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Hi Reader,

How's your blogging week been?

I hope it's been full of all the little things that as a blogger we sometimes take for granted, but are the reason we get into blogging: the content creation, personal connection, feedback from our audience and hopefully some income.

This week's blog post is very close to my heart because it speaks to all the little things we need to do to keep chipping away at making an impact with our blogs.

In my story about becoming a problogger I talk about how:

Blogging for an income takes time
You have to take it one step at a time
Blogging requires hard work and discipline

Today's article brings all that into focus in the process of product creation.

Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from many, it’s research.
— Attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876-1933), among others

Read: Build Blog Products That Sell 3: Develop Your Product

Welcome to the third weekly instalment in our series on how to sell products of your own creation, via your blog, in a world in which everyone’s reluctant to spend money.

If you’ve been following the series so far, then you’ve learned how to conceive of a product and conduct market research into its viability, at least in theory.

Today, we’ll look at actually developing the product you’ve been thinking about.

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Hope you have a great end to your blogging week!

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