Wanna become a millionaire? All you gotta do is create value for others. Whether you want to create the next cool electronic gadget, the next best selling book, the next medical break-through, or simply help others just for the fun of it, all you gotta do is work on creating value for others. Creating value is simply building or creating something that others find valuable. Something that improves the quality of their life, helps them break a bad habit or simply gives them pleasure. And here are all the tips you need to create value.
- Understand Value. Value is in the eye of the beholder. What you think is valuable is great, however others might not necessarily care for it
So how do you create value?
- Target a Group. Since value differs from one person to the next you need to focus. Focus your efforts on a group that has a certain need. Maybe they want to lose weight, learn Irish-dancing, get a date, travel the world, or stop smoking. Whatever need that group has, focus on that need, and create value with that group in mind. What would they find valuable?
- Put Others Needs First. Once you’ve focused on a group, you need to put the group’s needs first before your own. Let’s say you decided to help lame guys - myself included - get a date. While it would be pretty funny to take them out and tell them to approach women with some obscene comments, and see the women’s reactions, guess what? That will probably traumatize the guys. Instead you need to try seeing things through their eyes, see what they need and offer it.
- Master the Skills. In order to help that guy get a date, you have to be able to get one first, I know it stinks but talk is cheap You have to lead by example. However you don’t need to master a skill before you can start. If you can get more dates than the average guy, then you can start helping average dudes.
- Don’t Judge. In creating value you have to be very open minded. If you have a lot of judgments, no one will listen to you, or want your help. If you look down on those you’re trying to help, this will become obvious sooner or later. So how do you become more open-minded?
- Walk in Their Shoes. Whatever group you are trying to help, you must really know and understand very well before you can create anything of value for them. An easy way to do that is to frequently speak with members of the group, hang out with them, or even spend a whole day with one them.
- Become Creative. Maybe you want to help others lose weight yet you realize that there are already tons of books, diets and programs out there. How could you create value in such a crowded market? While there are many solutions, guess what? Most people are still overweight, so obviously most of the solutions out there aren’t working. So what’s missing? That’s what you need to figure out.
- Laser Focus. Maybe trying to help others lose weight sounds like a huge project. This is why you need to focus your efforts. Maybe you should help new mothers drop the weight they gained during pregnancy. Now that’s a much easier project for you to focus on and learn about.
- Start Reading. Once you picked a group of interest, and narrowed your focus down, you need to start reading about that group. Find out what solutions are out there for their need, and find out if those solutions are working. Often times you will find that there are many solutions, yet none of them is very effective. This is when you know you found an opportunity
- Offer Free Help. Since you are no expert, no one will probably be willing to pay you for help. Lucky for you, people never turn down FREE help. So you have to pick your first victim I mean client and offer them some help. Maybe you remember that your cousin’s wife just had a baby and is now trying to drop off those last few pounds. So next time you talk to her, you let her know that you would like a walking partner, and go for walks with her. During the walks you can get to find out about her experience dropping off those pregnancy pounds, and even give her some tips from some of the books you read.
- Start a Support Group. Once you have had some success helping someone, then start helping others, eventually create some kind of a support group. This could be an online forum, a group that meets over dinner at a restaurant, or even a group that has a teleconference.
- Take Notes. Take notes on what you learn about your support group members. Their needs, techniques that helped them succeed, their frustrations etc. This will help you create a valuable product for them in the future.
- Start Creating Your Product. Based on what you learn start creating a product that would help the group you chose to focus on.
- Use Your Skills. Creating a product might sound like a big deal yet it’s a lot easier than most people think. You can simply write an ebook or create a video. Going back to helping new mothers drop off pregnancy pounds, all you need to do is get a personal trainer from your local gym to come up with a custom workout based on your findings/research etc. You can even videotape the personal trainer performing it, and that could be your product. You can outsource the video manufacturing and copying, just do a quick google search and you’ll find many duplication services.
- Test Your Product. Before selling your product, or investing a lot of money in creating a 100 units of it, test it within the support group you created.
- Listen to The Feedback. Listen to the feedback you get during your product testing and adjust your product accordingly.
- Finalize Product. Once you have created a more ideal product that members of the support group enjoy, it’s time to go live.
- Do Not Become a Perfectionist. You should not be aiming for creating the perfect product, rather one that’s good enough. You can always improve it later.
- Get Some Free Testimonials. Have some members of your support group try out your product, and get some testimonials from them. This will help you in making your sales pitch.
- Start Selling Your Product. Make a sales pitch, present the product to investors, or even sell it directly to potential customers.
I realize that this is rather a quick outline of how value is created. However if you are interested in learning more about this topic, provide me with your first name and email, and I will explore it much deeper.
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