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Productised services: #3: The best of both worlds
- ebaysucks 15y agoLove this post and I am doing this in my current startup. The best way to bootstrap a business is to sell a service without selling your name.
- swombat 15y agoCould you please expand on "without selling your name"? You mean sell a service that isn't tied to you delivering it personally?
- ebaysucks 15y agoInstead of selling "John Smith, Incorporation Lawyer at $100/hour" you make it "Incorporation Package, $495". In other words, moving from selling YOUR time (service) to selling a solution (productized service).
- mark_l_watson 15y agoGreat advice. I am hoping to roll out my own service offering (http://www.knowledgebooks.com/ http://www.knowledgebooks.com/) in about a month, and I have been thinking a lot of how to keep hosting costs minimized and put in place sufficient automation that not a lot of my time will need to be spent, except for improving the service itself. This service is something that I need for two projects and hopefully other developers will find it useful also.