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- Build a product worth $97 in value (I like teaching, so information products works best for me), then sell 3-4 a month. - Find other people who want to know
by joshkaufman 17y ago
- Build a product worth $97 in value (I like teaching, so information products works best for me), then sell 3-4 a month.
- Find other people who want to know what you know, then charge $97-497 a month to coach them.
- Do NOT start a blog for advertising dollars or do mechanical turk - your ROI will be extremely low vs. the time and energy you spend. Instead, use a website to sell your products or services, whatever they may be.
- needmoney 17y agoI like this route. I can write well and I'm well-educated, so I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable. I just don't know how to identify / sell it. I know it's probably hard to give specifics without knowing what I want to sell, but can you give me any advice on how long generating such a product might take (how long it took you in the beginning, perhaps?) and how you might pick such a product?
- marshallp 17y ago"I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable" I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days
- ique 17y agoBut people will pay copious amounts of money to not have to read that information themselves, in other words; teaching and coaching that information can certainly be valuable.
- needmoney 17y agoOnly some types of information.
- csomar 17y ago"I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days" Yet, it's pretty expensive. The most used resources of information are schools/uni and they are the most expensive. Books, videos, tutorials, Seminars... are also paying. There are free valuable information, but it's rare.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoUniversities sell credentials, not information. To prove this, go to your local university and ask how much it costs to take a class by examination (no classtime, simply take the final exam).
- starkfist 17y agoWell, they also sell the class itself... go to your local university and ask how much it costs to sit in on a class for no credit. It's not going to be free, if there is even such an option.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoIt usually is free if space is available and you don't annoy the professor. I've had several non-paying students; the only time I ever kicked one out of class was because we ran out of seats. MIT is actually well known for making information free, but the credential is expensive. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
- starkfist 17y agoThat's interesting because I wanted to sit in on the computational photography course at NYU and the registrar said it was impossible. Maybe I should have avoided talking to the administration? However, I did email the instructor and he did not return any of my email. How do you even get into the buildings without an ID?
- icey 17y agoIf you truly feel that way then you should question the quality of the information you're consuming. Information is categorically not free; the people who are paying for it are the ones who need it before everyone else. They are also the people who are making money by having that information first. Being that we live in an information age, it's the new currency. If you think that it's free, then you're only seeing the castoffs.
- kalid 17y agoAgreed. Mechanical turk is a waste of time for someone tech-savvy enough to ask HN.
- _delirium 17y agoMechanical Turk sometimes has well-paying jobs, though it's less common than it used to be, and they usually disappear quickly. But I've made ~$30/hr on it before doing things that the requester grossly overestimated the going rate for. Admittedly, jobs paying effectively $3/hr are much more common.