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It sounds like money/uncertainty is a big source of this stress. Istrongly recommend reading Profit First and following its principles when relying on eat-what-you-kill for main income. It helped me immensely.
And yes like you said - timebox all the things.
Like @nikspyratos said, you should read Stark’s stuff. What a maker wants to pay you depends on the value you bring.
I have a page getting hella traffic with good conversions but 50% of users get an error and can’t buy? I’ll pay you a bunch to fix that for me.
I have a product with zero users and low interest? Giving you even 10 bucks feels like a lot.
To give a more concrete example: I have a bunch of problems on my blog that I’d really love to fix but it isn’t worth my time. Would love to pay someone to do it for me, but there isn’t nearly enough work to even begin talking about a /month price.
Typically you want to be upfront about wanting money for the service so users aren’t surprised. But you want to pop the question after you get their contact info.
Those leads are gold for market research, product research, and possibly converting later. Most people won’t buy right away, but do intend to buy later unless they forget you exist.
This looks useful!
The right price depends more on your target market than it does on the tool itself. What are your potential customers currently doing to solve this problem? How much does it cost them? How does your tool help with that? Does it alleviate the pain?
Usually when you can’t price something, that’s a good sign you need to conduct more user interviews.
That said, you can also use yourself as a model. Are you using this tool? How much time/pain is it relieving?
from the response it seems to alleviate pain. It definitely does for me. Its my go to resource before I write any blog post. I feel much much more confident that I am writing about the correct keywords (that will rank) once I use this to make a list. I probably need to conduct more user interviews. Thanks a lot
Just use Notion?
Easy to edit and organize, supports links and embeds, decent search, access controls.
I didn't even consider Notion! Good one. I'll use this for my own SOPs.
I found out I can just use Asana and set up a project with sections. It's simpler since everyone already has access and nobody will lose the link.