Microsoft Excel influencer reveals how she makes six figures A DAY with software training business - Daily Mail

A Microsoft Excel influencer has opened up about how she parlayed her viral videos into a software training business — and now makes up to six figures a day selling her online courses. .

Kat Norton, 27, from Long Island, New York, is best known as 'Miss Excel' on TikTok and Instagram, where she has more than a million followers?

'When I first started the business, I scaled it within six months to six figures,' she explained on The Verge's podcast, Decoder with Nilay Patel.

Story: Kat Norton, 27, from Long Island, New York, detailed how she parlayed her viral TikTok videos into a software training business on The Verge's podcast, Decoder with Nilay Patel.

Claim to fame: Norton, who is known as 'Miss Excel' on social media, dances around while teaching Microsoft Excel tips and shortcuts in her playful clips .

When she began working at the global consulting firm Protiviti four and a half years ago, she built an Excel training course 'for fun.'.

Incredible: The Microsoft Excel influencer has more than 656,000 followers on TikTok after joining the social media platform a year and a half ago .

Smart: Norton makes up to six figures a day from her online classes, which range in cost from $297 for one course to $997 for the complete Microsoft Office Suite bundle

I started recording videos after work and selling them back to this guy

At the time, there were fears that TikTok was about to be banned, so she started building followers on Instagram as a backup.  

This is how it happened: In August, she shared a video featuring a timeline of her success, starting with the launch of 'Miss Excel' in June 2020 

Side hustle: After her first video went viral, a a CEO of an IT company reached out to her asking if she could create training videos in G Suite products for students and teachers 

Always be prepared: At the time, there were fears that TikTok was about to be banned, so she started building followers on Instagram as a backup

At the same time, she spoke with a business coach who advised her to have a product she's selling in time for the appearance.  

Norton took a few weeks off work and created her first Excel course, which she started selling on Black Friday that year

Big business: Norton started selling her first Excel course online in November 2020, and within two months, it was making her more money than her day job, which she quit shortly after