 SHIP programmers become Shopify developers in 2020. Will you reach the right video? Let me explain. This video is brought to you by DigiLink Academy. You're number one source to learn programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire. Our academy have a wide range of courses including our 30-day developer lunch pad, our program interview course, and our mentorship program and much, much more. When you sign up for our free guide, you get access to our community of like-minded professionals who's gonna help take your career to the next level. So let's take the next step and sign up for our seven-step guide and click the link below to get started. I'll see you guys in the guide. All right guys, let's go into the details on Shopify development. A lot of you guys may think, right, Shopify is a ready-built site. Developers can't make any money and you're not considered a developer or even a programmer when you're doing Shopify and that's far from the truth guys. Just because it's a ready-built system don't mean that you can't make any money on integrations and creating themes and applications and plugins for it, but I wanna give you guys some information that's gonna clarify things for you. So if you are in the market to become a Shopify developer, you have an opportunity. First of all guys, Shopify is gonna be one of those niche situations when it comes to trying to get a job in it. Most of the time it's gonna be freelance related. A lot of the small markets is not gonna have a lot of this type of work, a lot of the bigger ones, but mainly it's gonna be for freelancers. If you are into that, you're gonna be a lot of opportunities on Upwork, Elance. I think they changed it. It's not Elance anymore. I think it's just Upwork, Upwork, but at the end of the day guys, if you want to really leverage Shopify, this is a good opportunity for you in a freelance world. It's just making some money on the side. As far as just going out of my way and learning for all developers, I wouldn't necessarily do that. But at the end of the day, I wanna go over a few things that's gonna really justify should you or should you not learn it and then it's gonna help make that decision easier for you guys. So first of all, all companies want a e-commerce online platform at some point, depending on if they're a customer or a consumer facing. And a lot of them hate storing credit card information, hate dealing with e-commerce, hate dealing with that security aspect of it all together. So if they can outsource that and still have the ability to integrate into their existing systems, then they're gonna be for that. If you are the right developer, you can make that happen for them using Shopify. Shopify is one of those things where it's 100% clout. You don't have to manage any backend software, anything like that. But you can still integrate into your existing systems with PayPal, with Google Analytics, all those systems so that you can leverage it and make it a seamless integration with your existing CRM and applications or payment of your payment gateways. That being said guys, you have no backend code to manage. I think Shopify is written in Ruby on Rails and a lot of you guys may think, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right. I don't wanna learn Ruby on Rails or Ruby, that software language is not as sexy. Well, don't worry about it guys. The good news about it is the backend foundational code base, they manage it in the cloud, you don't have to touch it. But as you integrate with it, just save you on ucsharp.net, use Python, the APIs, you can build it based off of whatever program language you're currently using. That's what makes, that's where the magic is guys and that's what really makes it attractive for a lot of companies because you can use your existing code base, you can use the existing program language to integrate with any type of solution with via API. And I talk about other projects like this and my seven step guide. So you need to go ahead and check that out as free guys, where we get into APIs and how it actually works with your existing systems. And we got courses actually below that's gonna go real world applications that's gonna allow you guys to leverage any program language, mainly Python, JavaScript, SQL that's really gonna help you guys take your career to the next 11, 30 days. So if you haven't already, go purchase that course below or sign up for our free seven step guide, links for both are in the description box. But this is gonna allow you guys to really leverage Shopify and integrating into existing systems. The next time you're on e-commerce site, you go to a website, look at the URL up top when you go to the shopping area of a website. More than likely, they have a, let's just say WordPress website and with a Shopify e-commerce back in, you can do that. Or you can have a traditional a custom built website and you can just use the e-commerce platform specifically for Shopify. You ever see shop.companyname.com that's usually where they actually make that split. The themes or the actual user interface are similar between Shopify and that. So it's seamless and they got the custom URLs up top. So they make it so seamless where you can't even tell. And the APIs, they're really fast nowadays. So unless you just got an eye for it or they hadn't did a crappy job on their CSS, you won't know. Unless you're just looking for it. And me, I'm the nerd that I am, always kind of looking at different infrastructure and how they do stuff because this is what I do. I develop code so I'm always looking for best practices how other people do it so that I can kind of strengthen my software development kit. But that being said guys, one thing about Shopify, you got to understand is at the beginning in the freelance world, you're not gonna make a lot of money. I can tell you that now. A lot of guys mean to say, hey, Rod, I know the Shopify developer that make 300, 400 grand a year. Yeah. But I guarantee you the same developer when they first started, unless they was a rockstar developer, they was making south of 50, $40,000 a year. Only because in the freelance world, when you're dealing WordPress development, Shopify development, the perceived value is low at the beginning. Not, and you can change this. That's a good news. But at the beginning, as a developer, as a freelancer, you're gonna get low walled. Especially if you being outsourced or you're not, you're in the third world country or something like that, you will be, you will get low balled on your offers. And that's okay, especially if you don't have any work. And that's what I'm gonna really contribute you being low balled for, because you don't have any projects that's going to justify you getting paid that much that the customer can understand. You gotta make sure you're on the same page, guys. Devoid this is to solve more business problems that relates to that particular client. That's why I'm a huge fan of, when you're a freelancer, you wanna pick software stacks that are related to each client. You don't necessarily wanna pick clients that are competing against each other all the time, which happens sometimes. But generally, just say for an example, you may have a dentist client who you manage a software stack for, and then you go get a skin-cleared client where you're managing stuff from, both in the healthcare industries, both are not competing with each other, but they have similar models. And you can still do even a transportation related stack with those two, as long as it's cloud, it matches the same program, both of them use Microsoft, all of them use Google, all of them use Amazon, AWS. They have that relatability because what's gonna happen is at your scale, you want your clients to have similar stacks so that when you start to train and bring on and hire new people, it's gonna be seamless, depending on which real matter account you're working on. Know I got any weeds on that one guys? Let's get back on Shopify, but at the end of the day guys, Shopify is good, you wanna solve bigger and bigger problems, and that's how you're gonna win with Shopify. At the end of the day guys, Shopify is really good if you are focusing on full stack development. Let me tell you why, because you got to know the data model of Shopify to really be able to leverage it in the way you want to as far as just integrating. If you don't know the Shopify data model, which is not a lot guys, at the end of the day, you wanna know your order table, your customers, all your special fields so that you can integrate that in your client CRM or their accounting system or their QuickBooks. You need to know this kind of stuff and it's not hard. It may take you an hour of looking through the database, or going online and finding out what a data model with all those major data objects or sources of the data so that you can start creating those reports, making those links and really providing value to the client. And then you can start automating things from there guys. That's how you start making the big bucks when you start to deal with Shopify developers guys. A lot of you guys come in, hey, I'm gonna just make a theme or hey, I'm just gonna do a little small plug. No, you're gonna get low ball. You're not gonna make a lot of money. And then you're gonna be crying cause you only can make $15,000 a year doing Shopify development. And then you look over to this other side over there you see a similar Shopify developer who has the same skills that you have making $240,000 a year because they're focusing on the business problems and you over here focusing on templates and plugins that don't solve any problems for nobody. So guys, that's the difference in the people. The approach, the focus in on what projects that you work. You can have similar skills, similar backgrounds working in the same industry. The only difference is the projects that you're doing then make a tremendous difference on where your career goes. So keep that in mind guys. 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