Product vs. Services – The Smarties Guide!!!

By Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal on July 20, 2011 14 Comments / 1567 views

I meet lots of people who are in the services business relentlessly doing their daily grind only to encounter more trouble and grief….

Funnily, I meet very few people in the products space – and those I meet are quite happy…

This is a small summation of my view on Services Vs. Products – for ‘Smarties’

(dummies is so so passe right) ???

I hope you enjoy it, comment and add more slide suggestions AND share!!

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Products Vs. Services – The Smarties Guide from Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal

Please comment and tell me your views?

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Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal

14 Comments

Pradeep Chaudhary July 20, 2011, 1:50 pm

Super liked the last slide 🙂
Ashwin C Parulkar July 22, 2011, 12:39 am

Service provider is at the mercy of the market where as the market is at the mercy of great product
Dhiraj Bajaj July 22, 2011, 9:27 pm

clear and untangled slides.
Karthik Yanamandra November 18, 2011, 10:08 am

Super Like!!!
Anamika Joshi November 19, 2011, 10:08 am

I run an advertising agency – nailbites! being in the service sector, i could totally connect to this ppt …good insights…but you see generalized points are for general people….you can always find others changing your notions.. 🙂 Best wishes…& congrats for having such a great site running!
Abey John November 23, 2011, 12:54 pm

Love the last slide! 🙂
Aakriti September 12, 2012, 12:03 pm

Haha!! Amazing slides!

The insights are so apt, as being in the services sector, I can totally relate! 🙂 And yes, the last slide is awesome!
Rahul Ramchandani September 13, 2012, 5:23 pm

Superliked So aptly mentioned…Gave a lot of clarity like all your posts!!
Himanshu Mody September 13, 2012, 7:53 pm

While I agree to every thing mentioned about Product Vs. Services. business mentioned by you. Yet I have made a choice of being in to the services space. We have Helped other companies build their products. Even dangled with couple of our own product ideas but I guess I am not cut out for it so far.
So I wish to create multiple businesses focused on Niche Services that can generate regular cashflow. I have 2 companies as of now – Tekno Point [ focused on Adobe Product training and consulting ] and CloudThat [ focused on CloudComputing Training and AWS consulting ] .

My plan is to build more companies and optimize my service delivery and other functions that will benefit all the businesses I am invested in.

Would love to hear from any Rodinhood who has a Services Business Plan and needs some angel funding and a co-founder. Also would like to add I am investing for cashflow and do not intend to be into the valuation game.
asha chaudhry September 14, 2012, 3:07 am

himanshu…

i see a post in the making!

do write when you have a breather.

🙂
Abhijeet Mahajan December 15, 2013, 7:07 pm

Alok Sir,

Alok sir, thankS a lot for sharing this. I had sent you the msg long back which you may have missed in your schedule. got the answer in second slide itself. Other slides just strengthened my confidence.

superlike!!!
AMIT WADHE January 16, 2014, 5:54 am

Himanshu sir,

I am interested to enter in service industry. specially in education sector. kindly suggest the business.
Vivek Raghavan February 19, 2015, 4:02 pm

Very well written Alok! Loved it 🙂
Tarun February 20, 2015, 4:38 am

I can so much relate to it…A journey from Service to Product…