reBlog from ducttapemarketing.com: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

I found this fascinating quote today:

1) Turn your service into a product - selling services is a little like selling air. By making your offerings more productlike you can create something tangible while your competitors continue to offer solutions driven, customer centric services. Give your services a name – install your solution – offer a set deliverable, with set outcomes at a set price and watch how easy it becomes to explain and sell. The other advantage of a packaged program offering with a set price is that it allows you to rise above the hourly wage. When you sell your time you are capped and compared, when you sell a product or program, you are free to sell the value of the program without regard for the cost that goes into making it. As you become more effective at delivering your program you create the greatest path for getting paid on value delivered rather than hours input.ducttapemarketing.com, Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing, Aug 2009

You should read the whole article.