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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.

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Steps to Take in Choosing a Home Based Business Opportunity

There are a lot of advantages one can enjoy if you are able to establish your own business, especially if you conduct it at the comforts of your own home. With a home based business you will be the one to dictate your own schedule and more importantly, you will have the opportunity to earn the kind of money you want. It should be noted though that starting a business requires a lot of hard work and time as well, even though it would be done at home. It is best that you follow certain steps, so that it would serve as your guide in jump starting your home business.The very first thing that you need to do in starting your home based business is to determine which among the many options you want to try. There are several home based income opportunities you can choose from these days, and choosing which one you want is actually one of the crucial steps you need to take.In choosing your home based income opportunity, you need to know that you can either choose to go the internet way or conduct a business at home offline. If you are more comfortable conducting a business at home operated offline, then you need to choose whether you want to sell items or provide services. If you are a sales kind of person, then you need to choose a product to sell, or make one. Selling certain products at home is not as difficult as it seems, especially if you have a designated place you can conduct your business on. For example, you can always hold garage sales, so that you can conveniently do it at your own garage. Aside from that, you can also sell pastries or deserts, which you can simply place inside your refrigerators. With this, you actually do not need to have an actual place to conduct your business, since people will just drop by to buy your products. On top of that, you can soon accept orders, so that you will have more chances of expanding your business.Providing services is another way of starting a business based at home. You can provide tutoring; dog walking, or handyman services at home. Aside from that if you are quite a techie person, then offering to troubleshoot and fix computers would also be a good way to earning some money and eventually start your business. You need to make sure that you provide high quality services, so that you will be able to gain more clients. With more clients you have, you will be able to expand your business in just a short period of time. The important thing about providing services is to identify your skills and talents, which you think would be able to help people. Therefore, starting today, you should try to get to know yourself better and identify them.Once you have determined the kind of home based business opportunity you want, you need to make people around the neighborhood be aware that your business exists. You can do this by applying certain marketing techniques to promote your business. You can make use of banners and post them on strategic points in your location, so that people in your community would soon call or visit you. Tell your friends and relatives about your business, so that they can also help in spreading the news.

STOP Looking For the Best Home Based Business!

Because there is no Best Home Based Business!I was on a team webinar last night that had a Q&A at the end. It made me realize something about our business that I wanted to share with you and get off my chest, quite frankly. Why did you join your current company in the first place? Was it because of the income opportunity that the business presents or the fact that you absolutely love the product and need to have it? The real question is “What is the Best Home Based Business For You”.It really comes down to what you are looking for. Let’s not sugar coat it though…the reason we all get involved in network marketing is to make money! People tend to make excuses for their lack of success and lose sight of why they are in their network marketing business in the first place.A little nit-picky comment was made by one of the team members about the product mix and my sponsor responded exactly the way I would have! He said (and I paraphrase):”Our products are fine…better than most actually. But, if you are looking for a business where you can just sell products, this is not the business for you. We are selling a home based business opportunity. You can set-up a website and just sell products OR…you can grasp the opportunity that you have right now, and that you have already paid for, selling a very lucrative home based business opportunity that can earn you a substantial income this year IF you work. The choice is yours.”Mindset is everything. I learned this a long time ago and it holds true…If you are waiting for everything to be perfect before you take action, you’ll never take action. If you are in a home-based business, then you are an ENTREPRENEUR…a business owner. You need to think like a business owner and only you know why you joined your current company in the first place. There honestly is no “Best” home based business in my opinion, although there are a lot of very good ones, so STOP looking for it!Decide if you would prefer to sell products or sell a business opportunity. Do your due diligence to make sure that the company makes you feel comfortable. Then…Go For It!