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.

If you struggle to find ideas for your home based business, you may consider this options, however I just want to warn you that making money online and start an home based business is not easy, you have to work hard and wisely in order to achieve your goals.Here are 5 home based business ideas:
List Building: Have you ever heard “the money is in the list”? If people are saying that is because it’s really true. If you want to start your home based business, you might want to start building your list of customers ready to buy all of your products. You may wondering how can you build a list, well it’s really easy to do. First you find a niche where people would be interesting buying stuff (health, beauty, biz opps…..), then to attract people to your list, one of the method is to give them a freebie away. For example if your niche is weight loss, you can give them an e-book where they can learn how to lose weight easily. The idea is to give them something with value and after that you can try to sell them other products that they might found even better than your free e-book. This is really easy to do, but be careful, the people in your list are not animals, treat them like you would treat your mother, with respect and consideration, so you will build a good relationship with them and you will make a lot of money.
Article Marketing : An other home based business idea is to promote products through article directories such Ezine and others. The goal is to reach customers through this articles where you can expose them to your product. You do not sell them directly, but you can write a review about an hot product that will be available soon. People like to read reviews before they buy any products so if you give them a valuable review of your product they might be interested about it.
Forum Marketing: Forum marketing is an other great home based business idea, all you have to do is to find forums related to your niche and start giving valuable information to other members. You may ask how can I make money with that, well in forums you can set up a signature at the bottom of each of your posts or threads, so if you give valuable information to people they might be interested in what you are promoting. Do not spam the forum and start by giving value before you try to monetize the traffic.
Site Flipping: Site flipping is a great source of revenue, people are making thousands of dollars per month just by buying and selling websites. The idea is to create a good looking website, on which you have made your keyword research and try to sell it to interested people. If the website is good, with some links pointing to it people might buy it because they know that can monetize the traffic later so they can make a more money with it.
Video Marketing : Video marketing is such a great way to make money that nobody is aware about it. Create thousands of video is necessary to make this method work for you, you can not create 10 or 20 videos and waiting for results, you need to go with the power of number. Create 30 per day that get 5 views per day each, meaning you get 150 views per day or 4500 per month from that one batch of videos that took you one day to do. If you are promoting a $20 product and you have only 100 people who bought your products then you have made $2000 just from those videos, now do it everyday, and you can hit 6 figures per year just by doing this.
That’s it I hope you enjoyed reading this article, there are hundreds other ways to make money online but, hey, it’s difficult to enumerate them all in one article!

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