d1k robert nix

David Young: [00:00:00] Hello everyone. Welcome to episode nine of Drone to one K, season five. we had a little delay here between episodes eight and nine, but we're finally finishing out, episodes nine and 10.

Very excited to have someone on the podcast today who has become a very good friend of mine, Robert Nicks. So Robert's from South Carolina. He had taken some drone launch course. A long time ago, several years ago, and I don't even remember how we started to chat, but he maybe reached out to me.

we would talk, and then over the years we've just kind of kept up and I've seen his business grow more and more. I remember when he first, like took his part 1 0 7 license and he just kept slowly chipping away on the side, chipping away, chipping away. And, has been able to launch this into what is now, the majority of his income and he's doing this full-time.

So, really cool story to hear. There's also some hilarious moments in here. I don't wanna ruin 'em for you, but, part of the episode is where Robert is getting assaulted by, someone who he thought was. The customer or the, the person who lived at the place that they were filming. funny story.

I'll let you get into it. great episode to check out with Robert. If you [00:01:00] are someone who's, again, starting from nothing and wanting to build a drone business, And it's something that could potentially be full-time. Robert gives a lot of great stories, tips and tricks. as a reminder, if you want a free drone Launch Academy t-shirt, just take the time to leave us an honest review on iTunes.

Just go to drone one K the podcast page in Apple, and leave an honest review there. We're not trying to bribe you to leave us a good review with the shirt. It's just a thank you for taking the time to do that. So do that. Screenshot your review. Email it to me, david drone launch academy.com and I'll forward it to someone on our team.

They can get you a, drone launch t-shirt as a thank you. Also something I wanna announce, again, if you're listening to this, it's May 1st when I'm recording this, but me and Dusty are gonna be at the Exponential Conference in Denver. Dusty is our Drone Launch Connect community Manager. if you're not familiar with that, it's basically you have a community of drone pilots where we do biweekly expert q and as with people in the drone industry.

we're developing workshops to put in [00:02:00] there. So we have a whole bunch of workshops, lined up to create for the rest of the year. That'll be in there. They're like on demand. I'm doing one of 'em, I'm doing a airspace workshop on how to. Figure out what airspace you're in, how to know airspace and sectional chart stuff for the Part 1 0 7 exam.

but there's gonna be everything in there from me teaching about airspace to people teaching about agriculture with trends, people, maybe with some cinematography, tips and tricks to, business, strategies for growing your drum business. So, we're still locking all that in, but I think it's gonna be really good.

and then on top of that, you can get drone discounts, all sorts of cool stuff. And then, There's just the area where you can network with other members and refer jobs, things like that. So you wanna check that out. Go to drone launch connect.com. that should be opening up again here pretty soon for new members.

So just keep an eye on that. alright, well, without further ado, let's jump into the podcast here with Robert Nicks.

All right, everyone, I'm here with who is now my good friend, Robert Nix. Robert, thanks for joining me on the podcast today.

Robert NIx: Thanks for having

David Young: me, David. Yeah, so real quick backstory for those listening. Robert, I don't know when the first time you and I met, but I think you took, I'm assuming you took one of our courses and, reached out [00:03:00] about something and we talked a little bit.

This was kind of in the early days of Drone Launch Academy, and then you took another course and I think you reached out about. We were just talking over email and then we kinda sort of just became friends. And then I think I had you test out a new course. We just always kind of kept in touch and I got to meet you in person when I was driving through South Carolina, last year.

So you were just one of the Drone Launch Academy members who I just kind of ended up, becoming friends with and trying to help out as much as I could over the years. But I don't know, do you remember when we first, talked to each other?

Robert NIx: I do, I've been flying drones, you know, for a hobby for a long time.

Um, but I knew that I wanted to go into it as a business and so I did a, a search online to figure out how to do the part 1 0 7, and that's when I came across your course to get prepped. Okay. And ready. So that's when we first met.

David Young: You know, me and Robert have just kind of become friends and you, I feel like you've taken every, every Drone Launch Academy course that we put out there.

, and so you've always been a really great supporter. And, and I think what I'm excited [00:04:00] to, for people to listen to more than anything in this, and that I'm kind of most impressed with just besides you being a great person and, and a good friend, is that you. Have been working at it for a long time and haven't stopped.

And you know, you kind of had a goal like, hey, I don't wanna, I don't wanna mess your story up too much. I'll let people tell it. But you said like, Hey, this is what I want to do. And you just slowly kept chipping away in it and kept working at it until that stuff started to become a reality, which most people, they would work a little bit, things get tough, and they kind of quit.

So I just think one of the things I admire most about you is your, grit and tenacity to kind of continue to pursue it. So I'll let you tell that story, but just. Giving people a little taste of what I appreciate about you. So why don't you dive in and just start telling people about yourself, kinda your background.

What led you to first get into drones?

Robert NIx: I'll try to keep it short and sweet. But I've always loved photography. I've always, Had a camera, and I enjoyed taking, you know, nature shots and all that good stuff. I've done portrait photography. I've done wedding photography. But when the drones came out, it was a whole new ballgame.

So now [00:05:00] you've got a camera that you can put anywhere somewhere that you couldn't go before. And so I started flying drones. Uh, the first drone that I got was the phantom. Three standard, I think.

David Young: Yep. That was my first kinda legit drone too.

Robert NIx: Yeah. I was so scared. I took it straight up. And straight down.

I didn't go anywhere else. I was afraid that if I took it out, then I wouldn't be able to get it back. So I went straight up and straight down, Hey, good, good baby steps. Yep, yep. So anyway, I, that's the one that I started with and I just enjoyed it and flying it and it was just really cool and I knew that I wanted to, you know, do it as a business.

So that's when I found you took the part 1 0 7 and I've been flying now for probably, Gosh, well, I got my part 1 0 7 about five years ago, I think. Okay. That's about how long we've known each other, I think too. Yeah, yeah. Uh, so I've been flying actually probably closer to eight years. Seven or eight years, maybe even nine.

David Young: Awesome. Do you remember what year you got your apartment seven certificate

Robert NIx: in? I know that I've renewed it twice [00:06:00] now, so that's why I think it was probably about five years ago.

David Young: Tell people kind of your background as far as what you do or what you did for, for work and kind of what your initial goals were. like you said, you're starting to get into drones. What were you doing at the time and kind of what was your hope?

Robert NIx: Okay, so I worked, well actually I still do, uh, at the hospital.

I am a CT technologist and I've been doing radiology for about 25, 28 years. But I started doing the drone thing in real estate photography part-time. , I've been doing it part-time for probably about four or five years. But recently, may of last year, I went full-time, doing real estate photography and drone.

The way that I made that step was I'm still working what they call P r N at the hospital. So in other words, instead of working full-time at the hospital and part-time in photography, I switched. Now I'm full-time in photography and part-time in the hospital. Right. Just to make that leap. Yeah.

David Young: And with the PRN, you said, is that where you can kind of pick [00:07:00] up shifts as you want, kind of on an ad hoc basis? Right,

Robert NIx: exactly.

David Young: I remember getting that text from you or when we were checking in or something and you're like, Hey, finally, uh, made the leap and, you know, went full-time on the, the drone or the real estate photography business.

And I'm like, sweet. So I was, I remember being really, really pump free. . Like you said, you doing radiology stuff and we're chipping away at it for a long time and slowly getting better with your drone and always working at it and testing things out or trying to get clients here and there.

Just great tenacity. So let's, let's dive into some stories, cuz I know you got some good stories too cause I've heard 'em over the years. Let's rewind back when you first got your 107 certificate and you were gonna, you know, start, try to get paying jobs. Do you remember if you were running into any difficulties?

I imagine it wasn't just super easy at first, where you got your 1 0 7 and just people were just hucking, you know, wads of cash at you. What was that like when you first started out?

Robert NIx: Well, to be honest, I was doing the, the low paying, you know, low fruit jobs where they pay you like 50 bucks to come out and.

Take your $2,000 drone and hope you don't crash it. [00:08:00] But,

David Young: uh, I don't think there's any problem starting there though, you know, cuz we, we've talked about that before. It's like, hey, listen, if you're gonna practice anyways, might as well get paid for it. Exactly.

Robert NIx: Exactly. And that's, and that's what I did. So, you know, I got a lot of work doing that.

One of the funny stories, can I tell you the funniest story Please. . I got a, I think it was a drone base job, and they gave me an address and told me that it was a gas station, and so I went and was flying my drone around the gas station. Well, they came out and said, you can't do that.

I said, well, yes I can.

David Young: You're like the nicest, most mild tempered guy and I'm just imagining this going down and you sitting there standing up, oh yes I can. Sorry. Keep going.

Robert NIx: She said, you get off of my property. And I said, okay. So I went and got in the road, cause that was public property and I started, I started taking pictures.

And they come flying or come running up there and, uh, said, you get that drone down and stop flying over my property. I said, ma'am, I said, you don't own the airspace. I'm gonna fly over your property. So she starts hitting me and slapping me while [00:09:00] I'm in the air trying to find the drone. And so they've already called the cops on me, but I got the pictures that I needed and I come down.

Get the drone, pack it up, and of course I'm gone before the cops get there. I haven't done anything wrong. I mean, I'm flying and doing what I was supposed to do. Robert the Fugitive. I turned the images in to the people who hired me but it was the wrong site.

They were actually building a new gas station right beside that one, and that's the one that they wanted, not the one that had been there.

David Young: That has gotta be one of the worst. Drone based fail stories I've ever heard. Lessons learned. If you're gonna fly a job and you're not in contact with the person on site, or the customer, you better make sure you got that address right, or you can clear up any clarifying questions before you get out there. Well, That was a lesson learned the hard way.

How much did you get? Did you go back out and shoot the right

Robert NIx: property after that? I did. I did. Okay. And I think the job paid 50

David Young: Did they see you come back out there to shoot the other property? I tried

Robert NIx: to hide

David Young: I would too. [00:10:00] After being assaulted. Well you got your 50 bucks from that.

You were just doing drone based job, is there any other kind of drone networks you were, signed up with or trying to get jobs from at that time?

Robert NIx: I don't know when I signed up with 'em, but I know I've been with Drone Base, I've been with Drone Genuity and I've been withers.io.

Mm-hmm. I've done support for each of those. Let's just kind of filler type work, you know?

David Young: A lot of people try to start with drone job networks just cuz especially when you first get your license certificate, whatever, most people don't have some type of built-in base of clients, so you know, it's a decent place for at least for them to get their feet wet.

Which one of those that you were a part of, did you find the most fruitful, or did you like the best?

Robert NIx: I haven't really done a lot of work for them, but Drone Genuity, I think okay. Is probably the best. Drone Genuity for one just seemed like they, they had a, a better payout, um, like a hundred dollars instead of $50.

\ They just like they were more professional

David Young: And I think it depends on where you are too, right? Like, you know, some locations get a lot of action.

Some people say, I haven't seen any jobs, so sometimes they can just depend on where you're at and what the jobs are. [00:11:00] All right, so moving on you got your license, your certificate, you're messing around with drone based jobs, trying not to get stabbed, trying to take, you know, snoop on other people's property.

What was your first paying client outside of the drone job networks and how did you end up landing that?

Robert NIx: well, to be honest, it wasn't, uh, a paying job, but it led to more, I wanted to do real estate video. So I just reached out to a, real estate agent and asked if I could come and do, you know, a free video for him. And he was my first client and he allowed me to do that.

David Young: And I've got now did you have a previous relationship with him or no?

Robert NIx: No. Okay. I just cold call, just reached out and asked him Cold call. Yeah. So we did that. Was that,

David Young: was that received Well, cause I know a lot of people are like terrified to make cold calls.

Like, oh, I just, they're gonna think I'm bugging her. And they're like, how did it go? It

Robert NIx: went well. It went well. And he's one of the nicest fellas that you'd ever wanna meet. Um, but yeah, it went well. He said, you know, I've got one in pickings if you'd like to come, go with me. And I said, [00:12:00] sure. So that's when we first met, and he's given me several jobs since.

Of course, the first one, you know, was, was free as I promised. But I did the drone, I did the walkthrough video and it turned out great and still one of my favorite, videos to go back and look, you know, to see where I've come from and how I got started and all that.

David Young: So you did that one free, one that led to some paying jobs.

What, uh, what kind of work did he hire you for in the future? Was it just real estate video or is it doing photos, drone video? Like what did

Robert NIx: it lead to? Um, mostly I've done real estate video walkthrough videos, flyover tours and stuff like that. But I've also done, drone construction jobs.

I did one for B M W, um, oh, cool. For probably about 18 months I think it was, until they Awesome. Didn't need me anymore I've done, I'd say maybe two or three different construction progress jobs. I'm actually doing one now. Nice. But I fly that one once a week, Probably the most unique job that I've had.

And I went, I just got in last night about 1230. there is this guy who found me on Google and he changes the lights in the parking lot. Around the [00:13:00] area. And so what he wanted was some drone pictures and video to show the before and after. And so I've been driving to Charlotte, I've been driving to Columbia.

I've been driving, you know, two and three hours to get to these lights. he just recently gave me a list of about 11 parking lives, and I'm almost done with those. but I've been working on that for about a month now.

David Young: Cool man, there's so many interesting businesses that people get into that you would never even have thought of.

You know what I mean? Oh yeah. And it's true really anybody who has a business where they do anything outdoors, you could get contacted for, I remember when we were doing. Our little drone to one cake experiment where we like started a drone company internally and messed out with advertising and stuff just to show people like, Hey, if you were gonna start it from scratch, here's how you do it.

One of the people that hit us up was a, a tennis court resurfacing company, and they were like, Hey, we wanna show the process of how that works and before and after. So really it's like anybody who has something to show off outside. If that's any decent size, definitely could benefit from the drone video, drone photo stuff for marketing.

that's [00:14:00] awesome. Now that you kind of cut your teeth with all the, you know, practicing and did some free work and build up a client base that you can actually work from. Now, what's your primary, jobs that you do? Is it real estate or,

Robert NIx: real estate, yeah.

Surprisingly, I, I do still get a lot of calls for drone work. Uh, just like I say, I got, I did one last week for a new, shopping center that was put in, in Anderson. They wanted some aerial photos. Okay. So I still, I do still get , a lot of calls, you know, for drone work, but I'm actually, Reaching out for real estate and I'm using the drone for the, like I say, the flyover tours.

Mm-hmm. But I also have a gimbal, you know, to be able to do the interior video as well. Plus I do the real estate photos and all of that.

David Young: For these people that are finding you for the drone stuff, how are they finding you? They're just finding you online or through Google or what?

Robert NIx: On Google, they just, cause I've asked him, I said, how did you find me?

I said, well, I just did a search for a drone operator in the area and found me. So that was, that was good.

David Young: For [00:15:00] when clients find you on, on Google or find your website, how did you get that set up to where they're starting to find you?

Robert NIx: Well, to be honest, I'm not really sure cause I'd love to do the same thing from my real estate site. I know that I've got the Google My Business set up mm-hmm.

And I've got some reviews on there and, tried to put in some keywords, in my website for them to be able to find me in the search engines. I think that probably one of the biggest things though that helps me is that I have the actual word drone in my website, which is, what is your website?

R Drone. Sc. Oh, okay. I have re drone sc, but then I also have re imaging sc because some people said they thought that with the drone being in the name, that that's all I did. Yeah. And so I actually started two. Now I have the imaging, which you know, shows that I do everything

David Young: I don't know how much you're comfortable sharing, but maybe can you walk us through like your progression of like, did you know, all right, [00:16:00] I want to have X number of jobs coming in, or this much in average monthly, work before I quit to go do try to this, do this full-time or, what did the kind of, growth look like over time for you?

And I know You were really good about easing into it and keeping it going for a long time. What did it start at and then how much did you feel like you needed to get before you made the switch?

Robert NIx: I only made the switch, in May of last year, so it hadn't been quite a year yet.

so I really don't have the answers for that. I just know that I was making, I know you sent me that plaque whenever I started making a thousand dollars a month. Yes. So I was making well over a thousand dollars a month. I mean, sometimes I was making $3000 $4,000. the way that I did it is that I compared what I was making at the hospital with what I was making in real estate.

And so I said, well, if I can make what I'm making now in real estate, I know it may not be enough, you know, to support my family, but I can pick up, you know, a couple, three days at the hospital. Yeah. Whatever I need to, to make up that difference, which has been [00:17:00] working, you know, for, like I say about the past year.

So. Nice. Okay.

David Young: That's exactly what I was curious about. Just like what was your thought process as you were making that switch? Some people have a goal. Cause then I remember when Dominic Wilkerson, who's the, our real estate photography video course instructor, he talked about how he had like, all right, I know I can do like one house for certain amount of money and I know I need.

This much to survive monthly. And so he's like, you know, if I can just do two houses a week, then I'm good. You know? And so he had that kind of calculation in his head. I didn't know,, if you had a similar kind of thought process, but it sounded like you did. But with thinking about, all right, I can do this, and then I've got, you know, maybe I can pick up a shift at the hospital if I need to fill in a gap every once in a while or, you know, yeah.

Whenever I need to. but yeah, I do remember you a while ago. You, you crossed that one K per month, mark And for those listening, , Robert got a, a nice special plaque for being in our, $1 K club since he had his first thousand dollars month. , so that's awesome. So it's, it's really cool to see that, even though you had your full-time job, you kept chipping away slowly at it and were patient with it.

I think that's the biggest thing. [00:18:00] Some people, , feel like everything's gonna happen overnight, you know, and with any service-based business, it's all relationships and. marketing and actually being good at what you do. You know, if you have those things, then it'll work eventually.

As you're growing your business, what would you say is the hardest thing that you've encountered? Is it learning how to get good with the drone and the gear and the editing and all that stuff? Or has it been getting clients or building relationships? What's been the hardest thing?

Robert NIx: For me, it is been getting clients. Um, I'm terrified of cold calls. So that one guy that I was telling you about, uh, that was a blessing in the fact that, you know, he allowed me to come and do that. and I've slowly. Gotten more courage than what I've had in the past. I can pick up a phone and make a call, whereas before I couldn't.

But the marketing is the hard part for me. I mean, I enjoy doing the fly and I enjoy doing the photography, but I guess I'm an introvert when it comes to, talking to people,

David Young: kudos to you for, getting outta your comfort zone and Yeah. Calling people and, and making it work.

You found it easier over time to, to make those calls and reach out to people as you get kind of [00:19:00] more reps and experience in, right? Yeah. Do you have any marketing horror stories where you've tried to call someone and they've freaked out on you or something?

Robert NIx: no, but one time I went to an open house and I guess I got there maybe about five or 10 minutes before it started, and I had the time wrong.

But anyway, I knocked on the door. The realtor was in there and she came. In a hurry cuz she was trying to get everything ready. I didn't know that it was the wrong time, but she came and I introduced myself and she just turned and walked away. Just left me stand in there. And I'm like, oh really?

Okay. Well that wasn't very nice, but wow.

David Young: Okay. But if you had said, oh, I'm interested in looking at this house, I'm in the area looking to buy, wonder if she would've done the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Should have started there. I'm looking to buy. Oh, actually, nevermind. I already have a house, but,

Robert NIx: I think you told me this before, how many nos do you have to go through before you get to a yes.

So, yeah, true. Mark it down and kept on going. So, yeah,

David Young: you know, uh, it reminds me, I'm reading this book right now. Maybe I would recommend it for people I think it's called Three Feet From Gold. It's really interesting. I'm like, wow, maybe [00:20:00] halfway through it, but that's a lot about what it's about, right?

It's like a lot of people, uh, end up quitting right before they get to whatever. Tipping point would, cause their success. A lot of people just have to hear a lot of nos before they get some yeses. And it's funny, the book, it basically, it talks about interviews with a lot of kind of successful.

Businessmen and women. And a lot of the advice in there , it's told from the perspective of, you know, some guy who's trying to write a book and he's not, you know, keeps getting beat down with different, nos and obstacles or whatever. But when like a bunch of book publishers reject him and tell him no, all these successful mentors of his are like, Hey, that's awesome.

Congrats. And he's like, what? And they're like, yeah. Now that you've got to know you've got that outta the way and you can like keep moving on and you're just like one step closer. , he was like, that's confusing. But, uh, I think it's a good perspective to have, right? Because, um, you know, there's all these people out are out in the world, and to assume that all of them are the perfect client for you it's a inaccurate way to think, but an accurate way to think and be like, Hey, Two out of every [00:21:00] 10 people or one out of every 10 people is gonna be my perfect client.

, I gotta find my people, you know? And so find them. You gotta weed through all the people who aren't your people, . I

Robert NIx: will tell you one thing that I've learned over the years too, is not to take it personal. Yeah. Cause it's not personal.

I mean, it's just absolutely not personal. just like the, the lady who was annoyed because I showed up a few minutes early and then I just wanted to sell her something. You know, she was annoyed with me, but, It wasn't personal. I didn't take it that way. So,

David Young: yeah. And that's good. And that's, again, I think you've learned that over time too, because she doesn't, she doesn't know you.

It's not like she knows you and is like, oh, I don't like Robert. You know, she just, you're just some guy right. At that point, exactly. Yeah. If you were gonna advise someone, he was just kind of, there's a lot of people listening to this who are thinking about diving into their own business or starting their own thing, or maybe they've got something and they haven't had much success from me.

They do. I don't know. , but. If you were gonna talk to them and you were one-on-one with them and they're like, Hey, Robert, just, I need some help, man. Gimme some advice and some encouragement, or how do I, how do I get this rolling? What would you tell 'em?

Robert NIx: I guess I would say don't give up.

I [00:22:00] mean, that's probably the biggest thing. I made up my mind that I was gonna do this and I knew I was gonna do this and. I'm not gonna give up. I didn't give up. I would say, get your part 1 0 7. and then I would say, get your website, get your Google My Business, and then just go out and. Make a cold call or, send out some emails or whatever, but reach out to somebody that you want to work for and say, you know, let me do this for free, or let me do it for half price or whatever to get your foot in the door, and then start asking for referrals.

David Young: Man, the whole business plan, right? In a, in a nutshell, right Then, Robert's available for consulting calls, a thousand dollars an hour. You can, you know, no, I think that's, I think that's fantastic advice. Honestly. It's what you did, right? And yeah, you're doing it full-time. And I think people, you have to decide too.

I'm just thinking about this as listening to you and just thinking about other people is this what you want? A lot of people just want the easy thing or the easy way out, you know? And there isn't a business that exists out there where you're gonna be working and making any type of money that's easy because if it's easy, it's only easy for a little bit until it gets flooded.

And then, it's either [00:23:00] impossible if you do business or you're competing with tons of people and you're not gonna make it work unless you're the one working harder than other people. So it doesn't matter if you're getting into selling pallets or flying drones or, doing anything.

Robert NIx: That's one thing I heard the other day. Somebody said that, being in business is like, 60%, doing the backend stuff or 70%, you know, chasing down invoices or trying to do marketing and this, that and the other. And then the 30% is doing what you wanna do, which is Flying drones, you know? Yeah. So you have to take it all into consideration. But, you know, I enjoy, obviously I enjoy flying to drones and I enjoy doing the photography, but as I go, I'm learning that there's more to it than just that.

David Young: You nailed it cuz if you don't have marketing and sales and a good system down for actually running the business, then you're not really gonna have many people wanting your service.

You know what I mean? Right. Where you're gonna get maxed out really quickly. so yeah, there's a good book on that called, The E-myth, I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, but it's a little bit more of work, kind of like [00:24:00] working on the business versus working in the business. So it talks about like a baker and they're like baking cakes, but they just feel like they're always pulling their hair out because they're not actually designing a business.

They're just, they think all I gotta do is bake a cakes. But if you wanna have a business, it's more than that. You gotta learn how to. Do all the other stuff. Where can people find out more about you? Where can they see your work and, hit you up with all the questions.

Robert NIx: As I mentioned, I have two websites. I started off with re drone sc. Mm-hmm. And the way that I came up with that name is I knew I wanted to go into real estate. So re is for real estate. So it's re drone sc so that's for real estate drone in South Carolina. Cause that's where I live. So you can reach me at re drone sc or e imaging.

Sc the re imaging is really geared more toward the real estate photography, and the re drone is really geared more toward anything else drone related, such as construction progress or whatever.

David Young: And then do you do any, uh, social media?

Robert NIx: I do. I have a Facebook account and an Instagram account, [00:25:00] and I think they're all by the name Ari Drone SC or ARI Imaging sc uh, for Facebook and Instagram.

David Young: We'll link those up in our notes to this show, or you can, if you're just listening to it, you can, go type it in since you heard it. Robert, thanks for coming on and I'm glad we got to do this. Finally, I remember when you crossed your thousand dollars mark for the first time, I was like, oh, hey, you qualified to be on the show now, let's get you on the show.

And then we never made it happen. And then you quit and went full-time, or, you know, partially quit and went full-time. And I was like, oh, sweet, now I gotta get you on. And then, I had heart surgery and all this other stuff happened, and now finally we're we're, we made it happen. So I'm glad to finally talk to you and get you on the show after all this time, man.

But appreciate you being here.

Robert NIx: Yeah. I appreciate you having me, David. I, you, you've been a good friend and you, I wanna tell everybody before you go, that you have a passion for what you do and you've got a good heart. , I remember the times that you used to sit, talk with me on the phone for sometimes an hour or more, just helping me.

So anybody's looking for, a good friend. You are

David Young: well, thanks for having man [00:26:00] back at you, dude. I've appreciated you and, you know, getting to know you over the years. And again, your consistency was still. Pushing at it. And as people can probably tell from just listening to you, you're an awesome guy it's real kind.

it's been great getting to know you

Robert NIx: all right. Thanks Robert. All right.

Thank you, David. I appreciate it.

David Young: All right. I hope you enjoyed that episode with Robert Nicks, as you can tell from the podcast, just a really kind person. If you wanna reach out to him, I'm sure he'd be more than happy to chat with you for a sec or respond to your message. so Robert's just been a, a good friend, so I'm glad he was able to finally come on the podcast and, share his story.

I also remember the first time he crossed his. Thousand dollars a month mark. And I was like, oh, cool, we can have 'em on the podcast. And then he took it full-time. So I was really stoked to be able to have 'em on now, I was gonna mention this on the beginning of the episode, but I forgot. if you want discounts on any of the Drone Launch Academy courses, there's a special webpage for listeners of the podcast.

It is, uh, academy.com/. D one k discount or discounts? I don't remember if there's an s on the end of it, but you can try both. that should take you to a page where it unlocks a few coupon codes for some of the courses if you wanna check that out. So, jump [00:27:00] in there. If you're looking to take any courses like getting your Part one seven certificate, roof inspections with drones mapping.

Aero cinema, photography, any of that good stuff. We got some courses in there for you. All right, thanks for so much for tuning in. And we do have episode 10 already done. So if you're listening to this right when the week it comes out, just know episode 10 is right around the corner. So I'm excited to, uh, do that for you.

And then we'll start filming for season six here, hopefully pretty soon. So thanks again, everyone. Take care.