19 October 2008
Creation of A Product On A Mac _ Part One
25/10/08 21:01
We’re going to talk about product creation on the Mac now. It doesn’t matter if you have the newest Power Mac, iMac, Airbook, Mac Mini, or whatever, the process is the same.
What are people buying?
What are people interested in?
Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not advocating selling or marketing ANYTHING that people want. You must draw the line. What is the best product?
What is the good product?
What product fits with your morals and ethics? You must be able to sleep at night with yourself based on the products you create.
Someone once said that if you give people what they need, they would beat a path to your door to buy what you have.
Not so.
People buy what they WANT.
So, your biggest challenge is to find out what people are buying and develop a product around an already successful niche. How do you find out what’s popular?
Go to the magazine rack at your local bookstore. Thumb through the ads. What ads keep coming up over and over in different publications? What ads keep showing up in the same magazine?
Once you have found an interesting niche, put on your thinking cap. Can you create a report about this? iWork would be perfect for this.
Can you interview someone about the niche? Burning a CD would work nicely on your Mac for this.
Is there someone who would show you his or her skill in a particular niche?
You could use iMovie and iDVD for this product.
But before we continue further, we need to test market our product.
The best place I have found to test market products is Ebay. You have millions of people shopping every day for a special item. You can place an ad for an information product and in three days know if the market is interested in it.
You don’t have to pay for a website. You don’t have to get a merchant credit account. You don’t have to do a joint venture. You don’t have to wait for a print ad to come out. You don’t have to answer the phone.
And best of all, you can get a product up and for sale in a few minutes. You can create a product in a few hours. Then you can make money, week-in, week-out.
Just like I’ve done.
More Info? Go To: www.MacintoshCash.com
What are people buying?
What are people interested in?
Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not advocating selling or marketing ANYTHING that people want. You must draw the line. What is the best product?
What is the good product?
What product fits with your morals and ethics? You must be able to sleep at night with yourself based on the products you create.
Someone once said that if you give people what they need, they would beat a path to your door to buy what you have.
Not so.
People buy what they WANT.
So, your biggest challenge is to find out what people are buying and develop a product around an already successful niche. How do you find out what’s popular?
Go to the magazine rack at your local bookstore. Thumb through the ads. What ads keep coming up over and over in different publications? What ads keep showing up in the same magazine?
Once you have found an interesting niche, put on your thinking cap. Can you create a report about this? iWork would be perfect for this.
Can you interview someone about the niche? Burning a CD would work nicely on your Mac for this.
Is there someone who would show you his or her skill in a particular niche?
You could use iMovie and iDVD for this product.
But before we continue further, we need to test market our product.
The best place I have found to test market products is Ebay. You have millions of people shopping every day for a special item. You can place an ad for an information product and in three days know if the market is interested in it.
You don’t have to pay for a website. You don’t have to get a merchant credit account. You don’t have to do a joint venture. You don’t have to wait for a print ad to come out. You don’t have to answer the phone.
And best of all, you can get a product up and for sale in a few minutes. You can create a product in a few hours. Then you can make money, week-in, week-out.
Just like I’ve done.
More Info? Go To: www.MacintoshCash.com
Sittin' Under a Tree Chewin' and Thinkin' 'Bout Macs
22/10/08 20:47
In my part of the country, it’s almost always warm and sunny.
As a matter of fact, we don’t have much winter here in the Ozarks.
And with the weather all sunny and nice like, it gets ya to thinkin’ a mite about the future.
Well sir, it’s pretty rosy in Appleland and things are gettin’ heated up. Just ’bout everywhere ye turn someones got their ear in those iPod thingees, listening to music.
Ya reckon Apple’s gonna make a computer as small as one o’ them iPods?
I say it’s a comin’!
Purty soon one of them cumputer thingees is gonna be
embedded in my skin … I don’t want no part of it!
No, this is not what the conversation is about here in the Ozarks, but at times, it gets pretty close.
Since moving down here from Chicago, I am constantly amazed at the way people see things here. Mind you, it’s nice to have a pace that is several times slower than what’s happening only 500 miles north of me.
However, when you talk Macs and all things Macintosh here, a lot of people laugh and think you’re talking toys. Yes, even today.
I was at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday making a presentation for my company and mentioned that I was working on a project that would show others how to make profits with a Macintosh computer.
A gentleman at the table remarked, laughing, that I needed a lotta luck to make that happen.
Interestingly enough, after my presentation, the mayor of that small town stuffed her card in my hand and asked me to call her right away.
Anyway, the Mac users in this area are for the most part a pretty good bunch, but a lot of them are still using older Macs and haven’t gotten up to speed.
I equate that to the fact that this whole area is filled with rural folk who have always been able to “make do” with what was on hand and not jump into things too hasty.
So, what I was thinking, since a lot of us Mac users are in our own little world so to speak, how many people out there still think the Mac is only good for educators, graphic artists, or movie makers?
(Hmmm, that’s a pretty big list)
Only time will tell if Apple’s push into the mainstream with it’s Mac Revolution will create an even bigger market share or just passing interest.
As for those of us that have used Macintosh computers for years to run our businesses, we’ll continue to work merrily along with our Macs.
Time will tell.
Want to know more about being a Macinfopreneur©? Check out: Macintosh Cash
As a matter of fact, we don’t have much winter here in the Ozarks.
And with the weather all sunny and nice like, it gets ya to thinkin’ a mite about the future.
Well sir, it’s pretty rosy in Appleland and things are gettin’ heated up. Just ’bout everywhere ye turn someones got their ear in those iPod thingees, listening to music.
Ya reckon Apple’s gonna make a computer as small as one o’ them iPods?
I say it’s a comin’!
Purty soon one of them cumputer thingees is gonna be
embedded in my skin … I don’t want no part of it!
No, this is not what the conversation is about here in the Ozarks, but at times, it gets pretty close.
Since moving down here from Chicago, I am constantly amazed at the way people see things here. Mind you, it’s nice to have a pace that is several times slower than what’s happening only 500 miles north of me.
However, when you talk Macs and all things Macintosh here, a lot of people laugh and think you’re talking toys. Yes, even today.
I was at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday making a presentation for my company and mentioned that I was working on a project that would show others how to make profits with a Macintosh computer.
A gentleman at the table remarked, laughing, that I needed a lotta luck to make that happen.
Interestingly enough, after my presentation, the mayor of that small town stuffed her card in my hand and asked me to call her right away.
Anyway, the Mac users in this area are for the most part a pretty good bunch, but a lot of them are still using older Macs and haven’t gotten up to speed.
I equate that to the fact that this whole area is filled with rural folk who have always been able to “make do” with what was on hand and not jump into things too hasty.
So, what I was thinking, since a lot of us Mac users are in our own little world so to speak, how many people out there still think the Mac is only good for educators, graphic artists, or movie makers?
(Hmmm, that’s a pretty big list)
Only time will tell if Apple’s push into the mainstream with it’s Mac Revolution will create an even bigger market share or just passing interest.
As for those of us that have used Macintosh computers for years to run our businesses, we’ll continue to work merrily along with our Macs.
Time will tell.
Want to know more about being a Macinfopreneur©? Check out: Macintosh Cash
The Next Revolution?
21/10/08 19:57
Ever since I was a boy I always did extra work to make my own spending money. We were poor, but I didn't really know it until later in life and compared notes with friends.
Working a part-time job while going to school and then a full-time job while attending college got old fast!
By the time I was in my mid-thirties, I had tried mlm, cookware sales, performing, publishing, mail order, used car sales, and just about everything I could do to create more income. It was becoming clear that the only way to make any real money was to own my own business.
But as I looked around and saw people who had businesses that were creating a good cashflow for them, I found most of them working 60, 70, or 80 hours a week.
These business owners had changed from working a job for someone else to owning a job that worked them far harder than any other career.
That didn't seem right.
It wasn't until I wrote my second book and produced my second info product that the light bulb finally went off.
If you're planning to start your own profitable business, there's nothing better than starting a business that sells information. And there is no better tool for creating an information product than the Macintosh.
With the release of new incarnations of iLife and iWork every year, the Macintosh is positioned to be THE greatest tool the entrepreneur has for making profits in their business. The Macintosh is perfect for those daring souls who wish to start a business right from their homes.
Today the new currency is information. Information that can be applied.
Information that is useful. Information that solves problems.
This information must be easily accessible. It must be easy to distribute.
Apple has taken its digital hub and without realizing it, created a tool that allows ANYONE to create information as simply as speaking a few words, as simply as turning on a digital movie camera, as simply as taking a few photos.
Does this mean we will now see a rush to get information products to market?
Maybe. Maybe not.
When the desktop revolution began, we saw a few people step out and create some good products. We saw a lot of people trying to create products. It was only with time that the pioneers figured out how to make things work.
This new revolution will be different.
Apple has established such an elegant interface, and such an easy way to create, that rank tyros can put together passable projects and products in short order.
Want to be a Macinfopreneur©? Go to: www.MacintoshCash.com
Working a part-time job while going to school and then a full-time job while attending college got old fast!
By the time I was in my mid-thirties, I had tried mlm, cookware sales, performing, publishing, mail order, used car sales, and just about everything I could do to create more income. It was becoming clear that the only way to make any real money was to own my own business.
But as I looked around and saw people who had businesses that were creating a good cashflow for them, I found most of them working 60, 70, or 80 hours a week.
These business owners had changed from working a job for someone else to owning a job that worked them far harder than any other career.
That didn't seem right.
It wasn't until I wrote my second book and produced my second info product that the light bulb finally went off.
If you're planning to start your own profitable business, there's nothing better than starting a business that sells information. And there is no better tool for creating an information product than the Macintosh.
With the release of new incarnations of iLife and iWork every year, the Macintosh is positioned to be THE greatest tool the entrepreneur has for making profits in their business. The Macintosh is perfect for those daring souls who wish to start a business right from their homes.
Today the new currency is information. Information that can be applied.
Information that is useful. Information that solves problems.
This information must be easily accessible. It must be easy to distribute.
Apple has taken its digital hub and without realizing it, created a tool that allows ANYONE to create information as simply as speaking a few words, as simply as turning on a digital movie camera, as simply as taking a few photos.
Does this mean we will now see a rush to get information products to market?
Maybe. Maybe not.
When the desktop revolution began, we saw a few people step out and create some good products. We saw a lot of people trying to create products. It was only with time that the pioneers figured out how to make things work.
This new revolution will be different.
Apple has established such an elegant interface, and such an easy way to create, that rank tyros can put together passable projects and products in short order.
Want to be a Macinfopreneur©? Go to: www.MacintoshCash.com
Lives of Quiet Frustration: More Ideas on Ebay Cash For Macintosh Owners
20/10/08 05:57
Years ago, when I was working as a behavioral specialist for a local medical facility, I went to one of those mlm meetings at a friend's home and got excited about the opportunity he offered.
I jumped in. With both feet. Went to meetings. Drove hundreds of miles to talk to prospects. Signed people up. This went on for a couple of months until exhaustion set in. Did I make money?
Yes. Did I make a profit?
Yes.
Why?
Because I spent my time doing the things I had to do to get the job done. That is both the solution and the problem for most people. People don't have enough time to live the life they were born to live. Someone once told me the real skinny on how the real corporate world works.
You just get out of college. You get your resumes out. A company hires you for a good chunk of change. You're happy. After a couple of years, you get a raise, a promotion. Buy a new house. A new car. Fancy clothes. You're in hock up to your neck.
But that's OK. You've got a good job. You're paying the bills. You're making just enough to pay everything and have a little bit of spending money. When your tax refund comes in every year, you use that to catch up or buy yourself a little gift. You don't have time to do anything else except work and pay the bills.
And, oh, by the way, in many cases by the time you reach your forties, your salary is more than the corporation wants to pay, so your job is eliminated. Hold on, you say. You know you've got to do something, so you started a little part-time business that you can devote 40 hours a month to.
You stop watching TV. You get up early. You stay up late. You have a dream. You press on.
Let's think about this.
You are doing the right things to move ahead, but you have one big disadvantage.
TIME.
If you love making cakes and have 40 hours a month to make cakes and you are head-to head with a local bakery that has 360 hours a month to bake and sell cakes, your prospects look slim for victory. How do you combat this lack of time?
There is no simple answer.
You need to get back to basics and determine what's important in life. Is giving your life to your job what you want? Do you want to give your life for something higher? Do you have a cause? Do you want to create something that will last? Do you just want to provide a good living for your family without the hassles of the corporate environment? Maybe all you want is an extra $500 a month so you can cut back on the corporate treadmill. There is a one-word solution to this problem.
LEVERAGE.
This is where the Macintosh computer comes to the rescue. There is no better machine that allows you to get more things done in less time. If you do not have much time, you have to do something that will make one hour do the work of ten. Instead of one person hearing your story or looking at your product, you can have thousands become aware of your business in a very short time. With your Macintosh computer, an internet connection, and Ebay you can make cash quickly because of leverage.
Ebay is such a huge marketplace, that with a good idea and a Mac, you can create a product and make sales in just a few days. All you need is some photos, iTune, iMovie, and your Mac and you are ready to start.
For example: Let's say you have a big family. When it comes time to decorate the wedding cakes, everyone calls you. You've liked baking cakes for years. You get out a camera. Take pictures of you decorating the cake. You create some slides in iMovie or Keynote. Put it all together in iMovie and burn to disc in iDVD.
You place an ad in Ebay for your how-to-do-it Wedding Cake Decorating DVD.
Ka-ching! Orders come in.
You've created a new cash stream for yourself.
The Mac is what makes it easy.
Need More Macintosh Cash? Go to www.macintoshcash.com
Making Macintosh Cash By Looking at Ken Burns
19/10/08 20:28
Making Macintosh Cash By Looking At Ken Burns
The first time I saw the Ken Burns effect with iPhoto, I was taken aback.
"What's causing my pics to zoom in and out," I wondered.
It wasn't until I spied the control that I saw what was happening and was intrigued.
I then found out that Ken Burns did some masterful work on the history of the Civil War in the United States and was then forever hooked.
Being able to take photos and turn them into movies is a goldmine for Macintosh
owners.
Here's what I mean.
With a simple digital camera and your Mac, you can create commercials,
digital memory books, promo DVDs, catalogs, reviews, trade show reports,
company updates, training packages, guidebooks, memorial DVDs, instructions,
DVD proposals, DVD business cards, DVD information products, and
much, much more.
Anything that might be put in a book that uses graphics or photos could be
explained on a DVD and thus give more visual punch to any explanation.
Why am I saying this when many people say that you could just go out and
film with a video camera?
Maybe someone doesn't have a video camera yet.
Maybe someone just has a box full of photos they want to share.
Maybe someone just has graphics or artwork they want to share.
Maybe the cost of producing a film is just too much.
Listen. If you want to shoot a video and use iMovie, great.
If you want to use your pics and iPhoto, wonderful.
The Mac gives you so many possibilities that we could go on and on and on.
The key is to snoop around your Mac and learn what it can do.
The Mac can do far above what you imagine, but for what you dream digitally,
it's enough.
Need more information on making Macintosh Cash? Go to: www.macintoshcash.com
The first time I saw the Ken Burns effect with iPhoto, I was taken aback.
"What's causing my pics to zoom in and out," I wondered.
It wasn't until I spied the control that I saw what was happening and was intrigued.
I then found out that Ken Burns did some masterful work on the history of the Civil War in the United States and was then forever hooked.
Being able to take photos and turn them into movies is a goldmine for Macintosh
owners.
Here's what I mean.
With a simple digital camera and your Mac, you can create commercials,
digital memory books, promo DVDs, catalogs, reviews, trade show reports,
company updates, training packages, guidebooks, memorial DVDs, instructions,
DVD proposals, DVD business cards, DVD information products, and
much, much more.
Anything that might be put in a book that uses graphics or photos could be
explained on a DVD and thus give more visual punch to any explanation.
Why am I saying this when many people say that you could just go out and
film with a video camera?
Maybe someone doesn't have a video camera yet.
Maybe someone just has a box full of photos they want to share.
Maybe someone just has graphics or artwork they want to share.
Maybe the cost of producing a film is just too much.
Listen. If you want to shoot a video and use iMovie, great.
If you want to use your pics and iPhoto, wonderful.
The Mac gives you so many possibilities that we could go on and on and on.
The key is to snoop around your Mac and learn what it can do.
The Mac can do far above what you imagine, but for what you dream digitally,
it's enough.
Need more information on making Macintosh Cash? Go to: www.macintoshcash.com
Simple Money With A Mac
19/10/08 05:55
Simple Money With a Mac
Making money with your Mac is a very simple process.
Instead of looking at your Mac as merely a tool for getting letters out, finding the newest scoop on Jennifer Aniston, or just reading email, you must look at your Mac as a profit-generating machine.
We know that with the innovative digital hub and its seamless interaction
with each program, we have a tremendous advantage over other systems.
With our integrated system, we can get started right away in creating a DVD
or iMovie that rivals that of most high-production houses for a lot less
money.
So, how do we make money?
One thing that ALL businesses need is a constant stream of new customers
and a way to get noticed among the crowd of other businesses wanting
money.
What could be easier than creating a video brochure on DVD for a
business?
No video camera? No problem.
You go in and shoot shots of the exterior, the interior, the goods for sale,
shoot pictures of the manager, the owner, the employees.
Now mind you, it would be much better to get a movie camera and shoot all this on video,
then edit and burn to a DVD than still photos, but bear with me.
So you take the pictures, you load them in iPhoto and begin a new project in
iMovie. Put the photos in a good order for rendering. Add some transitions. Put titles
and contact information.
Stress the benefits of coming to that particular business, put a call to action.
Viola! You have a "Video brochure" and you didn't have to shoot a bit of
video footage.
Let's go down another track.
Say you've met a wonderful doctor that knows a great way to relieve pain without drugs. You ask whether or not someone might be interested in knowing more about pain relief without seeing a doctor.
The doctor agrees, it would be beneficial.
This time you get a digital movie camera and wireless mic and film the doctor
explaining alternatives to drug therapy in pain relief. You edit and create
a nice DVD explaining these methods with iMovie and iDVD.
The doctor could pay you a fee for the project and so much per DVD and
then offer these DVDs to patients for a nominal fee or just give them away
outright.
You could get a talent release from the doctor and sell the DVDs yourself.
You could even try to sell the duplication rights to other doctors as
a premium for their patients.
The ideas are endless.
All you need is a Mac.
Need more ideas on making money with your Mac? Go to Macintosh Cash.
Copyright© 2008 Backyard Gazette and Millard Grubb
Making money with your Mac is a very simple process.
Instead of looking at your Mac as merely a tool for getting letters out, finding the newest scoop on Jennifer Aniston, or just reading email, you must look at your Mac as a profit-generating machine.
We know that with the innovative digital hub and its seamless interaction
with each program, we have a tremendous advantage over other systems.
With our integrated system, we can get started right away in creating a DVD
or iMovie that rivals that of most high-production houses for a lot less
money.
So, how do we make money?
One thing that ALL businesses need is a constant stream of new customers
and a way to get noticed among the crowd of other businesses wanting
money.
What could be easier than creating a video brochure on DVD for a
business?
No video camera? No problem.
You go in and shoot shots of the exterior, the interior, the goods for sale,
shoot pictures of the manager, the owner, the employees.
Now mind you, it would be much better to get a movie camera and shoot all this on video,
then edit and burn to a DVD than still photos, but bear with me.
So you take the pictures, you load them in iPhoto and begin a new project in
iMovie. Put the photos in a good order for rendering. Add some transitions. Put titles
and contact information.
Stress the benefits of coming to that particular business, put a call to action.
Viola! You have a "Video brochure" and you didn't have to shoot a bit of
video footage.
Let's go down another track.
Say you've met a wonderful doctor that knows a great way to relieve pain without drugs. You ask whether or not someone might be interested in knowing more about pain relief without seeing a doctor.
The doctor agrees, it would be beneficial.
This time you get a digital movie camera and wireless mic and film the doctor
explaining alternatives to drug therapy in pain relief. You edit and create
a nice DVD explaining these methods with iMovie and iDVD.
The doctor could pay you a fee for the project and so much per DVD and
then offer these DVDs to patients for a nominal fee or just give them away
outright.
You could get a talent release from the doctor and sell the DVDs yourself.
You could even try to sell the duplication rights to other doctors as
a premium for their patients.
The ideas are endless.
All you need is a Mac.
Need more ideas on making money with your Mac? Go to Macintosh Cash.
Copyright© 2008 Backyard Gazette and Millard Grubb