Tips for Creating Information Products
Information products are just neatly packed how to guides. You can take the information you have on a subject and organize it so that it is useful to others. We all have knowledge we have accumulated throughout life form business situations, to home repairs, each person has a different set of experiences. There is always someone looking for the information you have, just as there is information you need that someone else has.
Begin by deciding what you are going to teach and who you are teaching it to. If you are teaching someone how to rebuild a computer and your target audience doesn't know what a motherboard is you will need to be prepared to explain to them what it is, how it works, and where they can get one. but if you are building your product for experienced users who already know about motherboards, that extra information will bore them. That is why it is important to know who you are targeting.
Once you have your subject and audience pinned down, you will want to do a little research, check forums to find out what type of questions the people in your target audience are asking. If you have the answer to their questions you will have a solid product. After all the purpose of your product is to meet their need. After you have focused your subject and decided what you want to say , you will need to organize the structure of your product using an outline. Decide what you will say, when you will say it, and how each section relates to the next. You will want to focus on the flow of information and the building of concepts on one another.
Type your finished product in a processing program and you will be ready to turn the document into a PDF with an internally linking table of contents and all of your information will be ready to publish online as a comprehensive eBook on the subject you've chosen. That's all it takes! You are ready to start marketing your new information product today.
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"If you have the answer to their questions you will have a solid product. After all the purpose of your product is to meet their need. After you have focused your subject and decided what you want to say , you will need to organize the structure of your product using an outline. Decide what you will say, when you will say it, and how each section relates to the next. You will want to focus on the flow of information and the building of concepts on one another."
This is a good post about a good business model. I've spent pretty much all of my career teaching business people things. The biggest challenge that people face when creating a teaching product isn't what information or what topics, although these two things are important.
The key to effective teaching is that people don't learn by getting information. And they don't usually change their behaviour simply by getting new information. People learn by experience. The most powerful teaching/info product is one that changes what people do.
Telling them everything you know is simply telling about something, now showing them how to do something. You need to create learning experiences that put people in a realistic situation, with a real challenge, the kind you face everyday as an expert and then give them the help and support to overcome it. That is what learning is all about.
Don't create info products. Design learning experiences.