Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

Online Home Based Business – 4 Steps To Building A Successful Business From Home

If you want to start and build a successful online home based business, you will need more than just a great idea and the desire to succeed, you will need all of the right tools in place that are proven to be necessary for a home-based business. Now a great thing about starting an online home based business is that you can do it for relatively cheap and you can run it month-to-month on very little money, so there is no excuse for not getting started if you have the desire to do it and become successful.Since there is no formal training for aspiring online business owners out there, let’s take a look at four of the most important steps you have to take in order to start and build your home-based business to be as successful as it can be.Step 1 – Start creating a list of potential customersFrom day one, you should get yourself an autoresponder email service and start building a list of potential customers. This ensures that anybody who visits your business and looks for more information will be exposed to the same email sequence that you design to be sent automatically in order to sell them your products.Step 2 – Start communicating with those on your listCreate an email campaign that is personal and makes each customer feel as if they are on the top of your list of priorities. Great ways to ensure each new subscriber feels special is to use their name in the email’s title and throughout the body of the email. This is a technique that is not used as often as it should be, but is extremely effective in building good customer relationships.Step 3 – Learn how to drive the most people to your listThere are many ways to advertise and drive targeted prospects to your online business, your goal should be to try out some techniques, see what works best for you, and then apply it on a much larger scale.Step 4 – Find out what your list wants and create the solutions for themOnce you start driving people to signup for your list, simply ask them what they need and/or want, then go out and create products to fulfill these needs. This is a great way to build business and over time people will be asking for a solution and you can send them directly to your product page.

Make the Most of Your Online Home Based Business

If you are one of the millions of people who have their own online home based business, then you have surely learned some of the benefits of that business. However, you may not have learned them all. Wouldn’t it be nice to find out some insider secrets that can help your life run smoother?Getting the Most from Tax DeductionsWhile you may be aware of the fact that owning a business offers the chance to take extra deductions, you may not be fully aware of exactly how many deductions there actually are that are available to the home based business owner. For example, while you may know that you can deduct the office space your business uses, did you know that you can usually deduct other expenses such as the office supplies that you use everyday?Given the fact that there are so many of these kinds of ‘hidden’ deductions that are associated with an online home based business, it is best to consult the expertise of a certified public accountant. While some business taxes can be done on your own, when dealing with dividing business expenses with household expenses, asking a CPA for advice will help to ensure that the government does not come knocking on your door asking for more money.Getting the Most from Your Free timeWhile most people take into account the possible increase of personal free time when they decide to pursue a business from home, they generally only think of the obvious uses for that time. While spending more time with a spouse or children is an extremely valuable use of free time, children go to school and spouses many times go to work. When they are gone, the new business is up and running and the house is clean. What productive use can the extra free time be used for?One idea is to volunteer. There are so many organizations that can use not only the personal time and involvement, but also the organizational skills, management skills and other skills that most successful work from home people possess. If you have a particular interest, there is probably a not for profit or charity that is involved in that interest and would love to welcome you on board.Making the Most of your New IncomeWhen starting an online home based business, thoughts of riches most likely lingered in your head (at least a little bit), maybe riches that didn’t come to fruition. If this is the case, you may need to rethink your personal idea of riches. While your income may or may not be exactly where you were hoping it to be, it’s often what you do with it that counts.Saving money is the key to making your money work for you. There are numerous money management options that are available, and working from home (as opposed to working for an employer) often makes the choice you make even more important. It is a good idea to talk to a professional regarding your money saving and investing needs