Create Your Own InfoProduct in 30 Days

Finally, I’ve done it!  After several weeks of planning, research, and writing, I’ve completed my first infoproduct. It’s not been officially published yet, as I still have some backend issues to address - sales page, payment processing, affiliate program setup, and so forth. But my book is done!

For quite some time I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do it, that I didn’t have the skills, or that magic ’something’ that always seemed to elude me.

Well, it wasn’t ‘magic’ after all. The only think I was missing was the model on how to do it properly. Once I found that model, it was just a matter of time and determination.

Once I had the right formula, I knew I would succeed. And now I want to share my strategy with you, step by step. One day at a time.

Many successful internet marketers believe that the best way to succeed online is to have your own product. And while most people think that they just don’t ‘have what it takes’ to do that, that’s just not true.

So I want to challenge you to give this a try. Commit to it for 30 days. Do what it takes. Make the time, make the commitment. Believe me when I tell you that if I can do this, so can you.

Get ready to make it happen. Class begins tomorrow.

See you then!

Posted by Kat on January 4th, 2009 under General • No Comments

Day 19 - Set Up Your Guide

Today you’ll be setting up the framework of your guide by creating a template that you can use for future guides as well. The most common format for infoproduct guides is one created by Adobe Systems, the Portable Document Format, or PDF. In order to create a PDF file, Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 18 - Edit Your Images

Today you will prepare your images and get them ready for placement in your guide. This will involve the following steps:

1. Cropping the images

2. Resizing the images

3. Adding notations to the images

Most images will need at least some Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 17 - Create Your Images

Today you’ll be creating or obtaining the images that you want to use in your infoproduct. Depending on the theme of your product, here’s what you may need to do:

  • Take photos
  • Capture screenshots
  • Draw illustrations
  • Download images from online sources

While it’s likely that you may need a combination of Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 16 - Plan Your Images

In recent lessons you’ve developed an outline to your guide and collected a stack of research notes. Today your task will be to go through all your materials decide what photos and images to use in your guide.

If your guide is linear in nature, it helps to detail each step for clarification purposes. Having images in your guide also breaks up large blocks of texts, making for Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 15 - Layout Your Product

In our last lesson you performed some extensive research and collected quite a lot of information to help you in your product development. Today’s task will be to begin to organize that information.

Your first step will be to determine whether your product will be linear in nature, or lateral. A linear product is one that proceeds step by step in interdependent steps toward a final outcome. As an example, Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 14 - Research Information for Your Guide

In our last lesson you finalized your cover imagery and hired a graphics artist to complete the design for you. While your ecover is being produced, now is the ideal time to research material for your info guide.

Depending on how well you know your chosen subject, the research may serve a couple of different purposes. If you’re not very familiar with your topic, you will Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 13 - Order Your eCover

In previous lessons you sketched out the generic image for the covers of your first product line, and also decided upon and named your first product.

Today the task will be to complete the design of your ecover and order it through a graphics artist. It would not be advisable to try to create the cover yourself with a cheap or free cover-generating software application. Remember, your cover will be the Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 12 - Name Your First InfoProduct

In the previous lesson you established your Unique Selling Position and developed some branding ideas. With that in mind, today we want to give our “baby” a name.

For this, you’ll need to refer back to the worksheet you completed back on Day 5, in which you sketched out your product line. Today, you’ll decide which product from among your front-end products you want to work on first. Read the rest of this entry »

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Day 11 - Brand Your Business

Today we’ve got a bit of work to do. Our goals for the day include:

1. Develop our Unique Selling Proposition (USP)

2. Determine a Title for our product

3. Brand our product

4. Sketch out our ecover design

As you brainstorm the issues listed above, you will want to be referring back to Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kat on January 15th, 2009 under General • No Comments