I see you mentioning that one should try to outsource/out-task as much of their business as they can, and focus at only what their biggest strengths are. Well you see, I’m a programmer and I’m working on my first commercial software product. You can say that programming is one of my biggest strengths. I believe I’m much more creative than other programmers, so people will want to use my product because they love using it.

But on the other hand I’m also a very good marketer and communicator. So my sales are going to come due to two factors:
1- The quality of my product.
2- The quality of my marketing efforts.

And both of these I believe are my biggest strengths. Should someone with a limited budget, whose strength is doing the technical work involved in building the product, also outsource or should he go ahead and build it himself?

I know this is a bit long but I hope you answer this for me, even if its a 1 line answer!
Cheers,
Ali.
P.S I blogged about the manifesto here:
http://www.phplazy.com/blog/the-internet-business-manifesto.html

I missed your sales letter due to a rather long 8 hour traffic jam. I’m assuming your mentoring programme has three components (a) personal mentoring from you (2) group conference calls which will probably be recorded where you explain your strategies and tactics and give your students homework to do and (c) resources you recommend students use.

What if you had a tier two programme which excluded (a) but included (b) and (c). This would allow you to help a larger group of hungry buyers and not take up any additional amount of your personal time. The second tier group would simply listen in on the original group calls you will be doing anyway and be personally responsible for doing their assignments without being responsible to a coach.

I hope you work something out. I love your strategic and systematic approach!

Nick Devine

I have to say, I feel for you buddy – a 150 people waiting in line to give you (what was it?) five grand apiece, then all the cheapskates and slow starters come begging for a home study course. What a dilemma!

If you don’t have time to create a home study product from scratch you could do it this way:

Print and bind an unedited course curriculum (which you will have already) adding chapters and some numbering system. Record all your sessions and edit the sessions that most pertinently illustrate the points you were making in the curriculum. Put it all in a box for $950. -

Then do a series of teleseminars interviewing your top students who had the most success and who were quick to grasp the concepts you were teaching.

And then maybe, give the first 150 takers access to an affiliate program to promote the material.

All the best,

Noel

Knock it off!

Congradulations on all your success. I am a fan, I appreciate all the insights you have shared, and I can appreciate that you don’t have time to create a solution of those of us who can only wish we could have afforded to be first and ring the cash register to become one of your elite members. But, since all has turned out as you design it, and you are on to the next phase of your personal accomplishments, how about stop rubbing it in with all these followup e-mails reminding us we the unfortunate one, the very people who needed your help, but like you explained, are simply to needy and cash starved to waste your time.

No hard feeling, but enough of the e-mails related to something we missed out on.

Best wishes for your continue success,

Robert Orange
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