Need Tips on Creating Info Products Fast

That does seem like a long time. What did you do over the last 4 months?
(just trying to help determine what slowed you down)

Outsource.

Or if you need to write it yourself... Just focus on writing.

Dragon Naturally Speaking helps some I've heard. I prefer to type by hand, but the program is great, especially if you don't type very fast.

There aren't a lot of short cuts... Either pay someone to do it or get motivated, work hard, and get it finished.

Being my first attempt, I went off in random directions. Research took quite a bit of my time. However I am looking for any coaching programs/resources that can help me accelerate the process.

get extremely focused and finish it would be the best tip. Might not seem like much help, but there is no magic trick or tip to get it done faster, unless you outsource it, as already mentioned

Well, one tip that might help, write it all out at once without editing, spell checking or anything else like that, it can really slow you down, should get it done much faster. It really slows down the process if you fix and edit as you write. I still fall into that myself, it's a hard habit to break.

Some even say to write with the monitor off so your not tempted to fix. I have'nt tried that one yet

Hi Dan!

A great idea is to look out for existing products which could be improved upon...

EG if you've come across a product which you felt had information missing or was badly presented, take the BASIC idea and do it better yourself! This is completely ethical as long as you're not just cloning someone else's product.

Regards,

Elaine

Hi Dan,

What really burns the time on a first product is usually having to grope your way through each step, then figuring out what the next step is. The research part is especially time consuming.

I've found that, with research, starting when I feel about one-third ready is just about right. It lets me start writing, which then reveals where the holes in my knowlede are. Once I've done that, I know what specific things I need to do more research on, without wasting a lot of time on trying to learn everything.

If you'll Google "fast product creation" or "create quick products" or the like, you'll find bunches of products (and free information) available. One well known marketer who definitely practices what he preaches is Marlon Sanders. Go to his blog ( Learn Internet Marketing How to Make Your Ship Come In -- Soon! ) and read. He has free articles on product creation that are an education in themselves.

Sanders' main point is action - quit dithering and act. Make a beta version of your product and get it out the door to test whether the market wants it or not. If not, move on. Most products are mediocre or less, so move through 'em quickly to find the ones that are real winners. Once you get your product selling, you can go back and polish it, refine it, update it, whatever your customers need from it, and mail all those who bought and let them know that the new version is theirs for free download.

This serves two purposes. It impresses the heck out of your customers, and it puts you in the money faster with a self-funding product improvement system. A bonus is that it keeps you from wasting more time than necessary on weak projects.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

Niche Selection (2 hours)
- Something you know or do
- Something you want to know
- Hobby or Need to know/hungry/desperate buyers

Niche Competition Research (4 hours - I'm thorough)
- Forum/Message board searches
- ClickBank
- Amazon
- Barnes + Noble
- Skim magazines and books (look at table of contents)
- Take lots of notes (chapter titles, etc...)

Start writing and fill in the outline (6 hours)
- Intro
- Who you are, Why they are reading this, What they will accomplish
- Concepts
- Action Steps
- Sticking points/Hold ups
- Create sustained motivation (if required)
- Examples?
- Just write and write and write (fill in the outline)

Review what you wrote and clean up sentences (2 hours)
- Not necessarily for spelling and grammar but read your thoughts and sentence structure. If you have an "and" where there can be a period, do so.

Send out 2 copies to people that you know (family/friends) that can review/edit (1 day)
- The idea here is to get them to say "I understand the concepts and learned something" or "I am confused as all get out" If the later - refine outline and repeat.

I have used that (brief overview) for 2 products I have created and also assisted 3 other people do the same so I know it can be done. Don't get wrapped up in perfection (Like I do - have a HUGE issue with this). Get your thoughts out and then organize them and have people you know review your work and give feedback. Don't worry if it's not perfect as you can always re-release after initial consumer feedback. Remember - Don't be a guru. Always under promise and over deliver.

I just finished shooting Installment 9 of Success Manifesto 2011, and it deals with exactly this problem. It should be up in about 12 hours. Free to watch and it may get you on track.

I would suggest getting private label rights ebooks. These products are already made and all you have to do is edit them. So you can get a source document and make it into your own ebook, because if it's taking you 5 months that's way too long. You have to make better use of your time.

If you get private label rights you can put your name on it as if you were the author. Not so with other resell rights.

Hope this helps.

Maybe you should take a break away from it for a while and return with enthusiasm.

The "Desperate buyers only" course.

I bought and read it Saturday night, started writing my eBook Sunday and now its Monday night and I have 70 pages done. I plan to easily push out 200 pages by the end of the week.

Basically it answered every single last question I had in the back of my mind about how and what to write about. Alexis knows how to write expensive reports that sell better than anyone I have seen.

Then I was free to just write and write and write with almost complete confidence in the marketability and importance of my words to my target buyer.

I think my previous blocks were really a lack of focus on the end goal of the report that left me only 1/2 committed to creating a product. The answer of exactly "what am I teaching to whom and most important - will they buy it"?

Check it out Marlon's Product Creation blog post at Learn Internet Marketing Blog Archive Marlon’s 21-Point Info Product Creation In A Flash Cheat Sheet

That should helps.

Dan,

Here's something that really sped up the writing process for me when I first started. Number One: do not try to "write an ebook" or to "complete an entire project." Looking at the thing as a whole entity can make it seem monstrous huge. Instead, break the writing down into parts. Tiny bites. You can speed through one little bite at a time, and before you know it, your entire project, or ebook, is complete.

Begin with an outline. Now, when I say an "outline", I don't necessarily mean one of those lettered and numbered formal type things they teach you to use in school. Instead, make a list. Yep, a list. Think about your project, and write down the most important things you wanna talk about in it. Those will be your main sections.

Read through the things you wrote down, and go back and put them in the order you feel will make the most sense for the reader.

Then, go back and add in a sentence here and there for the points you will discuss under each of your main topics. This fleshes your outline out and gives you a clear map to follow that shows you exactly where you're going, and exactly how you intend to get there.

Once you feel you've put everything in the outline, start writing. But don't try to write it all at once if doing that seems to slow you down. Instead, just try for one section a day.

When I was writing my novels, it helped tremendously when I stopped trying to write "an entire novel" and started concentrating on doing one scene a day. I discovered I could usually complete an entire chapter a day as long as I didn't try to write a chapter, but instead concentrated on just getting one scene on paper...and then another...and then another.

Hope this helps!

Tina

Whatever you do, don't edit as you are writing.

For each chapter or section, do your initial research, flesh out a simple structure, and then just write or dictate it until you are finished that section. Don't stop to correct spelling, grammar, or to go over what you have written. Once you finish the section, then you have a choice; either continue on to the next, or give that section a once over to correct the most egregious errors. The recommendation is to keep going, unless you make so many errors in the process that you need to fix them so that you'll understand it later.

Once you've finished the book, then it's time to edit, delete and generally tidy up your manuscript. That's when you'll fix factual errors and add new content that you thought up while writing later parts. (Tip: Keep a notebook next to you while you're writing.) The order (taken from software development) is: Make it (work), make it right, make it good.

One other tip. Since it's taken you five months, you might be procrastinating a bit. One way to beat this, especially if the task looks daunting, is to do small things. Make up your mind to write one sentence a day, that doesn't sound hard does it? But once you are at the keyboard and have written that one sentence, it's easy to write the next, and then the next... like a nice sweet, you can't stop at just one.