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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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Why You Should Consider Starting a Successful Home Based Business

With the decline of the dollar and today’s economy being in such an uncertain and unstable position it’s not surprising that more and more people are looking for ways to safeguard their financial future. Today’s job market is plagued with a high unemployment rates, salary cuts and company doors closing daily. Today many people are seeking a plan that allows them to introduce more certainty to their future. So they scratch their heads and pose two very important questions: What am I good at? How do I turn that into making money? Once they are able to identify the answers to these two questions they now have the foundation to starting a successful home business.Research is one of the most important things you can do to plan for success. Always research both the successful and unsuccessful businesses in the field you are interested in. When looking at the successful examples think of ways to customize those positive points into some unique and even more successful strategy. When looking at those businesses that were not successful examine the things that seem to be responsible for the business failing. Think about things that could have been done to avoid the mistakes you can identify.Next, when starting a home business make sure to develop a solid business plan. Identify the goal that you have with the business and visualize how to get there. Look in the local newspaper and check in with the local colleges for classes offered on starting a home business. Don’t forget that the local library always provides access to materials that can potentially offer a wealth of knowledge. Often times community based businesses will offer internship and mentoring opportunities that may be useful to someone interested in starting a home business. There are many infomercials on the television that offer access to information from others professing success. Finally, the internet has a wealth of knowledge in various careers.One of the primary concerns in starting a home business is the investment capital you need. Some of the research that you do should be on topics surrounding available capital opportunities. There are so many untapped resources when looking for funding on starting a home based business. In many cases there are grant opportunities available for those starting a home based business. Sometimes there may be certain social or economic criteria to qualify for funds. They may also require you to submit an essay on starting a home business and explaining how it relates to their organizational mission statement.

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Multi Level Marketing – Is it a Good Home Based Business Opportunity?

Many people now-a-day are regarding Multi Level Marketing (or MLM) as a scam. However, others are thinking that it is a great home based business opportunity. Many people say that the MLM companies always tell lie and skim out profit by making fool out of us.Are these allegations baseless? Would you like starting a home based business on MLM? Is MLM at all a home based business opportunity?Let us discuss on these points to clear the air.The first point is that there are many scam companies out there in the MLM market. It is very easy to start a scam company and this is the sole reason that so many Multi Level Marketing companies have shut down. There are still many scammers roaming in the MLM industry and they are so cunning that it becomes almost impossible to identify them.Thus, it is always advisable to perform proper research on a particular company before opting it as your Multi Level Marketing company. However, now-a-day it has become very easy to identify those scam MLM companies because you can find so many reviews about the company in the search engines. If you perform a search in a reputed search engine (say, Google or Bing) with a particular name of a Multi Level Marketing company then there are high chances of getting authentic reviews about that company. If you find anything negative written about them then don’t opt the service of that company. However, this should be borne in mind that there are numerous fake reviews posted in various sites. These fake reviews are generally written by the rival companies of the MLM company. Hence, it depends on the customer to make proper discretion, before going for Multi Level Marketing.The picture is not at all gloomy. There are many such companies who are legitimate and perform business ethically. These ethical companies have created their own niche in the market and consequently have become global in scope as well as reach. The greatest part of these highly reputed MLM companies is that they have made many people rich. Many others are leading a comfortable life by doing Multi Level Marketing through these reputed and global companies.Now, the obvious question that crops up in our mind is: Are all people who participate in MLM become rich / succeed? The answer is quite obvious and that is ‘No’. People who are skeptical about this industry always point out that most of the people don’t succeed in this and only a few people become rich. This phenomenon is very natural. Let me ask you one question: Does every single person in this world become successful in business? The answer is ‘No’. MLM is also an industry where everyone doesn’t become successful. Hard working people having great marketing and convincing skills succeed in this home based business opportunity.However, let me emphasize here that the success ratio of people involved in Multi Level Marketing is much higher than those in other industry. Thus, we can definitely regard this business as a viable home based business opportunity and starting a home based business on MLM is not at all a problem.