Archive for February, 2010

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.

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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.

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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.

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