Info Cash Exposed

How to access creative ideas

2010-08-17T03:26:00.000-07:00

Great achievements are product of well-constructed ideas.
The Wright brothers had a brilliant idea about flying object, even when people doubted the ability of object flying.
It took them years of tireless and determined effort to actualize that brilliant idea.
People only see the end product of Ideas, but their eyes never look deep into the ideas behind the product.
The question now comes to mind.
How do ideas come about?
There are various sources of ideas, ranging from the most simple to the most complicated source:
INSPIRATION
Ideas come from inspiration.
One moment of inspiration can give birth to a powerful ideas.
The human brain has the capacity to store all the knowledge and Information that has been released since the creation of man.
The human mind is unlimited in its capacity to achieve greatness.
Be inspired in whatever you do, and fresh ideas will begin to flow continually
BOOKS
There are countless numbers of books, which have been written to expand the capacity of the human mind.
These books are sometimes termed motivational books.
They are a great source of ideas.
Ranging from Finance, Marriage, Business, Education…
The greatest of these books is the Bible.
It contains word of wisdom and parables that can trigger the spontaneous production of ideas.
MENTORS
Seek to spend more time with people who are heading in the same direction as you are, and you will be amazed with the abundance of ideas that can come your way.
A mentor is like a role model, someone who has already achieved.
Watching and been with them can bring about new ideas on a daily basis.
GOD
The almighty God is the God of ideas.
The more we are closer to God, the more He pours more ideas into our life.
If we take a statistic of great inventors, we would discover one similarity.
Majority of them had a close relationship with God.
In the midst of your meditation, the Almighty God can drop a million Dollar ideas into your heart.
There are other sources of ideas, like attending seminar/ training programs, going out to see what people need, meeting with business owners and researching the internet through dedicated websites where ideas are shared on a daily basis.
Some online sources of ideas include:
www.43things.com
www.scribd.com
www.nicheaday.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.grelohi.com

As you utilize these sources of ideas, you will be amazed with the tremendous result you will come up with.
Never despise those small ideas that always come into your heart.
It may lead to something bigger

7 Creative ways of getting new Information Product Ideas

2010-06-08T17:27:00.000-07:00

Getting the right product is the key to make money both online and offline.
The question many entrepreneurs normally ask is “how does one get new product ideas”?
Below is a list of some ways through which one can get fresh and new ideas.

1. Improve a product that is already on the market.
You see products at home, in ads, at stores etc. Just
take a product that's already out there and improve it.

2. Create a new niche for a current product. You can
set yourself apart from your competition by creating a
niche. Your product could be faster, bigger, smaller,
or quicker than you competitor's product.

3. Add on to an existing product. You could package
your current product with other related products. For
example, you could package a football with a team
jersey and football cards.

4. Reincarnate an older product. Maybe you have a
book that's out of print and is no longer being sold.
You could change the title, design a new front cover,
and bring some of the old content up to date.

5. Ask your current customers. You could contact
some of your existing customers by phone or e-mail
and ask them what kind of new products they would
like to see on the market.

6. Combine two or more products together to create
a new one. For example, you could take a brief case
and add a thermos compartment inside to keep a
drink hot or cold.

7. Survey the people who visit your web site. You
could post a survey or questionnaire on your web site.
Ask visitors what kind of products they would like to
see on the market.

Coming Up with Info Product Ideas by Laura

2010-02-28T16:25:00.000-08:00

A lot of people these days have been hearing the buzz about ‘niche marketing’. Specifically writing information products for niche markets. And they’re struggling for ideas on how to become the next info-product millionaire.

Why? We’ve been told by many that selling information products online is the newest, fastest way to get rich quick.

If you’re on a high about this, I don’t mean to burst your bubble.

Just ask any highly paid online entrepreneur and they will tell you:

* It isn’t ‘easy street’.
* It isn’t for everybody.
* It doesn’t happen overnight.

Yes, you can enjoy decent success relatively quickly.

You will get very excited when you make your first sale.

You will jump for joy when you get up on Saturday morning and discover you made a cool $300 in your sleep.

And you’ll dream of the day when you can lose the suits and the commutes.

Getting to the day of that first online sale is an uphill battle for many and for many reasons.

One is self sabotage.

I recently read a book by Dr. Joe Vitale and Dr. Larina Kase titled “How to End Self Sabotage“.

I don’t even really know why it intrigued me enough to want to read it. I personally didn’t think I needed something like this, or that I even needed to be aware of self-sabotage.

I even asked a few of my friends “Do you think I block myself to the higher possibilities to my life?”

Each one of them laughed and said I was the most determined, hard working person they knew. (Now that title doesn’t really mean as much as you’d think – we live in a community of under 500.)

Perhaps my inner self was trying to tell me something. Because I did read it. Twice!

You know what? Head over to that site right now because there is a free quiz. See if your ‘inner self’ is trying to tell you something. Let me know (leave a comment to this post) how the quiz, and the page, ’spoke’ to you.

How to End Self Sabotage speaks mainly to the aspiring ebook author, but we self-sabotage unconsciously in many areas of our lives! Love, family, career – and applying the knowledge of this book will help all areas of your life. When you’re on the page, click through to check out the price. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

I’ve digressed off topic here, but tomorrow I’ll be back with some Idea Kickstarts on coming up with great ideas for the information product creators out there.

Mutual Fund Investment

2010-02-21T12:59:00.000-08:00

Mutual funds have grown in popularity over the last few years to the point where it’s harder to find an investor who is not using mutual funds than one who is. The popularity of mutual funds is no surprise when you consider that they are one of the easiest investments to use and require very little knowledge of the financial markets. There are 4 main advantages that mutual funds offer every investor, as you will learn in this article.

The first advantage of mutual fund investing it that mutual funds offer professional management of your investment dollars. Mutual funds are run by fund managers, who are essentially watching over your investment daily. There is almost no other place where you get that kind of investment management without paying huge management fees.

The second advantage of mutual fund investing is that mutual funds are extremely liquid. Any investor can sell his shares in a mutual fund any day that the stock market is open. Compare that to investing in real estate, CDs or even stocks that have low trading volume which can takes weeks to months to liquidate your stake. The liquidity of mutual funds gives any investor the ability to get out of the investment quickly if needed.

The third advantage of mutual funds is the diversification that they offer. Mutual funds invest in tens or even hundreds of different stocks, bonds or money markets. Trying to duplicate this type of diversification in your own portfolio would result in very high trading fees, not to mention huge headaches from tying to monitor hundreds of stock positions. This leads us into the fourth advantage of mutual funds, lower fees.

Mutual funds have very low fees due to their ability to take advantage of economies of scale. Since mutual funds are pooling the investment dollars of so many investors they can buy stocks in larger quantities which leads to lower fees for mutual funds investors. Numerous mutual funds have fees that are under 2 or 3%.

Mutual funds are growing at a feverish pace as more and more investors put their money in them. But considering the great advantages that mutual funds offer the average investor all the way up to guy with the multi-million dollar portfolio, it’s really no surprise.

A New Way To Get Rich

2010-02-21T12:51:00.000-08:00

This new way is catching on around the world. People are compounding money rapidly for themselves.

Its called "opportunity investment" and it has nothing to do with the traditional way to invest. Stocks, bonds, shares etc.

This is hands on. The entire premise is based on compounding and becoming the "investor source"

You see when we hand over our funds to "professionals" to invest our capital we dilute our returns dramatically. It makes sense if you think about it. They have no interest or incentive to manufacture returns any better then maybe 10% if you are lucky.

"Opportunity Investment" is a term that describes the process of taking responsibility for your own funds. Thereby becoming your own "investor source" What that means is that you determine by your daily actions and decisions, what your returns will be. I have managed over 2500% per year and it was easy. Starting with just $100 and on a whim, I compounded that in to $1 million dollars within 27 months

I discovered this 5 years ago. There is a book written by a guy who pioneered this formula and lives the results every day. Hayden Muller. The book is called "The inside trade secrets to an ethical opportunity investor"

The idea is to identify "investment objects" that are endowed with "excess intrinsic value" By recognizing profit where others do not we put ourselves in the position to access this unseen stored portable value and transform it into profits which we pyramid and compound into a rapid fortune.

Its my opinion that this is not new at all. I believe, this is the narrow path that all "high net worth individuals" discovered for themselves. What is novel and new is the way its packaged as a book and disclosed freely to all who choose to recognize its worth.

I am so impressed with it, as were my associates, that we invested in an online resource to share with the many who already compound their wealth rapidly and certainly day by day. (There's a link to the site below if you wish to learn more)

There's revolution in the air. Ordinary people are daring to reach for their first million and taking it. Millions are not content to work their whole lives, then retire then die. They express it by their actions. They are living in large comfortable homes. They are sending their children to good schools, driving nice cars and living the life they choose today not tomorrow.

We are part of that paradigm shift and we fan the flames with knowledge. Wealth education need not be complicated. Your wealth education could be a lot simpler and direct if you choose it to be. Simpler is always better, and opportunity investment is the bare bones. The structure is robust and direct. Take it and earn like the many who already do.

How Anyone Can Make Money Online with Affiliate Marketing

2009-03-19T23:01:00.000-07:00

Despite the fact that there are so many people out there trying, it is still possible to make money on the internet. While there is definitely a lot of competition out there, it’s not so much that you can’t stand out and succeed. One of the greatest advantages of the vastness of the internet is that there’s enough room out there for all of us.

Another common misconception is that you need to already be experienced in online business if you actually want to start making money. Think about how ridiculous that is for a second. Every person who is right now making money online was, at one point, a newbie. Everybody has to start somewhere.

You just need to make sure that you’re going about it in the right way. Everybody can make a profit on the internet, but what you choose to start with will decide how long it takes you to start making money.

For me, this meant starting out trying to make money online with affiliate marketing. When I first decided to try my hand at internet marketing, you name it, I considered it: online retail, surveys, blogging. I ultimately decided that affiliate marketing was the way to go if I wanted to start to make money right away.

Now, I’m not saying that I made a fortune right from the start, but I felt that, by going with affiliate marketing, I had the biggest chance of running in the black right from the start. No matter how small my profits were, it was better than losing money!

And I also looked at it from this perspective: I was gaining more than my small profits; I was gaining experience in how to make money online.

The first big decision I had to make was what kind of niche to focus on. I could either go for what people call a “virgin niche” or a niche that hid not been discovered or exploited, or a popular niche, where there are lots of buyers, but also a lot of competition. With a virgin niche, I would not have a lot of competition, but there also might not be a lot of potential customers; with a popular niche, I’d have lots of customers, but also lots of other businesses competing for their eyeballs.

After careful consideration, I decided to go for the popular niche. And I soon began to see results, even with the hundreds or maybe thousands of other affiliate marketers that I was competing against. Because you have to remember that even though there may be thousand of people competing for sales, not all of these sites are created equal.

What I did that helped me to make money with affiliate marketing, even in a popular niche, is that I went in prepared. I researched and found a system that I knew was proven to help people succeed in affiliate marketing. I used the system and learned from their experiences which kept me from making a lot of the same mistakes when I was starting out.

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There are a lot of systems out there; some work better than others. Some don’t work at all, and it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes. So I’ve done the work for you, looking into all of these affiliate marketing guides. And this is what I’ve found: that there’s only one guide that shows you how to make money online with no previous experience. The others just show you how they’re making money online (namely, by getting you to buy their guide.)

So, with all the work done for you, what else are you waiting for? I’ve tried and tested these guides so you don’t have to. Read my review of what I feel is the best product out there; make all my hard work save you time and money. Because who doesn’t want to make money online? Go to www.portalfeeder.com for more information.

WINNING STRATEGIES IN TIMES OF DEPRESSION

2009-03-14T04:35:00.000-07:00

Your worst enemy is thinking that you don’t matter, that there is nothing you can do that makes a difference. This thought shuts off your mind and suffocates your soul. Thinking your life doesn’t have meaning or that you don’t mean anything is when something begins to die in you. Here is the truth. Everything you do matter. Everything you cause to happen matters. Everything you are matters. Yes, you matter!
In these days of great economic depression, so many have lost hope in the country and in their ability.

Jobs are been lost daily, and faint hearted individual are committing suicide!
It may seem gloomy and depressing, but it’s not yet over.
There is always a way out to every problem that confront man.
I have outlined some workable strategies which can bring result to the average individual in the midst of the gloom we have found ourselves.
1. Self esteem – know that you matter.
2. Make a difference – find where you can make a contribution. The best way to help self
is to help another.
3. Laughter – learn to laugh. Five minutes of laughter a day easily adds five years to your
life.
4. Create a screen saver saying: “This too shall pass.”
5. Self insight – understand your patterns, energy cycles, psychology and what helps you
move to action.
6. Growth – what can you now learn? What new skills can you acquire?
7. Adventure – what are some things you always wanted to do or visit but never found the
time or never given yourself permission to explore?
8. Discipline – develop practices and rituals to help you engage in specific activities
needed to progress towards your goals.
9. Living on purpose - have a broader context for your journey. What are you here for?
What lessons are you here to learn? How are you making this world a better place?
10. Father small successes every day. Call them over. Make them important. Move to win
your next new success.

Time is the ultimate scarcity for anyone and during these tough times it is easy to get carried away and spend time mourning over things we don't have control of - leading to NOT becoming productive to ourselves, our community and our Nation.

SEIZE THE SMALL OPPORTUNITY

2009-03-12T12:33:00.000-07:00

Majority of people never achieve true success and fortune, because they always wait for the big opportunity, which never comes.
The world is filled to the brim with abundant opportunities.
It however takes the binoculars of God to see these opportunities.
I am going to illustrate the above statement with a thought provoking story.
Two friends once visited India on vacation.
While there, they saw lots of people walking on bare feet.
One said to the other, “See the level of poverty!” But the other saw a shoe factory.
He returned home and began designing shoes, and not only established a shoe factory, which made him a multi-millionaire.
All he did was to package these beautifully designed shoes and export them to India
The market already existed, and it didn’t take long before he made his millions.
Some see obstacles, while others see opportunities.
Never wait for that big break, because it may never come.
Build from what you know and love and begin to niche your way to success.
That reminds me of a lady who just lost the beloved husband.
She was so devastated, that she didn’t know what to do to fend for the four kids the husband left behind.
She quickly summoned courage and decided to see the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa for counseling. The Archbishop looked at her and asked her a simple question:
“What do you know how to do best”?
She took some time to think about the question, before answering- “I know how to fry beans cake (Akara)”.
The Archbishop then went ahead to ask if she had enough money to start the business.
She replied revealed to the Archbishop that she had only N100 with her.
The Archbishop then went ahead to pray with her asking that God would in his infinite mercy grant her wisdom to go about the business.
The lady stood up from the Archbishop office with renewed hope and determination burning in her heart.
She used the N100 including N2000 that was raised on her behalf in the church, to buy a bag of beans, tin of groundnut oil and some quantity of Cray fish.
All she did was to fry the beans cake and insert the Cray fish inside.
It was a unique innovation, and people began patronizing her.
In less than three years, she became financially independent, and was able to sponsor her children through the university.
From the small and humble beginning, she eventually became a blessing to others in her extended family.
She never despised the seed God dropped in her heart when her husband died.
The fact remains that no idea is too small to be ignored.
Some fellows who would have made it in life, failed woefully because of pride.
They find it extremely difficult to condescend so low to do that small business.
You can make a surprising amount of money from a very small but focused idea, even if others tell you there is no market!

We expose ourselves to failure when we foolishly wait for the right opportunity or condition to come before venturing to make a move.
There is no guarantee that your life will get better with time; you must take tangible steps to ensure it.
The passing of time does not guarantee the improvement of life, but only what is done in the passing time that does. If you refuse to do anything to improve your circumstances, you will be where you are today in the next four years.
You must stop dreaming and start doing.
When you see an opportunity, leap on it.
Life will present to you, many opportunity in the most unusual places.
Gone are the days when you wait for the ship to berth.
You got to swim into the water and jump into the ship.
H.I. Hunt, the great American oil Magnet, was once asked the secret of his success.
He replied: “success requires two things only. First, you must know exactly what you want. Unfortunately, most people never make this decision.
If God should ask the more than 120 million Nigerians, about what they want in life, more than 95% will ask for physical things.
Physical things are good, but they are not the ultimate.
Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Patience, Focus… are the things that can stand the test of time, and ultimately produce wealth.
If you are wise, wealth will come naturally, as long as you are hardworking.
Second, you must determine the price that you will have to pay to achieve it and then get busy paying the price”.
This unfortunately is a no go area for people in this modern era.
Every individual desires the crown and not the cross.
Athletes use drugs to cheat their way to fame and stardom and end up been disgraced, instead of sweating their way to the top.
It is even more embarrassing when one consider the attitude of our future leader, who prefer to be served, rather than serve others.
They cannot sacrifice their time, money or even knowledge for the good of others, but prefer to squander the wealth of the nation and use others to get to their evil end.
Every harvest is a product of seed, so never you despise that small opportunity, as it may open doors of bigger opportunity for you.

wealth secrets unveiled

2008-11-18T03:07:00.000-08:00

The Rules for accumulating wealth are
simple and to the point. In fact, it is so simple that most
people who read them either dismiss them as sweeping
generalities or falsely believe they have known and used them
most of their lives... but these people are probably not rich.
So while these guidelines may lack romance or an obvious
direction, be assured that they are the genuine article. Apply
them as soon and as often as you can, and apply them with
intelligence and creativity.

Rule No. 1: To acquire wealth today, you must be in your own
business.

You may think that the corporate executive with a fat
salary is better off than small shop owner, but the executive
will be hard-pressed to double his income and taxes will eat up
most of any increase. The simplest peanut vendor has unlimited
opportunity to expand his business and his income, and even
salesmen, who in most cases are able to write their own
paychecks, can control his sale increases himself.

Rule No. 2: You must have a working knowledge of the business
when you start and continue to increase your knowledge of it as
you go along.

If you don't know what you're doing when you start, your
mistakes will be costly and often unnecessary, and you won't be
able to keep up with the changing trends in any field.
Start smart and stay that way.

Rule No. 3: You must save money in your personal life and in
Your business ventures as well.

Discipline is the key to saving money. You must develop the
will power to deny yourself immediate gratification or the
temptation to eat the goose that lays the golden egg.
Resources will be needed for expansion and should be guarded carefully.

Rule No. 4:You must take risks, both with your own money or
with borrowed money.

Risk-taking is essential to business
growth. Somerset Maughan said : “ you can do anything in this world
if you are prepared to take the consequence”.
Some of the richest men have staked their entire fortunes
and lost, several times over, before the risk-taking paid off.
Back those risks with good judgment, experience, commitment, and
the right support. Seek advice on risks from the wealthy who
still take risks.

Rule No. 5:You must not only learn to live with tension, you
must seek it out.

Thrive on stress! If it means getting physically fit, having a
psychiatric overall or losing 20Kg before you can handle
it, do it. Once you can learn to thrive on stress, you will not
only enjoy it, you will seek it out willingly and
enthusiastically and wonder how you could live any other way.
Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to
play. Consider it serious business and you will suffer far more
stress than you need or want. Keep your perspective or your
stress level will rocket beyond your control.

Rule No. 6: Build wealth as a by-product of your business
success.

If wealth is your only goal in business, you will probably
fail. Wealth is only a benefit of the game. If you win, the
money will be there. If you lose, and you will from time to time
if you play long and hard enough, it must have been fun or it
was not worth it.

Rule No. 7. Patience.

This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to
make your moves. Let your business grow naturally, not by
pressing your luck.
Unfortunately, lots of individuals lack this vital quality.
Some individual tend to behave like the fellow, who after
Planting a seed, came back one week later to discover that
The seed had not germinated.
In his impatience, he dug the spot where he planted the seed,
Trying to find out if the seed was still alive, and ended up
Uprooting the precious seed.
That was the end of the seed, as it died prematurely.

Rules No. 8: Diversify at the top.

Once you've made it, you'll understand that any business is
limited in the challenges it offers. You'll want and need other
games to play, so you'll look for other ventures to hold your
interest.
Big time business owners, have been noted to be involved in
diverse business concerns.
It is a case of not placing all your eggs in one basket.

how to create wealth

2008-11-08T01:48:00.000-08:00

Research carried out more than two years ago in the United States of America, showed that more than one hundred billionaires were been made yearly.
80% of these billionaires were business owners!
The above statistics simply points to one fact: you can never be truly wealthy working for someone else.
The best way to secure your future, is to own a business of your own.
Wealth creation starts from the inside of an individual.
It is a function of the mind.
Whatever you think on your inside will manifest outside.
To be a wealth creator, you must have achievable goals and dream big.
Creating a product or service will enhance your wealth creation profile.
You may want to ask, where do I start?
You must start from with what you have!
Never you despise your gift or talent. “A man’s gift will always make a way for him”
Five ways of getting Wealthy
· Through Inheritance
It is common for individuals to inherit their parent’s wealth, after their demise.
The danger of acquiring this type of wealth however, is that such wealth can be spent carelessly, since the individual didn’t labor for it.
· Working for others
One may be lucky to get a job with the federal, state or local government.
It may even be a private establishment.
The above facts do not however count toward your goal in creating wealth, because you only end up enriching those you are working for.
· Stealing or Cheating People
Lot’s of lazy folks follow this ignoble path, and end up becoming wealthy.
The problem though, is that they never get to enjoy such ill gotten wealth.
Any wealth acquired through dubious means only bring sorrow and pain to the individuals who acquired them.
· Invest in Various Business Opportunities
Investment makes money works for you.
Your money multiplies when you invest it.
You must however put into consideration, what the various returns on investment can give you when making your investment decisions.
Before embarking on any business investment, you must consult a professional and update yourself in the area you wish to invest in.
If you don’t have a long-term investment strategy in place, you may fall into the money trap.
What are the various investment opportunities available to the average entrepreneurs?
They are lots of opportunities in the investment world for one to choose from:
¨ Global stock
¨Government bonds
¨Mutual funds
¨Common stocks
¨Treasury bills
¨Oil and Gas
¨Housing and real estate
¨Gold/Silver
Investing in business opportunities is one of the safest ways of creating wealth.
Remember to always monitor your investment.

· Starting Your own profitable business
This is one of the surest ways of creating wealth.
You must however find a business to start, by identifying people’s need.
Do a little research by finding out those who are already selling similar products or offering the kind of service.
Find out why people are buying their product.
Find out how much they are selling.
After finding out the above facts, you then go ahead to source fund for your business.
This can be achieved by
>> Getting loans from friends and relatives
>>Getting loans from banks
>>Personal savings

The issue of the type of business (sole proprietorship, partnersip, limited liability), must have been settled before now.
On a final note, you must seek advice before you register your business.

ROAD SIGN ON YOUR WAY TO CREATE WEALTH
¨ Learn to handle frustration
¨ Be passionate about wealth creation
Passion + Profitability=Wealth
¨ Handle rejection
¨ Be focused and creative
¨ Give more than what you expect to receive
¨ Continually update yourself with current trend

In closing, I would love to share this thought provoking story.
Two friends Visited India on vacation.
While there, they saw lots of people walking on bare feet.
One said to the other, “See the level of poverty!” But the other saw a shoe factory.
He returned home and began designing shoes, and not only established a shoe factory, which made him a multi-millionaire.

Turning your Knowledge into cash

2008-10-17T04:36:00.002-07:00

The thirst for new knowledge is a driving force for many intellectual markets these days. Knowledge is big business and you can capitalize on that business by turning your own experiences, training, knowledge, and know-how into a passive-income product that can serve as another stream of income. What kind of product you ask? Well, a book of course. Everyone has at least one book in them and those of us with more experience can have 5, 10, 20, or more.

Why Write a Book?

There is no right answer to this question, simply because it is different for each person. Some people want just the satisfaction of seeing their words in print. Others like the challenge of producing something they created themselves. I see my writing as both personally-satisfying and also serious business. Sure, I like to see my name in print, but when I’m holding a book in my hands, I’m holding a product that I created with my own two hands and my head and I want it to generate cash flow for me.

Words + ideas = $$$

I used to say: words + ideas + paper = $$$, but with the advent of eBooks, the paper factor has been eliminated. Realize that each and every person goes through life with their own unique perspectives and ideas. No two people ever see things exactly the same way. This is what makes your own knowledge and experience a valuable commodity because even though every topic imaginable has already been written about by numerous authors, none of them see the situation as you do and your unique twist to that same issue makes it valuable to others.

What to Write About

You tell me. Most of us go to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. With that much invested time, we should be good at something right? Do you have a passion or a hobby, or maybe a sport that you excel at? Trust me, you have more information inside that brain of yours than you would like to admit. The trick is to put it on paper and in an organized way that people will find appealing.

How to Get Published

My advice is to forget about going with a traditional publisher. Their snotty approach to new authors, coupled with lots of red tape is a headache that you don’t need. Even if you do get a contract with them, the check you’ll get upfront as a newbie author will be next to nothing and it could be a year before you ever see your script in book form. Instead, self-publish your book through a print-on-demand company. Now, you won’t get the respect in the industry that a traditional publishing house can deliver, but for the average Joe out there—they could care less and realize that you can use the shoulders of your previous book to launch your next one. Just make sure your book is high-quality and invest to have it professional edited and designed.

Selling Your Book

Whether you go with a traditional publisher or you self-publish, its up to you to switch from your writer’s cap to your business cap. You are going to have to promote and sell your book, which means people have to know that you wrote a book in the first place and they need to know where they can go to purchase that book. The best option for you to do is to have a website built that either can take orders direct, or send your customers to sites like Amazon.com to purchase your book. Aggressively promote your book by writing articles, letters to editors, getting on the phone, and marketing your book. Remember that it is an investment and it’s up to you to cash in on that investment.

Tristan Loo is the founder of Alternative Conflict Resolution Services, a management consultancy based out of San Diego County, Calfornia. Tristan is a former police officer, conflict expert, professional mediator, and negotiator. Tristan gained his experience by actively engaging conflict out on the streets, honing his knowledge and understanding of conflict during hundreds of dangerous encounters with hostile and violent subjects. Tristan is the author of Street Negotiation--How to Resolve Any Conflict Anytime.

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Turning your Knowledge into cash

2008-10-17T04:36:00.001-07:00

Making fortune online as an information marketer

2008-10-17T04:17:00.000-07:00

Discover ways to make money online selling information -- even if you don't have your own product!

If you're looking for ways to make money online selling information -- but don't have the time or money to develop your own product -- consider buying the reprint or resale rights to someone else's.

Basically, you purchase the right to sell an already established product. And depending on the type of rights you purchase, you keep either a percentage of the sales or all of the proceeds.

In the best-case scenario, you can even purchase a master license -- which gives you the right to sell the purchasing rights to other people!

Selling information to make money online is extremely easy when you buy the rights for an already established product. Not only do you capitalize on the good name of the author, but you don't have to spend any time developing your own product!

Let's take a look at the three types of rights you can buy to make money online with information:

* Resell rights. When you purchase resell rights, what you're actually purchasing is the right to sell a product for someone else -- a product that they continue to own.

Because you don't actually have control over the product, you keep only a percentage of each sale as your commission.

* Reprint rights. Reprint rights cost more than resell rights, because you keep 100% of the proceeds from any sales! You can also make as many copies of the product as you wish, and sell as many as you can.

* Master rights. Master rights are the most valuable of the three, and therefore are the most expensive.

As with reprint rights, you have permission to reproduce and sell the product for 100% of the profit. But you're ALSO allowed to sell the actual reprint rights to the product to other people!

So even though they cost more, you automatically start out with two separate streams of income — sales of the product and sales of the rights.

The majority of products that carry rights on the Internet right now are information-based products. So it's the perfect time to make money online with information by buying reprint rights.

Here are just some of the ways to make money online selling information products:

* eBooks. eBooks are the most popular, so you can usually find eBooks that are suitable to resell to your market -- no matter who your audience is.

* Email courses. An email course is often delivered in smaller pieces over a course of days or weeks -- and as the name suggests, you email it to the customer, rather than sending them to a website where they download it.

* E-zine articles. You can frequently buy individual articles to use as content for your own e-zine. This is a good choice if you want to deliver an e-zine to your audience, but don't have the time (or desire) to write it yourself.

As you can see, selling information to make money online is quick and easy when you purchase the rights to sell an established product.
It is important that you create an information product which you can sell profitably online.
WHY SHOULD YOU CREATE AN INFORMATION PRODUCT?
There are two major reasons why you must create an information product
1. Information is a hot product!
It is in your best interest to market information products such as books, manual, special reports, audiotapes, and e-books
2. It is easy to charge money for knowledge that will make life easier or more comfortable for others.
Lots of people will readily part with their hard earn income for information that will bring them lasting comfort.
In creating an information product, you must concentrate on the major issues, not on minor issues.
Avoid worries over little things. Information product can be packaged in form of infomercial. Infomercial is a T.V advert, which does not take up to 20 minutes to sell the product. It has to do with before and after effect of using a particular product. One can also package Hard to find information product in Newsletter, either in hard copy version, or electronically in website.
Writing an information product should not scare you. An information product is simply a collection of instructions on how to do something. It is fairly simple to write and package. You just start getting down everything you can think of on how to do a specific skill.
Make sure all your notes are in one place and pretty soon you’ll have enough information to package other in book format, Audiotape, CD-Rom or manual.
The main thing is to simply start recording either on paper or on tape every tip you can think of that someone would need to know to be able to do the skill you are trying to teach.
SUPER TIP
You must record your thoughts and tips immediately you think of them. if you don’t, you may never recall what you wanted to write down.
The above tip is for “hard” product and “soft” or downloadable products.
AUDIO TAPE
If you are packaging your info product on audiotape, you will be please to know that the spoken voice is the easiest thing to record. You don’t have to go to a studio and you don’t have to add music. You can record your info product using a small portable tape recorder. You can also record and edit your voce easily with your home computer.
DUPLICATION
You can get a duplicating machine that can make three copies of an hour-long cassette tape and rewind them in three minutes
COMPACT DISC (CD-ROM)
It is pretty to make informational product on CD as long as you have a CD burner. A CD burner is simply a CD player that also has the capacity to to record. You can make lots of money from CD products cost of production can be as low as N250 ($2), which can then be sold for as high as N20, 000
($170). It is very essential that you get a CD burner. To produce the CD’S you get to have software that interfaces with the CD burner. You drag the file you want on the CD from one window to the burn window and hit “Create CD” A wizard pops up that leads you through the process and in a few minutes your CD is ready.
Record able Cd’s are cheap to find. . A CD holds about 100 megabytes so you have plenty of storage available.
MANUALS
Information products can also be packaged into manuals. It is similar to a user Guide/manual, that illustrate how a particular appliance or product functions
A manual simply illustrates the procedure, the method and steps used to accomplish a particular task. One can package a manual on production of cosmetics, food and Chemical products. There are Thousands of untapped information yearning to be exploited and convert to raw cash. Manuals are normally produced using Microsoft Office Word.
VIDEO COMPACT DISC
There is a popular adage that says, “seeing is believing” there is power in sight or vision. When people see what you are offering or talking about concerning a particular product, they tend to not only believe, but also accept the product. All one needs in producing a good info product on video, is a fairly good digital video camera. Duplicating the info product on video is fairly cheap and easy. Having gone through the various medium through which information products can be packaged, one is now left with the choice of selecting the best medium in packaging one’s product. One powerful truth each infoprenuer must take note of however is that packaging sells more than the product.

Hot Tips on How to become a motivational speaker

2008-10-17T04:07:00.000-07:00

If you are a professional speaker, you are not in the speaking business! You are in the business of marketing your speaking services. Your talent or message will only take you so far but when you learn to become a top notch marketer, your public speaking business will go through the roof!

Early in my motivational speaking career, I would see mediocre speakers get public speaking jobs that even I couldn't obtain. Worse yet, I would see these speakers get job after job while I knew I was a better speaker!

Looking back, I laugh at my frustration, because while I may have been a decent speaker, I couldn't figure out how to get bookings for motivational speaking and was not making nearly the money other speakers were making. I started to wonder what these other guys were doing that John and I weren't. I've now made the shift: I make a ton of money in my motivational speaking career not because I'm a great speaker, but because I am a great marketer. Here are some tips to help you do just that.

1) Don't Fill Your Ego, Fill Your Bank Account. The first thing to remember when starting a motivational speaking business is to fill your bank account instead of filling your ego. Have the mindset to go after jobs that put money in your pocket instead of focusing on fame and stardom. Remember to always do what is profitable before you do what is exciting.

2) Teach people how to give you money. Conference planners aren't sitting around thinking how they can get you rich. Their whole goal is to put on an amazing conference or seminar and I can guarantee you that they aren't focused on putting money in your pocket. For that very reason, you should teach people how to give you money. Pre-sell your book and show the conference planner how they can give the book for free by including the price of it in the registration fee. Learn to offer pre-sell merchandise and back of the room merchandise. Never be afraid to go after the big money.

3) One idea can make all the difference. If you're wondering how to make money in the motivational speaking industry, know that one idea is all you really need to get started. Do different things to help you generate the ideas you need and then be prepared to take action on them.

4) Never stop learning. In fact what I help you do is learn multiple proven, time-tested formulas that will attract unlimited and continuous wealth so that you can live stress free and live exactly how you want to live each and every day. You want to work smart, but you also want to work right. You want to learn to use strategies that work instead of trying to work with get-rich-quick schemes that end up disastrously.

5) Market. Market. Market. If no one knows you about you, then they can't give you a motivational speaking job. As simplistic as this concept sounds, I often find people who claim to never advertise or dip into vain self-promotion. I don't think self-promotion is vain. In fact, I think not marketing yourself is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

With these motivational speaking tips applied in your public speaking career, your business will reach the public speaking success you've always desired. Use these tips today.

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INTERNET MARKETING SECRETS

2008-09-26T08:48:00.000-07:00

Marketing is marketing whether it is online or offline. Marketing skill is easily acquired. First of all, you need to recognize the fact, that you need it. Secondly, begin to acquire materials toward it.
Internet Marketing is the process of reaching a prospect, getting them to pay attention to your offer, and ultimately buy from you through the Internet.
There are three (3) steps involved
1. Reaching out the prospect
2. Getting the prospect to pay attention to your offer
3. Purchase from you.
Let us proceed to look at some marketing wisdom.
WISDOM *1
“Without marketing, there could be no sales and without sales, there is no business”
WISDOM * 2
“Without a quality product, marketing is doomed to fail”
WISDOM * 3
“Never sell anything you have not used”
WISDOM * 4
It is okay to satisfy a need but make sure what you are selling is something you prospect want!
A proper understanding of these wisdom tips, will give every info premier an edge over other colleagues.
Next, let us examine the five (5) components of a good product.
1. It must satisfy a need (That need must be a want)
2. It must be offered at a customer friendly price.
3. It must be readily available
4. It must be of a high quality and of a high-perceived value
5. It must be easy to use
In creating a product for marketing one need to study human behavior ray closely, especially their desire.
The question you will then ask yourself is this: What do human beings desire?
1. They desire to sore time (fast food secret)
2. They desire to sore money (satchel product secret)
3. They desire to live longer
4. They desire to look beautiful
Products and Services have been created in the above five (5) desires of human beings.
EFFECTIVE TOOLS FOR INTERNET MARKETING
1. Advertising
2. Email
3. Promotions
4. Public relations
5. Press Release
6. Word-of-mouth

COMPETITION
What does Competition mean in the Market place?
To compete is to ………engage in a RIVALRY with another.
If you don’t have enough shares in the market, you cannot survive. As an Internet Marketer, you must recognize your would be or existing competitors.
Note: Everyone satisfy the same needs of your customers is your competitor… Hence there is (a) Direct and (b) Indirect Competitor
DIRECT COMPETITOR
Offering the same product or Service to your customer.
INDIRECT COMPETITOR
He is offering your customers something different that satisfies the same need.
One important area every prospective Marketer must note, is the difference between attacking and defensive tactics.
ATTACKING TACTICS
This method involves you taking the battle to the perceived enemy.

DEFFENSIVE TACTICS
Under this method, you wait to be attacked and then you retaliate

There is also the No defense no attack policy.
Marketing battle rages on, you must leverage the power of superior packaging or product design.
Take advantage of the mysterious power of repositioning to floor your copy-titors.
The most important single determinant of success is your area of competitive advantage. It is more important than all other factors. It determines the rise or fall of your business, your level of profitability, your position in the Market place, and everything else you accomplish. Your competitive advantage must be crystal clear to you and to everyone in your company, as well as to your prospective customers. Lack of clear competitive advantage leads quickly to diminished sales, loss of market ultimately, business failure.
THREE AREA OF DIFFERENTIATION
To succeed in a tough market, what you sell must be superior to your competitor’s offerings in at least three ways. It must be BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER, AND EASIER to use in some way that makes it more attractive than rival product or services. It must be better in at least three areas. One of your key jobs in strategic thinking to identify the three areas in which you are better and then to emphasis those areas of superiority in all of your marketing and sales work. Three potential Area of Superiority
1. Operational excellence. A Company with this competitive advantage able to run its business so effectively and need that it can produce and sell its Products and Services at lower prices than its competitor.
The Company can then pass on the cost savings to its customers in the form of lower prices or keep the savings in the form of high profit or both.
2. Use of Innovative technology: One can achieve competitive advantage and hence produce high quality Products &Services through the use of Innovative technology.
Companies like Mercedes and Sony fall into this category. Customers are willing to pay a premium for a brand name that represents high quality and cutting edge technology.
3. Be close to the customer
This requires that you invest the time to develop high quality relationships based on “customer intimacy” customers will pay more and remain loyal longer to Companies that seem to know and understand them better than others. Providers of specialized Services such as consulting firms, law firms, accounting firms and telecommunications firms fall into this category.
What could you do to demonstrate to your customers that you really care about them and their interest
This strategy can offer a breakthrough opportunity, especially in the sale of expensive Products and Services where resale’s and referrals are possible.
PICK YOUR TARGET
To lead your field and achieve higher levels of profitability, you have to be outstanding in one of these three are and very good in the other two. One of the most important decisions you make is to choose your area of competitive advantage and then dedicate your Company to achieving it.
A competitive advantage has two qualities first; it is something you offer that your competitive do not offer to the same degree. It is clear that you have an advantage in that area. Second, a competitive advantage is something that customers recognize, appreciate, and are wiling to pay a premium to enjoy.
In every case, it is the customer who decides if your competitive advantage is important to him or her.
THE KEYS TO SUCCESS
Every Products or Services, in order to survive in a competitive market, must have an area of superiority, and a unique selling proposition. You should always be prepare to answer the customer primary question: “Give me one reason why I should buy from you rather than someone else! Whatever your answer is to the question, you should build all your marketing and sales efforts around it. Your answer is the key to business success.
As on up-coming marketer, your most valuable asset is “how you are known to your customers, your reputation in the market” your reputation is a value that people will pay for.
To win customers for life, it is advisable that you treat your customer exceeding well that they talk about you constantly (Exceptional customer delivery) erect solid entry barriers around your business model.
Note; you can’t prevent anyone from closing to do the same type of business with you. But you can slow them down or discourage them completely.
SOME NO GO AREAS
* Don’t compete on PRICE
* Don’t go head-to-head with an established competitor
* Don’t go Staff Poaching

free online resources

2008-09-26T08:45:00.000-07:00

The Internet is loaded with free stuffs, and I mean FREE!

Every week, and sometimes monthly, I have the unique opportunity of receiving different brands of books, magazines, journals, tracts, cassettes, Newsletters, CD’s- just name it!

The most important issue is not whether these things are real, but how one can locate the right place to search for those free items. This manual is filled to the brim with various websites, e-mails and contacts of various organisations, ministries and companies offering free stuffs on the net.

It is a product of more then a year of painstakingly surfing the net, and it has been worthwhile, because I can proudly stand up tall and shout it loud- “The internet is filled with raw gold yet untapped.”
To make it easier for the user, an elaborate method of finding out these items has been carefully out lined.
The resources on the Internet are so enormous, that it will take generations yet UN –born to get it exhausted.

Join me as we take a wonderful trip to the world of “Free stuff on the Net”.

Remember, what is free today may not be free tomorrow!

So make use of the unique opportunities available on the net, and don’t be left behind. It is essential for one to get a personal postal box, to safeguard incoming mails.
It is still affordable and more convenient when compared to your having to depend on other individuals before collecting your mail. Please try to get a personal mailbox, because the benefits are numerous!
FREE CHRISTIAN RESOURCES
· www.gnmagazine.org
You can subscribe for a free copy of the beautiful “good News magazine” on this website.

· www.feba.org.uk
Get yourself a free subscription of the “Threshold magazine” on this website and other beautiful resources.

· www.heraldofhiscoming.com Go to this website and request for a free copy of “Herald of His coming magazine”. It is a free quarterly magazine that is sent free of charge to those who subscribe.

· www.apostolicfaith.org
Grab copy of the “Higher way magazine”. A quarterly magazine of the Apostolic Faith Church in the United States. It is filled with rich articles/stories.

· www.fingerchristianfellowship.com
This website is loaded! I got a bumper cassette package containing 12 – beautiful cassette series in a beautiful case from this website. You can order for free cassette messages, videocassettes and other fantastic resources. Please check it out.

· www.twr.org
Order for a free copy of the following books
Ø “Your quest for God” – Richard A. Bennet
Ø “Towers to eternity” – Dr. Paul E. Fred
From this website. They also have a beautiful quarterly magazine for free subscription.

· www.familyradio.com
Request for numerous free literatures on this site.

· www.wesleyowen.com
Wesley Owen is a charity organisation transforming lives through Christian resources.
Go to their official website and order for their free products brochure, containing bestselling books, bible software’s, vcd’s and more. Check them out!
· www.freebiblesoftware.com
Request for a free CD, bible software and other great Christian resources on this site

· www.freebibleforyou.org
Get a complete bible (old and New Testament) from this site. It is absolutely free
NB: This is applicable to only Canadian citizens

· www.christianmpfree.com
Get the latest musicals free of charge on mp3 and other formats on this Christian site.

· www.ptm.org/free/yrpt.asp
Go to this site and order for a free copy of plain Truth magazine. It is a very beautiful packaged magazine.

· http://secure.oru.edu/oralrich/req_items.html
These are the free stuffs you get when you navigate to this site:
Ø A beautiful magazine “ covering your family with God’s word”
Ø A beautiful prayer cloth
Ø “Miracle Now”, A quarterly magazine
Ø A bottle of anointing oil
Ø 2nd coming of Jesus” booklet

· www.amesbible.org
Secure a free bible college programme from this site. They offer 22 courses absolutely free.

· www.bibledatabase.com
This site contains lots of free Bibles and Bible Study software for your taking.

· www.sonlight.com
Request a free 2006 son light curriculum catalog from this URL

· http://bjnewlife.org/english/printedbook/index.php
This site contains more than fifty books written by Paul C. Jong. Get a free book from this popular Author by going to this site.

· www.christianfreebies.com
All kinds of goodies such as free books, ClipArt’s, email cards, bookmarks. Etc are found in this wonderful site.

· www.wordofgrace.net
Grab a free copy of Christian book by Roxy J. Nolin and other exciting free stuffs from this site.

· www.verticalthought.org
They are the publishers of “vertical thought magazine”
A magazine designed for the youths.

· www.joycemeyer.org
They were formerly giving out free monthly magazine
“Life in the word magazine
This magazine has been re-designed with a beautiful cover and titled - “Enjoying Everyday Life Magazine from Pastor Joyce Meyer.

· www.soon.org
Subscribe to a free “SOON Magazine” and free “Bible Study Correspondence Course” on this website.

· www.jewsforjesus.org
Ever wondered how the Jewish Christian carry out the Christian work in foreign lands, then subscribe to “The Jews for Jesus” quarterly Newsletter and find out all about Jewish Christians.

· www.wbschool.orgGet a free Bible study course from the world Bible school, and get to know more about the scriptures.

Unleash Your Gift

2008-09-26T08:34:00.000-07:00

To unleash means to set loose.
It implies releasing your hidden gifts and potential.
These gifts are there, whether we believe it or not.
Dear Friend, begin to set in motion your hidden gifts/potential.
Begin to utilize those powerful gifts that have been lying fallow for years.
Every individual on planet earth has one gift or the other.
What is required is the ability of the individual to identify his or her gifts/potential and begin to unleash it in order to appropriate all the benefits.
Julius Agwu, the multi talented stand up comedian who is currently making waves in Nigeria and other foreign countries once said, “ My mum wanted me to become a carpenter, but deep inside me, I wanted to be a comedian. If I had been a carpenter, I wonder the type of furniture I would have been making”
The young man discovered early in life that his gift was making people to laugh!
As you unleash your Gift/Potential, these four things will be set in motion
· Your Gift will begin to make a way for you
· Your gift will take you from Zero to Hero
· Every gift unleashed is a potential wealth creator
· Your gift will not only add value to your life, but also the life’s of others
My beloved Friend, what are you waiting for?
What excuse are you giving to unleash your gifts
Just go ahead and unleash it the best way you can.
You will be happy you did