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Commerce · October 3, 2016

Make Money Online: Ep #39 - "Thoughts on Products"

Do products help augment services, or replace them?

Make Money Online: Ep #39 - "Thoughts on Products" launched on October 3, 2016 with 60 votes, #1,113 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Nick and Kai make the case that books and info products are authority tools for consultants, not income replacements, and that SaaS is a trap most consultants…

Are products a way to replace services, or do they help augment your services? Nick and Kai make the case that books and info products are authority tools for consultants, not income replacements, and that SaaS is a trap most consultants walk into too early. The right sequence is consulting first (clients pay you for market validation), small products second, and SaaS only after deep, earned understanding of the expensive problem your market actually has. I wrote a book in 2010 called Cadence and Slang, and it was about interaction design. It is the single Biggest and most important thing that I’ve done for my career so far. It was tremendously valuable. It allowed me to triple my salary.…from makemoneyonline.exposed

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