Make money while you sleep

Make money while you sleep

Author: The Happy Startup School November 19, 2021 Duration: 35:32

Do you want to make money while you sleep?

That's the promise of passive income.

And anyone who doesn't make as much money as they'd like selling their time is attracted to this promise.

According to Tim Ferris’ Four Hour Work Week passive income brings promise of freedom, adventure, ease and wealth.

But is this always the case.

Does pursuing a passive income model actually bring less you happiness because you then become a slave to click funnels and spreadsheets?

And, given your interest in pricing well, what does it take to find the right price for a passive income product?

On this episode of Waking Up To Money Ben and I covered a couple of core ideas.

Firstly, what's your intention for starting your business?

Is it purely about creating a passive income business?

If so, your only metric of success will be money and your focus will be about maximising passive revenue.

However, if your intention is to maximise impact then creating a  product or course that many people can get value from without the need for your time might be the best way to go. And so passive income could be your revenue model of choice.

But in this latter case you'll be focused on the impact and not just the income.

Pricing well is about understanding what your customers consider valuable.

This requires you to be in conversation with them. But this doesn't have to be just one-to-one.

This can be done at scale through your marketing. Particularly through social media.

Then the job of marketing isn't to just tell people that you have something to sell.

But to engage with people you want to work with and listen to what they think is valuable.

You can then set your price accordingly.

And to get to the right price you need to iterate by putting a price out there and then changing it (or your target audience or your offering) if no one is buying.


For freelancers and founders who believe their work has genuine purpose, the conversation around money can feel like the most awkward part of the job. The Happy Pricing Podcast, from The Happy Startup School, steps directly into that discomfort. It operates from a simple, radical premise: pricing shouldn't be a silent calculation of fear or greed, but a clear, confident dialogue about shared value. This isn't about racing to the bottom to please clients or inflating rates to exploit them. Instead, each episode focuses on building the practical capability to have those necessary, often avoided, financial conversations. You'll hear real strategies for articulating your worth in a way that feels authentic, ensuring the exchange is equitable and that you are properly compensated for the impact you create. The discussions move beyond theory into the nuanced reality of running a purpose-driven business, exploring how to structure fees, negotiate with clarity, and ultimately create arrangements where both you and your clients feel good about the investment. Tuning into this podcast means re-framing pricing from a transactional headache into a core component of your professional integrity and happiness. It's for those ready to move past anxiety and into a practice where everyone truly shares in the value being delivered.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 75

The Happy Pricing Podcast
Podcast Episodes
Pricing based on value [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:20
Getting paid what your worth isn’t about accurately itemising your time.It takes acknowledging what your customer says they want, understanding what they need, articulating why they need it and helping them figure out ho…
You're pricing your projects wrong [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:21
Most projects a priced based on people's time.The proposal, as well as containing lots of justification for choosing you as a supplier, is essentially a shopping list of project member's time and how much their hourly ra…
The pros and cons of selling yourself by the hour [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:49
Earlier in the week I found this article on Medium entitled "What to charge as a freelancer: does value-based pricing live up to the hype?"You can read it here - https://medium.com/free-code-camp/what-to-charge-as-a-free…
Are you pricing your worth? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:03
Pricing for serviced based businesses is such a dark art and many agency owners, coaches and consultants have had to learn it the hard way.But why should it be so hard?There should be more courses about this stuff out th…
Pricing, marketing and selling - how does it all fit together? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:17
Focussing on pricing in isolation isn't going to help you get customers.If you don't align how you price with how you market you can waste a lot of time selling to the wrong people.On this episode we talk about how prici…
How can I earn more without talking about money? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:10
On this episode we tackle the challenge of trying to earn more when you don't like talking about money.The bad news is that it's impossible.The good news is that while you can't get away from ultimately talking about mon…
Pricing a new product or service [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:18
On this episode of Waking up to Money we were joined by Nicola Forristal, a People Talent specialist.She has a service that weaves the threads of her corporate career as a People & Talent professional, her therapeutic ca…
Being bold and being easier to buy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:05
Welcome to the new season of Waking up to Money.This episode is the first one after our break following the second Happy Pricing course we ran in April.We learned a lot during that course. Not only about how to run it ev…
Are you reassuringly expensive? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:08
While you may feel like selling something is difficult remember that buying is difficult too.Our customers are always conscious about whether they’re making the right decisions. When choosing a product or service they’re…