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5 New Year's Resolutions For Infopreneurs

Everyone is making New Year's Resolutions as I write this on New Year's Eve Day, and I figured that it should be no different for infopreneurs.  So here are some New Year's Resolutions that I believe every infopreneur should make (and keep):

 

1. Make the creation of information products and services based on your own unique knowledge your focus.

 

Instead of trying to make money from selling the same tired PLR content that everyone else is pushing, or being the 50,000th affiliate to sell Jane Guru's information product, give yourself the competitive advantage of offering what you uniquely know.  It doesn't mean that the subject matter of your information products and services will be ones never offered before, but it does mean they should be your unique take on them based on your experience and your style.

 

2.  Leave no infopreneur revenue stone unturned.

 

Take the time to create a full information product and service line.  If you're an author, a book alone rarely will lead to riches.  If you do audios or videos, don't think that everyone always wants to get their information that way.  If you're someone who only wants to offer information products and leaves out the more interactive and lucrative information services side because you only want to sell things 24/7 while you sleep, you're asleep at the wheel, and leaving some solid money on the table.

 

Web 2.0 is about making what you know available to your target markets in all the ways they wish to consume it.  Don't let your personal preferences and prejudices affect your bank account.

 

3.  Leave no list-building stone unturned

 

I can't tell you how many content creators have great stuff and little or no opt-in list of their own!  Yes there are many ways to get others to publicize you to their lists, but if you don't have one of your own, you don't have your own group of people in this world who are your followers--your warm audience for what you have.  Those who have actively indicated that they like what you have to offer, and they want to hear from you ongoing. 

 

It's the difference between a telemarketing call at dinner and a call from a friend.  One is warmly received (if they are truly your friend of course), and the other is greeted with all the warmness of a grizzly bear.

 

4.  Shrug off people who unsubscribe to your list

 

So many infopreneurs take every list unsubscribe very personally, as if they did something wrong.  You didn't.  That poor misguided soul is now going to miss out on benefiting from your expertise.  It's their loss, not yours.  Besides, they probably would never have bought anything anyway.

 

5.  Never lose your passion or belief in yourself, and what you have to uniquely offer to the world.

 

It's not easy to be an entrepreneur, and at times, it can be even tougher being an infopreneur.  If you have a restaurant, it's easy for people to know exactly what you do, what you offer and how you hopefully make your money.  When you create information products and services, sometimes it can be hard for people to "get" what you do--especially in the offline, regular world, where people don't know what Twitter is, what a podcast is, what a teleseminar is, or possibly even what an e-book is!

 

You may get pressure from others who want to know when you're going to get a "real" job?  Or "when do you plan on making money?"  Or you may put a tremendous amount of pressure to succeed on yourself, that can cloud your judgment, without anyone else even having to get into the mix.

 

Infopreneuring is not an internet "get rich overnight" proposition, it's a terrific, recession-proof business with almost no overhead that, most importantly, no employer can ever take away from you.  It's one that you can, in theory, do part-time or full-time forever.  Plus, what you create can live on long after you no longer exist.  Your knowledge--what you know--is something you've worked hard to acquire, and you must always believe with all your heart that you can make your infopreneur business happen.  If you do that, and you never lose sight of that vision; it will happen.

 

And if you enjoyed this post, you're my kind of infopreneur, and I want to help make your 2009 your year!  Invite you to join my subscriber-only free infopreneur teleseminar series which kicks off in January, and goes into lots more detail than I can in my infopreneur blog.  Join my list today to be sure you have access to these special free infopreneur teleseminar events!  CLICK HERE You'll also get some additional free subscriber bonuses as my thank you to boot!

 

Happy Infopreneuring and Happy New Year!

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

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Check out Melanie's Other Blogs:

The Healthy Food Review where healthy eating with favorite comfort foods is deliciously possible! at http://www.TheHealthyFoodReview.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

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Infopreneur Podcast Laid Off? Infopreneuring Is Your Next Job!

With all the massive layoffs going on right now, it's never been more important to take control of your destiny, your livelihood and your knowledge.

Whether you have been laid off, fear being laid off, or know someone who’s been laid off.  This is a “must-listen” infopreneur podcast episode because infopreneuring should be, and must be, your next job!

 

Even if you think you’re secure in your current job, you’re never as secure as you think and we take a look at why and what to do to protect your livelihood, or the finances of someone you know, from layoffs.  Check out this special infopreneur podcast episode of What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast and tell everyone you know to listen-–it’s that important!

And now I'd like to invite you to get a free copy of my e-book The Treasury Of Infopreneur FAQs CLICK HERE to help get you started as an infopreneur, and answer all the questions you're bound to have after listening to this infopreneur podcast episode.

(Yes I will ask you to sign up for my e-mail list to get it, but I promise it will open the doors for you to a ton of my unique knowledge you can immediately put to good use, and you'll get subscriber-only invitations to my free infopreneur teleseminar series on becoming an infopreneur, and my private e-mail address to ask me questions.  And I'll never sell or share your info with anyone!  Fair enough?)

This podcast episode was sponsored by New Media Transcription.com, my trusted experts for my podcast transcripts and teleseminar transcripts. 

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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Check out more of Melanie's empowering publications on work-at-home lifestyles, healthy eating and foreclosure investing, and learn about her Marketing and Infopreneur Coaching Services at http://www.SunLoverPublishing.com

Check out Melanie's Other Blogs:

The Healthy Food Review where healthy eating with favorite comfort foods is deliciously possible! at http://www.TheHealthyFoodReview.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

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Ask The Infopreneur Coach Podcast or Teleseminar Which Is Better

Question:

  

I do teleseminars, would a podcast be better?  If so, why?

  

Answer From Melanie Jordan, Everybody's Infopreneur Coach:

  

It's not so much that a podcast is any better or any worse than a teleseminar; it's just another way of delivering your knowledge to your target market.  In my opinion, you should have both to appeal to different attention spans and levels of interest.

 

A podcast usually is a lot shorter--typically 5-10 minutes, sometimes as much as 20 minutes.  Most teleseminars run about an hour.

 

The podcast is usually an ongoing series that's perceived as a show (in fact I often refer to it with people new to the podcast concept as my internet radio show), except as the controller and creator of your information, you can't get canceled by the short-sighted networks!  A teleseminar is often just a one-time event, a once a month event or perhaps a few weeks in duration.  For example, my free infopreneur podcast What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast is ongoing with a new episode every week on Mondays.

 

A podcast can also be distributed via some unique delivery mechanisms that are only open to podcasters.  However, you can edit down your teleseminar, or divide it into multiple podcast episodes if you like--no need to reinvent the wheel!

 

Either a podcast or a teleseminar can be free or paid content--and you need both types of offerings.

 

Both a podcast and teleseminar will also help you establish a more personal connection with your audience as they hear your voice including your emotion and passion for your topic that doesn't always come through in writing  The teleseminar can be more interactive if you choose to do so by inviting live questions.

 

I do my infopreneur podcast as an ongoing, entertaining introduction to all of my infopreneur and marketing expertise.  My free infopreneur teleseminar series is going to be a subscriber invitation-only event to reward those who are more serious followers and customers of mine with the longer-form and more in-depth content.  Everyone can access my infopreneur podcast (at least for now) What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast, only those at least willing to give me their e-mail address will get access to the teleseminars.

 

You have to determine your marketing and information product and service strategy and plan, but that's my two cents on it.  Thanks for your question! 

 

 

And now I'd like to invite you to invite you to get access to some free teleseminar training videos from my mentor Alex Mandossian, and find out how to get $1279.95 worth of personal coaching and training bonuses directly from me to launch or improve your teleseminar series with my exclusive Teleseminar Secrets Bonus at http://www.MyTeleseminarSecret.com.

 

 

If you would like to ask me a question about infopreneuring or marketing, that's one of the special perks that my list subscribers receive.  I invite you to join my list which will allow you to submit unlimited questions and get access to my subscriber-only free infopreneur teleseminar series which kicks off soon and goes into lots more detail than I can in my infopreneur blog.  Join my list today to be sure you have access to these special free infopreneur teleseminar events!  CLICK HERE You'll also get some additional free subscriber bonuses as my thank you to boot!

  

Happy Infopreneuring!

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

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Check out more of Melanie's empowering publications on work-at-home lifestyles, healthy eating and foreclosure investing, and learn about her Marketing and Infopreneur Coaching Services at http://www.SunLoverPublishing.com

Check out Melanie's Other Blogs:

The Healthy Food Review where healthy eating with favorite comfort foods is deliciously possible! at http://www.TheHealthyFoodReview.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

Note: I am an affiliate for Teleseminar Secrets, which means if you buy the course through me, I will get paid a commission, but you'll also get extra bonuses from me.  As a proud graduate myself I am confident in recommending it to you!

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Infopreneur Podcast How You Can Make $1,000 Or More With Just Two Words

Infopreneurs don't always need a lot of words to make money online from what they know.  Sometimes it takes just a word or two.

And the details on how it's really possible to make $1,000 or more from just a word or two are all waiting for you in this episode of my infopreneur podcast What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast.  Check it out--this one has been grabbing listeners super fast!

And now I'd like to invite you to get a free copy of my e-book The Treasury Of Infopreneur FAQs CLICK HERE. 

(Yes I will ask you to sign up for my e-mail list to get it, but I promise it will open the doors for you to a ton of my unique knowledge you can immediately put to good use, and you'll get subscriber-only invitations to my free infopreneur teleseminar series on becoming an infopreneur, and my private e-mail address to ask me questions.  And I'll never sell or share your info with anyone!  Fair enough?)

This podcast episode was sponsored by New Media Transcription.com, my trusted experts for my podcast transcripts and teleseminar transcripts. 

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

Don't miss a post--subscribe to the What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know - The Blog For Infopreneurs feed.  It's easy!  CLICK HERE

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Check out more of Melanie's empowering publications on work-at-home lifestyles, healthy eating and foreclosure investing, and learn about her Marketing and Infopreneur Coaching Services at http://www.SunLoverPublishing.com

Check out Melanie's Other Blogs:

The Healthy Food Review where healthy eating with favorite comfort foods is deliciously possible! at http://www.TheHealthyFoodReview.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

Copyright SunLover Publishing LLC 2008

Ask The Infopreneur Coach Follow Everyone On Twitter Or Not

Question: 

 

When I use Twitter, should I be following everyone who follows me, or should I be selective about who I follow back?  I've seen people say the right way is both of these, and I'm so confused!

 

Answer From Melanie Jordan, Everybody's Infopreneur Coach:

 

The issue of whether to follow everyone who follows you on Twitter is one that comes up a lot regarding this red hot social media site.  I'll let you know what I do, but you should keep in mind that despite Twitter chatter to the contrary, there is no true right or wrong for using Twitter (unless it comes from Twitter itself).

 

When I first started using Twitter, I used to be very selective about it, and I just wasn't getting a lot of followers and the interaction I wanted.  I decided to do an experiment, and I started following everyone back who followed me (except for those "strange activity" people, of course).  My follower numbers soared. 

 

That's because Twitter is viral.  When you follow someone back, it exposes you to their followers, and some people will check you out solely because they see something interesting you've said to that person.  Others like to check out followers, and those being followed, by someone they are connected to as well, so you can get picked up by people you actually would have wanted to target anyway, simply in that fashion.

 

Besides, there are many people who are in the "I don't follow those who don't follow me back" camp, and if you don't follow one of them, they won't stay on your follower list.

 

I decided that even if not everyone is a direct connection to what I'm about, and the topics I cover, so what?  Everyone on Twitter is impressed with people who have a lot of followers.  Come on, admit it, haven't you thought twice about following someone back, or not even followed them at all because they hardly had any followers (again, except those who are obviously not for real on Twitter)?

 

You never know who will be associated with someone who just might be a key connection for you  And the person who you think on the surface might not be an obvious match today, suddenly could end up being interested in your topic tomorrow, as their own circumstances, or the ones of someone they know, change.

 

Like not everyone might be into the idea of infopreneuring which I tweet about often, in addition to my work on healthy eating, things in the news, answering questions people have and "slice of life" stuff.  Yet, suddenly someone who follows me could get laid off, and the next thing you know, they are interested in infopreneuring, because they realize, like I have, that being an infopreneur is an empowering way to make money from what you know.

 

It costs nothing to have as many followers as you like on Twitter, and unlike Facebook, there are no limits on how many followers you can have.

 

This is a more obscure reference, but Big Kenny of Big & Rich country music fame, has the words "love everybody" on his guitar.  I think when it comes to Twitter, it pays to do the same.

 

And if you enjoyed this post, you're my kind of infopreneur, and I invite you to join my subscriber-only free infopreneur teleseminar series which kicks off soon and goes into lots more detail than I can in my infopreneur blog.  Join my list today to be sure you have access to these special free infopreneur teleseminar events!  CLICK HERE You'll also get some additional free subscriber bonuses as my thank you to boot!

 

Happy Infopreneuring!

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

Don't miss a post--subscribe to the What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know - The Blog For Infopreneurs feed.  It's easy!  CLICK HERE

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Check out more of Melanie's empowering publications on work-at-home lifestyles, healthy eating and foreclosure investing, and learn about her Marketing and Infopreneur Coaching Services at http://www.SunLoverPublishing.com

Check out Melanie's Other Blogs:

The Healthy Food Review where healthy eating with favorite comfort foods is deliciously possible! at http://www.TheHealthyFoodReview.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

Copyright SunLover Publishing LLC 2008

Infopreneur Podcast Choosing Information Product Subjects That Make People Buy What You Know

A crucial topic for all infopreneurs is Choosing Information Product Subjects That Make People Want To Buy What You Know.  It's the new episode of my infopreneur podcast What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM), The Podcast 

The right topic for your information products and services will have you and your bank account singing, the wrong topic will have you knocking on the door of the poor house. 

The right things to do are all included in this episode of my infopreneur podcast.

And now I'd like to invite you to get a free copy of my e-book The Treasury Of Infopreneur FAQs CLICK HERE. 

(Yes I will ask you to sign up for my e-mail list to get it, but I promise it will open the doors for you to a ton of my unique knowledge you can immediately put to good use, and you'll get subscriber-only invitations to my free infopreneur teleseminar series on becoming an infopreneur, and my private e-mail address to ask me questions.  And I'll never sell or share your info with anyone!  Fair enough?)

This podcast episode was sponsored by New Media Transcription.com, my trusted experts for my podcast transcripts and teleseminar transcripts. 

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

Don't miss a post--subscribe to the What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know - The Blog For Infopreneurs feed.  It's easy!  CLICK HERE

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Check out more of Melanie's empowering publications on work-at-home lifestyles, healthy eating and foreclosure investing, and learn about her Marketing and Infopreneur Coaching Services at http://www.SunLoverPublishing.com

Check out Melanie's Other Blogs:

The Healthy Food Review where healthy eating with favorite comfort foods is deliciously possible! at http://www.TheHealthyFoodReview.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

Copyright SunLover Publishing LLC 2008