I'm a solo data consultant billing $165/hr for sponsorship and ads analytics. I keep getting asked for the same 6 things, so I spent two months building a template kit and starting to write a bank of reusable dashboards. I want to launch it at $1,200. My worry is I'm spending 20 hrs/mo on something that just cannibalizes my consulting time and nobody actually buys. I can't tell if this is a real product or just me repackaging the same hours.
Trying to turn my sponsorship analytics work into a product — is this just consulting with extra steps?
What a useful answer should help achieve
A clear signal on whether to keep building the product or kill it, and what a realistic price/rung looks like given his hourly rate and cashflow.
Already tried
Built a template kit and reusable dashboards; priced it at $1,200 based on a gut feel; started writing sales copy.
Constraints and unknowns
Trade-off is always time; solo and capped on hours; needs to protect consulting cashflow while he tests.
Data Consultant · sponsorship & ads · Established Solo · This snapshot stays with the question when the author updates their profile.3 replies
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0Rosa VaughnCourse Creator · group programmeUnited States·Established Solo·6d ago
Define it for me: is this a done-with-you implementation, or something someone downloads and runs themselves?
0Adwoa DarkoOperations Consultant · group programmeGhana·Established Solo·5d ago
I ran the same on a lite version. Two months, zero sales. Templatized and priced at $150, twelve sales in week one. The drop forced me to say what the buyer was actually getting.
0Kwabena AppiahLegal Educator · self-paced courseGhana·Scaling·5d ago
Group it into three tightly-scoped assets and sell the first at $390 as a diagnostic. Once you've got eight buyers and know what they're stuck on, you'll know whether the $1,200 kit is real. That's a test, not a launch.
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