Planning Your Projects: Building and Presentation

Once you have confirmed that everything is in place to start a project as mentioned in Planning Your Projects: Basics on Getting Started, done your research and created your outline as suggested in Planning Your Projects: Let the Planning Begin it is now time to start the build.

You should have in place a freelancer if you are outsourcing any or the entire project and have the outlined parts for them ready to be sent now. If you are taking this on yourself, it is time to break down the outline to small manageable sections. Remember you should work this around your current business.

I suggest working on it two hours a day, 5 days a week to allow time everyday for your normal daily business to continue.

Helpful hints to a successful build of a written product such as Reports, eBooks, etc:

• Proofread by section not all at once.
• Add images that pertain to the subject matter, preferably custom images to avoid the stalemate of seeing the same ones elsewhere.
• Do stick to what works, such as popular layouts and font styles.

Helpful hints to a successful build of a service such as ghostwriting, virtual assisting etc:

• Accurately test your typing speed by visiting TypingTest.com, you want to be fast an accurate.
• If you haven’t already made sure your current office (word for ghostwriting) is up to date or at least compatible with most versions, do that now.

Helpful hints to a successful build of a tangible product:

• If possible make a few test products and send them out to unbiased reputable product reviewers.
• Test and retest the product using general concerns your customers may come up with.

This is not all you can do to ensure the project you build will be successful but they are great starting points. The sky is the limit on things you test, tweak and make better with your product or service. The key thing to remember is…just because you build it does not mean they will come buy it!

If the build was enough to reel in the customers, then presenting it would not matter. However, presenting it is very important before it can ever be launched for all to see!

Thinking about how to present this should have been thought about during the research phase of the planning and mentioned in the outline. If not some extra thought will have to be cued right now.

Some thoughts of presenting your new project to the world:

• Will this need to be presented with its own website?
• Can this be sold on a shop such as Etsy? Perhaps Amazon or maybe Ebay?
• Would to present best of a Sale Page?
• Do offline promotions such as business cards and fliers deem necessary?

When you finish the build and have in place the presentation, when should the project launch? Come back tomorrow for the last part of the series to find out!

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