In order to grow your internet business, one of the most overlooked strategies is adding value to your site, product, or service.
Modern technology and the internet allow anyone to offer a little extra that nobody else does, and usually at no additional cost.
Here are some reasons why this is a good business practice.
Profits will increase if you do this!
The next step is to understand what value addition is!
Value adding is giving surprise high quality and useful gifts.
Giving your customers something they can’t get from your competitors.
We are promising the world and delivering the universe with it.
It’s about taking care of your clients and providing them with what they need and want, when and where they want.
Now let’s look at the different ways we can do this.
When you receive a free gift from someone you didn’t expect, do you remember them?
Answer: Yes, most of the time.
How can we do this?
Look at the example below for an idea!
If you subscribe to a newsletter or ezine, what do you expect?
You expect to get what you subscribed for, right?
Now imagine that you subscribed to a newsletter that distributes information about Poodle breading in France, and when you open the confirmation email you find you’ve also received a free ebook containing 20 poodle grooming tips and Grandma’s secret poodle pampering techniques. (a book that normally sells for $29).
Wouldn’t that make you more likely to open and read the next issue and the next etc?
That’s one simple example, but where do you get the ebook from? You make it! If you are distributing a poodle breeding newsletter, you might know something about grooming, or know some people that could help you put together the necessary information. Then you can wrap that up in an ebook cover and then send it around to a variety of sites that will post it for you for free and you can sell it on your own site if you have one. (I can see that there are several more articles just on making e-books, posting them on other people’s sites, and setting up a shop front.)
Back to the Poodles! So you can see that by offering this free gift you have achieved several things.
You have developed a product (at no cost to you) that you can sell and make a profit on.
You have used that product to increase the chances of your new subscriber opening your next email.
You have promoted your site/service to other internet marketers that you may wish to do a joint venture with at some time.
Another way to add value for less effort is to offer a 110 percent guarantee instead of 100 percent.
Another is to make your 20 tips into 30 or more etc, get the idea? It’s all just a matter of finding ways that you can give more.
The majority of people are trapped in the rat race, working for others but having no idea how to escape. In this article, you will learn how to earn passive income to achieve freedom. The best home based business is an Internet business because it is exciting, rewarding, and profitable. There are tips provided for home-based professional businesses.
If you’re given a choice of making $500 as a one-time payment OR getting only $100 but paying this amount every month for 20 years if not for life, which would you choose?
If you work only once and get paid many times over, you’re earning a RESIDUAL INCOME. Of course, you’d choose the latter.
Elvis Presley today “continues” to earn residual income even after death because his records continue to “work” for him due to continued demand from his fans.
Therefore it goes without saying that in order to build wealth, you need to tap into RESIDUAL INCOME.
Very often this is also referred to as “PASSIVE INCOME” because you could afford to be passive or non-active (i.e. not having to work) and still continue to receive income.
If you’re like most people, you’ve been conditioned your whole life to think about income as a process of trading time and effort for money. Like the majority, you have been brought up to have only one major objective in life – JOB! Incidentally, if you don’t already know, to many, JOB stands for “Just Over Broke”.
You work hard in schools so that you could get good grades to advance to colleges and universities where you work even harder so that you could get a good and secure JOB. Once you’ve got the jobs you want, you continue to work very hard in order to maintain them and to climb the so-called organizational ladder of success.
As a result, many have fallen into the trap of the RAT RACE and you know very well you can’t afford to stop because if you did, so would your income!
Although some of us could be drawing quite a handsome income, we’re not truly “wealthy” because we’re not free to do what we want and when we want with our money.
I’ve heard many sad stories of “rich” EMPLOYEES not being able to spend badly needed valuable time with members of their families who’re sick in hospitals because they could not afford to be away from their place of work for too long as their services are urgently required by their employers. Doctors could not even really relax and enjoy a long vacation for fear of the loss of income or patients while their clinics remain closed.
Can I really have PASSIVE INCOME? You might ask. Indeed you can!
About 160+ million people have access to the Internet. Every month millions of newcomers and thousands of businesses are reported to be setting up online. With this huge and expanding audience coupled with the fact that marketing and advertising can be done on the Internet so easily and at only a fraction of the costs of traditional methods, we now have a fantastic opportunity to be successful in online business.
Many companies have now aligned themselves with the Internet which has created many new paradigms in the past few years. Residual Incomes are made available to people from all walks of life. You can now make money online with the simple and proven formula used by many to earn multiple streams of residual income.
However, don’t believe what you’ve heard or seen on the Internet. Skepticism is encouraged because there are some dishonest people creating a lot of hype, unfulfilled promises, and scams going around the Internet.
Fortunately, however, these are the exception, rather than the rule. You must be able to feel absolutely confident about using the services offered by “Internet Business Gurus” to help you make money online before you sign up. If you have any slightest doubt at all, drop it and move on to another.
There’re many who belong to reputable organizations such as iCop™ and Better Internet Bureau™ as part of their commitment to upholding the highest business and ethical standards possible.
Many programs are designed for newbies who have no time or interest to learn HTML, Java, PHP, and ASP. With a simple Control Panel, you’re only a few clicks away from having a complete and professional website to start your online Internet home-based business!
You need not have sleepless nights worrying about programming, web or graphic design, scripts, or content and product creation. Furthermore, with some programs such as AFFILIATE PROGRAMS, all the order processing is handled behind the scenes on your behalf. This includes credit card authorization, order fulfillment, product shipping, and customer service.
Also, there’s no worry about inventory. There’s no staff to hire and pay, no merchant accounts to set up, and no costly and time-consuming application process for licenses and permits to go through.
You have a website that sometimes could be created free of charge. It captures visitors automatically and follows up with them 24 hours a day and 30 days per month for 365 days a year! Your visitors’ names and email addresses are automatically recorded for you and follow-up automatically with a pre-written email marketing campaign.
However, like any venture earmarked to be successful, you need some planning and consistent effort.
To help you in this effort, here are a few guides you can follow in order to develop good habits for achieving your goals:
PLAN YOUR WORK AND WORK YOUR PLAN
Like any other form of work, you must have a plan for your Internet business. Set achievable short-term, medium-term, and long-term objectives, prepare a budget, and stick to them as far as possible. Carry out periodic checking to determine any deviations from the plan and take the necessary remedial actions.
BE ORGANIZED
You need to download a lot of software, ebooks, or PDF books from specific individuals or organizations for your continued education. You’d have a lot of contacts who could be your potential leads or customers. Chances are that you’d belong to many membership sites that require passwords which are first cited in their “Welcome” letters.
You, therefore, need to have a systematic procedure to keep all this vital information and data in the right and proper folders for quick and ease of retrieving. This would prevent loss of time and undue frustration.
You could create a simple home page of your own with hyperlinks to all the important websites. This could be kept on your desktop for easy access
BE FOCUSED WITH CONCENTRATION:
Although this is a home based business with all the freedom in the world, it’s prudent to have some form of discipline.
Once you’ve decided to sit in front of the computer to start working online, you must stay focused and not allow any distractions to affect your concentration. Treat it as your business and not a hobby. It’d be nice to stick to a schedule that is also made known to other members of your family so that they’d know when to leave you alone.
However do not get carried away and spend too much time in front of your PC because your loved ones, including your pets, also deserve your attention and time.
BE CONSISTENT
You’d be tempted with countless seemingly very attractive offers and promises from the Web to help improve your business. Do not fall into the trap of some of these promises. Just stay with a handful of strategies that work and stick with them.
For example, if you’re submitting articles to drive free traffic to your sites and it’s showing positive dividends, stick to it and continue with this strategy while improving and fine-tuning others.
IF FAILED TRY AGAIN
Like any other conventional business, there’d be times when you’d encounter failures and disappointment. Do persevere as this is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It takes time to see the fruit of your effort although it’d definitely come. Use any failures to your advantage by learning from them. See success in every failure and opportunity in every threat.
”Intention decides what you want but action determines what you get”. Please persevere with your action and don’t give up.
I wish you all the best in your Internet journey towards the continued flow of PASSIVE INCOME!
Imagine if your products were as addictive as some drugs – only in a good way. Your customers derived tremendous satisfaction from using your products, and continued to buy and use them for months and years.
Your business would thrive, your customers would receive tremendous benefit, and everyone in this scenario would be happy.
But how do you build addiction into your products and services? And in fact, can it even be done?
The short answer is that not only can it be done, but it already has been done many, many times over. Look at any product or brand that people rave about and continue to buy over and over again and you’ll have a product or brand that people are in some way addicted to.
The Apple brand immediately comes to mind, as well as many video games, foods, certain authors and so forth.
In fact, bloggers and authors can use addiction to tremendous advantage, getting their readers to come back time and again for their latest post or book.
So the question is, how can you build addiction into your products and services? The answer is by meeting as many of these six human needs as possible. The more of these your product satisfies, the more addicted your customers will become:
– Certainty and security – avoiding pain and gaining pleasure. For example, the certainty of a continuous stream of income that means you never have money problems again.
– Uncertainty and variety – good surprises, positive changes, new stimuli. For example, when you play a video game there are always elements that can take you by surprise at any time.
– Significance – feeling unique, special, important or needed. A service that pampers makes us feel special. A new job title makes us feel important.
– Connection and love – feeling close to someone or a group of people. Social media helps us feel connected. An active forum centered on a product or goal can provide a strong tribal feeling.
– Growth – expansion of capability, capacity or understanding. Many information products can provide growth opportunities.
– Contribution – a sense of service and of helping others. A forum in which members help each other reach their goals can be especially effective for this.
We know if we can incorporate all 6 of these needs into a product, we’ll have something that is potentially addictive to our customers. So let’s try it with a membership on how to make money online, and see what that might look like:
– Certainty and security. This one is easy – if they learn how to make money online, they will have security. And in our sales information, we’re going to highlight the successes of current members to demonstrate the certainty that our program works.
– Uncertainty and variety. We can add special bonuses and surprises in the member’s section to keep things interesting. Plus we can run challenges and competitions.
– Significance. We find ways to acknowledge individual members as often as possible. We also respond quickly to all communication with personalized answers. And we continually let our members know how important they are to us, and remind them of the contributions that only they can make to the world.
– Connection and love. We provide a forum or a private Facebook page where members can interact and become part of our ‘tribe.’ We highly encourage this interaction and have key people who answer questions and help everyone.
– Growth. We can have different levels of mastery that members work through, so they can see the progress they are making. Their levels of achievement are displayed inside the members’ area (significance.)
– Contribution. In the forum we encourage and reward members for helping each other. And we remind them of the contribution they can make to the world by using their new skills.
As you can see, it’s not all that difficult to touch on all 6 needs within your product or membership. Many times you’ll see overlap from one need to the next. And the better job you do of meeting these 6 needs, the more people will become addicted in a positive way, and possibly even become your customers for life.
So next time you create a product or service, or start a membership site, ask yourself – how can I get my customers addicted – in a good way?
Grabbing opportunities with open arms is often easier to talk about than to actually do. Most people find themselves dreaming about being rich but never actually doing anything about it. A combination of procrastination and ‘what if’ syndrome can cripple your creative spirit and might mean your idea will never become a reality.
Socrates said “Action equals knowledge’. He was one of the greatest philosophers of our time. What he meant was that it is through action that we achieve results.
For example, you could think about learning Spanish for months, imagining the holidays you will take and the people you will communicate with. You can dream forever but accomplish nothing unless you actually make the effort to start taking lessons.
Much like the martial arts approach – the idea is to take action immediately and avoid over analyzing the situation.
Do you want to start your own business but are afraid of what kinds of things can go wrong? What if your initial investment doesn’t pay off? There are millions of things that could go wrong but likewise there are many things that can go right! Fear can be paralyzing. When thinking about starting a business particularly if you keep waiting for the right time. There will never be a perfect time. It’s now or never when it comes to starting your own business.
Overcoming your fear is a step by step process.
– Do you have a clear idea of what kind of business you want to start? A clear plan will help keep your worries at bay.
– Do you have access to the resources you will need? This includes the necessary start up cash as well as anything else you will need.
– Do you have access to clients or do you know enough about marketing basics to ensure you will have enough interest in what you are offering?
Just like anything – taking action is the most important part. Make an itemized list of what you feel needs to be done in order for you to start that business you always dreamed of.
Prioritizing your list will help too. Don’t wait for all your ducks to be in a proverbial row before you begin but make sure you have all the basics covered. Don’t wait for that ‘perfect someday’. Make an imperfect start.
Don’t over think everything. Sometimes the best approach is to just jump into the deep end.
Don’t wait to start discovering your own entrepreneurial spirit. Take action today!
Someone asked me what I would do if I had to start my business over from scratch in 3 months. And that got me thinking – if I could take the experience I have and use it to start over from scratch, how would I do it?
Mind you, I wouldn’t have my mailing list. I wouldn’t have traffic, a following, name recognition – none of that. Just my experience as to what works and what doesn’t.
And let’s say that my life depends on me having a full time income at the end of those 3 months. No pressure there, right? But a lot of people find themselves in a very similar situation – make money or else. Or else they’re in trouble, or else the bills go unpaid, or else they’re facing losing their home, or… worse.
So with that in mind, here’s what I would do:
– I would stop looking for magic ‘make money online’ products and ideas. There is no secret combo of tricks and buttons to make money. It’s not a printing press. It’s a free market. And in that free market the way to make money is to stop focusing on the money, and simply make yourself indispensable to people who need your solution to their problem. Do that and the money follows.
When you’re focused on providing solutions, you no longer get distracted by all those shiny programs that steal your time and your money. I’m not saying all programs are bad. In fact, many of the “how-to” and “step-by-step” are useful as small pieces to the large puzzle. But that’s what they are – puzzle pieces – not full blown businesses.
– I would start with the outcome first. What is my market? My product or service? My goal? What is the solution I can provide that people will gladly pay for? What is THE ONE BIG BENEFIT I can provide to my customers? This is the starting point of everything that will come next.
– Next I would build my website. Odds are it’s going to be a blog. I’m not going to spend a world of time on setting this up because I only have 3 months. I’ll spend an hour maximum choosing the URL, I’ll get the hosting, I’ll choose a simple, streamlined theme, I’ll get the autoresponder and I’ll be ready to get started.
Yes, it takes money to get started. Not a lot, but some. You’re making an investment into your future. And if you think spending a couple of hundred dollars to set up your internet business is somehow a lot of money, consider the alternative: Spending at least that much each month just to drive to and from a job, or spending thousands for a brick and mortar business.
– Time to create content for that blog. But this isn’t about running a blog, it’s about running a business. The blog is just the tool to get the business done. So here’s what I would do: Look at the big benefit I deliver, and then write down all the stumbling blocks people encounter trying to get that big benefit. Then pick out 3 of these and write stellar posts on how to overcome those barriers. Then repurpose those posts into videos and podcasts, as well as an incentive to get people to join my list.
Notice I’m only creating 3 pieces of great content, not 300. And I’m repurposing those. Some folks spend years trying to get everything just right, but I’ve only got 3 months, so forget perfect and just get it done.
– Next, I would offer a service or coaching. Do you know why? Because it’s the quickest way to make real money. Offering products is great, but it takes time to create the products and more time to build the lists to promote the product to. When your list is small, it’s best to focus on services or coaching because it’s the fastest way to profit.
The blog posts should be highly focused on getting my prospects to take the next step, which is likely going to be a free consultation. It’s not easy to sell a $300 a month coaching program or a $1,000 website optimization package online. But it can be if you get them on the phone first.
– Now I’d focus on getting as many people on the phone as I can, because I know two things: The more prospects I get on the phone, the more likely it is that some of them will say yes. Plus, I’ll get better and better at finding out their needs and selling them on the solutions.
– With my first customers or clients I would deliver like a madman (or mad woman.) I’d blow them away and earn myself raving testimonials which I would then use to earn more clients.
I’d also be Mr. or Ms. Communication, with both my clients and everyone else on my list and in social media. If someone writes to me, I answer quickly. If they mention me in social media, I am thanking them the same day and so forth. This is a people business and my goal is to please the people and thus build my name and my reputation.
– As I’m servicing my clients, I’m learning what they need and want. And I’m using that information to create my first product which I will then sell to my list, and hopefully through affiliates for a long time to come.
Selling time for money is a great way to get started, but as soon as possible you want to be creating assets that you use to systematize your sales funnel and your income.
– Time to focus on traffic and more traffic. Social media, guest blog posting and paying for advertising are methods that can be used long term to drive people to your site and onto your lists. Each one has a learning curve, but as you improve you’ll see quick returns for your time and monetary investments.
And I’d build relationships with other marketers in my niche. Almost nothing drives good quality traffic faster than an expert in your niche telling their list about you or your offer.
– Lastly, I would continually strive to improve the benefits I deliver to my customers. Great today is only good tomorrow and not good enough the day after. I know I have to stay on top of my market and provide my customers with what they need and want even before they know they need and want it.
Bottom Line: By delivering the solutions people seek, I can build a fully functioning business in a short amount of time. And yes, by diligently following these steps, you too might be earning a full time income in 3 months.
Sometimes new money making ideas are immediately usable. However, sometimes you just have to let your imagination run wild and be impractical. This is a way to get that creativity going, and no matter how crazy the ideas may seem at first, there is usually a way to bring them down to earth, as in this first example.
Rental Cabins In The Air
I started with a crazy thought: “What if people could rent a cabin up in the sky for the weekend?” Right away my mind tries to make sense of the idea, and because the over-all goal is to have profitable innovations, it looks for ways to make it into a money making idea. I first imagined cabins which are suspended under large hot-air or helium balloons.
As much fun as it might be, this didn’t seem very practical. When I explored the idea further, though, I wondered if existing balloon-ride businesses could tap into other markets. If, for example, the gondolas were outfitted properly, and the balloons tethered, so they could be allowed to float two thousand feet overhead, would meditators then pay for a peaceful meditation retreat in the sky?
Another thought came to mind. Balloons could be high in the air, but easily cranked back in on a line. This might be simpler and cheaper than traditional rides, which involve chase vehicles and unpredictable landings. Perhaps this could be another way to make money with the balloons, charging a lower rate for simple up and down rides, and so getting new customers that couldn’t afford the usual rides.
This is how a crazy idea comes back to earth. Perhaps even the “weekend cabin in the sky” idea could someday be a money making idea, but if not, that’s okay. The point here is to get the creative flow going, and then find more practical ways to channel the output.
More Crazy Money Making Ideas
The following is pure imagination. I leave it to you to find a way to make these ones into potential money making ideas. Good luck and have fun!
– Put seats on the wings of an airplane and sell rides to thrill seekers.
– Sell advertising scratched out on the face of the moon.
– Rent out the animals at the zoo.
– Start an underwater school.
– Make a roller coaster course people pay to take their personal cars on.
– Sell pets genetically engineered to die young, for those who hate long-term commitments.
– Rent out children to undecided prospective parents.
– Have marriage insurance policies that cover the cost of a divorce, just in case.
– Have a swimming pool restaurant; diners sit in floating seats and eat off floating plates.
Scan the list and stop on any of the crazy ideas that catch your attention. Chances are good that you can find some way to transform it into a more practical idea, and that is the point. This exercise in imagination may be fun, but it is also a profitable technique for generating money making ideas.
According to Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich, a man named R. U. Darby and his uncle were caught up in the gold rush’s “gold fever.”.
As soon as they shipped their first car of ore to the smelter, they realized they had found one of Colorado’s richest gold deposits. Excitedly, they continued digging, but the ore vein disappeared.
After repeatedly digging, they failed to find the vein again, so they gave up and sold their equipment.
The man who bought the machinery realized random digging was not the best way to find the vein. He called in a mining engineer and had him make some calculations.
What contributed to Darby and his uncle’s failure was their lack of knowledge about “fault lines” and their neglect to consider alternatives. With his expert knowledge, the engineer was able to predict that the vein of gold could be found three feet from where the Darbys quit digging, and that’s exactly where it was.
Millions of dollars worth of gold were pulled from the mine by the man who decided to not accept easy defeat and to bring in someone else who had specialized knowledge he didn’t.
In this case, success is often just beyond what seems to be your greatest obstacle.
Welcome failure and use it as a measuring stick.
When you’ve been defeated, look for a lesson to learn. What do you need to change in your approach, your mindset, and your environment?
Using a modern day example, I’ve been working with a personal trainer for several months. During our first few sessions, he asked me to do what I thought was completely unrealistic.
I would have allowed temporary defeat and a limited mindset to keep me at the level I had set for myself. he thought bigger and taught me techniques that allowed me to push harder.
I translated this lesson into my business thinking and ask that you consider it as well.
The only limits are those you create in your mind. Defeat is merely a produced result. Measure the result, change your approach and continue in your efforts.
Okay, this one will take a little legwork, but it is work you’ll be doing anyway. Only this time, it will pay off double. Here’s how it works: Every marketer winds up hosting downloads, pdf’s, zipped files, redirects, cloaked affiliate links, images and a bunch of other things. The way we do it is generally like this: yourdomain.com/buythisproductnow.
Now then, to make this work you’ll want to get a domain name that you use only for hosting all of this stuff. It should be a catchy name that directly pertains to your niche – something that arouses interest and curiosity all by itself. For example, TheNakedMarketer.com or TakeThisJobAndShoveIt.org.
Host everything on subdomains of this domain. As you get traffic to all of these subdomains, a funny thing is going to happen: You’re going to get traffic to your root domain as well. Even though you never send anyone there, people are going to get curious, lop off the part after the slash in your domain name and see what’s on the home page.
This is where you make your money. You can either put up a squeeze page that’s followed by a one time offer, or you can redirect it straight to an affiliate offer.
If you get 500 people a month going to this domain, and only one out of 5 joins your list, that’s still 1200 new subscribers a year. PLUS whatever sales you make from the one time offer. If you position your squeeze page correctly, you should get a conversion rate much, much closer to 50%.
Now then, if everyone you’re already sending to these downloads, redirects and so forth are already subscribers, then don’t use a squeeze page. Instead, redirect that domain straight to your highest converting offer of the moment. Even a handful of sales a month can translate into a thousand dollars or more per year, just for doing this one simple thing.
And since you have to place your downloads, redirects, cloaked links and everything else somewhere anyway, why not make some money from it?
First of all, my apologies to anyone who is offended by the title of this article.
I’ll get back to your question now. Is it possible for every Tom, Dick, and Harry to start a home business?
I understand that you may have a different viewpoint than mine. The purpose of this article, just like that of a candle, is to provide some light on home business.
The answer is that “YES” everyone can start a home business. It does not matter where you come from or what education level you have. It is possible for Tom, Dick, and Harry to start a home business.
However, not all Toms, Dicks, and Harrys will succeed at home businesses. This is where most people fail.
For a home business to be successful, what do you need? In order to be successful at home business, you must possess certain qualities.
Listed below are some qualities that will help you maintain and grow your home business:
People who run home businesses are careful with their money.
It is always clear to them how much money they have. The price and value of things are known to them, so they can recognize a bargain when they see it. They are able to maintain their home businesses because of that.
The majority of home business owners earned money when they were teenagers – babysitting, mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, sacking groceries, etc. From here, they gained patience that helped them grow their home businesses.
There is a competitive nature in home business owners.
Many were active in sports and other competitions in high school and college. Others aimed to achieve good grades, and earn the respect of their parents and teachers and earn the respect of their teachers. This quality is very important in a home business.
Home business owners practice the old adage: “The early bird gets the worm.” They sleep and eat enough to stay energetic but don’t spend time on non-productive activities. This allows them to focus on growing their business.
Home business entrepreneurs who succeed are risk-takers and trust their hunches. Taking risks can be small first steps, like placing your first ad in a mail-order publication. Starting or growing a home business may be impossible without this quality.
They have a knack for home business.
The people in this group are constantly thinking of new ideas for making money or increasing their home business. They are not afraid to implement these new ideas.
Home business entrepreneurs tend to be lone wolves rather than a social butterfly.
This is one of the reasons why many entrepreneurs are attracted to home businesses, and mail-order businesses. They prefer a solitary work environment (home business).
A successful home business owner is usually a person of honor.
Handshakes and promises are their basis for doing business. It is common for them to form strong relationships with others who share the same work ethic.
Home business owners set aside time for leisure activities and family time. Work is their primary form of relaxation, but downtime and family time are important to them as well.
The majority of home business owners do not retire. Even when they think they’re ready to retire, they always jump back in with a new project or get an idea they just can’t ignore.
Home businesses that succeed are run by professionals. They operate just like they would in an office building in a major city, whether they work from their bedroom, kitchen table, or a modern, well-appointed home office. During work, they don’t let outside influences distract them.
Generally, successful home business owners have high energy, feel self-confident, set long-term goals, and view money and financial security as a measure of accomplishment. In order to be successful, they continuously solve problems, take risks, learn from their failures (both their own and others), take the initiative, accept personal responsibility, and use all resources available to them. Home business owners who succeed compete with themselves and believe that success or failure lies within their control.
Hopefully, this article will be helpful to anyone who wants to start a home business.
Keep in mind that everyone can start a home business, but what differentiates successful home business owners from failures are outlined above. Good luck.
Even if you’ve never made a video before in your life, you can do this. And once you have your videos, you can sell them, use them as lead magnets, use them as bonuses to affiliate products and so forth. You can even use them to establish your authority and credibility in your marketplace.
Here’s how you can quickly start making your own video products:
– Download the free screen capture video program called Snagit. You can download it at TechSmith or Google to find other websites that offer it.
– Decide on what kind of video or video set you’re making and the purpose of it. Is it a training? Or an info product? How about a video for a sales page, or maybe a lead generator on YouTube. It could be the video you put on your squeeze page, or the incentive you use to get people to join your list.
If you’re making a product, then keep it simple. Look at what is already selling so you’ll know ahead of time that there is a market for your new product. Look at what Kindle titles are selling, what info products are selling and so forth.
– Now that you know what you’re going to make, break it down into steps. If you’re making a product, for example, then break it down into a problem, analysis and solution. Each step will be one video of 5 minutes or less. If one of the steps takes longer than 5 minutes to explain, then break that step into two videos. Think of these as video mini-trainings.
– Create 3 to 4 PowerPoint or Keynote slides for each step, or plan a short demo for each step. If you’re using PowerPoint, then choose ‘browse by individual’ so it can be resized to any size screen. Write the steps as bullet points. Use 3 to 4 bullet points per slide.
– Open up Snagit and narrate as you make your video. The bullet points cue you as to what to say for each slide. Just talk your way through each step as though you were talking to someone there in the room.
– Once you’ve got your videos, you can either host them on your site, use a hosting service like Amazon, or place them on another site like YouTube. As you upload each video, grab the URL and paste it into a Word document in order: Step 1, Step 2 and so forth. Obviously if this is a paid product, you’ll want your videos to be hosted somewhere out of the public eye.
– Write short narrative descriptions for each video and place them above the corresponding links in your word document, to let your readers or buyers know what each video is all about. This document will act as your introduction to your product.
– Then save the document as a PDF. If you’re selling the series, you can deliver the PDF, and buyers can click the links and watch the videos.
You can even give away the first videos, and then offer to sell them access to the remaining videos. For example, on your PDF you show the first 3 video links, then you have descriptions of the rest of the videos but no links. If they buy the product, they get the links to those videos.
It’s a very simple way to make a video product, and you can do it all in less than a day.
Snagit can be used for a lot more than making products, and it’s an excellent way for new marketers to play with video and get results very, very quickly.
