Thanks John….I’ve been “stuck on start” plenty of times because of what I THINK won’t be valuable to others. I am often amazed that what I have is exactly what others want

I have those kinds of thoughts all the time and it is a struggle to complete my first product. I have had several goes at it and now have completed a first draft. Waiting for someone to read it and then work on adding other formats. Can’t help but still wonder if I will sell enough to even break even, lol.

Jenny Wren

My,

How did you know what I was thinking? Those things you said …kind of struck a chord with me.

Thank you for that jab of confidence.

Thanks John, This post has answered all my questions and allayed my fears about creating my own products. You have made it so simple that I have become anxious and fired up to go. Thanks guy.

When I started a couple of years ago John my plan was ( and still is) on info-product creation. But I did things about-face so to speak. I wanted to get the feel of writing and creating products, and to learn how to add great value, so that’s what I did, before I got my site up and running.
It was a good exercise, but I took a couple months – on and off. Now I have 3 products into the marketplace, a freebie, and a heap of short reports yet to be published.

What I’m saying to everyone is just stick at it. Trust in yourself. Whatever you create will never be a lost cause. There’s always someone somewhere who will buy what you write – if it’s good!

Thanks John,
For your persuasion and persistence when it came to reassuring me that I could write a product. The start was difficult.
However, the difference it can make when you have your own stuff to sell, rather than 3rd party is amazing. For me it has been a real “step-change” for my business and I hope to have my next product available for launch in April.
Once you get started, it becomes addictive.
Gareth

Thanks, John. I’m cautiously poking at my first info product. This covers a lot of the worries I had. Now to get the thing written…

Cheers John, you make a great case there but I’d like to take it just one step further…

I’m sure like many people, I’ve created products in the past but done nothing with them. Probably for many of the reasons you listed… not good enough, already done, who am I? etc.

The point is I could go on editing or recreating updates for EVER… It will NEVER be perfect. No product is.

As soon as I realised this I started selling instead of creating… and you know what? Selling makes more money!

Who’d have thought?

All the best,
Phill G.
http://www.SmarterMarketers.com

Hi everyone,

and you are absolutely right John, if we just find excuses to do nothnig we will never do it.
But if we will commite to somethnig and we put some work on the table we will creat oure first product.

And when we will have success selling it the next our product will be piece of cake.

Thank for the motivation.

All the best.

Erwin

It’s definitely the toughest hurdle to overcome.

I’m was so guilty of ‘sweating the small stuff’.

I want everything absolutely perfectly before I ever launched any of my software products.

Of course you have to make it perfect when it come to the software product itself, but I carried that mentality over to the marketing side..

I’ want the design to be just right…..tweaking here and there..

I’d want to test different squeeze pages…..different sales copy….you name it I’d anted perfection.

But that delayed getting the product out into market place. And I lost so much because of that mentality.

I’m gradually getting over that, and I’m not so ‘anal’ about as many things as I used to be

Great stuff John but how about when you have created what you think is a fabulous product but you just can’t get it out there? tried JVZoo, yet to try warrior forum.

Just Do It! Should be stamped on every Newbie’s hand.

Lack of confidence is a hurdle seldom addressed the way it is in this post. You get a lot of “brand yourself, establish your authority etc.” in programs….

It can be the cause of apparent procrastination, road blocks to implementing needed changes or improvements……

There is nothing new under the sun…Well maybe not, but it can look new, with a different slant, with my point of view and How I used it….

Thanks John,

Sometimes it takes awhile!!!!

Great advise as always John.

Thank you. I ALWAYS have my doubts when I do something, glad to see I’m not the only one.

Thanks!

So many people when starting out have great difficulty in creating their first product due to the reasons stated above in the post. However, information products aren’t just written ones. They can be audios, videos, and even teleseminars.

A matter of fact, if you’re not a writer, and you don’t mind speaking, then maybe an audio or teleseminar might be the product to create. Teleseminars are excellent information products to create because they’re instant, and you can make money with them as well.

Like was mentioned from the others who have commented on this post, just get out there and do it. Worrying about it and fretting about it isn’t going to get anything done. You must take action and create the product. Taking action is the first step in the right direction towards true success online.

Everybody had to start from somewhere. The gurus didn’t become gurus over night. They too had to work their way up to the success level that they’re at now.

You see, as a newbie, you do have an advantage because like one commenter said; your approach is from a newbie’s standpoint which is what most people are looking for. Sure learning from the gurus is great, but if you can get a newbie to share his or her experience in a format that is truly newbie-friendly, the better it is.

The reason for this is because the newbie who is trying to help another newbie has had firsthand experience with the situation, and they can definitely relate in a way that only newbies can fully understand.

When you speak to a guru as a newbie, the gurus tend to overcomplicate things because they have had years of experience under their belts, and therefore, have forgotten how to simplify communications between themselves and the newbies. Not all gurus do this, but many of them do.

That is why as a newbie, you have an advantage over the gurus because you are closer to the other newbies and you can share things with them on their level.

So if you’re having trouble creating your first product, then follow the advice given here and that is; just get out there and do it. Just do it and give it your very best. Don’t worry about perfection and stuff like that. Just create the product, release it and see what happens.

John,

You have some excellent points on why people don’t create their first product but the question I have is does anybody buy info products anymore. The reality seems to me that info products are dying off. One of the clues is the fact that all these big name gurus are ditching the products and getting into “coaching programs” and do you really think that somebody can create an ebook on a topic today who is new to info creation and have people jumping at the chance to buy their product when they can go to a million other websites that have more Authority on the topic and get the info for free. You can practically type any question into google and get an answer for free, why would anybody pay for that.

Oh and on the topic of affiliates, sure you can get a ton of affiliates to promote your products but they are struggling along with you trying to make sales which most don’t.

It’s nice to see people reply to these posts with their RA-RA-RA SIS BOOM BA attitude but are they making money with their own products and products that are NOT How to make money stuff.

Sorry if this is a little harsh just stating an opinion.

This is great and timely advice. I’ve been playing around with some ideas for a product, but I think it is time to get serious and get with the program. As someone else said, I need to just “Do It!”