So many coaches (quite rightly) encourage you to create a successful product. But have you done it yet?
One of the biggest myths in online business is that successful entrepreneurs sit around dreaming up brilliant product ideas.
In reality, many of the best businesses start with something much less glamorous: Eavesdropping.
Before creating a course, ebook, membership, software tool, or coaching program, smart marketers spend time looking for existing demand. They don’t ask, “What should I sell?” They ask, “What are people already struggling with?”
The internet is basically one giant focus group if you know where to look.
Reddit is one of the best places to start. Every day, people openly discuss their frustrations, failed attempts, expensive mistakes, and unanswered questions. Browse niche communities and look for the same questions appearing over and over. Pay special attention when someone says things like, “Why doesn’t this exist?” or “I’d pay good money for a solution.” Those aren’t casual comments. They’re clues.
X can be even more revealing because people tend to post in the heat of the moment. Search phrases like “so frustrated,” “any recommendations,” “looking for a tool,” or “there has to be a better way.” You’ll quickly discover problems people are actively trying to solve right now. Better still, you’ll learn the exact words they use to describe those problems, which often become your future marketing copy.
This approach dramatically reduces risk.
Instead of creating a product and hoping someone wants it, you’re identifying demand first and building around it. Think of yourself less as an inventor and more as a detective. Your job is to collect clues, spot patterns, and identify complaints that appear again and again.
The best opportunities are rarely hidden.
They’re usually sitting in plain sight, buried inside comment threads, forum posts, and social media conversations.
Most entrepreneurs spend months brainstorming product ideas.
The smarter ones spend that time listening.
And very often, the market tells them exactly what to build.
My Big Product Creation Mistake
Years ago, when I first started in affiliate marketing, I launched straight into creating my own product, without any of the above steps.
I actually paid a lot of money for a course to help me launch my product – apparently working just 10 hours a week for six weeks! – Haha
I spent a long time creating the product, but then realised it was harder to sell it than to create it!
If I had been able to cut out the product creation step, I could have spent more time learning the skill of getting traffic / customers which is what really ,atters. But I was too exhausted by then.
Even Faster Way to Create a Successful Product
What I would do now, with hindsight – is use a good PLR library to create a product, and then learn the skill of finding visitors for it.
At the moment, this is at any incredibly small price, so take advantage of the offer.
By the way – this was recently sold as part of a bundle at a much higher price, so if you couldn’t afford the higher price…. here’s a way to pick the offer up in smaller chunks.
