My (business) product creation plan - what am I missing?

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wish you the best

I found a great ghost writer on fiverr if you want her name let me know xx this is soooooo helpful to me, cant thank you enough for sharing that list..

Mailchimp is a weak point as they do not allow Internet Marketing mailings and have recently shut down many accounts dealing in Make Money Online offers. Check their Terms of Service. It's plainly spelled out there.

Great list, love the effort you put into this. Finding a niche that isn't over saturated is always a challenge. Are you choosing your a/b options?

My advice would be to look for high ticket items to sell. It sometimes takes so much effort and even marketing budget to earn a very small commission.

Hi Di,

I LIKE IT!

Awesome plan!

I like the way you have clear steps to follow.

Just a word of advice or my opinion - get the main bulk complete and don't worry too much about the details - reading through I notice that you are worried about the SEO etc...

Understandable but focus on creating a knockout offer that has REAL value and you will be on the right track.

If you follow through that list and make sure you give each point 100% you will make money I am sure of it.

Pretty much a product creation course there in the list!

Awesome work!

Chris Jones

5) Ensure optimised for search engines (not succeeding – lots to do here)

You need to get a lot of backlinks (Quantity as well as Quality backlinks from high page rank websites)

a. Mailchimp – free and easy (done)
I would suggest you go with aweber , they are the best in the field of Email marketing, I am personally using that as well, It would be problematic to switch to it later, Its better to start with the best.


I liked your idea to Offer free to War Room member to increase exposure

You are missing google +1s , It is an important factor in SEO , you should get that as well

Good plan Diana.

As for the email autoresponder service, you're better off using a paid service right at the start.

However, there are indeed other free/affordable services that caters specifically to internet marketers.

Here's one example: Imnica Mail - Email Marketing Service - Email Marketing Solved

Diana,

That is a pretty good plan. I should know, I've looked at tons of business plans over the years. I'm going to agree with people here that Mail Chimp is not a good option for what you are doing. You have a lot of choices when it comes to autoresponders. I'm going to list a few (please note that none of these are affiliate links);

The two I primarily use these days are:

Imnica Mail: This is a great service for beginning marketers and they are hard to beat at their price point. I've been using them for a while now and have been very happy with them so far. You can learn more about it here as a WSO:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-alertpay.html

and Aweber (I've been with them for over 8 years):

Email Marketing Software & Email Marketing Services from AWeber

I've also used Getresponse.com with solid results in the past:

Email Marketing Software, Autoresponder - GetResponse

There are also many, many other options. But have listed the ones that I've used and tested.

I also noticed that you wrote down that you plan on blogging. One of the best guides you'll find out there are:

John Taylor's own Blogging Secrets guide at:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ets-2-0-a.html

There are a lot of bloggers on the net that you can learn from and one of them is Yaro Starak:

Yaro Starak - Blogger and Internet business entrepreneur from Australia

During your first year in business, marketing and proactively promoting your new website / blog and business should be at the forefront of everything you do, while building and maintaining a relationship with your list.

When it comes to getting started, I've advised my clients to adhere to the Rule of 4 (as a minimum). Simply put, do 4 things each day that you work (assuming a 5 day work week) that will promote your business. It could be a simple as:

a. Write a useful, but incomplete 500 - 750 word article and submit it to 1 to 3 article directories (there's no need to mass submit them, quality will rule in the long run).
b. Contact one potential JV partner.
c. Submit your article to an authority website / blog in your niche.
d. Submit 5 new keywords, after research, and create a new PPC or PPV advertising campaign.

You mentioned you were on a tight budget and have about 3 hours per day to work on this. I'm very confident that you can do this and that your plan will work out for you. You may need to adjust it as you go along. If you hit any road bumps, come back to this forum and ask here.

Lastly, start buiding your list as early as possible. I don't think you're over complicating anything. Building your list early, no matter if you are a product creator, CPA marketer, or affiliate marketer, is a great way to add to your passive profits over time. In my opinion, one of the absolute masters at list building is Jimmy D. Brown (the founder of IMStitute).

Good luck Diana,

RoD

Starting a new venture is always exciting!

But I don't see the "business plan". For example, a profit and competitive analysis. What is it you are able to offer? Why would anyone buy from you? Pricing?

Don't confuse a marketing plan, or sales plan, or product creation plan - with a business plan.

Although the forum is a wealth of information, I suggest you get off the forum and view your niche as someone looking for information.

The reason: I see items such as Digiresults and WSOs in your "plan". This is very narrowly focused.

IMHO you're overestimating the "market" for your upcoming ebook on this forum and places you've indicated you will be marketing or selling your ebook.

Jumping ahead, such as having an ebook cover graphic, before having a product.

It is always good to go through the process. Whether this is profitable or not, you will then be in a much better position to tackle another project or to adjust this one.

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This is a good list. You’re smart to do some planning before jumping in and stabbing at things at random.

Have you researched your competition? I’m a little leery when someone gushes that they’ve found an untapped market. If there aren’t already competitors making money in this niche then you’ll have a hard time too. The other benefit of competitors is affiliate products for you to promote – yes, make money off your competition . I’d recommend compiling a good list of affiliate products you could promote & by looking at what works for them you can mimic in your own sales process – i.e. if they use lots of videos & tutorials, you do that. If they’re monetizing via webinars or downloadable audio, you do that too. You really want to know up front how you plan to monetize even though that's a step down the road.


I’d opt for a really good autoresponder too as others have recommended. Add to your list “setting up an autoresponder series” and set up a really long set of follow ups to save you time & make sure you are keeping yourself in front of these prospects once they’ve signed up.