Consider this:

* You keep 100% of the earnings
* The only effort is creating the product. From there, sales and digital delivery are on autopilot
* You have the opportunity to work with other partners in joint ventures
* You can eventually sell the rights to the product (if you want to) for a large payday

And as a small business owner who already has a certain amount of expertise in your niche, there’s no reason you cannot harness these benefits as well.  Unfortunately, many people are afraid to move forward with creating their own product because of the time it can take, and the effort involved.

Reading this article will help change that. Below are 3 techniques you can use straight away that will enable you to create a product within 24 hours, with little effort.

The Interview Technique

Not only is this a fast way to create an info product, but it can also build relationships with other people in your industry and benefit both parties involved. It’s a simple matter of conducting a 30 minute to an hour interview with someone considered an expert in your niche.

Agree ahead of time exactly what you will cover in the interview, and make sure the content is valuable enough for people to be willing to pay for to gain the knowledge.

You can use skype for the interview, as there are free app’s that can record the call -  so you don’t even have to meet. And if you do meet, all you need is a digital dictaphone with a decent microphone.

Sometimes people agree to do the interview for free, as they can use the interview for valuable content for their own subscribers and customers. And of course, if you are the expert, you can just have someone interview you.

There you go – an instant mp3 product containing valuable information – ready to sell.

PLR Repurposing

Granted, you can simply buy PLR rights to any product you please, and promote it ‘as is’, but of course, this product will never be seen as unique to you because rights are available to others.

All you need to do is re brand it to make it unique to you. This can be done quickly and easily on the surface level by simply adding new minisite and e-cover graphs, changing the sales page and renaming the product.

Or, on a deeper level, as long as you have rights to edit the document, different PLR products in the same niche can be added together and combined, or rewritten.

You don’t have to rewrite the whole ebook when it comes to PLR. You could simply look through it and change the content a little to reflect your own personal style and voice.

Outsourcing

This need not be as scary or expensive as it seems. There are writers who work for very low prices, especially from the Philippines. And don’t worry, there isn’t an issue with the language barrier – some of them speak English better than we do!

Places like eLance, Freelancer.com and odesk to name a few are also great places to ask people for quotes.

And as for mini site graphics and ebook covers, there are always people on Fiverr.com who are willing to do these tasks for only 5 bucks.

I hope these tips have been helpful to you, and have jogged a few ideas of your own.

Using any one of the techniques above can remove the trouble, effort and time out of creating your own information products. In fact, using technique 1 or 2, you could literally create your own product by the end of today.

It doesn’t need to take months of hard work to build multiple streams of income in your business…

Tip #1 – Tagging:

Find the most popular videos on the same subject as the video you are submitting,  copy down and use the exact same tags.   This ensures that your video has the potential as ranking the same as the similar video, and it will show up in the related videos section of that same popular video.

Tip #2 – Video Length:

It’s worthwhile to remember that web users have low attention spans, and are more than ready to click away from your video the moment they get distracted or bored.  So bear this in mind when it comes to video content and length. A ‘pithy’ video under 2 minutes is far better than a 10 minute lecture.

Tip #3 – Submission Timing:

The usual idea when you have a series of videos is to release and publish one at a time, in an effort to get the viewer to subscribe and return regularly for further content.

The thing is, it is far better to have most or all of your videos submitted at the same time. The reason being is that if the viewer is ‘in the zone’ for what you have to offer, and is enjoying your video, they are far more likely to click on your other videos listed than come back at another time.

Tip #4 – Optimizing:

Video marketing should be treated like ‘bum marketing’ when it comes to optimizing for the search engines.  Once you’ve come up with a list of keywords, check the competition isn’t too high, and optimize each video for one particular keyword phrase.

First, the video title should be the actual keyword phrase.  It is also important that the first few words in the video description are the phrase too. Also, depending on the video directory, the listing can be further optimized by naming the video file name (that you uploaded) the keyword phrase.

Tip #5 – Getting ranked:

Remember, web pages need backlinks in order to climb in the search result rankings. It is just the same with videos.  Granted, the video submitted may rank on page one of the search engines for a day or two, but it will soon drop off. This can be disappointing considering the amount of effort you put in to creating the video.

So, in order to make the video ‘stick’ in the search results, you’ll need to build some backlinks to the video page.

You don’t need to go too far with the backlinks. Just a few will do. And linking with the anchortext containing the keyword phrase will help immensely. Even a few links from social profiles is enough.

Getting your video ranked in the search results can be a numbers game. Especially with Google, you can never know which directory will get ranked.  It could be that you spend a lot of time submitting a video and optimizing in YouTube, yet it never seems to show up in the search results.

That is where submitting the same video to more than one video site can come in handy. Sometimes a video won’t become ranked in the ‘serps’ with YouTube, but the same video will with VideoJug or another site.

Third party services are available like HeySpread, TubeMogul and Traffic Geyser that submit to many video sites at once. All you have to do is upload your video to the service provider, add the title, description and tags, and hit the submit button.  Not only does this multiply the amount of traffic you’ll receive, but it increases the likelihood that the search engines will rank at least one of the sites you submitted to with the keyword phrase it was optimized for.

Use these tips above each time you want to publish a new video, and you’re pretty much guaranteed a lot of traffic to your site from your effort.  It will set you apart from 99% of other video marketers, who simply submit there video to YouTube and hope for the best…

This is what generates the traffic – people clicking through to your ‘source’ for more information. Just position yourself as a helpful and knowledgeable friend, and you cant go wrong.

Tip #1 – Stick To One Subject

The best way to win with Yahoo Answers is to concentrate solely on one niche or subject area.  It may make things a lot easier for you if you choose something you have knowledge in, as a lot of the answers you’ll be able to provide without doing any research. Naturally, it will also be enjoyable too.

That said, the market needs to be big enough for a lot of people asking many questions on a daily basis.

Some of the best niches to choose are the big 3:

Weight Loss
Make money
Fitness

Or perhaps any niche where there is a big demand for a solution to a problem and an immediate answer is desired, like toothache or acne for example.

Tip #2 – Use a ‘FAQ’ Sheet

After a couple of days answering questions on Yahoo Answers in one particular niche, you’ll start to notice the same questions crop up time and time again.  To save yourself keep typing the same thing out all the time, keep a text document handy on your desktop containing ‘frequently asked questions’, and simply copy and paste the answer in.

Although, try to make it a little unique from the last time you used the same reply. You don’t want any of your answers reported as ‘spam’.

Tip #3 – Go The Extra Mile - Make a Landing Page

It’s easy to simply answer as many questions as you can, and leave the same old affiliate link or redirect in every time, but this can have it’s drawbacks.  Your account is far more likely to be flagged or reported by another Yahoo user for being a spam account, because that same link will be seen in so many answers.

Having your account shut down after all your previous hard work can be a very disheartening thing.

It is therefore worthwhile purchasing a domain name with hosting related to your niche. You don’t have to spend much… “.info” domain names go for under 2 bucks. And as for hosting, there are free hosts out there like 000webhosting, and paid hosting can be as little as $5 a month (or less).

The point here is to create an actual website with presell content on it that would lead the viewer to clicking your affiliate link as a solution to their problem.

A lot of affiliate products, especially ebooks, have there own affiliate center, where you are provided with pre-written content and articles, designed to sell the product you’re linking to. You can use these resources for content on your website.

This will make conversions a lot better. When a visitor clicks your recommended link in the Yahoo Answer, they will be forwarded to an interesting website (your site) with relevant info, rather than straight to a sales page, which rarely results in a sale.

To take this further, use your cheat sheet discussed earlier to create posts or pages on your site answering and expanding on each of those frequently asked questions. This is ideal, and can really increase your click-through rate.

For example, if one frequently asked question in your niche (weight loss for example) was: “what’s the best way to lose belly fat?,” you could create a page or post answering that exact question in a couple of hundred words.

I mean, if you asked that exact question in Yahoo Answers, and two people answered showing different links, what would you rather click on:

johnny5.weightlossproduct.hop.clickbank.net/

or

myweightlosssite.com/the-best-way-to-lose-belly-fat/

Naturally, once the Yahoo Answers user has clicked through to your helpful content, they’ll find that the only recommended solution to their problem is via your affiliate link!

Tip #4 – Consistency

Like many marketing practices, utilizing Yahoo Answers as a traffic building technique is a numbers game.  Answering only a couple of questions just isn’t going to cut it. You need to consistently answer questions in your niche on a daily basis. This will keep building up traffic to your site over time, and the effects eventually snowball.

To stay consistent, the best way forward is to develop the habit of answering a set amount of questions per day. Even as little as 5 will do, and these can be done in as little as 20 minutes.

Stick to using the tips above with Yahoo Answers marketing, and soon you’ll find that the traffic generated will far out do your expectations.

Technique #1: RSS Feeds

Copy down the url to your comments feed, and blog posts feed. Submit these feeds to as many feed aggregators as you can. To make it easier, use something like RSS Submit software to automate the task.

Tip a: Certain plugin’s like Ed Dales RSS bomber will create a single feed for each and every post and page, this will allow you to submit multiple feeds all pointing to the same site.

Tip b: If you remove the www from the feed url, the directories will see it as a new feed. You now have double the amount of feeds to submit!

Tip c: There is a free WordPress plugin called RSS footer. Install this, and configure it to post a keyword targeted backlink in the footer in each post of your feed.

Once you’ve done this, each time you submit your feed, you’ll also be gaining a ton of backlinks.

It works in other ways too. You know those people who ‘scrape’ your site and steal your content? Well, with RSS footer, you’ll be forcing them to add backlinks to their site – helping you in the search engines…

Technique #2: Social Sites

The thing to do here is sign up with ping.fm. Once you’re logged in, you’ll see that you can associate all the different social accounts, like digg, Facebook and Twitter amongst others.

Add them all. Create new accounts if you need to, or accounts especially for the blog you want traffic for. Now, update your profiles to be congruent with each other, including adding the blog website to each profile etc.

The trick here is to dash over to ping.fm and post a little compelling snippet about your latest blog post, each time you post or update the site. One click and that message will be distributed to all the social accounts.

In my experience, this brings almost instant traffic, even from brand new social account profiles.

Tip: There are certain free plugin’s for WordPress that will automatically update ping.fm the moment you submit a new post.

Technique #3: Comment Luv

Comment Luv is a popular plugin for blogs. Whoever comments on a blog with this installed will have a live link to their own blog in each comment they leave. The link displays the title of your latest post. Each time you make a new post on your own blog, the link updates on the other blogs (where you left your comment).

This can get a lot of traffic. If you manage to leave a comment in a prominent position (the closer to the end of the post, the better) on a popular blog or site, you will receive a lot of traffic.

Bloggers are happy to install the comment luv plugin, because they know it will encourage people to comment, meaning more traffic for them.

Utilize this traffic technique by regularly leaving helpful comments on other peoples blogs (with comment luv enabled) in your niche. Make this a consistent effort in order to succeed. Simply do 5 comments a day as part of a routine. They soon add up.

Be sure to use compelling titles for your post, considering that it will be displayed on other sites, to ensure a better click-through.

In summary, if you are prepared to spend a day or two setting up the foundations (ie. creating social profiles, creating and submitting RSS, blog commenting etc.), then things will become very easy, and traffic will flow to your site with minimum effort.

Each time you post it will bring a flood of new visitors.