How to Package and Sell Your Existing Skills (the real way)
Discover the exact 4-week framework to package your existing skills into a $1,000/month service by solving one specific, painful problem for people who will pay to make it disappear.
Three months ago, I was sitting in a coffee shop, broke.
Not “I can’t afford the new iPhone” broke. More like “I’m calculating if I can afford this $4 coffee” broke.
I had spent the previous months transitioning out of my startup and building what I thought was the perfect service for my new agency business. CRO and copywriting packages. Professional website. Detailed 3-page service agreement. A pricing structure that took me three weeks to develop.
I made $0.
Then I got an email from someone who found my LinkedIn profile: “Hey, can you help me fix my LinkedIn profile? I’ll pay you $100 if you can get it done this week.”
I sent back a one-sentence reply: “Yes. Send me the details.”
That was it. No fancy proposal. No multi-page agreement. Just a problem and a solution.
That moment taught me everything about creating services that actually make money.
Most People Are Building Services Nobody Wants
Here’s what very few people tell you about creating a monetizable service:
The market doesn’t care about your credentials, your process, or how comprehensive your offering is.
The market cares about one thing: Can you solve a specific problem they have right now?
You’re probably doing what I did. You’re trying to create the “perfect” service. Something comprehensive. Something that showcases all your skills. Something you can be proud of.
Meanwhile, people are literally pulling out their credit cards to pay for solutions to problems you could solve in your sleep.
The difference between a service that makes $0 and one that makes $1,000+ per month isn’t quality.
It’s specificity.
The 30-Day Service Creation Framework
Here’s the truth: You already have the skills to create a $1,000/month service.
You just need to package them correctly.
Week 1: Identify Your Unfair Advantage
Stop trying to be everything to everyone.
What can you do in two hours that would take someone else two days? That’s your unfair advantage.
For me, it was optimizing LinkedIn profiles and positioning my clients into “micro-thought leaders”. I could do in an afternoon what would take most entrepreneurs weeks of confusion and stress.
For you, it might be:
Creating social media content strategies that actually convert
Setting up automated systems for small businesses
Writing copy that sounds like a real human wrote it
Analyzing policy documents and translating them into actionable insights
Write down three things you can do significantly faster or better than the average person. Pick the one people actually pay for.
Week 2: Find Your Wealthy Problem
Not all problems are created equal.
Some problems people will tolerate. Other problems cause enough pain that people will pay to make them disappear.
Your job is to find the intersection between:
What you can solve easily
What causes enough pain that people will pay
What people have money to spend on
I call these “wealthy problems.”
Wealthy problems exist in businesses, not hobbies. They exist in time-sensitive situations, not theoretical futures. They exist where money is already flowing.
Spend week two having conversations. Not sales calls. Conversations.
Ask people in your network: “What’s the most frustrating part of [your business/your job/your situation] right now?”
Listen for urgency. Listen for pain. Listen for where money is being lost or time is being wasted.
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Go to ChatGPT or Claude or whatever and ask it for your ideal customers' top 10 pain points and aspirations. This alone will help you identify how to best bridge the gap between their problems and their solutions.Week 3: Create Your Minimum Viable Offer
Here’s where most people sabotage themselves.
They try to create a comprehensive service that covers every possible scenario. They spend weeks building out processes, creating contracts, designing workflows.
Stop.
Your minimum viable offer should be one sentence:
“I help [specific person] solve [specific problem] in [specific timeframe].”
That’s it.
For my first real (recurring money-generating) service, was: “I help founders build a consistent client pipeline on LinkedIn in 90 days”
No complex packages. No tiered pricing. No 12-step process.
One problem. One solution. One clear outcome.
Create a simple one-page description of:
The exact problem you solve
The exact outcome they get
How long it takes
What it costs
Price it between $300-$1,000. You need to hit $1,000/month, not $10,000/month. Start with what’s achievable.
Week 4: Sell It Before You Perfect It
This is the week that separates people who make money from people who make excuses.
You need to get three clients in seven days.
Not through ads. Not through a perfect website. Through direct outreach.
Make a list of 30 people who might have the problem you solve. These can be:
People in your existing network
People in relevant Facebook groups or LinkedIn communities
People whose content you engage with
Local businesses in your area
Send them a simple message:
“Hey [Name], I noticed you’re [relevant context]. I’m helping [type of person] solve [specific problem] right now. Would it make sense to have a quick conversation about this?”
Ten will respond. Five will be interested. Three will buy.
That’s $900-$3,000 in week four.
The Real Secret
Here’s what I learned from that $100 email (which turned into $500, which turned into a $2,000/month retainer):
People don’t buy services. They buy outcomes.
They don’t want your process. They don’t want your expertise. They don’t want your credentials.
They want the problem gone.
The fastest way to create a service that makes $1,000/month isn’t to build something impressive.
It’s to solve a specific, painful problem for a specific person who has money and needs it solved now.
Everything else is just noise.
Stop building. Start selling.
The market will tell you what to create.