Plays Well With Others to Become an Instant AuthorWritten by Paulette Ensign
You wrote a tips booklet. Maybe more than one. Oh wait, are you one of people who is still thinking about doing one? Not to worry. Wait ‘til you see how easy this gets. What would you and your colleagues think of jointly creating a tips booklet? Each of you contributes several tips, has someone else oversee all of production, and gives you ideas for marketing it. Each colleague shares in costs, making entire thing not only palatable price-wise but an exciting prospect and even fun to do instead of some kind of drudgery. It's very possible this is a solution that just had not yet come to mind. I can almost see you sitting there saying “yes, that's perfect.” Collaboration is far from being a new thing. Book anthologies are done all time. Cookbooks have been created just this way for years and years, with each person in a particular group contributing their favorite recipe. The hugely successful "Chicken Soup" series is probably one of best known anthologies of recent times. It's just taken awhile to realize that same thing can be done with tips booklets, and done within any self-contained, self- formed group rather than only a publisher of an anthology gathering unrelated people together to create book. Look around you. You probably have colleagues, a circle of professional friends, people you utilize as a sounding board, as a mastermind, as a respite from your daily process. And you each like doing work you've prepared yourself to do, whether it's being a business coach, a hypnotist, a retailer, an artist, a realtor, or endless other possibilities. Yet you also love idea of being a published author, seeing your name in print, someday, when you get around to it, when stars and planets are aligned just perfectly. Or idea of expanding an existing product line appeals to you, and a booklet seems to be ideal answer for that. Several years ago, a group of veteran professional organizers wanted to create a revenue stream for themselves so they did not have to tap general budget of umbrella association to which they belonged. About 100 organizers (104, to be exact) each contributed several tips. We then selected one tip from each person and created a booklet for group. To date, booklet has brought in over twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000!) of direct revenue for that group of veteran organizers, without really marketing it. The great thing about that booklet is that it serves as both a revenue stream for group plus it markets business of each contributor in booklet as well as entire industry of professional organizing. You'll find individual person’s name, business name, and city of each contributor right under their tip. Every organizer whose tip is in that booklet instantly became a published author.
| | Infopreneur - Overlooked Golden OpportunityWritten by Dr. Jamie Fettig
What it takes to be an infopreneur on internet.If you like to teach, enjoying writing and write well, and have or can get access to a body of knowledge that other people are willing to pay good money for, then you could be best served by getting into information marketing business. Notice three qualities you need to have for info marketing business to work for you: Quality #1 - 'You like to teach'. This doesn't mean you have to have had formal, professional experience as a teacher, but it does mean that you're kind of person who enjoys taking time to break difficult information down so people who are new to subject can learn it too. Quality #2 - 'You enjoy writing and write well' info marketing business is about generating words...lots and lots of words; content, ads, articles, reports, books, home study course, seminars. You don't have to be Shakespeare and you don't have to write everything you need all at once, but to make big bucks in info marketing, you have to be on a friendly basis with your word processor. Quality #3 - 'You have or can get access to a body of knowledge that people are willing to pay good money for'. The good news about being an info marketer is you don't need to be *the* ultimate expert on information you sell. You can always partner with another person who has subject expertise. This can work very well if you pick right partner. The thing you need to know is that partnerships are difficult at best. The right one can transform your destiny, but wrong one can cause you endless headaches.
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