To Do list for wannabe

[glooft]

1 - finish writing ebook
2 - create website
3 - learn how to write a sales letter (Dan Kennedy style)
4 - create supporting DVD
5 - etc.
6 - etc...

Putting my plan together is pretty complex. I am working on my information product and decided that I should create a DVD to go along with my ebook. It gets pretty overwhelming thinking of all of the details that can go into the book, DVD, website, blog, mailings, etc.

I know I'll probably get spammed by every salesman selling a course on this forum but here I go anyway. Is there a course or program that is recommended that can guide me through information product creation and sales systemization? I realize that it may be better to figure it out myself but I'd much rather do it right the first time and learn from other's mistakes than my own. I have almost no experience in SEO and it looks pretty daunting right now so I was hoping to find something that teaches the ropes of internet marketing?

Thanks.
Gary

[AntonTheKhan]

Buy Moonlighting on the Internet by Yanik Silver.
It is actually a hardcopy book not a digital product.
I found it very useful and has tons of info in it besides making money with info products.
great read.

[lex6819]

I read a book called Your Portable Empire, by Pat O'Bryan, which is a very good overview, although he rambles a bit. His method details how to create your ebook and so forth.

SEO - you might find someone on rentacoder or elance to help you with this

Two good free resources are Melanie Mendelson's "Internet Business Blueprint" and Pat O'Bryan's "Effortless Ebooks" for the basic overview of pulling the business together, and coming up with ways to write an ebook quickly.

Those two resources are enough to get anyone started. Just google the author and title of those two reports I mentioned, to find the free pdf's.

Pat O'Bryan's book is a print book, available through Amazon. His book and Tim's book are my primary resources.

I got overwhelmed by the whole squeeze page creation thingy (I'm NOT a technie! - I have degrees in English and Spanish, and very few useful skills!) and ended up buying a complete ecommerce web site online, with shopping cart etc, so I might end up just selling downloadable products that way, although I haven't yet figured out how to manage my customer database and build up a permission-based email list. I might end up doing some sort of PPC or pay-for-performance marketing, I'm not sure yet...