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.

Home Based Business – Can a Home Based Business Really Change Your Life and Financial Future?

In these rough financial times there are so many people looking to start a home based business to earn some extra income or replace their lost income. But how easy is it to start a home based business and actually succeed? If you succeed it could mean life changing income, but if you fail it could hurt you even more financially.So what does it take to succeed in a home based business opportunity? Well, there are many factors that go into your success. You play the biggest part in your success with any home based business opportunity. Your mindset, your desire and passion to create financial time / freedom and your willingness to take action and work a little towards changing your life and creating a better financial future for yourself.The sad truth is that so many people are that are looking to start a home business are not willing to put forth any work. They expect to join a home business opportunity and instantly start making money without having to do any work or put forth any effort. In reality, the home business industry is not for someone like that. There is no magic button that you can just press and create financial freedom. It just does not exist and if anyone tells you anything different, run the other way because they are scamming you!Not everyone looking for a home based business is like that. There are people out there that have that desire and passion to succeed and are willing to work a little. Those are the home based business entrepreneurs that are successful. Attitude, drive, passion, desire and willingness to work to change your life and create a better financial future for yourself is something you can not succeed without. That is not the only thing you need to be successful in this industry, but without it, you are setting yourself up for failure.No matter what home business opportunity you decide to join, no matter how great the company or product is, if you don’t know how to market and you don’t know how to advertise, you are going to have a hard time seeing any success. If you don’t develop the leadership qualities within you, it’s going to be tough to be successful. The most successful people in the home based business industry learn how to market and advertise. They put themselves on the cutting edge, develop leadership qualities and become a real entrepreneur. That, along with the right attitude, drive, passion and desire to succeed and really change your life and create a better financial future for yourself is all you need to be successful in any home based business.

Entrepreneur Mind-Set for Home Based Business

With the recession, companies closing and the incredible increase of unemployment everywhere around the world it is difficult to project ourselves in the future. This situation pushes many of us to use their entrepreneur mind-set and grow a home based business.

To be an entrepreneur is not an easy task. Nobody will tell you what to do, when to do it and most of all how to do it. But one thing is common to all the people who start a home based business is passion, motivation, and rigor! This is not surprising; those are the foundations of all the major industries in our country.

The passion is source of creation:

To create your home based business, you will need ideas of products, marketing, distribution,… For some people these will come naturally and for others it will be hours, days, months of reflection, discussion with others. So, in the first times of your market research you should focus on topic that you like or you have experience in. If you are a fan of golf and practice it for a while, you certainly met some problems regarding the technique or material. Find an answer to this problem and you have a business opportunity. Yes, there are millions of golf players in the world; some certainly met the same issue: they are your potential customers. For technique issue, your products can be video training (cheap and easy to do with a computer and some freeware). If it is material, you can always find a merchant that propose affiliate program, so promote his products and get your commission.

The motivation is your petrol:

Have you ever notice how you can easily complete boring and hard tasks when it is related to a topic you are passionate in? Any business, either home based or not requires time, dedication and most of all MOTIVATION. You will pass through hard time before your first sale/contract/commission, great time when you will make good profits, stress, laugh, and many more. Therefor you need to be motivated to keep your direction and don’t give up. You are the Boss now, so behave like one; I’m not talking about this pain in the *** that make your day a nightmare, but rather the captain of the boat that spray confidence and positivity around him. This is the right entrepreneur mind-set.

The rigor keeps you on track:

Your home based business is not a hobby like the gym club that you start three months before to go to beach and give up afterward. Here, we are talking about what will bring you something to eat every day (and maybe much more), you have to be rigorous in your approach.

  1. First of all, before to jump in any business, learn at least the basics of the activity to be ready to what is waiting for you.
  2. Second point, don’t let others put you down, especially at the beginning you will need supportive people around you.
  3. Know where you are and where you’re going: prepare a plan, work-flow chart, business plan or any other support document that will be your road map and stick to it (you can adjust time to time, following the evolution of the activity and your knowledge).
  4. Keep record of everything: expenses, profits, costumer and supplier details. You will need it to track your performance (are you really making money?!) and to develop your business network (building confidence with suppliers and trust relationship with costumers).

No, don’t be scared, a lot of people did it before you and many after. A home based business is a great achievement for any entrepreneur and most of the time requires a minimum of investment. The only thing to remember when starting this kind of adventure is to take it seriously and to prepare yourself to any outcome.

Maybe you have already an idea of activity but don’t know where to start, then the internet is here to help you to find some expert in your field that can give you some guidance. But as long as you got the right entrepreneur mind-set, your small business has all the chance to succeed.