"Everyone has something they want the world to know about. An informational tips booklet can be a great way to do that," according to tips booklet expert Paulette Ensign. Ensign has sold over 500,000 copies in three languages of her own booklet "110 Ideas for Organizing Your Business Life"...all without spending a penny on advertising. Here are tips on how to do the same thing.
1. Create an informational tips booklet as a marketing tool, a new source of revenue, or both. Do this by using information you have given your clients year after year in other formats.
2. Write out those 'sound bites' you are forever telling your clients and audiences. Once you write them out, organize the tips into the most likely categories for your specialty.
3. Consider the different formats that manuscript could become. You can print it as a booklet, record it as an audio or video tape, develop it into daily reminder cards, use a tip per day on a calendar, just to name a few of the many possiblities.
4. Map out how you want to distribute each of the products you chose from the above list. Some will be through publicity excerpts in print publications. Others will be sold direct in large quantity. You may even license reprint rights for very large quantities.
5. Notice how the products balance out the service side of your business. Products can be a good match for a client's budget when they cannot afford or are not ready to purchase your consulting or speaking services.
6. Plan to introduce at least one or two new informational products a year to expand your business. That allows you to stay in touch with your prospects, clients and former clients each time you launch a new product, all while growing your business.
7. Recycle your knowledge to nurture your clients and to nurture your own business development. Use those resources you already have for everyone's benefit.