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.

Property Management Rental Tips To Mitigate Risk On Your Investment

There are a many people in the financial services advice industry who advocate investing in the property market will provide a huge number of benefits including large profits for the investor.

With this knowledge, the property market has become a very attractive proposition, particularly to the more high- end investor looking for the best returns.

In saying that, there are a lot of Mom and Dad investors who are now considering property rental as a wise investment to future-proof their retirement.

Nevertheless, as with any other form of investment the real estate market is not without its pitfalls and indeed carries many risks especially for the novice investor.

So – how can you mitigate the risk on property investment? It’s simple – work with a specialist.

Any time you are investing your hard-earned cash and looking for good returns and especially when buying property for rental purposes an established property management rental company is where you will find the most benefit.

A good property manager will have current market knowledge of property and locations where you can get the most gains to mitigate the risk and make a sound investment.

They will be able to give your current information on rental properties and information and advice on the following:

current market knowledge of property and locations where you can get the most gains
up to date information on supply and demand in all areas, prices and styles of property rental in the marketplace
confidence that the property has been priced correctly
know the best way to market the property you are considering investing in and how to get it tenanted quickly and with reliable tenants
be able to interpret the law and communicate to you the legal responsibilities of a landlord and tenant
establish credit checks on prospective tenants on your behalf as they have access to special credit checking services that will expose any tenants with a bad credit rating or are flagged as undesirable tenants
most respected property management rental companies will belong to a group of property professionals where they can get legal advice, up to date training, attend conferences and share anything new information of interest to the property market and their investors
have a database of qualified and respected tradesmen they work with regularly to carry out repairs to property on your behalf
regular inspections, reviews and reporting on your rental property to ensure your investment is maintained in the best possible manner
With a professional managing your investment, you will never have to worry about calls from tenants when you are away or unavailable during the day. All calls and problems are handled by the management company and responded to with urgent problems being attended to within 24 hours.

So for anyone who is considering property rental as an investment for your future make it a priority to consult the professionals.

Remember the old saying “penny wise and pound foolish”… it would be a mistake to invest thousands of dollars in a property without investment a small amount of time in some sound advice by someone who knows the property market and can give you the best value.

Home Based Business Leads – 9 Reasons You Should Never Buy Them

If you ever plan to succeed in network marketing you absolutely have to master the skill of exposing a lot of right people to your unique business opportunity. Still too many people today are trying to solve this problem by buying home based business leads and eventually find themselves run out of money, frustrated and without a single soul that joined their business. In this article I’m going to show you exactly why your business can quickly disappear should you decide to invest money in home based business leads.Reason #1 You spend too much money instead of making moneyThe reason you got involved in network marketing in the first place was to make money. Yet buying leads is going to cost you anywhere between 4 and 7.5 dollars and even more per lead. If you were to succeed with this strategy you need to spend AT LEAST 500$ a month with results not even close to what is possible in this industry.Reason #2 The leads are generic and not interested in your companyThose leads are created when they fill out a survey and what it means is that they are in general interested in home based business opportunity most of the time out of simple curiosity. They are not interested specifically in your opportunity and most of the time does NOT want to work in network marketing company in the first place. So calling those people is like trying to sell a hamburger to a vegetarian.Reason #3 Facing rejectionWhen you call these leads you send a signal that you need them, that you want to sell them something and you are going to face a lot of rejection. Don’t take it personally, it’s just because those leads are not targeted.Reason #4 You are killing your timeIt’s not worth your time and effort to call every single day to 100+ leads. Trust me on this you’d better spend your time with the family instead of chasing people over the phone.Reason #5 It’s not duplicatablePut your team in the position of spending a lot of money, facing a lot of rejection, and piling up their debt and you are going to get the perfect recipe for going out of business before it even started.Reason #6 You are doing the sorting process yourselfWhen you call home based business leads you are like the answering machine asking the same questions, repeating the same information many times in order to sort through all the sand in order to find the gold. No one promised you an easy life, right?Reason #7 Creating relationships with people you don’t now it’s toughPeople that you’re calling don’t know you so don’t expect them to listen to you just because you called them.Reason #8 You are not the only one who calls those leadsMany home based business lead companies promise you that you get the most responsive, high quality, unique leads. However since it cost them money to generate those leads, and they want to make a profit, they sell the same leads to 8 other people. Don’t be surprised when someone tells you that you are the number 5 person who called him today.Reason #9 You are chasing peopleThis is the most important reason of all. When you call those people trying to convince them to do something for you, you are perceived as someone who needs them and it’s not so attractive. You will see how much of a difference it is when people are actually chasing you. I hope now you understand why it’s a mistake to buy home based business leads. If you are buying leads right now, it’s not your fault. You just haven’t been taught way more effective ways to market your business.I couldn’t possibly state all the reasons in one short article. If you want to get more information on how to avoid buying leads and get your own free targeted leads, make sure to follow the links right below.