A Guide on Successful Product Creation and Internet Marketing

Product creation in Internet marketing is getting stiffer and stiffer nowadays owing to tough competition between Internet-based businesses. Putting up a new product requires plenty of brainpower and finances along with an ability to take risk. With that, even if you have the product well-set already, you have to position it strategically in the Internet landscape for others to notice. You should get the interest of Web users and turn them to actual customers. Aside from the usual physical products, many different products that thrive well on Internet marketing include E-books, membership sites, and video lectures.

The long and difficult process of product creation begins with ideas. They are easy to get – compared to the effort that comes with analyzing the market for that idea. Before the idea turns to a product, businesses often spend money, even amounting to millions of dollars, to ensure the success of the new product that emerges from an idea. Businesses undertake many types of market research and surveys before releasing their products to the public. Now, you may think that because your business is small, you can’t afford research or you don’t have to do research; you can and you should. The Internet allows you to disseminate materials needed for your market study to many people at once without your having to spend a cent.

It is a common maxim in business: Look at your destination first before mapping out your journey. So what are the goals you intend to accomplish with your product creation ventures? The everyday travails of your business may make you forget the end in sight. On the other hand, prepare to entertain new developments that come to your mind in your product creation. Your conception of a product may have started this way, but a few tweaks here and there along with some market research results and it ends up another way. Take it as the result of a creative process, not as a failure to reach your goal. After all, your product creation activities are intertwined with a long-term goal that you should strive to sustain at your utmost: profit generation. So if your less profitable initial idea evolves to a more profitable product, be thankful!

With your product made up already, start doing some aggressive Internet marketing. A product purchase typically comes after more than five times a customer is exposed to an informative call-to-buy message. Thus it is important to get the contact details, like the e-mail address, of potential customers who are on the brink of a sale. Use the results of your market research to determine the demographics to which you should concentrate your marketing efforts.

With consistent product creation, you can make an inventory of your products that you can market in due time. Just keep making products – the moment you succeed in making and marketing a product, customers are surely wanting more from you, so give it to them. Keep them on your side through constant product creation.

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.

New Texas Real Estate Laws

The following is an overview of bills passed during the 2011 Texas legislative session that affect real estate. Please note that this overview does not include every new law affecting real estate; it is simply an overview of certain important changes.

Landlord-Tenant-Residential Certificates of Occupancy H.B. 1862 allocates liability to a landlord whose certificate of occupancy is revoked by a city or county for the landlord’s failure to maintain the premises. The landlord is liable for the full amount of the tenant’s security deposit, the pro rata portion of any rental payments paid in advance by the tenant, and the tenant’s actual damage which includes moving costs, utility connection fees, storage fees, lost wages, and attorney’s fees.

Property Owner’s Associations (HOAs and COAs)

· Collections and Foreclosures H.B. 1228 requires certain POAs to adopt and file reasonable guidelines allowing owners to make partial payments for delinquent assessments. The law also regulates foreclosure of assessment liens and the use of collection agents. Lastly, the bill requires the Texas Supreme Court adopt rules for expedited foreclosure proceedings.

· Flags H.B. 2779 prohibits a POA from adopting or enforcing restrictions on displaying the U.S., Texas, or armed forces flags, except as allowed by law (ex. reasonable restrictions relating to flags, flagpoles. lights, and noise).

· Solar Panels H.B. 362 prohibits a POA from restricting solar devices, except as allowed by statue. The law also prohibits POA architectural review committees from withholding approval of a solar device unless the device substantially interferes with the use and enjoyment of the land.

Ad Valorem Taxes-Protests H.B. 1887 provides that before delinquency, an owner who disputes the appraised value of their property need only pay the amount of tax attributable to the portion of the appraised value that is not in dispute in order to preserve their right to have the appraised amount corrected by the appraisal review board (ARB).

Ad Valorem Taxes-ARB Hearings S.B. 1546 amends Tax Code Section 41.45 (e-l) by providing that a property owner’sagent who fails to appear at an appraisal review board (ARB) hearing is now entitled to a new hearing in the same manner as a property owner who fails to appear to such a hearing.

Co-owners of Residential Property S.B. 1368 permits certain co-owners of property to file an affidavit in the county clerk’s office to establish the authority to act as agent for the other co-owner for the purpose of entering into mechanic’s liens, materialman’s, and deed of trust liens.

Bahin Ameri is a Houston-based real estate attorney. The focus of her practice is on real estate law and business law. She handles a variety of cases including contract/lease disputes, property disputes, and small claims. Bahin also handles business formations, applications for state benefits, and homestead exemptions. Her clients include homeowners, small business owners, landlords, tenants, and individuals seeking state benefits.