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Try to package up as a product the experience you're selling when you're doing consultancy work e.g. as a book, a SaaS, a mobile app, an online course. Jumping

Try to package up as a product the experience you're selling when you're doing consultancy work e.g. as a book, a SaaS, a mobile app, an online course. Jumping between companies as you freelance lets you see common pain points that you could address and manual work that you could create a product for to automate. It's probably harder to do this if you're on a salary in the same company on the same project for years too. https://www.checkbot.io/ https://www.checkbot.io/ is a paid Chrome extension I built that automates many of the checks I used to do manually during contracts when optimising the SEO, speed and security of websites. I found many developers and content editors on websites I worked with weren't checking for web best practices because of lack of knowledge + time and because doing manual checks is error-prone + tedious.

DrNuke 7y ago
That’s it, really. Adding that passive is a bit of a myth, you will actually become a salesman for your personal brand.
- seanwilson 7y ago
  It's possible to get to a stage eventually where you're making money daily without needing to put in a full working day every day (e.g. selling a SaaS/app/ebook, consultancy retainers), but that's not likely to happen without many hours invested beforehand somewhere. I'm guessing it's extremely rare you can create + sell something with minimal hours invested with little specialised experience though. I agree though, I think you're always going to have some level of ongoing responsibility as well e.g. responding to customers/clients, keeping an eye on server issues, checking up on contractors, marketing.