Last week was a busy, busy week.  I got nothin’ done.

It started out pretty poorly with the death of my poor car.  After 11 years it done up and died. Fortunately, it managed to make it as far as the driveway before it expired. So I had to replace it in a hurry. Even more fortunately, I picked up a used version for a reasonable price.

Then on the weekend it got really busy. And in many ways much better.

You see my sister got married on Saturday  …. and we had a great time at the wedding.

It took place outside on the shores of Lake Ontario with the sailboats peaking through behind the wedding party.

And then came the party. For the first time in almost ten years I got a chance to dance with my wife. And I got the chance to dance with my daughter for the first time. The pain was well worth it!

So to celebrate I’ve got a “contest” for everyone.

Are you having problems finishing your book? Is writing your information product turning out to be more difficult than you thought?

A coaching session might just be the solution!

We’re going to give away five 20 minute coaching sessions with Glen or Paul. Each session is a $200 value but five lucky people will get one for FREE!!

Just go here and sign up  ….
20 Minute Coaching Session Giveaway

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Hi Folks

There’s a “new” SEO traffic technique out there that involves making comments to blogs for the sole purpose of getting backlinks (i.e. Google will raise your page rank based on the number of links to your site).

Now, I don’t mind the occasional link or two from my site — especially if it is a related to information product (aka learning content product) creation such as eBooks and Webinars and Seminars and Podcasts and Videos etc. etc. etc.. Even more so if you are in the marketing side — which I’m trying to stay out of. Hell, I’ll even promote my competition — content creation, SEO and web design.

Unfortunately, lately the level of spamming has gotten out of control …

The final straw came when a spammer decided to write negative comments and question my knowledge of writing. At my age and with my experience I bloody well better know what I’m talking about! And if information seems to come out of thin air, trust me every cc of that air has been earned.

So … I still welcome comments …  I love comments … and I promise any comments you leave are read (even if I don’t reply). Any suggestions for articles or courses will be considered (and keep looking at the blog ’cause they’ll probably end up as an article at least!)

However, I’m forced to:

• remove all URLs from your name (so no more free ride)
• remove all URLs from posts (unless they are relevant and earned)!
• require registration of people commenting.

Sorry, but a few bad eggs ruin it for everyone.

P.S.

I’m still focused on the course which I’m hoping to do in one mass next week. So blog articles will return … hopefully in two weeks!

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Did you enjoy the seminar on determining your niche strategy? Are you familiar with the term Risk Management — I am! Let’s say that this week’s seminar turned into a major pain in the

But at least the seminar turned out well when it finally ran!

We covered the basics for selecting your niche and your solution and doing the initial marketing strategy.

Next seminar is also part of the main home study course itself …

Developing your Product Funnel strategy

… is again marketing but this time we’re going to determine what courses and books you need and what media to use.

When … don’t know yet … next week maybe Monday or Tuesday….

Pre-register for the free webinar here.

Benefits?

1. Minimum 24 hours notice of the webinar
2. Minimum 2 hours advance chance to register
3. Some special bonuses that I’m still tossing around.

Remember there are NO free copies of these webinars available (They’re going to be sold. So you have to be  there to see it for free!)

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The first of the webinars is done.  I’d like to say without a hitch but …

At least everyone who attended enjoyed the seminar.

Next seminar is the first of the home study course itself …

Developing your niche strategy …

When … don’t know yet … next week sometime….

Pre-register for the free webinar here.

Benefits?

1. Minimum 24 hours notice of the webinar
2. Minimum 2 hours advance chance to register
3. Some special bonuses that I’m still tossing around.

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The first webinar of my product recording will be this afternoon….

For more information about the product as a whole check the last blog post….

For more information about the webinar itself … go check out my Free Webinar Pre-Registration page.

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Have you ever been working so hard that you start making dumb mistakes that only make more work?

Duh! Guess what I just did?

I wrote the first version of this — used the wrong title and left something off … then I forgot to tweet it!

Guess it was fate. After all would YOU want to give away more than $20,000?

No s&&&! It’s real and no joke.  And no trick. You can get over $1000 of training for free!

You see my marketing coach, Sean Mize, has been pushing me to add some more products in addition to my eBook over there on the right ….

And I need a marketing sample for my coaching … so I’m going to be running a …

FREE

Information Product Creation Course

PLUS …

A FREE Coaching Call

Wait a second … what do I mean by free? How’s that supposed to help me sell more product. And I’ve already got a free eBook course – what’s going on here?

It’s simple. In order to have product to sell, I have to create the product. That’s simple enough even for me. I could do it without anyone. But I don’t really like running webinars all by my lonesome. Besides it’s a bit of a waste of my very limited time.

So …. (And here’s the good part)

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be running webinars covering:

1. Researching Your Topic
2. Planning Your Products
3. Repurposing Right
4. Product Design & Creation (Designing For All Media)
5. Editing (Generic Editing)
6. Publishing (Publishing Alternatives)
7. Media Specific Topics:
   1. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Books
   2. Creating/Editing/Publishing For eBooks
   3. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Webinars
   4. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Video
   5. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Audio
   6. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Live Events
8. Writing Articles for Marketing

As you can tell from the titles, this is so new I haven’t even done a marketing twist on the titles! Not to mention decide how long to make the generic portions or even if I want to do them seperately! (Talk about agile … hah! This is madcap, break-neck, get-my-coach-off-my-back project management).

Unlike the Free course over there =======>
which was intended to be free from the start …. this is going to have a $997 price tag (cause my competitors charge $2,997 + for less) and be a multi-DVD, multi-CD (12 or more DVDs plus) physical product. (I still like $497 but everybody’s after me to charge more!)

PLUS: I’m going to run a group coaching session … all for free!

Yup, you heard right … one of my full group coaching sessions where you get to ask any question you want. Get any help you need. Basically you get me for an hour or so (or at least ’till the wife kicks me off the phone or you run out of questions). But I can’t handle that as many people in a coaching session as I can in a webinar.

So … here’s the deal.

Over the next couple of weeks (depending on workload) I’m going to run webinars.

• They will be limited to a maximum of 20 people each.
  
• They will be run erratically as I have time available.
• There will be NO recordings available (it’s a paid product)
• They will be announced to my mailing list ONLY
• I don’t HAVE to do them in the right order
• You have to agree sign a “standard” release as a participant. (So you can ask questions and I can still sell the product afterwards).

I’ll put up a signup page for each webinar when I announce it.

If you aren’t on my mailing list yet (and being a subscriber to this blog doesn’t count) …

look over to your right ————>

There’s a signup form for my mailing list. Signup and I’ll send you a notice of the next event.

PLUS:

You’ll have a chance to have a group coaching session with either Paul or myself. Our coaching sessions are currently one on one and we’re looking to expand to a more efficient model (Plus Sean’s yelling at me!). And to do that I need a sample session …

So … we’ll be having a REAL, LIVE, FREE!!!! Coaching session some time over the next few weeks. Same deal as the course webinars. However, the number of participants for this coaching session will be even less than for the webinars. You’ve got to be on my mailing list to be warned about it.

Now what’s this worth? I’ve got to be honest, I don’t do group coaching. But I do charge $2000 a day and up to my private clients for one-on-one coaching. And we trialed a simplified one-on-one coaching for $300 per hour for one-on-one coaching.   This is at least an hour (probably more) of coaching … It’s got to be worth at least $197. But let’s say it’s only worth $97.

Let’s add this up …..
Complete Information
Products Creation Course … value $ 997

Plus
Group Coaching Call … value $   97 +

Total Value $1,094 + what ever else I decide
to throw in

All just for your name and email address (and a later release)
over here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Arrrggggg ….  This was supposed to go up on Friday but didn’t make it …

My marketing coach, Sean, has been pushing me to add some more products in addition to my eBook on “How To Write a How To EBook in 24 Hours or Less”.

And I need some materials for my coaching … so I’m going to be running a …

FREE

Information Product Creation Course

PLUS … A Coaching Call

Wait a second … what do you mean by free? How’s that supposed to help you sell more product. And you’ve already got a free eBook course – what’s the difference?

It’s simple. In order to have product to sell, I have to create the product. Cool? And I don’t really like running webinars all by my lonesome. Besides it’s a bit of a waste of my very limited time.

So …. (And here’s the good part)

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be running webinars covering:

1. Researching Your Topic
2. Planning Your Products
3. Repurposing Right
4. Product Design & Creation (Designing For All Media)
5. Editing  (Generic Editing)
6. Publishing (Publishing Alternatives)
7. Media Specific Topics:
   1. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Books
   2. Creating/Editing/Publishing For eBooks
   3. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Webinars
   4. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Video
   5. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Audio
   6. Creating/Editing/Publishing For Live Events
8. Writing Articles for Marketing

As you can tell from the titles, this is so new I haven’t even done a marketing twist on the titles! Not to mention decide how long to make the generic portions or even if I want to do them seperately! (Talk about agile … hah! This is madcap, break-neck, get-my-coach-off-my-back project management).

Unlike the Free course over there =======>
which was intended to be free from the start …. this is going to have a $457  to $997 price tag (cause my competitors charge $2,997 + for less) and be a physical product.

PLUS: I’m going to run a group coaching session … for free!

So … here’s the deal.

Over the next couple of weeks (depending on workload) I’m going to run webinars.

• They will be limited to 20 people each.
• They will be run erratically as I have time available.
• There will be NO recordings available (it’s a paid product)
• They will be announced to my mailing list ONLY
• I don’t HAVE to do them in the right order
• You have to agree sign a “standard” release as a participant. (So you can ask questions and I can still sell the product afterwards).

I’ll put up a signup page for each webinar when I announce it.

If you aren’t on my mailing list yet (and being a subscriber to this blog doesn’t count) …

look over to your right ————>

There’s a signup form for my mailing list.  Signup and I’ll send you a notice of the next event.

PLUS:

You’ll have a chance to have a group coaching session with either Paul or myself. Our coaching sessions are currently one on one and we’re looking to expand to a more efficient model (Plus Sean’s yelling at me!). And to do that I need a sample session …

So … we’ll be having a REAL, LIVE, FREE!!!! Coaching session some time over the next few weeks. Same deal as the course webinars. You’ve got to be on my mailing list to be warned about it.

Let’s add this up …..

Complete Information Products Creation Course … value $997
Group Coaching Call …                                                          value $97

Total Value $1,094 + what ever else I decide to throw in

All just for your name and email address (and a release)
over here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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There’s one problem with working from home. You lose track of what day it is and niceties such as holidays tend to flit away …

I promised an announcement and a continuation of the article from earlier in the week. But today is Good Friday and Monday is Easter Monday. So I’m going to spend it with my wife and kids.

Sorry.  New posts starting Wednesday.

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And a Happy St. Padraig’s Day to ye and ye’re own!

I went and forgot Dewi Sante’s day again (Boy, does that sound weird … St. David’s day to you Saesneg.) Even though my son’s name is Dafydd. Only the Welsh would have a saint named St. Davey as in Davey Boy!

Anyway, the bottom line is I have to settle for St. Patrick’s Day … My Bad! And here I could’ve had two celebrations!

So now I’m off for a bit of Corned Beef and Cabbage (the version of Colcannon me ancestors have been settling for these last 150 years or so). And I’ll trade the green beer for a pint of Harp or maybe a Black ‘n Tan. I love the Guinness but me shape has been heading towards a circle for too long!

And today’s column is  but a simple wish “May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint!”  

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Part 1 – Write How-To Books & Creating Information Products & Course – Where To From Here?

Hey Folks, I just wanted to thank you for reading my blog. After all a writer without readers is wasting his time and energy. So Thank You for reading my few poor words.

Now up to this point I’ve been concentrating most of my advice  on writing how-to books and eBooks and whatnot.  But of course, what I do is create Learning Content … of which how-to books and eBooks are just one form or media.  Basically, anything that is a course or a knowledge transfer is fair game for me.

So what would you like me to concentrate on? Do you want me to continue talking about how to write how-to books and eBooks. Or would you rather I spent time on other course formats … DVD, CD, and Live Seminars for example.

What questions would you like me to answer? Where are you having problems with writing your how-to Books or creating your information products and courses? Ask away … this is your chance for some FREE coaching!

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Part 2 – On Writing Articles – I Can Write More Than Just How-To Books — Really I Can!

Just an quick announcement  — Over the last two weeks I’ve been writing article after article for EZineArticles.com which has been both tiring, frustrating and a bit of an ego boost. I’ve got several articles up … I’m aiming for 10 a day — hey they’re short — but we’ll see how many I can actually get out.

The reason it’s an ego boost is that I got two promotions ahead of time.   One is being flagged as an Expert Writer. (wee 8)  ) Which is cool but …   And the second is that I got promoted to platinum from basic ahead of time.  You see they edit the submissions. You get 10 submissions to convince them you are good enough to bother with. Each of which is edited twice before being posted. They then evaluate all ten of your submissions.  You then get another 25 to convince them that you are good enough to be let loose.  Again these are edited twice and posted. After the 25 are published, you are evaluated yet again. With luck you then get to be promoted to platinum level — which means you can submit as many articles as you’d like.

I was promoted directly to platinum after only 9 submissions.

Pretty cool huh?

You can get access to my articles by clicking on the box to the right.

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Part 3 – On Free Courses and Paid Courses and Keeping In Touch.

Just a reminder about the boxes over to the right ….

The first is a link to our FREE course on How To Write How-To Books. Over 7 weeks I’ll show you how to plan, design and write a how-to book in under 24 hours. Nothing is held back!

The second box is a link to the book How To Write How-To Books in 24 hrs Or Less. This system in a box will help you to write your how to book. Lots of bonuses and a great price.

The third and fourth boxes link to two solutions for those of you who’ve hit a block. The third box links to our coaching service where you can get weekly guidance on writing your how-to book. The fourth box solves the problem by linking to our custom book writing service.

Don’t forget our twitter birds and the newsletter opt-in. Our twitter account at www.tritter.com/PMPsicle are great ways to connect with us and keep track of what is going on here.

Give them a try

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