Informational Products – Quality vs. the Cheap Stuff

Years ago, if you had told me that the bulk of my writing would consist of informational products, I would have asked you, “What the heck are informational products?”

But now, they are EVERYWHERE online. There are people who make a living just selling e-reports and ebooks on the internet. And some of them (the products, not the people…maybe the people do, but I don’t know them so I will withhold judgement) seriously suck. Seriously.

Have you read any that suck? Or that promise the moon and then you read through and say “I paid $$ for that??”

Let’s face it, there are people out there looking for the fast and easy buck (or three). And I don’t have a beef with that. If people want to whip together an ebook and then make a kazillion bucks, go for it! That’s what capitalism is all about, baby!

However, I myself do not write the quick and dirty junk. For myself or anyone else. Most of my clients actually use their informational products as marketing products…and if the marketing product stinks, then it hurts my client in the long run. Heck, some of my clients actually end up getting their books published…so quality is muy importante!

The point I’m making? If you want to make some quick money online, then go ahead and crank out an ebook of questionable quality. I’m not kidding. You don’t need a masterpiece to make a few bucks!

But if informational products are a stepping stone to other products (dvds, workbooks, cds, seminar gigs, etc.) or if they are used to establish yourself as an authority in your industry, then you need quality. Not a piece of junk cranked out with horrible grammar and poor flow.

So…where can you find writers of both the cranked-out stuff and the quality writing? They are all over the internet!!

Of course, if you want to skip the internet search, you can just contact me (words at tinamcallister dot com). I write quality. And I can even crank something out for you fairly fast. But it won’t be cheap. ($20 per page typically….but for you, since you’re reading this post and I like you, I’ll whip something up for $15 per page…and that’s good ’til October 11th!!)

But other sites you can look (especially if you want/need someone cheaper):

Guru

Elance

iFreelance

RentACoder

Odesk

 

2 Responses to Informational Products – Quality vs. the Cheap Stuff
  1. Lucas
    September 12, 2008 | 6:13 pm

    Now this post suddenly gave me the urge to release an e-book. By any chance, are you available to write an internet marketing e-book? E-mail me if so. :mrgreen:

  2. Michelle Houston
    June 23, 2009 | 11:14 am

    Really great concept. Where did you get this content? Do you write everything yourself?

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