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.

Home-Based Business – Why A Home-Based Business Is So Rewarding

Being employed by a company is pretty cool. Owning a business is even cooler. But owning a home-based business is fantastic! There’s a ton of home-based businesses you could create starting today that will give you more than you could ever imagine! I am going to explain my top 3 reasons owning a home-based business is so awesome, relaxing, and most importantly rewarding! There’s so many more reasons that I could list so if I leave one out that you think should be on here, don’t worry! These are only my top 3, however not in order!

The Money – Everybody loves money. Money makes the world go around. My fiancé told me when I started my own home-based business that being rich isn’t the foundation of life. She’s right. Being rich is definitely not the foundation and purpose of life, however, isn’t it apart of the journey to at least try? If not rich, how about just successful? Trying day in and day out to be successful, be remembered, be rich, and helping others at the same time is all a part of the pleasure, enjoyment, and adventure of life! With a home-based business you can definitely achieve all of those things! Even if you don’t get rich you will be very successful and not have to worry about paying the bills from owning a home-based business!

The Time – If you own your own home-based business, you are your own boss! Nobody is going to tell you that you need to get something done at a certain time. You decide when to do something, how well you do it, and the purposes of doing it. Therefore, no busy work! From being able to do this, you achieve time! Time, to spend with your friends and family or go on vacation! You don’t have to rush through those things so you can hurry and get back to the office and catch your overtime hours so you can pay the bills this month with ease. I personally, have a two-year old daughter and I love the fact that I didn’t miss her birth, her first words, the first time she crawled, the first time she walked and catching her before she fell, the first time she spoke, and all the other “first times”. I have had the privilege of watching her grow and will continue to watch her entire childhood, all from my home-based business! I am very grateful!

The Education – This one may seem odd, but for me, it’s the furthest thing from it. I love learning and always have! If you own your own business in general you will have the opportunity to constantly learn new things every day. When I first began my home-based business I knew absolutely nothing about the industry I was involved in. But I made a commitment to learn it so I could enjoy retiring at 30 years old and achieve the previous 2 rewards. Even now, I think to myself on a regular basis “Wow, I’ve mastered this industry and my business growth!” Turns out, I haven’t and probably never will. But that’s not a bad thing! I get the opportunity to learn more and more and when I think I got it all down, I learn even more!
A home-based business is not for everyone! There are a ton of cons related to it such as lack of motivation makes it difficult to get things done which in turn, makes it difficult to make money! Plus, generally home-based business owners don’t get rich overnight, I’m still very far from rich. Therefore, most entrepreneurs give up! They lose all the money and time they invested! If you think a home-based business is something you want to get involved in, make sure you’re making the right decision. Although it’s rewarding, it’s also very challenging and often time difficult if you don’t know what you’re doing at first. But if you’re the type that’s willing to learn, take action, and accept a few headaches you should do fine in this industry!

Powerful Mobile Apps for Small Business

Are mobile apps really necessary for the success of your small business? Is being “mobile app ready” worth the effort and time that you will be spending to complete the process? What benefits can you exactly earn from using mobile apps for small business? These are just a few of the many questions that you will definitely think of, once introduced to the idea of using small business applications.

What Makes Mobile Apps Better for Your Business?

Look around and you will see every person having his or her own tablet or smartphone. More and more individuals are switching to using such devices instead of using traditional PCs, laptops or desktops. Smartphones these days have the capability to do most of the things that the personal computer does. Smartphones allow you to search online and browse websites. They enable you to track your sales, receive emails from customers and even send promotional offers without turning on your PC. And since Smartphone’s are lightweight and very handy, they can do the said processes anytime and anywhere.

Using Apps for Small Business

Enables you to connect to your customers 24/7
Helps you monitor your business even when away from home or office
Makes it convenient to take your business, with you, even when you’re out of town or traveling abroad
Facilitates customers to make purchases using just their smartphones – they can buy your product or service on the go, as against having to find your store or a computer, to place their order
Helps keep up with changing needs of the market
The good news is that creating apps for small business may not require you to hire an expert or pay a skilled developer. You can build the app on your own. You can begin the process by accessing a software platform that can help you build your own small business mobile app. If you really want your business to grow, it is worth investing enough time and effort in developing the right application for your business.

Outside of your own business app, here are a few other apps that you might find useful to help you with your small business.

Google Drive

It can sync and edit files from multiple devices such as smartphone’s, tablets, laptop and others. It has a free storage space that is equivalent to 5GB. Google Drive is accessible anytime, regardless of your location.

Expensify

This app is extremely useful when it comes to managing the company’s finances. It allows users to scan and save receipts, forward reports for approval and import expenses, apart from offering functions such GPS mileage tracking, receipt sync and auto expense sync.

LocalVox

LocalVox can help you market your brand effectively. It is one of those apps for small business that is very useful when it comes to marketing and other pertinent aspects.

If you are interested in building your own mobile app that can power up your business, do take a look at small business mobile app platforms. The right choice can get you going on multiple platforms ranging from mobile web, to Android, iOS (iPad, iPhone) etc. as well as from start to finish in a matter of few hours with push-button ease requiring you to do no-programming, and further help you with the ability to manage your apps real-time, at any time.