As a Gen-X’er I’m old enough to remember a time when every celebrity didn’t have their own product line. There might be a book or a t-shirt, but that was about it. Nowadays it’s the norm for famous creative types to use their talent not just for keeping us entertained but in creating their own [...]
Today I thought I’d share with you a couple of examples of just how easy it can be to create high value videos. Either as a complement to your product or the product itself. The videos below I created in just a few minutes. I am using them as trailers or promotion videos but they [...]
There are a bunch of ways to make money online – affiliate marketing, Adsense and arbitage are just three. But it seems every top internet marketer always ends up using one thing as their mainstay – Product Creation. There are very, very good reasons for this. Lets have a look at the top reasons why. [...]
A lot of us when we are creating our first product also have a day job. We work on our product in the hours we can find between our job and our personal life. All too often you can find yourself taking too many hours from your personal life to work on your product. To [...]
Whether this is for market research, marketing or product development; at some point in your product creation process (and often at at least several points), you’ll need to brainstorm ideas. (My definition of brainstorming is different to Wikipedias. To me brainstorming just means coming up with new ideas, and being open to the source of [...]
Interesting article on the Guardian website yesterday that could impact your product creation. In it the author argues that the key to the success of the iPod and the Kindle is the ecosystems they link to, rather than the hardware itself. By ecosystem he meant that for both devices a much larger library of content [...]
Video accounts for something like a third of internet traffic. Every day it becomes more and more the norm for all websites. Yet many product creators are ignoring this, still producing ebooks without video. Here are some of my thoughts on this – A lot of ebooks still make a ton of money without any [...]
I just read an excellent post over at Frank Haywoods Internet Business blog. In it he stresses the importance of having a game plan, that if you don’t have one chances are you’ll just bounce around from item to item without properly doing any of them. The resulting thing being that you’ll never maintain enough [...]
I watched a fantastic video of John Cleese today (John Cleese is a British Comedian most famous for being part of Monty Python). It’s not one of his comedies (though he does crack a few jokes). Instead he gives a fascinating insight into how he uses his subconscious mind, and gives tips on how others [...]
Just saw an interesting little post on rofx.net . In it the author gives a nice little analogy on product creation. His point is that rats and rabbits breed likeĀ ..er.. rabbits. Their high numbers giving them their best chance of success as a species. He argues that product creation should be the same – [...]