{"id":637,"date":"2016-10-12T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=637"},"modified":"2016-10-18T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T23:43:09","slug":"separate-your-time-from-your-income","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/separate-your-time-from-your-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate your Time from Your Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most freelancers sell WordPress as a service: installing WordPress, customizing WordPress, and extending WordPress. These freelancers, and the services that they offer, share one thing in common: income is directly related to time spent. If you want to make more money, you have to find more clients and put in more hours. It just doesn&#8217;t scale.<\/p>\n<p>What if I told you that the opportunity for a product business goes beyond plugins and themes. You can productize your services and scale your work so that your hours don&#8217;t increase at the same rate as your profits. Using personal examples and identifying use cases scattered throughout the WordPress ecosystem, I will show how to separate your time from your income with a product approach to selling WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will show how to separate your time from your income with a product approach to selling WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most freelancers sell WordPress as a service: installing WordPress, customizing WordPress, and extending WordPress. These freelancers, and the services that they offer, share one thing in common: income is directly related to time spent. If you want to make more money, you have to find more clients and put in more hours. It just doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/separate-your-time-from-your-income\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Separate your Time from Your Income<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14221791,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1477756800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[574],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[919073],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-637","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-business-freelance"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pEJ8-ah","session_date_time":{"date":"October 29, 2016","time":"11:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"574","slug":"kyle-johnson","name":"Kyle Johnson","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/kyle-johnson\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/637\/revisions\/638"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/574"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/kbjohnson90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}