Now that you’ve written your manuscript and are ready to publish it, there are still a couple of other steps you need take. The first one is the editing.

Although you will find that there are different types of editors and each of them checks for different things, unless you have a complicated college textbook, you will probably only need an editor to check for spelling, punctuation, grammar usage, clarity, consistency and overall flow. Consider the following example from my recent book.

Edited Version: Then as the photographs were displayed, his parents recorded what each photograph meant. What wonderful memories, most of them from the early days of his parents’ marriage, and from the younger years of him and his brother.

Unedited Version: Then as the photographs were displayed his parents recorded what each photograph meant. What a wonderful memory, most of it being during the early days of his parents’ marriage, and him and his brother’s younger years.

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Where can you find content to create an information product?

Your Own Knowledge and Experience. Your own knowledge and experience is most important of all. If you put your mind to it, you will be surprised at the topics on which you have knowledge that would be of interest.

Have you solved a problem in your own life about how to handle the absence of a loved one, how you handled a problem with one of your children, what you do with little or no income, divorce, an accident, or other solution which would aid others?

Do you have a specific skill or talent that provides a solution? I know people who are extremely talented at cleaning, for example, decorating, choosing colors, shopping at thrift stores, and on and on. All of these provide solutions which could help others and which could be good topics for a book or other income producing product.

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We all talk about it, we all fret about it and it catches all of us in its elusive thread at some time or other, some more than others. I’m afraid I’m one of those who gets caught in it more than others and before I know it I’ve over extended myself to the point of overwhelm.

So, what has been eating up my time for the past few months?

For one thing I had committed to doing teleseminars for my new membership site.  After starting them I soon realized that I needed more experience in the actual doing of teleseminars. I knew how, I knew what I was supposed to do, but I lacked the experience of actually having done it. Read more

It is my absolute delight and pleasure to be able to make this announcement.

My new membership site is now open!

I say it’s a once in a lifetime announcement, because you only get to announce once in a lifetime a first-time event, and this is my first membership site.

You can check it out at www.transcriptionriches.com.

You will notice that there are many benefits to becoming a member, such as:

• Discounts - 20% less than non-member rate
• More Discounts (Patsy’s Unique Baker’s Dozen)
• Monthly interview series
• Access to the MP3 and PDF transcripts
• VIP treatment, and
• An environment of support and encouragement.

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How would you like to increase your productivity by at least 35%?

I’ve been in pursuit of improving my filing system for years.  I’ve tried many different systems.  At first, they would seem to be okay, but then became cumbersome and time consuming.  Statistics show that we spend up to 35% of our time looking for something.

At this point, you probably think I’m going to try to sell you something.  I’m not.  I just want to share a timesaving tool with you that you already have and which may have slipped your notice.

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Sometimes it costs us more not to do something than it does if we do it.

For example, I would much rather have someone else clean my house.  It costs me X$ to have someone else clean it, while I can be creating new products that I can sell for X$.

If you would rather clean your own house because it’s your way of relaxing and thinking, that’s a different story.  For me, it isn’t.  I earn more per hour than I pay to get this chore done.  Besides I prefer creating new information products.

Let me explain further.
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Having trouble writing your blogs?  Feel you would like to keep your blog more up to date?  Getting that guilty feeling because you’re not updating your blog on a regular basis, or submitting articles regularly.  (I am so I came up with these ideas that I can follow)

Following are seven easy ways to write blog entries and/or articles. Read more

From my own experience, here are two scenarios for you. Which one do you think can create information products faster and easier? Which one can create more information products? Which one is spending their time more efficiently and making more money?

At one time in my distant past, I was a legal secretary. I worked for two attorneys in a small, one secretary office in the San Fernando Valley in California.

One of the attorneys had to have me in his office so he could dictate his correspondence and legal documents, which I then transcribed from my shorthand.

Requiring me to be in his office while he dictated was both painful and time consuming. Read more

Yesterday, I decided to do a current search on digital recorders and I learned some good news:  We’re getting more and paying less.  I did a search on Olympus and found that for the same amount we were paying a year ago, we are actually getting longer recording times. 

Then I went to a couple of local sources for purchasing recorders and found out the same thing.It occurred to me that this is a new technology and that some of you may be a little wary of trying it.  It’s kind of like going from the standard typewriter to the electric typewriter.  It was new and we had a lot of new stuff to learn.  Then again, when going from an electric typewriter to a computer.  More new stuff to learn.  And now along comes this new technology and there’s more stuff to learn.

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