As the wheels continue to turn and burn in developing a digital product I’m releasing my personal notes on the ebook Make Your Words Sell. Whether we like it or not, we are selling or less suggestively, “communicating” everyday or our lives, so why not become a little better at it on paper (or a blog). I believe these bullet points will help do just that. Continue reading →
Guide the Future and Eat a Good Breakfast
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a snapshot of how things are going at The LDP project. There are some solid resources The LDP has been featured on lately and a few behind the scenes workings that I’d like to share about. In fact, as what usually happens, there’s more than a few things going on behind the scenes and a few directions we can focus on going into the future. I need your help with that. Check out what’s going on around the project and influence where we go from here in today’s post PLUS a time saving breakfast batch secret I just discovered AND a video in which I chug a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi Max. It’s like 3 posts in one! You’ve been warned. Continue reading →
Idea Feasibility: Results, Realities and Expert Opinions
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If you’ve just found us here at The Life Design Project we’re in the midst of determining the profitability of an idea or service that we’ve derived from a niche interest, before we actually create anything.
Testing if an idea or product (or even an affiliate’s) is likely to sell isn’t as cut and dry as I or I’m sure you would like it to be. In the end, after the several rounds of sales page adjustments, copy-write education, Adwords testing and requested reviews, I’m left only slightly more informed on deciding whether or not to create my product. Geez, that sucks.
Wait, there’s hope! I turned to experienced and outspoken experts and asked them point blank, “What are the three best ways to test feasibility”. (I wanted to find out if I had just wasted time building a mock sales page and learning everything that goes into it.) The answers I received we’re nothing short of gold. Check out the progression of a sales page, real Adwords results, and what the experts had to say below. Note: I qualify these “experts” by knowing and seeing their products and ideas propel their freedom and income. There are hundred of thousands of others claiming to have created income on the web, I actually know these people have.
Lifestyle Design | 3 Tools, Blogs, eBooks, and Conversations for Income
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Our lives are dynamic and so is designing them. There’s a definite flow to creating your freed lifestyle but there are also several constants to refresh and maintain along the journey. Keeping up certain conversations, continually reading books and blogs, and trying out new tools for productivity and growth are among those constants that keep us sharp and ready to succeed. It’s the journey that shapes us, not the goal itself.
In line with sharing my experiences for this project, here are 3 new tools I’ve picked up, 3 new blogs I’m scanning, 3 new ebooks I’m reading, and 3 types of conversations I’m now having in the thick of creating easily managed income with a digital product. Hopefully you can use them as fuel on your road.
These resources are one’s I’ve drawn on for moving through the beginnings of creating an easily managed income product and staying motivated while doing so. Continue reading →
Freedom Business | Word Magic
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Adwords, copywriting, SEO, headers, <title>, keywords….Online business is a lot about words and how you can make them dance at your will. Stealing an awesome phrase from an awesome movie, we all need to be “warrior poets” when it comes to our verbiage online. Luckily this takes more effort than skill.
In our current quest to test how viable a product idea is without wasting money or time, the most thought intensive piece of the puzzle so far has easily been the words. The title of the product, the copy of the sales page, and the advertising wordage to be specific.
Get Out of Your Head, Idiot | The 3 Modes of Process
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It’s awesome to have a solid process scheduling system, but the point is to streamline production, not manage 1000 tasks. Ever feel unproductive despite your best efforts? There should be a built in alert for calendar and task systems that simply says, STOP! finish something first idiot.
After finally identifying that this past week, I was able to free myself and get something done. A refresher in singular focus and the visual below really set me straight. I’m finally doing the actions that will actually propel me to freedom income, the stage we’re currently in. It’s not building websites, or tweeting, or stumbling, and it’s especially NOT creating a product. It’s pinpointing my ideal customer, finding a pain or need, and mock testing ideas for realistic results on profitability. The content I’ve been talking about recently, but sluggishly acting on. Here’s how I, and you can realize what mode of process your stuck in and how to move past it and get something done.
Freedom Business | Sustainability w/ the Core Model
Sustainability: An important note on building a core business along with your freedom business products and services.
One thing thats important to note during this whole information product virtual business creation process is to spend time on that front/core of your business from time to time. You certainly can “go mercenary” with your freedom business product, but having a core really impacts your ability to promote or drive any sort of campaign behind your product when you eventually do create it. Let me explain. Continue reading →
Stirring it Up | Convos with Ramit Sethi
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As the Adword testing of my information product flies around the interwebs I wanted to offer you some more varied experiences at The LDP in the next coming weeks. I’ll be adding to my Monday posts randomly throughout the week with some different lifestyle design topics, features and insights. I hate to break continuity on our income stage so I’ll do my best to keep things related, but hey that’s what blog categories are for. Continue reading →
Freedom Business | Making Ideas Real (Keywords)
Our from the ground up freedom business is just about ready for a soft launch and some real profitability results. It seems it has taken longer here in the blog world than it has in real world hours. The holidays, a cold, reflection posts and some 9-5 job chaos has chopped up the 10-20 hours it has actually taken to get all this off the ground. This post is to recap the last few weeks of actionable items for reflecting, automating, and improving. It’a also to shed truth on the real uses of Google Adword keywords in comparison to SEO keywords for our mock process. Bonus! Free workflow for your VA or yourself on finding valuable data on keywords. Continue reading →
Free! | The New 4 Hour Work Week Book Contest
Hello! In celebration of The LDP’s growth and honestly, just to pass time as the research developments continue with both the Backup Informer and the core of our freedom business effort stage here at the project, IT Arsenal, I’m introducing The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content Giveaway! Long title right?
It’s fairly simple, 3 ways to win and plenty of winners for a free no questions asked AND shipped copy of the book anywhere, global! The 4 Hour Work Week isn’t perfect but it’s insightful and sparked this project so it’s fitting that it’s the first giveaway. Author Tim Ferriss just updated his New York Times best seller many years running with 100 pages of fresh up to date content, grab it free! Details below!
UPDATE: 1st Winner! @bill_lyons. Thanks Bill!
UPDATE: 2nd Winner Cole Tucker, who had the most votes for his Life Design question on what he’d like to learn most! Check it out here. Congrats!
