Hey, I need a product!

Well, I finished watching my tutorial and received some interesting comments from people about products that I might consider. I’ll look at products a little later, but here is what I think I need:

1. A ’sales’ site to promote and distribute the product (need a ’sales letter’ and a ’shopping cart’, etc.); I think that BeBiz might be a good product for this, but looks bloody expensive (nearly $50 a month), and

2. A separate ‘content’ site to attract interested people, then subtly direct them to my sales web-site; since I refuse to use my blogs to directly promote/advertise anything this will need to be a separate site – and probably a separate product; I think that Site Build It! would be ideal for this, but it is also reasonably expensive (at least a couple of hundred a year, from memory, or maybe even as much as BeBiz), and

3. A product!

Hell, what am I doing even looking at web-sites etc. before I have a product?!

In fact, my 13 y.o. son, and mentor on all things Internet, says that I need a BUNCH of products (at least 4).

So, here are my initial thoughts, because I am flying here without any real plan:

I am writing a bunch of content on my blogs; sure I give it away free, but it comes in a disorganized fashion … any topic that seems ‘right’ to cover on a given day, I cover.

The simple way to create a product is to start with a blog on the topic of your choice – preferably one that you have some expertise in – write some posts … get them out there … take on board feedback … write some more posts refining your thoughts, and wacko presto: you have valuable content!

I think that I already have enough ‘valuable content’ (i.e. posts) on my blogs to create at least one simple, introductory e-Book. It will be valuable to people who want to see something structured rather than the mashup on my blogs …

… and, the target audience will be anybody who does not yet read my blogs (that would be 99.9999999% of the billions of Internet users around the world).

In fact, I won’t even be advertising this e-Book on my blogs.

So, now that I know that I need a product first (d’oh) I have already started making one, simply using:

- A nice ‘newsletter’ template from MS Word, and

- a bit of cutting/pasting/editing from my main blog.

And, up the top is how the front cover already looks …

BTW: I have just registered a new domain name, one that will eventually be the domain for the ’sales’ web-site (I hope that Go-Daddy lets me transfer it):

“Repeat Until Rich”

… it came to me the other day, as I am always talking about systems for creating wealth; you know, stuff that once you start doing it, you can just ‘repeat until rich’

I’m about to find out if you can make money online!

Hi, I’m AJC and this is my 3rd blog … my other two blogs are about money: lots of it and how to make it. I happen to believe that the Internet is the new frontier with TONS of money-making potential …

… but, there are plenty of scams and schemes, too!

So, how to sort the wheat from the chaff? The good from the bad? The legitimate from the scam?

Well, I made my money in the old-fashioned way: through multiple businesses in the ‘real world’ as well as investing in stocks and real-estate (you can read about my $7 million dollar, 7 year journey here), so I don’t really know enough about making money the ‘new fangled way’ … on the Internet!

Having said that, I am working on two ‘real’ Internet business, and have a team programming both of them, but that’s not really me doing anything (except coming up with an idea, a marketing angle, and putting up some cash!).

No, for the purposes of my blog, I’m looking for web-based businesses that anybody can do, on their own, part-time, with little or no IT knowledge or capability … something that even a 60 year old like Lee can try on his own.

So, I thought that I should try it out … and, I thought that I should share the WHOLE story AS IT HAPPENS with you, the readers on my other two blogs, and the world!

And, I’ll chronicle my journey in ‘real-time’ … that is, I’ll write it here as I do it!

So, here’s the story so far:

I’ve tried the scams and ignored the schemes (in the interests of writing my other two blogs – neither of which are money-making ventures, by the way … I purposely have NO commercial angle to those blogs – or this one – accepting NO advertising or affiliate commissions or the like) and so far haven’t found an “off the shelf” way to make money online.

So, now it’s time to try Plan B: create my own Information Product (click on this link to see why this is a great way to start).

My plan is to take some of the information that I have already published on this blog and my other one and turn it into an e-book. The purpose isn’t to make money for me … it’s to show you how you can make money online.

So, I will ‘open up the books’ here [AJC: if I can find an easy web-based tool for accounting that lets me publish reports, I will literally 'open up the books' so that you can see how it works out, financially] …

Why Information Publishing?

Well, it lets me do something that I won’t do on my blogs: turn stuff that I know into stuff that I can sell … and, it allows me to sell all sorts of affiliate stuff (so, all the referrals that I make to various books and other useful products on this site, without any financial benefit to myself, can be sold WITH affiliate commissions on the new site).

Again, for your benefit. How?

Because you can think of some area where you are (or can quickly become) an ‘expert’ and follow in my steps … do you know how to sew? Write an eBook on how to sew quicker/better (get the idea?) … assuming that the site produces a useful income. That’s the purpose of this test!

So, as I write this post I am literally sitting down having this morning hit on the concept for a commercial version of my blogs, and am looking for the ‘right’ way to implement it.

For this, I have decided first to try out Derek Gehl’s new product, BeBiz – supposedly a way to create an sales-oriented internet site pretty quickly … since I don’t yet have the product (I am thinking an eBook to start with) or the means to create my own web-site from scratch, I am hoping that this product will lead me ‘by the hand’ as this product demo [AJC: which I have just paused to write this comment, and which I am about to continue watching before typing and more] promises.

We shall see …

This is a site you just may want to book-mark or subscribe to. You may also want to send an e-mail to you friends who may be interested in learning how to do the same … let me make my mistakes in public so that you don’t have to make them at all