"HOW TO SELL A COURSE BEFORE YOU CREATE IT!!!

STEP 1. Decide on the ultimate benefit people will get from your course.

STEP 2. Name your course and INCLUDE the benefit in the name.

EXAMPLES..

100 Days to 100K
Experts Academy
GURU School

STEP 3. Come up with 4 or 6 or 8 main pieces of content you will teach. (MODULES) (MILESTONES) (STEPS)

STEP 4. Under each module, write out all of your content. This will include instruction, examples, checklists, bullet points, and action steps.

STEP 5. CREATE your WELCOME video for your course. In this video you will go over each module and talk about what you are going to be teaching.

STEP 6. Create your AD / WEBINAR by using the outline you have created. At the end of the webinar offer your course. When they BUY, direct them to the WELCOME video and tell them the course will start in 10 days.

STEP 7. Create your FIRST module. Deliver each module on Sunday night so they have access on Monday. If you like you can do a LIVE Q and A call on Wednesday or Thursday.

STEP 8. Just create ONE module per week and deliver it. Each week your clients will get a NEW module and live Q and A if you offer that.

STEP 9. YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR COURSE.. Now you can RE RELEASE the course every 6 or 8 weeks or you can just offer it as a home study and let people consume all the content at once.

STEP 10. RINSE AND REPEAT!!! BUILD YOUR EMPIRE!!!!"

business-ideas: "You don't have to create a business from scratch.
Do most people making money in real estate buy raw land and build? Or do they capitalize on what is already built?
Same thing here. It's possible to rehab businesses, buy businesses, flip businesses, help out in businesses for free and eventually own them.
In America, 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 every single day... Many of these people are entrepreneurs and many of them have family who do not want to take over the business.
Opportunity is everywhere.
You can go to Flippa dot com and buy online businesses already making money.
You can go to brokers and buy/get loans for existing businesses (btw, a huge client getting tip for you marketers is to get access to the lists of businesses for sale with brokers and hit them up for marketing services... many of them would be willing to hear your pitch)
You can go to existing businesses and offer to build an extension and new arm to their company.
You can go to companies and work for free and slide in as partner.
Many things you can do, you don't have to start one from scratch."

I had this idea 10 or so years ago, called "Try Our Best" - the tagline was something like "We may not be professionals, but we always try our best." In hindsight, that might have been a bit too humble and "Text and it happens automagically" (summary of what these guys are using) might be better. .............. inventions-that-became-something-else = Towards the end: ""Twitter came out of another company that was doing something completely different. Same with Instagram," he says. "This kind of thing happens.""

After the huge buzz about "ship your enemies glitter" and then the subsequent crash when they guy got so many orders he told people to stop buying it, I thought of creating "Ship A Dick" (like in this Imgur Album), but instead of just giant cardboard dicks, I would have offered different types, realistic looking, cartoonish, dildos large and small, etc...

Reminds me of the article on how to steal your competitor's Twitter followers (or just social media followers in general) ............... business-ideas = See #5 .................. seo, seo-linkbuilding = See #7

Cops use the cover of night to catch speeders, but their engines are on so they can chase you as soon as you speed by them. This means the car would be hot as compared to the surrounding area. Would be good to write an add-on app for this thermal camera that lets you spot cop cars lying in wait at night. ......................... "Next year, the company will release an SDK for third-party developers to create their own apps that leverage Seek Thermal’s technology."

Not really anti-something, but the article talks about why people will always shoot down your ideas. ---------------------------------------------- Also, when people ask me to give them feedback on their ideas, I am typically very honest - and I follow up that advice with "But don't take my word as the be-all-end-all. I would have bet against Google when Yahoo was king and against Starbucks when Dunkin Donuts was king." ---------------------------------------------- "When young drivers are starting to race, this is one of the most critical lessons that they learn. When you’re driving at 200mph you need to focus on the road in front of you. If you look at the wall, then you’ll end up hitting it. Focus on what you have to do rather than what people have to say about it."

some examples: A reverse ebay where people post what they want and firms compete to give the best price. .......... Two types of car horn: a friendly toot and an angry honk. .......... "None of the above" in the election, and if that wins, the election is reheld with new candidates. .............. Edible staples to keep your burrito closed. ............ Every cop is required to wear GoPro camera at all times on duty, with video publicly available to everyone. ....... Microwaveable items should have QR codes that tell the microwave what do to automatically. ....... A gym where you pay $1 each day that you DON'T go. ....... Make an Average Joe compete in the Olympics, so that everyone's performance can be put into context.

Our goal is to find all the other Kevin Willson’s out there in the world and unite them under one virtual roof to both optimize and monetize our global human creative potential.

future, medicine =
#7 - Incredible. I really have thought about how in the future we are going to look at orally administered general medication as barbaric. The future will be (possibly orally administered) nano-bots that go directly to the site of the problem and administer medication or micro surgery directly.

business-ideas=
"a professor of management at the University of Alabama, has offered an “educated guess” that someone will come up with a smartphone app that displaces Craigslist this year.
The idea was included in a list of 14 faculty members’ predictions for 2012.
Craig E. Armstrong, assistant professor of management at Alabama, said someone will offer an “app” that performs “Craigslist” functions for the exchange of goods and services. (Aren’t there a dozen, or six dozen, of those already?)
“Need to find someone to paint your house? Check the app. Want to earn some extra money by applying a skill you have? Check the app. The app platform will displace Craigslist because it will enable transactions with less traction and allow buyers and sellers to create reputations, Armstrong says,” the university said in the release."

long-term-thinking =
"His ultimate goal for Jana, he says, is to divert a significant chunk of the $200 billion that consumer-goods companies spend on advertising in the developing world into consumers’ pockets. These firms are betting that a consumer just coming into the middle class is going to be worth a lot of money over the course of her lifetime."

entrepreneurship, business-ideas = "GoPro was founded in California by a surfer who wanted to capture images of surfers in the barrel of a wave. At the time there was no way for people to capture an event while experiencing it."

marketing, marketing-shocking-or-weird, marketing-social-media-campaigns = "Shaikh has some big plans ahead, including work with a US fighter-jet team where the GoPros will be mounted to the jets. He’ll be sitting in the jets as they perform free-dives, a stomach flipping exercise for most people, but Shaikh assures us, “These camera housings are vomit-proof so we should be good.”"

The idea that there is a lot of money to be made in "putting the waste to use" has legs. This is similar to the story that Butler told me once of the sawmill that was in danger of going out of business until they swept up all the sawdust (waste) from cutting logs and packed it into bricks and sold them as firestarter logs.

I had this idea a long time ago. His light blinks when he hits the brake, but it only blinks 2-3 times. My idea is to blink the light rapidly for at least 1 second followed by a solid red light. Also, it would be best if the blinking increased in speed in accordance with how much deceleration is taking place. Slow deceleration = short, slow blinks. Quick deceleration = a long period of rapid blinking.

business-models = I wonder how many other loopholes like this exist.

Tim Ferriss recommended this book in a tweet. I have lots of ideas that could be rented to companies.... might be a good way to go about doing it...

This is the beginning of the idea I've had for a long time where police can throw down a "blackout cube" at a crash scene to project a big blanket of blackness over a crash scene, thereby avoiding rubberneckers slowing down traffic. Warning: It could also have negative uses, such as cops throwing up a blanket of blackness as they beat up a suspect... Perhaps the technology should be made so that naked eye sees blackness, but videocamera, etc sees through it. Or possibly has a built-in recording device that cannot be tampered with.

See bullet point #2, namely the point about CURATED great stuff. The point being CURATED. Everyone & their mother can publish now. The winner will be the one who can curate consistently great content.
"For content to be fabulous, for tablets to be more than game platforms, folks like Apple need to do two things:

* Reward creators instead of taxing them.
* Create promotional channels so that curated great stuff (not merely things from big companies) has a chance to reach a mass audience."

Do something like this for Drupal with Aditi. The key is to have a "coding free" class for non-geeks. This can be used for other products as well - Solaris, Cisco, etc. . . some of these things, by definition, require the person to be technical - but they can be simplified.
Or Rob with Ruby...?

brainstorming tool; mindmap
manage contacts, emails, documents, and other activities
create and share slide shows
to-do-list
simple finance tool
Fax
quickly take notes
Share files online
bookmarking service for email, phone, and offline
stock photography
send files and folder that are up to 2 GB
translation tool
send free faxes
US copyright
RSS 2 PDF
collaborate, communicate, and share files
calculator, spreadsheet capabilities, unit conversions, and programming commands
send invoices online, templates, track invoices/purchases
take notes directly on PDF file
build online embeddable forms
get real-time feedback while you work on a project
online meetings
Escrow
currency converter
ProjectStat.us: view the status of a project
ProofHQ: annotate PDFs, PSDs, JPGs, Word, PowerPoint - and Webpages
Proposal Kit: proposal and contract management
SlimTimer: track time
build a TV advertising campaign

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution. Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen. What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking. 1. Prepackaged school supplies based on the lists from the school districts 2. Incubator site providing office space, hosting, etc. for startups that are seed funded. 3. In-grocery store prep service (buy vegetables first and drop them off to be chopped to your specs - pick them up on the way to checkout) 4. A website that you can submit your design and work with vendors to manufacture your own clothes line. 5. Online discount brokerage that has no closing hours and provides access to all exchanges throughout the world and handles currency and legal issues automatically.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Allan would rather look busy than be productive.

– Timothy Ferriss

This is nextNY, a fun way to connect both socially and professionally with young people who have a stake in future of tech and new media in New York City.

Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military -- The grizzly man is back, and this time he's ready to take on bullets and bombs.

Making Money With Domain Names « John Chow dot Com

How to turn a normal WordPress installation into a working online shop (without too many tears)

Firefox Extension Tutorial

"Maybe we can have a project dedicated to making flash games that appeal to women. If we attract enough users, a game company may like to buy the site or at least the research showing what games women like. We all have enough women in our lives to do a fo

Setting up a system to run your business

"This site translates your name to Japanese characters. This is interesting, because it is simple and something we could have done."

One of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin." Amazing story, something like this combined with a lot more of these kinds of stories could f

"Content is king. It just struck me that we can do tutorials for things that we have (ipods, scanners, etc) and then put Google ads on the site."

"HOW TO sites might be good for us to start."

A checklist of the various business models available to developer of live Web apps & services.

"Free stuff is another way of getting a lot of traffic. Either we could pay a few $'s to get hats/stickers/shirts/etc printed up and put up instructions on how to get them for free on a page. This page could have ads on it, or, like this page target page,

Defeating Google's Perpetual Search Logging "Looks like our idea to anonymize people's Google searches might have been taken already."

"Like I said before, this NicheGeek.com site is going to become very important to us. Read this amazing story."

"Totally cool site. We could learn a lot and get ideas from here."

"Business idea? Talk to Dave"

" Looks like we are right on time for the next internet bubble. Wiki.com just sold for $3 Mil. What's next Mobi.mobi? :) "

"another example of cool/goofy thing that would get some traffic and perhaps donations"

At last, here's something meaningful to do with your ever-growing library of digital photos. Put away the scissors & glue, and stop spending hours uploading your photos to an online photofinishing site. Welcome to the next generation of album making. "Thi

pV is the first and safest ubiquitous cash card and payment solution specifically designed for secure, anonymous online payments. "It's made for people who want to visit porn sites, but want privacy. Good idea, but I can do one better. Talk to me about th

BUSINESS IDEA! WE CAN COME UP WITH A SITE THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO SUBMIT ANONYMOUS SEARCH REQUESTS TO GOOGLE. ALL OUR LOGS WOULD BE WRITTEN TO /DEV/NULL, SO WE CAN NEVER BE FORCED TO DIVULGE RECORDS

THIS IS DIRECTED SQUARE AT ROB: THIS ARTICLE SOUNDS LIKE YOU WROTE IT.
TALKS ABOUT WHAT YOU WERE SAYING THAT PEOPLE TEND TO PUT MORE TIME INTO
THINGS THAT THEY GET PAID FOR.

CATHERINE'S IDEA FOR A "HOW TO/TIPS AND TRICKS" SITE HAS BEEN TAKEN. ARGH!!

Logos of some companies and how they changed throughout the years. I like the Sistema Telecom one; as you can see, different divisions of the company have exactly the same logo with just a color and a word of difference. It creates brand cohesion among different divisions of a company (i.e. Odeko.)

SlimTimer changes the way we track time. No more need for multiple time-tracking applications. No more confusing and expensive timesheet software.

READ THE SLASHDOT BLURB, THEN CLICK THROUGH TO THE LINK(S). THIS DEMONSTRATES AN INNOVATIVE WAY OF GETTING AROUND COPYRIGHT.

30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet

I'M SURE THIS IS MORE RESOURCE INTENSIVE THAN WE HAVE RESOURCES FOR, BUT ANYWAY, ANOTHER EXAMPLE. THIS IS AWESOME. CHECK OUT WHEN THE GUY TRIES TO KICK IT OVER. IT ACTUALLY CATCHES ITSELF.

WE SHOULD HAVE COME UP WITH THIS. I AM TELLING YOU, AND I WILL SAY IT UNTIL I AM BLUE IN THE FACE, THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL/GOVERNMENT ARE RIFE FOR THE TAKING WHEN IT COMES TO INNOVATIVE IDEAS. SELLING TO PRISONS, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, ETC EASY AS CAKE WITH

Kind of interesting. I am not sure I understand the concept yet, but it seems at least confusing, which is good in some ways.

THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL: Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS BIG TIME. IF NOTHING ELSE, THIS IS THE ONE WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT. WE NEEEEEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS ONE, ROB. YES, THIS MEANS YOU!!!! LET'S TALK!

An internet radio station (with unique content) could provide another stream of revenue

The number is 1-800-Free 411, and it's pretty self-explanatory. It's free directory information. Works on cells and land lines. WE SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS. REMIND ME OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE "OFFER A NORMALLY PAY SERVICE FOR 'FREE' SUPPORTED BY ADS"

Yet another example of "looking to the old" and reusing that principle with a moderm twist. Read the part about the reflective parabolic troughs. We could have thought of this.

Realtor crunches census data to help women locate single, rich men

Here's how to make low-cost mobile calls from the country where you live to friends who live abroad: Get local Rebtel numbers for your global friends, and give your global friends local Rebtel numbers for you. Then you can call each other as often as you

FREE EBOOKS GIVEAWAY. EXCEPT THAT THESE EBOOKS ARE ALWAYS FREE. TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS, THERE'S A HIDDEN INTERESTING BUSINESS IDEA IN HERE.

TWO FOLD COMMENTARY: We should have come up with this -AND- this site will be useful if we get a number and are trying to make it catchy for people to remember. In addition, it gave me the idea of using this phone spelling on the opposite side of our b

It appears that sails could return to the ocean's freighters soon. Newsweek is reporting on a technology to assist with cross-ocean travel.

Interesting story about the site I bookmarked the other day: Rocketboom -- (The VLOG site that did similar to what we wanted to do) -- make sure to read how they would bring in $40,000 to $85,000 per week at times in revenue. . .

InformationWeek interviewed 5 people with successful Internet-based businesses that started out as hobbies: Kevin Rose, founder of Digg; Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us; Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart; Tom Davis, who wrote software called Zo

Business idea??