If you are like most people, you have a 9-to-5 job working for some company with a lot of stress and pressure to complete your projects. Perhaps you’ve found that even though you complete your work to everyone’s satisfaction, you still don’t get the raise or promotion you deserve. Maybe you’ve been getting more work dumped on you since others were let go due to the economy and find yourself drowning in work. Are you working overtime or have to continue working once you get home? Are you beginning to feel like your life is owned by, and revolves around your job? Are you afraid of losing your job? If so, you are not alone. This is why so many individuals are researching ideas for a home based business. Unfortunately, that is as far as most people get. Lets look at some reasons why.The advantages of having your own home based business seem compelling – you’re the boss and can’t be fired by anyone else. You can set the hours you want to work that better fit your lifestyle. More time with your family. You control the growth of the business. The list goes on and on. Why then, do most people give up on their ideas for a home based business before even trying? It is because of fear.Fear is a good thing. It kept us alive back in the days when the struggle to survive involved decisions that were truly life or death. But these days in our modern society our fears are mostly tought to us from the media and our upbringing. We tend to imagine the worst before taking the first step, and therefore not taking any steps at all. When it comes to starting a home based business, we fear it will fail for one reason or another, or someone close to us will criticize the idea, or that we will be scammed somehow. These are valid fears, but should these fearsome thoughts always stop us cold in our tracks?I’m not saying don’t have fears. Instead, allow the fear to be there, just don’t let it stop you from taking the next step. If you are reading this, you have already taken the first step of researching ideas for a home based business. That’s great! You are probably finding a lot of different ideas on the web. Many of the ideas include selling a product or offering a service out of your home such as tutoring or selling art. Other ideas utilize the internet where all the work is done online. As you look through the lists of ideas, ask yourself which ones feel like they would be something you would enjoy. You should note those down on some paper so you can compare and contrast the ideas as you continue your research. A word of caution, if you are looking for an idea that jumps out at you as the absolute, hands down, this is it business, you most likely will not find it. Why? Because every home based business has its pros and cons and our minds will typically race through the cons until fear is felt, thus tempering our excitement for the idea. Don’t fight the fear, let it be there, just write the idea down if it’s one you think you could enjoy.Another common reaction to be aware of when looking at ideas for a home based business is when you see an idea that you don’t understand or are not familiar with, and therefore deciding it isn’t for you. If you see home business ideas and you do not understand what they involve, write it down and research it. You may find something that is a perfect fit for you, now that you understand what it’s all about. As someone interested in art, I found I had no idea what ACEO meant when looking at the art on sites like etsy.com. I assumed it was some type of acrylic paint and thus ignored the category entirely. I was completely wrong. I’ll leave it to you to look up ACEO if you don’t know what it means.

Product creation in Internet marketing is getting stiffer and stiffer nowadays owing to tough competition between Internet-based businesses. Putting up a new product requires plenty of brainpower and finances along with an ability to take risk. With that, even if you have the product well-set already, you have to position it strategically in the Internet landscape for others to notice. You should get the interest of Web users and turn them to actual customers. Aside from the usual physical products, many different products that thrive well on Internet marketing include E-books, membership sites, and video lectures.

The long and difficult process of product creation begins with ideas. They are easy to get – compared to the effort that comes with analyzing the market for that idea. Before the idea turns to a product, businesses often spend money, even amounting to millions of dollars, to ensure the success of the new product that emerges from an idea. Businesses undertake many types of market research and surveys before releasing their products to the public. Now, you may think that because your business is small, you can’t afford research or you don’t have to do research; you can and you should. The Internet allows you to disseminate materials needed for your market study to many people at once without your having to spend a cent.

It is a common maxim in business: Look at your destination first before mapping out your journey. So what are the goals you intend to accomplish with your product creation ventures? The everyday travails of your business may make you forget the end in sight. On the other hand, prepare to entertain new developments that come to your mind in your product creation. Your conception of a product may have started this way, but a few tweaks here and there along with some market research results and it ends up another way. Take it as the result of a creative process, not as a failure to reach your goal. After all, your product creation activities are intertwined with a long-term goal that you should strive to sustain at your utmost: profit generation. So if your less profitable initial idea evolves to a more profitable product, be thankful!

With your product made up already, start doing some aggressive Internet marketing. A product purchase typically comes after more than five times a customer is exposed to an informative call-to-buy message. Thus it is important to get the contact details, like the e-mail address, of potential customers who are on the brink of a sale. Use the results of your market research to determine the demographics to which you should concentrate your marketing efforts.

With consistent product creation, you can make an inventory of your products that you can market in due time. Just keep making products – the moment you succeed in making and marketing a product, customers are surely wanting more from you, so give it to them. Keep them on your side through constant product creation.

Marketing includes matters such as pricing and packaging of the product and creation of demand by advertising and sales campaigns. There are other options, of course, like product creation, resale rights marketing, joint ventures and the likes, but they are merely secondary to the above.

If you take the freelance route, it is important to ensure that all rights to profit from the final product, or any materials produced in its making, remain yours. Bookkeeping, physical product creation or delivery of goods can be done better with specialized help. Determining the purpose of the product is vital in niche product creation.

Implementation of Methodology – The choice of implementation of Six Sigma methodology depends on whether development is required on existing processes (DMAIC) or on new process/product design creation (DMADV). Determining what you really want to sell, something that you can be relaxed selling is the first step at the creation of a niche product. With the technological advancements in the hosting industry, from automated control panels and scripts that simplify creation of accounts; to complete turnkey solutions, there is no excessive need to worry about spending time on the actual product sold to the customer.

For instance, you should be prepared to either perform yourself or to subcontract the completion of the following tasks:- Product idea research (are there any existing products or patents already existing for this idea)- Product specification document training (what it will do, how it will look, how will it be powered, and how the user will interface with it)- Marketing study (what it will be named, who would buy this, how much would they pay, how will we get customers to purchase the product)- Schematic or electronic circuit design process- Creation of a bill of material or BOM and an approved vendor’s list or AVL for each component in the design, preferably with multiple sources identified, with a BOM and AVL for each assembly level in the product- Printed circuit board layout design process (single sided board, double sided board, or multilayer board; size of the PCB; board material)- Mechanical packaging design with user interfaces (displays, buttons, switches, key. This removes all product creation costs from your budget as a marketer.

No other database of affiliate programs offers such a possibility for profit on either the affiliate side or the product creation site. Your chosen niche should allow for the creation of more than one product or service.

There are several marketing strategies that are necessary in the creation of a successful e-commerce web site – Email marketing (broadcasting) of prospects/customers – Effective use of auto responders (generate automatic email messages) – Online Newsletter – Online Form / Survey to capture your prospect’s email address – Electronic Product Delivery (if you sold a digital product) – Advertisement (Ad) Tracking – Back End Sales – Affiliate program etc.