Wednesday, March 23, 2011

How-To Reports Publishing Business

This is the "real" Money Maker in the Mail Order / Internet Marketing business – the basic "How To" Report. It's something anyone can produce, and with all the proper ingredients at the right time, you can become independently wealthy!

Your basic "Money Making report" is usually 2 – 20 pages in length (or more), sells for approximately $10 (but lately they seem to be selling for $7), and outlines instructions, details, or a "How-To Method" for solving a problem: making more money, saving money, attaining greater happiness, or fulfilling an ambition or desire.

A lot of women write successful money-making reports based upon better ways of solving household problems, how to lose weight, children, etc.. And a lot of men write successful money-making reports on how to get greater pleasure from leisure time activities such as fishing, woodworking, being a better father or other things they enjoy.

The list of subjects one can write about is endless, and reports on how to make more money easier and faster are no more limited to male authors than expertise in cooking is limited to female authors.

Writing your report is easy and quite simple. However, it does take longer, and requires a lot more work and worry for some people to produce a "finished" product than it does others, even if they are equally intelligent and knowledgeable.

Money Making reports have been, and can still be written to show other people how to start, develop, enjoy or expand a leisure pursuit; how to learn and develop new or greater abilities; how to start, develop and operate a new business, or even expand a current one; how to develop and prepare for a new career; how to make more money; how to save money, better one's standard of living and have more time for leisure; how to solve personal problems and enjoy life more; how to attain success in any endeavor. Well I'm sure you get the idea.

You'll find that the better selling reports are well researched, authoritative, factual and helpful to the reader in the achievement of his or her goals. Your report can be put together and sold as anything from a two-page typewritten paper to a multipage typeset and professionally bound book.

Skills and Equipment Required:

If you know how to do something, well, then you have the basic skills required to write a report. If you feel you're not a good enough writer, there are always alternatives to writing the report yourself. You can hire a ghostwriter, hire a professional writer through sites such as elance. Or you can even buy a pre-written report that comes with private label rights. You then just need to tweak it here and there, add a bit and put your name on it.

As for equipment required. Since you're reading this article, you already have the basic equipment needed...

...A computer and a connection to the internet. As well, you probably own most of the software that you'll need:
  • A word processor, such as Mircorsoft Word
  • A PDF converter
  • A web page editor/creator
All these programs are available for free within the OpenOffice suite. I use OpenOffice's word processor all the time because it converts my finished .doc into a .pdf file right from within the wordprocessor. So there you go. You've got a basic understanding of what's required to start a small business report business.

However, if you'd like a much more detailed look at this type of business, I'd recommend you read 5 Steps To A Big Profits Small Reports Biusiness, by Jimmy Brown. You can download it HERE for free.