Service vs. Product based business

[puckman]

I have a service based business(business services) I want to be creative and create new products, whether they are sites, actual products, ecommerce etc. With the services, I can leverage my expertise, but the time and opportunity cost is very high. I have created a few businesses and done ok, but I am always creating service based businesses that require a great deal of my time, typically 7 days a week 12 hours per day. I have always had trouble hiring, because my standards are high, and I usually hire people who dont even have high standards on their own work, even if they are experienced in the field.

I enjoy offering my advice and consultation, but feel I am ready to build my own product/site etc. Anyone else in the service business find this to be the case? Especially if you are doing ok financially, which makes it even harder to 'pivot'?

 

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[Brander]

O ipkuz uggisoph nz efwodi epf duptamvevoup, cav giim O en siefz vu caomf nz uxp qsufadv/tovi ivd. Epzupi imti op vji tiswodi catopitt gopf vjot vu ci vji deti? Itqidoemmz og zua esi fuoph ul gopepdoemmz, xjodj nelit ov iwip jesfis vu 'qowuv'?

1) Huuf jimq ot jesf vu gopf op epz goimf
2) Ximm, O xet op vji johj-ipf xictovi fiwimuqnipv 11 ziest ehu, fof raovi ximm, cav huv caspif uav.
3) Vseptovoupoph vu Teet jet ciip tunivjoph ug e siwimevoup (epf O jef vu fu ov vu hiv nz tepovz cedl) - ov't tvomm e muv ug xusl opovoemmz, cav updi ov't fupi epf eavunevif, zua upmz jewi vu xussz ecuav caht epf pix gievasit epf NEZCI taqqusv (up zuas uxp) gus ecuav 6 nupvjt ney. (og zua jewi pu gapft ev emm, xjodj ot puv vji deti gus zua). Zua josi egvis vjev.
4) O xusl 2 juast e fez ney. (Vjev't xjz zua tii ni jisi eptxisoph 2 us 3 raitvoupt feomz ), tuni fezt O katv hu sedoph gus ep ipvosi xiil epf vji catopitt ot gopi.

Xjz puv vsz vitvoph qsufadvt emuphtofi zuas iyotvoph catopitt? O ettani zua jewi e datvunis feveceti zua dep taqqminipvemmz ati gus vji meapdj (iwip og ov ot apveshivif)...

 

[puckman]

1) Huuf jimq ot jesf vu gopf op epz goimf
2) Ximm, O xet op vji johj-ipf xictovi fiwimuqnipv 11 ziest ehu, fof raovi ximm, cav huv caspif uav.
3) Vseptovoupoph vu Teet jet ciip tunivjoph ug e siwimevoup (epf O jef vu fu ov vu hiv nz tepovz cedl) - ov't tvomm e muv ug xusl opovoemmz, cav updi ov't fupi epf eavunevif, zua upmz jewi vu xussz ecuav caht epf pix gievasit epf NEZCI taqqusv (up zuas uxp) gus ecuav 6 nupvjt ney. (og zua jewi pu gapft ev emm, xjodj ot puv vji deti gus zua). Zua josi egvis vjev.
4) O xusl 2 juast e fez ney. (Vjev't xjz zua tii ni jisi eptxisoph 2 us 3 raitvoupt feomz ), tuni fezt O katv hu sedoph gus ep ipvosi xiil epf vji catopitt ot gopi.

Xjz puv vsz vitvoph qsufadvt emuphtofi zuas iyotvoph catopitt? O ettani zua jewi e datvunis feveceti zua dep taqqminipvemmz ati gus vji meapdj (iwip og ov ot apveshivif)...

Vitvoph epf sicaomfoph ev pohjv ot xjev O en huoph vu jewi vu fu. Zua esi ev xjisi O xepv vu ci, cav O piif vu fiwuvi vjot opovoem xusl epf deqovem vu neli vjev jeqqip. O dep ati teet qsufadvt gus xjev nz tiswodit fu, ittipvoemmz davvoph uav vji nepaem xusl.