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!
Starting Home Based Business – A How To Guide
A Simple Product Creation and Product Launching Formula
If you tried to think of people involved in product creation, who would come to mind? You may think of Edison, Franklin, or maybe Henry Ford. Would you ever think of yourself as someone who can create a quality product? Product creation is actually relatively easy and product launching is not that tough either! If you follow a few easy to understand steps, you could be starting the product creation and product launching process sooner than you think.
The first step in creating your information product is to know and understand your market. This can be very time-consuming, especially if you are unsure of what to do or where to look to know your market. Studying your niche market and understanding the buzz words and buying patterns can ease the process dramatically. Personally, I would recommend networking with someone who has had success in the niche market you are considering and learn from their results. If they are into product creation and not very business savvy expect some hesitation. If they only sell products and have nothing to do with product launching or product creation you may your first affiliate (sales person)! Something else you can use to find hot trends is with the Google Trends tool.
The second step is the product creation process. Take your niche market and brainstorm ideas and topics relating to it. There are a lot of product launching contests going on recently relating to a newly created internet marketing tool. There are so many aspects to the mentioned niche that literally, and unfortunately, anything can be considered an Internet Marketing tool. The reason that anyone can basically create an Internet Marketing tool is because of something called Private Label Rights products.
What I use private label rights products for, and highly recommend them in this specific manner, is to cure writer’s block especially when it is lingering. Many people base their entire product creation and product launching on a private label rights product. This is where you can start to shine and build a strong brand for yourself. If you set goals for yourself, short-term goals to be exact, you can see your product creation come into being much faster and there is a good chance with less revision needed. If you keep hitting time restraint road blocks; however there is nothing wrong with a slow and steady approach, you can consider outsourcing portions of your project. Outsourcing can be an extremely huge benefit or just as great of a disaster.
You can find someone to outsource work to at a freelance site such as Guru.com or eLance.com. When reviewing proposals it is almost mandatory you perform a background check on them as you are in essence hiring them. Doing a background check on freelancers is as easy as asking for samples of their work and reviewing feedback on the freelance site from previous customers. Depending on the size and requirements of your project this can add up to a decent sized investment, so caution is very important. One tip I always recommend to people looking to hire an individual is to ask them what they can provide you that no one else can. This simple question gives them a chance to “toot their own horn” and acknowledge where they feel most competent as far as their skill set.
The final portion of the product creation and product launching formula is the launch. This can literally make or break the effort, time, and maybe (if you invested) money you put in to your project. There are numerous aspects to product launching and although their relevance is debated in terms to their effect, experts agree all must be followed. The person in your field who you asked for product advice from can help you substantially if you have kept in touch. If not, the first thing you need to do is to create a visually appealing website with flawless design work.
I also mentioned outsourcing before, this is one aspect of product launching I have little strength in and I always outsource this portion. The website does not have to be large however the content (ad copy in Internet Marketing) must be stellar and as perfect as possible. This is where advertising knowledge or experience is beneficial. When the site is set up you now put a lead capture form on your website.
I put two lead capture pages on all products I create on the internet and is one of the best methods of getting a solid start when you are in the product launching stage. When you gain information from a prospect or someone looking to get paid for referring sales you are able to provide them updates or specials. Many people abuse their prospect or affiliate lists by in turn emailing them with a new product daily and I find the recommendations to be totally unrelated to their original need, problem, or interest.
Another stage in the product launching stage is creating a free report or demo version of your product to entice the product to sign up to your email list. Using proper follow up with this can help generate numerous sales for you. One thing you need to ensure is that your free product completely relates to your main product that you are looking to sell.
You are now ready to advertise your product launching to customers as well as the opportunity to sell for affiliates. This is the single aspect that many product creations and launches fail on. It is actually not entirely difficult. One thing you can do is write articles (and a good amount of them) on topics relating to your product. I am a huge advocate of giving a solution in forums. When you join a forum you are normally offered the opportunity to create a signature. In your signature, you should enter the link to your opt-in or lead capture page. When you respond to posts, you are advertising your opportunity.
It is not impossible to create a product and it does not have to take a long time. You need to setup a plan and stick to it. If you get stuck, look at similar and successful products to your own and try and see how they did it. When you sit down and brainstorm you will be surprised with what you can imagine.
Effective Marketing Strategies in Product Creation
Marketing includes matters such as pricing and packaging of the product and creation of demand by advertising and sales campaigns. There are other options, of course, like product creation, resale rights marketing, joint ventures and the likes, but they are merely secondary to the above.
If you take the freelance route, it is important to ensure that all rights to profit from the final product, or any materials produced in its making, remain yours. Bookkeeping, physical product creation or delivery of goods can be done better with specialized help. Determining the purpose of the product is vital in niche product creation.
Implementation of Methodology – The choice of implementation of Six Sigma methodology depends on whether development is required on existing processes (DMAIC) or on new process/product design creation (DMADV). Determining what you really want to sell, something that you can be relaxed selling is the first step at the creation of a niche product. With the technological advancements in the hosting industry, from automated control panels and scripts that simplify creation of accounts; to complete turnkey solutions, there is no excessive need to worry about spending time on the actual product sold to the customer.
For instance, you should be prepared to either perform yourself or to subcontract the completion of the following tasks:- Product idea research (are there any existing products or patents already existing for this idea)- Product specification document training (what it will do, how it will look, how will it be powered, and how the user will interface with it)- Marketing study (what it will be named, who would buy this, how much would they pay, how will we get customers to purchase the product)- Schematic or electronic circuit design process- Creation of a bill of material or BOM and an approved vendor’s list or AVL for each component in the design, preferably with multiple sources identified, with a BOM and AVL for each assembly level in the product- Printed circuit board layout design process (single sided board, double sided board, or multilayer board; size of the PCB; board material)- Mechanical packaging design with user interfaces (displays, buttons, switches, key. This removes all product creation costs from your budget as a marketer.
No other database of affiliate programs offers such a possibility for profit on either the affiliate side or the product creation site. Your chosen niche should allow for the creation of more than one product or service.
There are several marketing strategies that are necessary in the creation of a successful e-commerce web site – Email marketing (broadcasting) of prospects/customers – Effective use of auto responders (generate automatic email messages) – Online Newsletter – Online Form / Survey to capture your prospect’s email address – Electronic Product Delivery (if you sold a digital product) – Advertisement (Ad) Tracking – Back End Sales – Affiliate program etc.