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Episode 25.5: Gumroad Small Product Lab Winner, D.J. Coffman

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DJ Coffman joins the show today. We talk about DJ winning the recent Gumroad Small Product Lab challenge. We also discuss his journey from being a young artist to becoming an experienced cartoonist. Currently, DJ has a best-of-both worlds work situation that includes both a stable job, and small product releases.

And of course, we’ll get into detail on what it took to conceive, create and launch a small product in just 10 days.

Small Product Talking Points

  • why a small product matters
  • how “reuse and recycle” is a hack to help you create a small product
  • how to leverage your background for product creation
  • how to deal with distractions

 Show Notes:
Comic Drawing Toolkit For Photoshop
Small Product Lab
Cash for Cartoonists
Hugh MacLeod
Chris Brogan
Steven Pressfield – The War of Art
RECORD & RELEASE – Learn How To Podcast In Just One Day

Episode 5: Product-izing Your Consulting Work w/Brennan Dunn

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In this episode, Brennan Dunn talks about consulting work and the product business.  He shares some of the pitfalls of each, while teaching us what he learned as he moved from consulting work into launching bootstrapped product.

Bootstrapped Product Talking Points

  • how monthly retainers can put you in a product-selling mindset,
  • finding people to support & understand your endeavors,
  • why it’s important to understand the sales cycle,
  • the importance of value transactions,

and more, including the story of how Brennan’s had his big “I have to get out consulting” moment, and what’s going on with his newest info-products; how they flowed naturally from his consulting work.

As always, we finish off with concrete, can-do action items for your own product launch. Brennan gives you three homework items that will move you closer to getting product out the door.

Planscope – Brennan’s Saas app for managing consulting work or general projects
Double Your Freelancing Rate – Brennan’s book for consultants
The Blueprint – Brennan’s system for getting more consulting clients
Consultancy Masterclass – Brennan’s workshop for leveling-up your consulting work

Amy Hoy – creator of the 30×500 method for launching products
Joel Spolsky
Patrick McKenzie
Nathan Barry
Rob Walling
Buffer
Mastering Modern Payments Using Stripe w/Rails by Pete Keen
RailsKit – Ready-made Rails code
SmallSpec – Christopher’s app for creating painless functional specs; join the launch list