How to kill 2 birds with one stone and earn money
Real EstateI recently picked up a Flip video camera and suddenly started making money from living my life normally… Let me explain:
My job involves a wide variety of tasks, from creating software and websites, to training clients, playing in a rock band and giving drum lessons, and much more. Now when I create a website or consult with a client, I simply pull out my video flip to document and videotape what I’m doing. Now, instead of doing my job normally, I have an informative video of me doing my job. The best thing about this is that I can sell the information to people interested in learning how to do what I do.
When I give a drum lesson, I pull out the Flip video and record the drum lesson. I get paid to give the lesson and then I get to show the whole world how to play the drums too. (With the drum lesson attended approval, of course.
You see that information is powerful. People all over the Internet are looking for information. What’s even more powerful is that many of these people are willing to pay good money for that information, if it solves a problem for them or helps them accomplish something they couldn’t do without learning the information.
Every day, chances are you do something that could help someone else solve a problem or achieve a goal of theirs, and you just need to get out the video camera or audio recorder and document what you’re doing. Thus killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
This concept can be applied in almost all industries…
Mechanics, real estate, financial advisors, salesperson, retail, restaurants, internet, fun activities you do, etc.
By simply creating information that could help others learn how to do something they want and recording that information, you have created an information product. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in almost every industry/niche imaginable just to get information.
My favorite part of selling information is that I never have to deal with any overhead costs. No shipping and fulfillment fees…nothing. Information can be delivered to people over the Internet by allowing them to download a file. Maybe a pdf. or Word doc, allowing them to view a video, listen to an audio mp3, view a screen recording, and many other ways that do not require any kind of compliance cost.
If you start looking at the daily routines that you do and discover that you do something, or know something that a group of people may be looking for on the Internet, you can kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and record that process and create an information product. .
Whether it’s documenting how you lost those 5 pounds, or how you fixed that car, or how you sold your house… There are people out there who are looking to learn how to do that, and more importantly, are willing to pay you good money for that information. in particular.
I use a Flip video. Most video cameras can work. Audio recorders are cheap and most people have Microsoft Office where you can write an electronic book of information. (OpenOffice is a free version of Word.)
Make sure that if someone other than you is helping to create the information (for example, interviewing your boss about strategic management practices), you ask permission to use their image, quotes, information, etc. in an information product. Most people like the branding aspect of being interviewed as “experts” in their industry…
Ask your college professor if you could document your class as an information product. Kids who take that class next semester are likely to lose $10 on that kind of information.
My friend has sold a $1000 home study course from just interviewing experts in a certain field. All he did was learn everything he could possibly want to learn about that industry by recording a 30-minute phone interview with the expert. He, of course, was actively looking for that information anyway, so he thought why not make an information product while he learns himself. Sparkly!
Creating the information is easy. Selling the information is also quite easy to do if you can find out where the people are who may be interested in your information. Social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, etc. we have hundreds of millions of people who may be interested in your information.
Start killing 2 birds with one stone and document the things you do that other people could benefit from and make money. It’s so easy to do and you were going to do it anyway, so why not record it?