Laid Off? Becoming An Infopreneur Could Be Your Best New Career

Hi All,

I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone who has been laid off, downsized, rightsized, furloughed, forced into early retirement...whatever you want to call it.  I feel your pain because I've been laid off twice myself.  You've done nothing wrong, it's nothing personal.  It's "just business" they say.

And I imagine you're like me, not one of those CEO's that mismanages a giant company, runs it into the ground and gets millions.  That job I would have been fine with being laid off from!

If you're smart, getting laid off is your wake up call.  From here on in, you have to "Look Out For Number One", like the Frank Stallone song from the movie Staying Alive (obscure reference I know).  I'm not saying never work for anyone again, as you may need to at first to pay the bills.  What I am saying is don't ever leave yourself completely open to getting your livelihood taken away from you again.

How?  If you got a golden handshake, was one of the lucky ones who did well with your company's employee stock, or have a supportive spouse or loved one, you might just want to make the leap to infopreneur right away.  If you don't have a good severance package or at least six months or more of savings to fall back on, you need to moonlight.  That's what I did early on too. 

I've gone in and out of periods of employment as my finances dictated, but once you've been laid off, you never quite look at an employer the same way again.  When it comes to being employed, you need to be unfaithful.  You need to have a little something on the side for yourself. 

William O'Neil, the founder of Investor's Business Daily had a great quote "it is what you do outside the hours of 9 to 5 that make all the difference."  It's time YOU made that difference!

You can learn all about what infopreneuring is by checking out my free weekly podcast What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast (start with episode 1 So What's All This About Infopreneuring and my free Treasury of Infopreneur FAQs. 

In a nutshell, it is turning what you know about a particular topic, or possibly multiple topics, into what are known as information products (e.g. an e-book or training course), and information services (e.g. coaching services), and delivering that information in all the different ways (for example, audio, video, interactively and through the written word), that someone would want to learn from your knowledge.  All of which translates your expertise into the ability to make money from what you know!

This is an easy side internet business to start-up at minimum cost (check out my podcast episode The Money Side Of Infopreneuring for more information on this), and a very flexible and legitimate work-at-home business (whether part-time of full-time.  This is not like the so-called "be your own boss" franchises where you have to put up your life savings, and then work slave hours to make less than a fraction of what you made at your old job!  Please check out my blog post 5 Ways Infopreneuring Is The Ultimate Home Based Business for the full scoop. 

Happy Infopreneuring!

--Melanie R. Jordan, Everybody's Infopreneur Coach and Host of What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast Available 24/7 at http://www.WhatYouKnowIsWorthMorePodcast.com

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