Day 1 - Post client launches

As I mentioned in a previous post, I had to switch from providing consulting services to finishing my own products.  I went on a long rant about how consulting is not a scalable business model for a 1-man developing operation, as time is your primary product and it is not a scalable/automated resource.

After spending a day dropping work load with clients (some were easy, some you’d think we were engaged), I was able to dedicate an entire work day to a project of my own.  I was able to do more work in the 1 day for my project than I had gotten done in almost two months.

I’ve pointed a few of my friends over to the post to get their thoughts on it and gauge whether or not i had been a bit melodramatic, or whether i was on the right path.  All of them agreed that focus is the key to success.  And I have seen that already.  Focusing on a single project has given me the opportunity to pinpoint when i see it getting done.  Pulling out a handy excel spreadsheet, I was able to see myself that just completing this project would net me more money than if i had been doing consulting work the entire time.

Either way, dropping consulting for my own products has been a win.  Let’s wait a couple months and see if that is still true.