You first need to make sure you're clear what niche you're in. Then, within that niche, what subject the ebook will be about.
Once you have those two clearly sorted, make a list of up to 20 topics you want to write about to do with the overall subject. What can you help readers with best, and will show them yourself as an expert in the niche?
If this is a free ebook people will judge the potential value of your products based on it. Therefore, provide them with just as much knowledge overall as you would in a product you sell. Of course, your full product will probably be much longer and have more detail in it than the free ebook.
A common response is to worry about freely distributing such free information. If the ebook is a free one, make it a freebie for signing up to your list. Each of your opt ins should be worth a number of dollars to you, so this information is not wasted. Plus, if they can also give it away themselves with your links in, then you're getting free traffic from it.
Once you've decided on your 20 or less main topics, write a few hundred words about each of them. In each case, have an introduction to it, write about three or four sub-ideas realted to that main idea, then end with a conclusion reviewing those sub-ideas. When you've finished you'll have about 20 pages of clear and well organized information.
If you're going to let people who download it also be able to give it away, without changing it, put in links to a squeeze page of yours. Plus, you might want to include links to your own or affilite products you're recommending.
Read it through for spelling, punctuation and grammar. You could put a contents page: if so, also number the pages. Before the contents make it clear the reader can give it away as long as it's not changed. In addition, you might find that having produced, for example, 20 pages, that you could edit it into 2 separate ebooks of about ten pages each. Maybe one could be used as an unannounced bonus to the other free ebook. People prefer shorter free ebooks, as a quick read to easily get the gist of it. The important quality is the power of the information for the reader rather than being a lengthy read.
Convert it to a PDF document. You can do this easily in OpenOffice which is free, or in Word, or you can buy into a service like Adobe.
Now create a download page for it in whichever download system you're using, so when people sign up to your list they can click a link to download it, in your first email to them.
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Thursday, 19 November 2015
Sunday, 1 November 2015
Your Ebook Creation Done Fast
Are you thinking of writing an ebook or similar text, such as a report? But you're holding off because you think it'll take too long?
In fact, done right, and with the attitude to make sure you finish it, it can take you just a few days.
First, ask your list or website visitors what they're having problems with and what they want to find out about in your niche. When you've got enough ideas and see one which stands out as being in most demand, use your text software to list the main ideas of the subject. Then, under each main idea list sub-ideas about the particular main idea. This is your plan and now you can start writing right into it.
Second, choose a main idea you're confident you know enough about,and write about each sub-idea in turn. In other words, chunk your whole task into bits. Do one sub-idea, then the next and so on until you've finished all you have to say about that main idea or chapter. Then move onto another mian idea in the same way.
Third, have an aim of when you'll finish the ebook, and so a goal of how many pages you'll have to write each day. Don't let it stretch out into weeks to complete. If it does, either change your daily schedule to ensure it all gets done, or miss out or shorten some of what you've planned. Having a goal means you're more than likely to finish it on time. You might have to push yourself at times if you're serious about meeting your deadline. On the other hand, yoi might find everything goes extremely fast.
Fourth, write its sales letter.
Fifth, check it over, putting in links where you want them, correct any basic mistakes, and maybe have footers to put your copyright and website address. Or whatever you want to do with how it looks.
Sixth, have the sales letter on your site, and the ebook in your download system.
All of this doesn't need to take you weeks on end. Just get it done.
In fact, done right, and with the attitude to make sure you finish it, it can take you just a few days.
First, ask your list or website visitors what they're having problems with and what they want to find out about in your niche. When you've got enough ideas and see one which stands out as being in most demand, use your text software to list the main ideas of the subject. Then, under each main idea list sub-ideas about the particular main idea. This is your plan and now you can start writing right into it.
Second, choose a main idea you're confident you know enough about,and write about each sub-idea in turn. In other words, chunk your whole task into bits. Do one sub-idea, then the next and so on until you've finished all you have to say about that main idea or chapter. Then move onto another mian idea in the same way.
Third, have an aim of when you'll finish the ebook, and so a goal of how many pages you'll have to write each day. Don't let it stretch out into weeks to complete. If it does, either change your daily schedule to ensure it all gets done, or miss out or shorten some of what you've planned. Having a goal means you're more than likely to finish it on time. You might have to push yourself at times if you're serious about meeting your deadline. On the other hand, yoi might find everything goes extremely fast.
Fourth, write its sales letter.
Fifth, check it over, putting in links where you want them, correct any basic mistakes, and maybe have footers to put your copyright and website address. Or whatever you want to do with how it looks.
Sixth, have the sales letter on your site, and the ebook in your download system.
All of this doesn't need to take you weeks on end. Just get it done.
Monday, 19 October 2015
How Difficult Actaully Is It To Make Your Own Product?
I'm sure you've come across plenty of ways to generate money on the internet. There are lots of so-called systematic methods too. Many of them are temporary, one-hit wonders.
The let-down with using those is that people pile in to join the bandwagon. The first and quick marketers will make it work for a while in profiting from them. But then everybody and his dog are using them, and the methods don't work any more. Some people are forever seeking that secret eldorado method.
Instead, you need to have an evergreen way of creating an income. One that doesn't disappear. Easily the best and most sure way of doing this is to have your own products that you have created. Nobody can really copy them as they're unique to you.
Therefore, make your own product.
Here's how.
First, decide what niche or sub-niche you'll be in. What are you knowledgeable about? What are you above average at doing?
Second, what format will you use? How is the information best presented? It is best for people to read it, hear it, or see it? In other words, will you create a text based product, an audio, or a video?
Third, list the main ideas you need to cover. Under each main idea, list three to five (or more) related ideas.
Fourth, start making it. Write the ebook or whatever text based product it is. Use the list as your plan (don't write out every word you'll say but keep it sounding more spontaneous) for your audio. The same for your video: decide what you'll show and say, when.
Fifth, complete the product.
Sixth, check it over for mistakes. Don't be heavy handed about this. For example, don't worry about um's and ah's in your audio or video. If the information is valuable to them, customers will not mind.
Seventh, make your offer in a sales letter on your site.
Eighth, get visitors to your offer.
The let-down with using those is that people pile in to join the bandwagon. The first and quick marketers will make it work for a while in profiting from them. But then everybody and his dog are using them, and the methods don't work any more. Some people are forever seeking that secret eldorado method.
Instead, you need to have an evergreen way of creating an income. One that doesn't disappear. Easily the best and most sure way of doing this is to have your own products that you have created. Nobody can really copy them as they're unique to you.
Therefore, make your own product.
Here's how.
First, decide what niche or sub-niche you'll be in. What are you knowledgeable about? What are you above average at doing?
Second, what format will you use? How is the information best presented? It is best for people to read it, hear it, or see it? In other words, will you create a text based product, an audio, or a video?
Third, list the main ideas you need to cover. Under each main idea, list three to five (or more) related ideas.
Fourth, start making it. Write the ebook or whatever text based product it is. Use the list as your plan (don't write out every word you'll say but keep it sounding more spontaneous) for your audio. The same for your video: decide what you'll show and say, when.
Fifth, complete the product.
Sixth, check it over for mistakes. Don't be heavy handed about this. For example, don't worry about um's and ah's in your audio or video. If the information is valuable to them, customers will not mind.
Seventh, make your offer in a sales letter on your site.
Eighth, get visitors to your offer.
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Ebook Creation The Simple And Easy Way
People take far too long (or give up) creating their ebook, or any kind of text product. An ebook is often the first thought of those thinking of their first product. Then a lot of people think it takes too long to be bothered with. But if you can use one hour each day and create four pages in that hour, you can see how quickly you can get it done without massive effort.
Here's the process you can use. Although this is about an ebook yo can use it for different content formats too.
First, make sure you're clear what your subject is.
Second, write down everything you know about it. Include things you don't know a lot about at the moment but needs to be in the ebook.
Third, pick out the most important ideas you've got, and make those your chapter topics. Under each of those, list three to five ideas that will be in that chapter. If you use a text tool to do this it's easy to move things around and you'll be able to use your ebook plan to start work on it.
Fourth, using the chapter topics you know about best or most, start writing those. It doesn't matter where you begin, a first, middle or last chapter. Any chapters, or ideas in a chapter, you need more information on, you can leave to later. Just keep writing what you can so you're not held up and may lose interest.
Fifth, in turn find out about the ideas you need more information on. Write them up in turn when you've got the required information.
Sixth, when you're finished, check for spellings, punctuation and grammar. Don't spend a lot of time on this. Just check it over once.
Seventh, create a PDF.
Eighth, create a sales page. This is easy to do in a Wordpress site.
Ninth, publish the page on your site, with a link to buy it if you're selling it, or a download link if it's free.
Your Online Success Through Action
Here's the process you can use. Although this is about an ebook yo can use it for different content formats too.
First, make sure you're clear what your subject is.
Second, write down everything you know about it. Include things you don't know a lot about at the moment but needs to be in the ebook.
Third, pick out the most important ideas you've got, and make those your chapter topics. Under each of those, list three to five ideas that will be in that chapter. If you use a text tool to do this it's easy to move things around and you'll be able to use your ebook plan to start work on it.
Fourth, using the chapter topics you know about best or most, start writing those. It doesn't matter where you begin, a first, middle or last chapter. Any chapters, or ideas in a chapter, you need more information on, you can leave to later. Just keep writing what you can so you're not held up and may lose interest.
Fifth, in turn find out about the ideas you need more information on. Write them up in turn when you've got the required information.
Sixth, when you're finished, check for spellings, punctuation and grammar. Don't spend a lot of time on this. Just check it over once.
Seventh, create a PDF.
Eighth, create a sales page. This is easy to do in a Wordpress site.
Ninth, publish the page on your site, with a link to buy it if you're selling it, or a download link if it's free.
Your Online Success Through Action
Sunday, 11 October 2015
Make Money From Your Product Launches
First, what are the needs, problems, questions in your niche that people want answers to? If you have a list, then ask them.
When you have responses on a subject you can make a product, then tell them you're doing so.
Second, make that product. Obviously, this takes intentional and consistent work but, I think, people's biggest difficulty is just being worried about whether they can actually do it. However, it's important to ensure it is as you claim it to be. Take a little extra time if need be to make sure it does that. It's worth it becasue if customers find it isn't what you said it is, they will be very wary of buying from you again. Yo want the opposite: they look forward to your next product and buy every product you make.
Third, before you launch it, tell subscribers to look out for an email about it.
Fourth, you might want to to get other marketers with similar lists, to join with you in promoting it.
Fifth, make sure every bit of your product is right, and also your system for selling and delivering it, such as your download process.
Sixth, write the best sales letter you can. It might be a great product but people have to be sold on it.
Seventh, tell your subscribers it's available, and give the link. Repeat a day later.
Eighth, start a new product straight away.
When you have responses on a subject you can make a product, then tell them you're doing so.
Second, make that product. Obviously, this takes intentional and consistent work but, I think, people's biggest difficulty is just being worried about whether they can actually do it. However, it's important to ensure it is as you claim it to be. Take a little extra time if need be to make sure it does that. It's worth it becasue if customers find it isn't what you said it is, they will be very wary of buying from you again. Yo want the opposite: they look forward to your next product and buy every product you make.
Third, before you launch it, tell subscribers to look out for an email about it.
Fourth, you might want to to get other marketers with similar lists, to join with you in promoting it.
Fifth, make sure every bit of your product is right, and also your system for selling and delivering it, such as your download process.
Sixth, write the best sales letter you can. It might be a great product but people have to be sold on it.
Seventh, tell your subscribers it's available, and give the link. Repeat a day later.
Eighth, start a new product straight away.
Saturday, 26 September 2015
Your Fear Of Product Creation
Excuse the question but are you afraid of creating a product? If so, you're not alone. Have you come across a product for $97 that has so little real information you've had more in a free product? That is frightening.
Of course, creating a product should be an easy task. No worries. Here are some suggestions about creating your product easily.
What is your niche? What are people desperately seeking for in that niche? What are they looking for that they cannot find or be satisfied with? What is something nobody has not yet created? Who are the people who will buy it from you?
Having decided on the information that's needed, decide how you'll format it. Is it best to communicate it in writing in an ebook, or for people to listen to as an audio, or do you need to demonstrate something to them on video?
After these decisions:
First, think about your specific subject and write down everything you know about it. Separate out the really main ideas and number them by importance or by time order.
Second, under each main idea write down 5 to 10 sub-ideas related to it. The main ideas are the sections of your information product, and the sub-ideas your sub-sections. You might have at leas 25 ideas in total. For an audio or video, each section could a be a separate audio or video recording.
Third, start to write you ebook or make your audio or video. This can be the hard part for a lot of people: actually doing it. But you haven't got to do it all in one go, unless you choose to do so. You could just work one hour or two hours a day on it.
Don't be worried about style as it's the information people want. You might choose to do what you know best first, then work your way through to what you're weakest on. You can then re-order them in the final product. One thing is not to read from a script for audio or video which makes it seem stilted. From your notes, talk as naturally as you can, and learn from each day's
recording as you go through.
Fourth, when finished, edit where necessary for sense. Proof read an ebook for grammar, spelling and punctuation. But don't go overboard. As long as it makes sense and you've go your information across, that's what matters.
Finally, have a sales page telling the benefits of your product, and start selling.
Internet Marketing Pricing - The Truth
Of course, creating a product should be an easy task. No worries. Here are some suggestions about creating your product easily.
What is your niche? What are people desperately seeking for in that niche? What are they looking for that they cannot find or be satisfied with? What is something nobody has not yet created? Who are the people who will buy it from you?
Having decided on the information that's needed, decide how you'll format it. Is it best to communicate it in writing in an ebook, or for people to listen to as an audio, or do you need to demonstrate something to them on video?
After these decisions:
First, think about your specific subject and write down everything you know about it. Separate out the really main ideas and number them by importance or by time order.
Second, under each main idea write down 5 to 10 sub-ideas related to it. The main ideas are the sections of your information product, and the sub-ideas your sub-sections. You might have at leas 25 ideas in total. For an audio or video, each section could a be a separate audio or video recording.
Third, start to write you ebook or make your audio or video. This can be the hard part for a lot of people: actually doing it. But you haven't got to do it all in one go, unless you choose to do so. You could just work one hour or two hours a day on it.
Don't be worried about style as it's the information people want. You might choose to do what you know best first, then work your way through to what you're weakest on. You can then re-order them in the final product. One thing is not to read from a script for audio or video which makes it seem stilted. From your notes, talk as naturally as you can, and learn from each day's
recording as you go through.
Fourth, when finished, edit where necessary for sense. Proof read an ebook for grammar, spelling and punctuation. But don't go overboard. As long as it makes sense and you've go your information across, that's what matters.
Finally, have a sales page telling the benefits of your product, and start selling.
Internet Marketing Pricing - The Truth
Thursday, 17 September 2015
Why Creating Your Own Product Is Important
When you're dependent on other people providing what you need in your online business, you're in danger of losing control of it, including losing out on profits you could make. The money you make is much better all round coming from what you own rather than somebody else doing so. The ideal is to be the owner of all aspect of your business. That is much more difficult, for example, with having your own own host or autoresponder. But you can have your own products, methods of marketing, list, and website.
Without ownership, aren't you simply growing the other person's business for them? For instance, if you don't have a website but place all your content, and the focus of your business, on someone else's site, you're giving away a basic asset that is vital to you're having a long term business. Even if you sell products as an affiliate, you only get a certain percentage of the revenue. Plus if you don't send the prospect to your squeeze page first, you don't even get their email and you're not building your list.
If you don't make your own product, then buy one you can sell as your own, and begin selling it. Always promote your website as the primary source of information, services or whatever you're selling. In the same way, create your own system for promoting and selling, and most important, your own list.
Of course, you can still sell affiliate products. But do it as only a part of your system of selling, and only promote them to your list. Again, when you're starting you might use ideas from another marketer's system or course but with the intention of developing your own as your business grows.
Focus on, and use intentional actions, to build your own business as your primary goal.
Repurposing Content
Without ownership, aren't you simply growing the other person's business for them? For instance, if you don't have a website but place all your content, and the focus of your business, on someone else's site, you're giving away a basic asset that is vital to you're having a long term business. Even if you sell products as an affiliate, you only get a certain percentage of the revenue. Plus if you don't send the prospect to your squeeze page first, you don't even get their email and you're not building your list.
If you don't make your own product, then buy one you can sell as your own, and begin selling it. Always promote your website as the primary source of information, services or whatever you're selling. In the same way, create your own system for promoting and selling, and most important, your own list.
Of course, you can still sell affiliate products. But do it as only a part of your system of selling, and only promote them to your list. Again, when you're starting you might use ideas from another marketer's system or course but with the intention of developing your own as your business grows.
Focus on, and use intentional actions, to build your own business as your primary goal.
Repurposing Content
Sunday, 13 September 2015
Write Your First Ebook Product
The first thing to do is to make a list of 20 subjects you have some knowledge or quality information about in your niche. These are your main areas or ideas. Under each main idea write 3 to 5 sub-ideas.
Now you have decide which main area or idea will the most appropriate one to write about. Consider this in terms of the needs and wants in your niche. But also choose where you have got most information and the best quality information. Also, choose an area you'll feel most comfortable to write about.
Having chosen one main area, under each of the sub-ideas you wrote earlier, now put 5-10 ideas you'll be able to cover for each sub-idea. This gives you up to 50 parts for your ebook.
Think about whether you can write a paragraph or short section about each sub-idea. You probably can if you have some knowledge of the subject as a whole. That will give you a lot of information to pass on to your reader.
However, don't just fill up space. You want to pass on useful information. Preferably, you want the reader to finish reading and then be able to take some action to further their goals. A short very informative and useful ebook is better than a long so-so useful ebook. For example, an original one page ebook could be sold for $97 or more. A rambling ebook just filling up space might only be worth giving away, and even then it may not be worth reading.
At this point, begin your writing of the ebook. Wherever you write your ebook, first put a list of all your main ideas and sub-ideas. Then you can write straight under them, giving you a sense of real progress.
Create content on the easiest ideas first. The ones where you feel most confident and have most ideas. If you finish those and move onto others realizing you could do with more information, then find that through research. When you've done all the sections or chapters, have a read through, thinking about the order you'vep ut them in. You might want to leave them as they are or change them around a bit.
Finish off by checking the spelling and grammar. Avoid trying to rewrite parts. Just correct any of these types of mistake.
You could then set up the contents page, including numbering the pages themselves so information can be easily found.
Here's An Easy Way To Write An Ebook
Now you have decide which main area or idea will the most appropriate one to write about. Consider this in terms of the needs and wants in your niche. But also choose where you have got most information and the best quality information. Also, choose an area you'll feel most comfortable to write about.
Having chosen one main area, under each of the sub-ideas you wrote earlier, now put 5-10 ideas you'll be able to cover for each sub-idea. This gives you up to 50 parts for your ebook.
Think about whether you can write a paragraph or short section about each sub-idea. You probably can if you have some knowledge of the subject as a whole. That will give you a lot of information to pass on to your reader.
However, don't just fill up space. You want to pass on useful information. Preferably, you want the reader to finish reading and then be able to take some action to further their goals. A short very informative and useful ebook is better than a long so-so useful ebook. For example, an original one page ebook could be sold for $97 or more. A rambling ebook just filling up space might only be worth giving away, and even then it may not be worth reading.
At this point, begin your writing of the ebook. Wherever you write your ebook, first put a list of all your main ideas and sub-ideas. Then you can write straight under them, giving you a sense of real progress.
Create content on the easiest ideas first. The ones where you feel most confident and have most ideas. If you finish those and move onto others realizing you could do with more information, then find that through research. When you've done all the sections or chapters, have a read through, thinking about the order you'vep ut them in. You might want to leave them as they are or change them around a bit.
Finish off by checking the spelling and grammar. Avoid trying to rewrite parts. Just correct any of these types of mistake.
You could then set up the contents page, including numbering the pages themselves so information can be easily found.
Here's An Easy Way To Write An Ebook
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Here's An Easy Way To Write An Ebook
Ask people what was the first product they thought of creating and they'll probably say it was an ebook. Are you having the same thought? You know a lot, or have found out a lot, about your topic, yet you just can't get going with it. Plenty of people actually start writing and then stop dead having hardly done anything. Is that you? In this article I'll go through the way to get that ebook written. The only thing that might hold you up is how long a time you can spend on it.
First, your ebook must have a focus, so get the topic clear in your mind. If you haven't got a topic, think about what you know in your niche, or you could learn about, that most people in it don't know about. Make a list. Write down every possibility. Don't try to choose yet. When you have a list, choose the topics, or parts of topics, you know about more fully and in detail. Then, cut that list in half in the same way. Then, cut it in half again, choosing topics you'd like to spend time on writing about. Choose one. Don't falter but keep to your decision. If you have ideas for other topics you didn't choose this time, write an ebook on them next time.
Second, taking your chosen topic, write down what you know about it.
Third, organize those ideas by picking out the main ideas you can use. Then, under each main idea, put a list of 5 to 10 sub-ideas. This is your outline. You simply write the ebook from it.
Fourth, just simply start writing. You need not start at the beginning, looking ahead to all the rest you'll have to write. Instead, imagine each section or chapter as a separate piece of writing like an article. Write one section at a time, in any order. You can put them in order of your outline at the end. You could start with what you find easiest to write about, and the next easiest, and so, until you're finished. However you do it, just keep writing, and soon it will be all complete.
This is an easy way of working, as long as you actually do it. Allow a certain amount of time each day to get on with it. Three pages each day gives you 90 pages in a month. A year later you'd have written over 1000 pages. How many ebooks, that is products, would that make?
Repurposing Content
First, your ebook must have a focus, so get the topic clear in your mind. If you haven't got a topic, think about what you know in your niche, or you could learn about, that most people in it don't know about. Make a list. Write down every possibility. Don't try to choose yet. When you have a list, choose the topics, or parts of topics, you know about more fully and in detail. Then, cut that list in half in the same way. Then, cut it in half again, choosing topics you'd like to spend time on writing about. Choose one. Don't falter but keep to your decision. If you have ideas for other topics you didn't choose this time, write an ebook on them next time.
Second, taking your chosen topic, write down what you know about it.
Third, organize those ideas by picking out the main ideas you can use. Then, under each main idea, put a list of 5 to 10 sub-ideas. This is your outline. You simply write the ebook from it.
Fourth, just simply start writing. You need not start at the beginning, looking ahead to all the rest you'll have to write. Instead, imagine each section or chapter as a separate piece of writing like an article. Write one section at a time, in any order. You can put them in order of your outline at the end. You could start with what you find easiest to write about, and the next easiest, and so, until you're finished. However you do it, just keep writing, and soon it will be all complete.
This is an easy way of working, as long as you actually do it. Allow a certain amount of time each day to get on with it. Three pages each day gives you 90 pages in a month. A year later you'd have written over 1000 pages. How many ebooks, that is products, would that make?
Repurposing Content
Create Your Valuable Online Products
I'm sure you've come across some online marketers with lots, even hundreds, of their own products. They make some money from each of them. Yet there are other marketers who struggle to make their first product.
Why is that?
Because these marketers with many products, created their first one, and realized they could do it, especially when people were willing to buy or download it. They could then go on with some confidence to think up other ones, and so more and more. They can make products that fit people's needs and wants in their niche.
How do you begin?
What do you know a lot about? What are you especially good at? In your niche, what products do people need? What knowledge do you have now, perhaps through long experience, that you would have paid for earlier?
Make a list of the kinds of products you might make using your knowledge.
It's not difficult to create a PDF ebook or an audio or a video, once you decide what information you'll provide in the product to help people in your niche.
Make an outline list of all the main ideas you'll include. Decide on the reason you're creating it. If any of your ideas do not fit with that reason, then leave it out. In other words, you're giving the product a clear focus.
With the outline done, just start writing. Write what will be in the PDF or what you'll say on the audio or what you'll say in or over the video. It's very important to just start creating the content. You can alter and improve what you want once you've got it set out in front of you. Most people who have the intention to have a product, never even begin writing.
Your Information Products Can Make You Money
Why is that?
Because these marketers with many products, created their first one, and realized they could do it, especially when people were willing to buy or download it. They could then go on with some confidence to think up other ones, and so more and more. They can make products that fit people's needs and wants in their niche.
How do you begin?
What do you know a lot about? What are you especially good at? In your niche, what products do people need? What knowledge do you have now, perhaps through long experience, that you would have paid for earlier?
Make a list of the kinds of products you might make using your knowledge.
It's not difficult to create a PDF ebook or an audio or a video, once you decide what information you'll provide in the product to help people in your niche.
Make an outline list of all the main ideas you'll include. Decide on the reason you're creating it. If any of your ideas do not fit with that reason, then leave it out. In other words, you're giving the product a clear focus.
With the outline done, just start writing. Write what will be in the PDF or what you'll say on the audio or what you'll say in or over the video. It's very important to just start creating the content. You can alter and improve what you want once you've got it set out in front of you. Most people who have the intention to have a product, never even begin writing.
Your Information Products Can Make You Money
Friday, 4 September 2015
Create A Product From Information You Already Have
Not created your first information product yet? Then read on to find out how to generate ideas and actually make your first product.
First, make a decision as what topic the product will be about. Also, what will you tell them about the topic? You could choose a topic you know about in your niche or related to your site. Not in this situation? Then ask yourself what you have some good knowledge or experience about. Maybe you're better at something than most people you know or maybe it's been commented on how good you are at a topic.
Second, keep it simple. Avoid trying to be over-ambitious with lots of parts to it or hours of videos. Make it quite a small product. You might use it as a freebie or sell it as a cheap item. But it must be valuable to the people who take it. So it must be made up of solid usable information. This will let you see what you can do and begin to think of larger products. On top of that, if you plan it too big the odds are it'll never get finished. That means you're more likely to give up on the idea of creating any more.
Third, when you've chosen your topic, decide what form it'll take. What's the best way for your information to be presented? Most people opt for a PDF ebook. But it could be in the form of an audio, including on CD as a physical product. Or if you're demonstrating some actions to do, a video is best.
Fourth, now you know the form of the product, you need to create an outline of your information. So, list all the main ideas you want to cover about your topic. Under each main heading put a list of related ideas, so that you're getting into the detail of the topic in an organized way.
Fifth, using your outline for a PDF write a few paragraphs about each of the related ideas for each main idea. Put an introduction and an ending for each set of related ideas paragraphs and for the main idea parts. For an audio, you could note some particular phrases you want to use, but try to just talk from the outline so it all sounds as natural as possible. For a video, each stage in what actions you're showing has to be clear and fit with your outline, so you can, again, speak using the outline.
Sixth, all the above is the easy part. Planning can be excellent but it still has to actually be done. You might be frightened it will be no good and you'll feel you've wasted you time and effort. But very few people create their own product so you're well ahead of the game even if it's not as good as you wanted it. Also, you'll know how to do the next product even better.
First, make a decision as what topic the product will be about. Also, what will you tell them about the topic? You could choose a topic you know about in your niche or related to your site. Not in this situation? Then ask yourself what you have some good knowledge or experience about. Maybe you're better at something than most people you know or maybe it's been commented on how good you are at a topic.
Second, keep it simple. Avoid trying to be over-ambitious with lots of parts to it or hours of videos. Make it quite a small product. You might use it as a freebie or sell it as a cheap item. But it must be valuable to the people who take it. So it must be made up of solid usable information. This will let you see what you can do and begin to think of larger products. On top of that, if you plan it too big the odds are it'll never get finished. That means you're more likely to give up on the idea of creating any more.
Third, when you've chosen your topic, decide what form it'll take. What's the best way for your information to be presented? Most people opt for a PDF ebook. But it could be in the form of an audio, including on CD as a physical product. Or if you're demonstrating some actions to do, a video is best.
Fourth, now you know the form of the product, you need to create an outline of your information. So, list all the main ideas you want to cover about your topic. Under each main heading put a list of related ideas, so that you're getting into the detail of the topic in an organized way.
Fifth, using your outline for a PDF write a few paragraphs about each of the related ideas for each main idea. Put an introduction and an ending for each set of related ideas paragraphs and for the main idea parts. For an audio, you could note some particular phrases you want to use, but try to just talk from the outline so it all sounds as natural as possible. For a video, each stage in what actions you're showing has to be clear and fit with your outline, so you can, again, speak using the outline.
Sixth, all the above is the easy part. Planning can be excellent but it still has to actually be done. You might be frightened it will be no good and you'll feel you've wasted you time and effort. But very few people create their own product so you're well ahead of the game even if it's not as good as you wanted it. Also, you'll know how to do the next product even better.
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