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Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

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A Closer Look at The Education in India

The Indian Education System is one of the oldest systems of the world. Even before the number and alphabet systems, Gurus or sages used to impart knowledge orally to their Shishyas or students. This information was passed on from one generation to the other in many varied forms, from folk tales to various physical activities and tasks. The Indian education system was rich and highly respected in its form so much so that the students used to rank their Gurus even above their parents. Later on, manuscripts and teachings were written on palm leaves, temple walls and later, on paper. The teacher-student was considered very pious and even poor students used to offer their teacher some form of contribution, be it in the form of money, fruits or even pledges.

Today, the Indian education has taken on a completely different form. With the rise of modern, globalised India, education in India has raced forward with huge and successful leaps. For those who can afford good quality education, there are hardly any hurdles in their paths. But even for the poor and lesser fortunate strata of the society, the government has launched various policies and initiatives. In order to promote free education among poor children till the age of 14 years, the government has banned child labor and fervently launches various schemes like the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) to entice more and more children to take up books. Apart from these schemes, the youth of India is waking up to its responsibilities and carrying out various individual, non-profit activities to impart knowledge to these children. And not just children, even the elderly and the women are coming forward and becoming an active part of these initiatives.

The youth of today rising India has played a major role in bringing about this change. Education initiatives like the “Each One, Teach One” program encourage young people of urban India to come forward and teach children from the deprived areas of the society. Moreover, professionals from established universities and schools are called in to support vocational training programs. To promote secondary level education and to make these children aware of its importance, the SSA has been further extended into Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan. It is because of the youth of our country, equipped with global level education and the support of strong governing policies that the Indian education system has attained new heights. The country constitution states the Right to Education as a very fundamental one and makes it compulsory for every child to be educated till the senior secondary level.

The higher education of India is the third largest in the world after China and the USA and is equipped with better infrastructure and highly qualified and eminent teachers. The University Grants Commission is the highest governing body at the tertiary level and works along with government to promote and regulate various universities. In the year 2009, it was noted that India has 20 central universities, 215 state universities, 100 deemed universities, apart from many other colleges. With all these provisions, the country’s education system is sure to soar high.

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Best Home Based Business – What Are the Best Home Based Businesses to Make Money Today?

What is the best home based business to get into right now? Ebooks and any digital product is the best way to go. What does this mean to you? It is the easiest and simplest way to make money with a tight economy. Here is how to get started in this business you can operate from home.A digital product can be an ebook, training seminar, course, or game. This means you do not physically touch the product. You do not at all need to store any inventory in your own home either. Another cool thing, normally you will not ever need to ship the product either to your customer.The best home based business is becoming an affiliate of the companies that are selling these products. Go to places like ClickBank and set up an account and go window shopping on products you would like to buy and sell.You will be given a code to use that has your own set of numbers and letters for your home based business. This code will change your life! Every time a customer buys from you, your code is embedded in the web browser address when they click to buy. This means you get credit for the purchase.You can be given text ads, banners, and so many more tools to help your home based business grow and be promoted. Take the text ads and place them in free classified ads. When a customer reads the ad and is interested, they will click and land on the site you are promoting. This is one of the best home based business opportunities to get into and start immediately.Now, let’s get your best home based business to grow even more. You need to have a website. There are plenty out there that are under $10 a month. A lot will give you thirty days free to try it out. Have one site for each category you are promoting and selling in your home based business.If you are a person that likes music, then you may decide your best home based business is an online music store. Take all your affiliates for music and put them at home on your online business website. Now, your customers have a wide variety to choose from. Take some of your ads, not all, and start pointing them to your website to build traffic. The more traffic you get to your site, the higher your site will rank in the search engine and can be found more easily.The next step, if you wanted to sell another category say books, then have another website for just books. Now, connect the two websites together and when your customer is at one site, they can see you have another site and go shopping there also. When a customer buys something and checks out, there is a thank you page that can redirect them to the other site. They could even bookmark it for later.So, the best home based business does not even cost you any money at all to get started!