{"id":727,"date":"2009-07-18T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayjennings.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-07-18T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:08:08","slug":"keepin-it-generic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/keepin-it-generic\/","title":{"rendered":"Keepin&#8217; It Generic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start by looking at two things we can probably all agree on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s axiom #1 &#8212; Unless you&#8217;re J.P. Gotrocks and outsource everything, you&#8217;re going to spend an awful lot of your time creating content for your internet marketing business. Maybe you&#8217;ll do it all from scratch, maybe you&#8217;ll use some PLR (private label rights) materials as a base, but however you do it you&#8217;re going to be creating content.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s axiom #2 &#8212; Leveraging your time is a must of you&#8217;re going to be successful in internet marketing, so you can&#8217;t spend time recreating the wheel. You must be able to repurpose and reuse content in your online business or you&#8217;ll never be able to grow your business past a certain size.<\/p>\n<p>Two principles we need to follow &#8212; create content and reuse content &#8212; that can be very powerful when put together.<\/p>\n<p>The key to making those two things work together as seamlessly as possible is to &#8220;think generic.&#8221; Here&#8217;s an example&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For my product creation course I needed to create a video showing how to hire a software programmer. Creating that fairly quickly is a no-brainer. But I&#8217;ve also been thinking about putting together a product focusing on selling downloadable software and I know I&#8217;ll need a similar video for that product.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I never know what&#8217;s going to come down the pike in the future, so making sure the video isn&#8217;t &#8220;specific&#8221; to a given product is a smart thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty easy to make something generic. In general, don&#8217;t mention the product name in the video. The video I just created walks through the process, but I don&#8217;t do any kind of introduction. Instead of saying, &#8220;In this lesson for Product Creation Station we&#8217;re going to hire a programmer&#8230;&#8221; I just jump right into the process.<\/p>\n<p>That gives me a piece of content I can use for any product now or in the future.<\/p>\n<p>And when I do need to use it for something, I can &#8220;wrap it&#8221; in something more specific &#8212; I can record a quick intro talking about this lesson in the course, etc., and then combine that with the generic piece to get a piece of content that&#8217;s unique &#8212; but built on top of content that&#8217;s generic.<\/p>\n<p>With text-based content you can always do a search and replace to reuse content for another project, but even then if you can write the piece as generic as possible you&#8217;ll come out ahead.<\/p>\n<p>For step-by-step instructions on creating your own digital products see the Product Creation Station site.  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