the point where you become an influential influencer. Once that is achieved, sponsors pay big to get you to push their products be it on YouTube or elsewhere.

The goal then becomes translating that huge following in to a huge email list that companies are dying to get their hands on, and then you are making good money off of that.
 
I agree the whole YouTube outcome is about marketing. I can't imagine it's about income generation.

Of course, I have zero experience with it, other than sharing videos with family and friends. With that limited experience, I can only imagine what it takes to generate the videos Noraly does.

I assume much of her hardware (bike, clothing, etc) is paid for ... she probably spends her money on living expenses (gas, living quarters, etc).
 
Sadlsor said:
I would take that number with an extra pound of salt.
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I understand that, and its obvious sometimes when one website simply copies another. As far as her gear, she is wearing Revit from head to toe. Given her online presence, she might be sponsored to some extent by them.
 
There was some speculation as to what she was using for a nav sat and in the video she mentions she deliberately didn't say what it was early on. Now she's revealed that it's an Android tablet but not the specific model.

It was an interesting video but it could have used a much more skilled presenter. But all in all — good stuff. Love Noraly's laugh.
 
SMSW said:
I understand that, and its obvious sometimes when one website simply copies another. As far as her gear, she is wearing Revit from head to toe. Given her online presence, she might be sponsored to some extent by them.
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Her videos state she is sponsored by Revit, Arai Helmets, and her soft luggage maker....Mosko Moto maybe? But unless she gets something new.....she never mentions it. You might see the logos but that's it.
 
core-aggie said:
Income guesstimates:
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Thank you for those numbers. I've seen similar, and all quote the same money range that is generated by the number of views/unit time on youtube. Regardless of what her net worth is, I think Noraly is very comfortable moneywise. Traveling day after day on a bike and publishing videos like she is doing is a lot of work - this has been said before - and she deserves every penny she makes.
core-aggie said:
I agree the whole YouTube outcome is about marketing. I can't imagine it's about income generation.
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Youtube is all about advertising, and advertising is all about income generation. There have been articles written about large corporations objecting to their ads being shown on various politically sensitive (to them and presumably their customers) videos. Other video publishers have said they make money based on the number of views. Watch a few of Mark Rober's vids - he seems to have a LOT of ads. Bottom line for me is that a lot of the characters on youtube are doing it for the money. I remember a year or two ago youtube changed their payment policy - basically requiring many more views per dollar earned - that met with vociferous objections from the video making public.
 
ST Gui said:
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AIR³ 7.2 (strikingly similar to the Carpe-iter)

This has been replaced by the AIR³ 7.3
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If you're into aviation/paragliding... ;)

The Carpe Iter offers bike powered cradle, handlebar remote, road nav apps, etc...
But they indeed seem to run off the same conveyor... :biggrin:

Still fairly big "rodent cinemas" IMO... won't fit well on an ST...

Seems a 6,5" rugged phone might be a more convenient, plus affordable option...
 
ST1100Y said:
Seems a 6,5" rugged phone might be a more convenient, plus affordable option...
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Perhaps a phone would be more affordable, but this tablet offers a lot. I was driving recently and pulled up to a stoplight. I glanced to my left and was astounded at the size of the display showing a map to the driver. Yes, I've seen what they are putting in Tesla's - some seem to be the size of the 12.9" ipad. On one hand, I agree space is limited on our ST's, on the other, Noraly has a very nice workable setup. Clearly, a larger display is nice, if the architecture of your vehicle will allow it. For now, we have to glance at the road at least occasionally, but in the future, we will probably have wrap around screens instead of windows.:rofl1:
 
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