<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products</title>
	<atom:link href="http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products</link>
	<description>Random Brainstorms on Business and Marketing</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:20:32 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=abc</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: David</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1062</link>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1062</guid>
		<description>Folks,

That is a mini-course on what to do!

Just do it and you&#039;ll make money like Jason has and I have and lots of other people.

But you&#039;ve got to do it and finish it, don&#039;t sit around and don&#039;t make it your like&#039;s work. 

As Bill Glazer has said countless times &quot;Good enough is good enough&quot;.

Thanks Jason.

David</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Folks,</p>
<p>That is a mini-course on what to do!</p>
<p>Just do it and you&#8217;ll make money like Jason has and I have and lots of other people.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;ve got to do it and finish it, don&#8217;t sit around and don&#8217;t make it your like&#8217;s work. </p>
<p>As Bill Glazer has said countless times &#8220;Good enough is good enough&#8221;.</p>
<p>Thanks Jason.</p>
<p>David</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products &#171; IM David</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1052</link>
		<dc:creator>Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products &#171; IM David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1052</guid>
		<description>[...] Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: uberVU - social comments</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1049</link>
		<dc:creator>uberVU - social comments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1049</guid>
		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Social comments and analytics for this post...&lt;/strong&gt;

This post was mentioned on Twitter by DavidHusnian: The Most Lucrative Online Business Models, at http://bit.ly/2azqqm...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Social comments and analytics for this post&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>This post was mentioned on Twitter by DavidHusnian: The Most Lucrative Online Business Models, at <a href="http://bit.ly/2azqqm..." rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/2azqqm&#8230;</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1047</link>
		<dc:creator>Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products &#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1047</guid>
		<description>[...] here to read the rest:  Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products &#8230;   Share and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] here to read the rest:  Best Online Business Models, Part 4: Your Own Information Products &#8230;   Share and [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jason Anderson</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1045</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason Anderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1045</guid>
		<description>I wouldn&#039;t go so far as to say it&#039;s &quot;better&quot; than the post itself.  Your post actually stresses the importance of research.  My comment talks about the dumb luck I got for producing an information product out of curiosity (which isn&#039;t smart as a business model by the way).  I just wanted to convey that a lot of your readers ALREADY have information products 90% done...and they don&#039;t even know it.  

I&#039;m suggesting that they take all the research that they have already done on various topics and start from there.   NOW do the research, gather the killer keywords, tweak the product to match the research (keywords, meta tags, content, etc).

For example, lets say one of your readers is interested in &quot;postage stamps&quot; because their nephew is into stamp collecting.  Let&#039;s say they did some research about buying stamps because they want to get a Christmas present for their nephew.....

Well, you could easily take that research you JUST did, gather all the info you collected (copied and pasted) from blogs, recommendation sites, ebay, forums, etc...and take that GOLDEN information and &quot;tweak&quot; it to what the market is looking for.

You would do your keyword research.  You would look on Yahoo Answers.  You would find all the &#039;stamp collecting forums&quot;....and find out what people are looking for.

In your INITIAL research....the one where you were simply looking to find some cool stuff to buy your nephew...you take not of all the sites you visited.  If you use Firefox, I recommend using the ClipMarks plugin.  This plugin basically scrapes information from the sites you visit and put&#039;s all your notes in one place.

You can check out Clipmarks here:

http://clipmarks.com/

Anyway...after your &quot;curiosity&quot; search for yourself, you may just find that you are looking for the SAME thing that a LOT of other people are looking for.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to say it&#8217;s &#8220;better&#8221; than the post itself.  Your post actually stresses the importance of research.  My comment talks about the dumb luck I got for producing an information product out of curiosity (which isn&#8217;t smart as a business model by the way).  I just wanted to convey that a lot of your readers ALREADY have information products 90% done&#8230;and they don&#8217;t even know it.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m suggesting that they take all the research that they have already done on various topics and start from there.   NOW do the research, gather the killer keywords, tweak the product to match the research (keywords, meta tags, content, etc).</p>
<p>For example, lets say one of your readers is interested in &#8220;postage stamps&#8221; because their nephew is into stamp collecting.  Let&#8217;s say they did some research about buying stamps because they want to get a Christmas present for their nephew&#8230;..</p>
<p>Well, you could easily take that research you JUST did, gather all the info you collected (copied and pasted) from blogs, recommendation sites, ebay, forums, etc&#8230;and take that GOLDEN information and &#8220;tweak&#8221; it to what the market is looking for.</p>
<p>You would do your keyword research.  You would look on Yahoo Answers.  You would find all the &#8217;stamp collecting forums&#8221;&#8230;.and find out what people are looking for.</p>
<p>In your INITIAL research&#8230;.the one where you were simply looking to find some cool stuff to buy your nephew&#8230;you take not of all the sites you visited.  If you use Firefox, I recommend using the ClipMarks plugin.  This plugin basically scrapes information from the sites you visit and put&#8217;s all your notes in one place.</p>
<p>You can check out Clipmarks here:</p>
<p><a href="http://clipmarks.com/" rel="nofollow">http://clipmarks.com/</a></p>
<p>Anyway&#8230;after your &#8220;curiosity&#8221; search for yourself, you may just find that you are looking for the SAME thing that a LOT of other people are looking for.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: David</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1044</link>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1044</guid>
		<description>Jason,

That&#039;s a really excellent comment, it&#039;s better than the post itself :-)

Listen to what he says, there is literally gold there.

Also, if you need to get really professional videos for a lot less than you can get them elsewhere then go to Jason&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://iflashvideo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iflashvideo.com&lt;/a&gt;.

Some really big name marketers use him and I recommend it highly.

Thanks again Jason,

David</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jason,</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a really excellent comment, it&#8217;s better than the post itself <img src='http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Listen to what he says, there is literally gold there.</p>
<p>Also, if you need to get really professional videos for a lot less than you can get them elsewhere then go to Jason&#8217;s <a href="http://iflashvideo.com" rel="nofollow">iflashvideo.com</a>.</p>
<p>Some really big name marketers use him and I recommend it highly.</p>
<p>Thanks again Jason,</p>
<p>David</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jason Anderson</title>
		<link>http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/online-success/business-models-info-products/comment-page-1#comment-1043</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason Anderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/?p=308#comment-1043</guid>
		<description>Excellent post David.

The VERY first dollar I made online was from an information product.  I did it completely wrong too...and still made money at it.

It all stemmed from my own curiosity of how to create a Favicon for websites.

I did a bunch of research simply by looking online.  I took a bunch of notes, copied all the notes into a file so I could have my OWN step by step process on how to create favicons and...presto...I had my first draft already made up.

Now, all that information was readily available on the internet but it took about 2 weeks to gather all that info and put it all together in a comprehensive guide.

Even though I didn&#039;t do any &quot;research&quot;, it occurred to me, out of common sense that if I was interested in &quot;how to make a favicon&quot; others would be too.  That&#039;s when I decided to take all that information I collected from my own research and put it all together in a sensible manner so I could sell the report &quot;Favicons Made EZ&quot;.

So, the whole point to all this is....

Even though all this information can be attained for &quot;free&quot; by doing your own research...it takes time.  If you do all the research and put it together in a comprehensive guide, it&#039;s easily sellable because you are saving your customer the time and aggravation to look up and experiment with the same things you did.

So, if you think to yourself &quot;why would someone buy this product when they can research it themselves&quot;...you have actually answered your own question.  It&#039;s because you have already done the work.  With your info product, you can show someone the expertise they are looking for in a matter of minutes.  Like my example about Favicons.  Sure, you can figure it out on your own like I did.  Or for a few bucks, you can just buy the information an immediately put it to work.

Think about all the stuff you&#039;ve researched online out of pure curiosity.  Now think about how many other people may have the same curiosity.  Since you are researching it anyway, why not take all your notes and put it together in a pretty package so you can sell it and get paid for your time?

It may not be a best seller, but it you market it correctly and attract the people who are curious...well...you just might make a sale or two.

Good luck everybody!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent post David.</p>
<p>The VERY first dollar I made online was from an information product.  I did it completely wrong too&#8230;and still made money at it.</p>
<p>It all stemmed from my own curiosity of how to create a Favicon for websites.</p>
<p>I did a bunch of research simply by looking online.  I took a bunch of notes, copied all the notes into a file so I could have my OWN step by step process on how to create favicons and&#8230;presto&#8230;I had my first draft already made up.</p>
<p>Now, all that information was readily available on the internet but it took about 2 weeks to gather all that info and put it all together in a comprehensive guide.</p>
<p>Even though I didn&#8217;t do any &#8220;research&#8221;, it occurred to me, out of common sense that if I was interested in &#8220;how to make a favicon&#8221; others would be too.  That&#8217;s when I decided to take all that information I collected from my own research and put it all together in a sensible manner so I could sell the report &#8220;Favicons Made EZ&#8221;.</p>
<p>So, the whole point to all this is&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even though all this information can be attained for &#8220;free&#8221; by doing your own research&#8230;it takes time.  If you do all the research and put it together in a comprehensive guide, it&#8217;s easily sellable because you are saving your customer the time and aggravation to look up and experiment with the same things you did.</p>
<p>So, if you think to yourself &#8220;why would someone buy this product when they can research it themselves&#8221;&#8230;you have actually answered your own question.  It&#8217;s because you have already done the work.  With your info product, you can show someone the expertise they are looking for in a matter of minutes.  Like my example about Favicons.  Sure, you can figure it out on your own like I did.  Or for a few bucks, you can just buy the information an immediately put it to work.</p>
<p>Think about all the stuff you&#8217;ve researched online out of pure curiosity.  Now think about how many other people may have the same curiosity.  Since you are researching it anyway, why not take all your notes and put it together in a pretty package so you can sell it and get paid for your time?</p>
<p>It may not be a best seller, but it you market it correctly and attract the people who are curious&#8230;well&#8230;you just might make a sale or two.</p>
<p>Good luck everybody!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
