You want to earn extra money from home, so you search and search to find something that doesn’t smack of scam and you decide to pull the trigger. The problem with buying programs off the internet, is that they are mostly one-sized-fits all. And unfortunately — its not your size!If you’ve bought any programs lately — and who hasn’t? Then you know the promise that you bought and the promise that you get are most often two different things!I heard a story from a friend just the other day who has plans to own a top home based business, who said she bought a program that was going to teach her home based internet marketing and help her to become “rich quick”! Now, I’ve tried to convince my friend that these too-good-to-be-true sounding deals — are most ALWAYS too good to be true — but she’s bound and determined, so I just sit and listen.Anyway, I listened as she described the program she bought. It promised that anyone could set up this affiliate program and could have it running in under a week. She would be able to earn extra money from home in under one week! Hmmm!As a one-sized-fits-all program, you’d think that it would need to be simple enough so that even the least computer savvy among the purchasers could follow along.In truth, she was hopelessly lost before the end of the second lesson. She struggled mightily to find the answers and ultimately gave up. Fortunately, she was able to get a refund of her money!The point is, to really be a successful program, you have to understand that each person marches to a different drum. No off the shelf program that is targeted to the masses will be able to predict the skill level and talents of everyone who buys the product. In fact, there would need to be several modules for beginner, intermediate and advanced.Another way to look for programs that might benefit you in your search for the perfect home based small business, it to look for something with a coaching component in it. The programs that I’ve seen be the most successful are programs that include coaching elements — they allow you to ask questions, learn at your own pace, take the lessons that are most suited for you and provide encouragement along the way.So if you’re in the market for a program to help you get started in your top home business, just remember that most products that promise to make you a millionaire Monday are junk. Look for good solid programs that will help you through the process and has good solid customer support in case you get stuck!Best of luck!
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.
Three Amazing Benefits Of Starting A Home-Based Business
Starting your own home-based business is a great way to build freedom; not only the freedom to break free from a day-to-day job, but freedom from financial worries. Starting a home-based business can be a very challenging yet rewarding experience, and if you have anything deep down in your gut telling you to get going, then you should really take action and get started today.
Now instead of giving you a step-by-step list of exactly how to get started, let’s take a look at three of the amazing benefits you can gain from starting your own home-based business. Now this is a very short list, as there are also many other benefits, ranging from tax deductions to health benefits.
Here are my three favorite benefits of starting a home-based business:
#1 – Building residual income
Now for those who do not know, residual income means you get paid over and over for doing something only once. This is how actors, musicians, and authors build their wealth. No you may be wondering how you will build a residual income if you are not an actor, musician, or author? Well, with the advent of the Internet, you can create many products and services that people are very willing to pay you for. At this point, you simply automate it online and you have created a hands-free source of residual income.
#2 – Potential for unlimited income
Starting your own business is the only way to build unlimited potential for your income. No other way exists, even if you won the lottery your income would be capped at your winnings, but when you start your own home-based business you can essentially make as much money as you want, the only thing getting in your way is you.
#3 – Freedom to do what you want, when you want
While unlimited income potential and the idea of making money around the clock is amazing, there really is no better benefit or feeling than having freedom. When you have your own home-business, you answer to nobody except yourself. Now when you have the ability to decide how to run things, when to do certain things, and when not to do things, you have an amazing feeling and gift that can only come with running your own business. When you have freedom from a boss, you will have more energy, more drive, and more desire to achieve success. Even working 14hr days will not seem as bad to you because you are working for yourself, on your own accord, and having the freedom to decide how much or how little to work is a great feeling.