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Information Product Creation: Never Compete on Price Because There Is Only One You

Information product creation requires extensive preparation, no matter which niche you work within and you want to make sure that your information product has a successful launch. That probably sounds scary and intimidating but here’s the thing: this is a one time effort and it will pay off in a foundation that is strong enough to get your ideal clients to invest in your high-end programs and services without the perils of a traditional funnel. This article will teach you a few of the things that you need to remember if you’d like to invest in yourself and start on the information product creation path using your unique talents and abilities. Remember that you never have to worry about anyone ripping off your ideas because if you understand how to properly position yourself around your story.

Understand Both Strengths and Weaknesses: It is good to have an impartial view of your own strengths and weaknesses when lay the foundation of selling yourself within the information product creation process. It helps you figure out where you are, what you lack and how to move forward so that you get as much growth as possible. It is more than important, it is urgent if you want to create fast success for yourself to have personal positive reinforcement and deep belief to provide yourself the support you need so that you can get over your own limitations to ensure that your information product is as valuable as it can be.

You also need to know exactly who your competition is so you can study them and use their methods to help you improve your own standings. Down recreate the wheel, but understand the wheel and position yourself going uphill from the competition. Check out which kinds of opportunities you’ve already got and try to figure out how best to use them while taking care to remember your strengths and weaknesses. This is a great way to figure out where you stand against your competition which helps you figure out how best to grow.

Launch on Time: No matter what, even if you haven’t officially announced your “launch date” you should launch the site when you’ve said you would. This will force you to stick to your goal and actually work on it. Thinking that “I’ll launch it when I think it’s ready to launch” will only hinder your efforts. You’ve got a responsibility that you need to live up to with your launch, and you can’t move back on that one. If you get close to your launch date and you are getting hung up on your self limiting beliefs in your information product creation, don’t worry this about getting it out there and not perfection. As long as it is usable you should launch it. Launching on time is the professional thing to do and it is more important than creating a “wow” effect in your site visitors. You can always update/upgrade your website when you have to, so there shouldn’t be any issue with that.

Analyze Your Own Concept: If you want to make your information product creation successful you need to understand how good your concept is: is it really going to work for your chosen audience or would something else be better? You already know about your competition; how does your concept measure up? If you haven’t come up with your own idea and are trying to work with someone else’s concept, do some more work on your own before your launch. People want original ideas because they’ve seen too many other me-too websites already.

Test Your Concept Before You Commit To The Information Product Creation Process: One of the biggest failures people have with information product creation is not testing an idea before putting a lot of effort into producing an information product. PPC to a small 5 page site with a landing page is a great way to test an offer before you even produce it. If people will sign up to get it, you can be sure that you can create an information product that will target eliminating the pain of your target market. The small amount of money will be invaluable in using crowd sourcing to direct the final outline of the information product creation process.

You’ll have lots of hurdles to clear after the launch of your information product and the only way to truly take care of them is to follow the advice in this article to work smarter. Plenty of people work hard, but it is the ones who work smarter who make real money online with the information product creation business model.

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Starting Home Based Business – A How To Guide

Hello and welcome! As always thank you for stopping by and taking time to read. I hope that this article will help you answer some of the questions you may have and that it will point you in the right direction. More and more people are becoming aware that there is a new way to earn a living and that starting home based business is a very important step in becoming free.Starting Home Based Business
I know that there is a lot of junk floating around on the internet about starting a home biz, I also know that it can be overwhelming and frustrating because everyone is trying to sell you some kind of ebook, course, or program that promises the world-only to be left in disappointment. I have been there! So I will make this as full of meat-no-bones information that you can use and apply today and get started on the right track! In the time being, please put everything else aside and focus all your attention on this article. Print it if you have to, but please pay close attention and apply what you learn as soon as possible to make sure everything stays recorded in your brain.A 3 Step How To Guide
There are a few things you need to keep in mind to get you started. The very first step is the most critical step you can take. This will save you lots of time, energy, and frustration. Are you ready?1. Team up with successful home based business owners.This is THE most important step you can take when it comes to starting home based business. I speak from experience. You may feel the urge to just go out and do things on your own. You want to go and figure things out. You want to try things out for your self. I have been there! Trust me, if you are NOT part of a community of people who are already successful, you would have to be the most stubborn, bull headed person on the face of the earth (no offense) for not wanting to do so. Being a part of a group of people who are doing what you want to do is the best kind of leverage you can use to skyrocket your success. Carbon copy what people are doing- and you will get the same results.2. Pick the right market/product.Keep in mind that we as humans have a few basic needs to survive in life. We need; food, shelter, money, and love. These are not in any specific order, but they are essentially what we all humans need for survival. We need food to survive. We need shelter to stay warm and safe. We need money to buy food and shelter. And we need love to replicate and keep our human race alive. If you can tap into any of these markets, you CAN and WILL make a great living IF you know how to do it properly. Keep in mind also that these markets are here FOREVER and cannot be affected by the economy. We will always have these basic needs. All you need to do is position yourself just right, and you will become successful!3. Become A Student Of Marketing Until You Succeed.One of the biggest problems I have seen with new people coming in to start a home based business is that they don’t know the first thing about marketing. Trust me on this one, you can have the greatest product or service in the world-but if you don’t know how to market it, YOU will be your only customer! Too many people join some opportunity, try it for a bit, and give up when they don’t see quick results. A lot of it has to do with how the sales person presented their opportunity. They may have over promised and under delivered. Been there done that! You must, absolutely without a doubt HAVE to learn marketing. If you can learn this skill, you can take ANY product and sell it to ANYONE and ANYWHERE in the world!You must stay aware of what is working and what isn’t. As of today, January of 2011 the most powerful mediums to use for marketing are things like; social media, article marketing, and Facebook PPC. Learn how to use these tools and you will succeed. You can find information on how to use each of them on the internet. NOW, please do yourself a favor and don’t try to learn every-single-method and technique! Please! It will paralyze you and keep you from getting started. Pick one strategy, and learn it until you can spell it backwards! Then apply it until you get results.In essence what you must do is follow a system. Find a model that people are using, and is working for them. You are working against yourself when you try and reinvent the wheel. It is unnecessary to do so. Carbon copy what successful marketers are already doing and you-by the law of cause and effect will create the same results. When starting home based business, remember that it can be as easy or as hard as YOU make it based upon the choices you make. Your choices are; copy what’s already working or figure it out for yourself. If you are serious and ready to take the next step and if you have the desire to succeed, click on the link below and Gerardo Flores will be there to assist you every step of the way! Go now!

Stocks Vs Real Estate – The 4 Ways You Can Multiply Your Money Faster & More Securely in Real Estate

Between stocks and real estate, most investors tend to stick to one type of investment or the other, depending on what they are comfortable with. But the only issues that should matter when considering an investment is what kind of “true” return on investment can I get verses what is my risk to earn that return. Hands down, real estate is far superior to stocks in terms of both high ROI and security.

Before we begin this discussion, it is important that I point out the major mistake made by just about every other writer who has ever written on this subject; in every comparison of stocks to real estate, either the Dow or S&P values are used as the basis of measuring stocks’ performance, however it is rarely mentioned that the Dow is a select sample group of only 30 stocks and that the original companies of the Dow are not the same as the present companies that make up the Dow Jones. Recently General Motors (GM), along with government bailed out Citigroup, were dropped from the Dow because they both fell below $5/share, and they were replaced by Cisco Systems ($20/share) and Travelers ($40/share). The real estate equivalent of this would be to choose a portfolio of properties in the beginning and then removing a poorly-performing shack from the collection and replacing it’s valuation with a stronger performing Trump Tower. Such a practice makes it impossible to truly measure the performance of the stock market, however it is clear that whatever gains can be measured are “slightly” inflated, if not completely overstated.

Now that we understand the shortcomings of prior comparative analyses, we will choose to use the S&P 500, despite the previous discussion, with the understanding that this provides a slight advantage to stocks, for we will show that real estate is still superior, even in a comparison favoring stocks. There is an abundance of circumstantial evidence all around us for this fact. The most significant and lucrative investment most people make is their primary residence. 85 to 90% of the wealthiest individuals in the world built and hold their wealth in real estate.

What specific ways does investing in apartments and rental properties help us multiply our money faster? There are 4 major ways:

Appreciation. This the gross increase in valuation of the asset. When the stock price increases to a higher value or likewise, when a house increases in value, appreciation is the profit from this change in valuation. Of course, a decrease in value is also possible in both types of assets, and the result of this is negative appreciation. This is the aspect that is most often focused on by previous comparisons. However, despite being the most important income with investing in stocks, appreciation is the least important of the ways of making money in real estate. Individuals who focus on appreciation in real estate are not investors, but speculators, many of whom were the hardest hit because of the burst of the housing bubble.
Depreciation. This refers to an estimation of the “loss” of valuation of investment real estate as a result of deterioration or obsolescence. The wear and tear is not tabulated from a list of specific damages, but rather takes the cost of the asset and spreads this cost over the legally estimated useful “lifetime” of the asset, 27.5 years in the case of residential property. When running your real estate investing as a business, this tax deduction can be huge, along with tax-deductable expenses, in offsetting income and legally decreasing your tax liability. There is no equivalent to this in offsetting capital gains from stock income.
Amortization. This refers to the building of equity in a property as the mortgage on it is paid off over time. This is another way of expressing the advantage of leverage in investing in real estate-the ability to buy an asset with only 3 to 25% of the purchase price and pay the rest off over time, preferably using the asset’s own income, is unheard of in the world of stocks.
Cash Flow. This has to be the sweetest money from your real estate investment; after all expenses, this is what is left over to go straight into your hip pocket. This is analogous to stock dividends, however the company in which you hold stock has the ultimate decision as to whether they will offer you a dividend, and they can change this decision without consulting minor stockholders. A properly structured real estate investment will provide positive cash flow FOREVER. And, again, if you run your investment as a business, this passive income will not be subject to self-employment tax.
About the only clear advantage that stocks have demonstrated over real estate is the relatively greater liquidity that is provided by having a ready market of buyers. However, the knowledgeable and experienced real estate investor understands this, and the investor builds a list of buyers and recruits real estate agents and brokers onto his or her team for this very reason. Even in a tough market, as exists today, investors are able to move property and maintain liquidity.
In addition, the clear and widely acknowledged advantage that real estate investments have over stocks-the ability to leverage your money and credit to buy the asset and the tax advantages and other streams of income benefiting owners of rental properties-are often greatly underestimated and understated. The accumulated tax savings and other hidden income streams when added up is a more than significant amount of money; all the annual tax write-offs translates into more money to leverage and reinvest into more income-producing real estate, and this cycle of reinvesting is the process that will multiply your investment money at a rate that the best stock can never hope to keep up with.

S Koonopakarn is the CEO and Cofounder of Saintly Assistance Financing & Equities Group, LLC, an Atlanta-based investing and consulting company that specializes in real estate and retirement investments. He has the investment plan that will get you back on track to an early retirement without depending on Social Security and without sacrificing lifestyle.