Today is a historic day. After a lot of hard work filming, editing, designing, setting up a website and more of those creative processes, it is finally here: How to Throw Like a Pro! The definitive source for learning how to throw a frisbee disc, aimed at novice and intermediate ultimate players around the world.
Take a look at the website: www.howtothrowlikeapro.com!
Ultimate
If you don’t yet know what Ultimate is, here is a short explanation (taken from www.whatisultimate.com). Ultimate is an exciting, non-contact team sport, played by thousands the world over. It mixes the best features of sports such as Soccer, Basketball, American Football and Netball into an elegantly simple yet fascinating and demanding game. To compete at the top level, Ultimate players require an unmatched degree of speed, stamina and agility. Yet the simplicity of the rules means it’s easy and fun for newcomers to pick up.
How to Throw Like a Pro!
Together with someone else I decided to make a DVD to teach people the techniques that are used by the top players. The DVD explains each throw in detail, with multiple camera angles, freeze frames, slow motion footage and on screen effects to add to the explanation. Complete voice overs in English explain every bit of detail about the throws.
The idea to make this DVD came from the fact that teaching people the techniques of throwing takes a lot of one on one time and always involve the same explanations. So a DVD is the perfect medium to distribute this knowledge without taking extra time from us to explain it one on one.
Product Development
Having developed products before, the whole process was not entirely new to me, just the marketing and e-commerce bits are partly new. If you are thinking about doing something similar here are some pointers to get you going:
- Select a good niche market
- Think up a product, in broad terms
- Find someone to help you with creating the product, an expert
- Create the product
- Make a website to sell the product online or find resellers to do this for you (use an evaluation copy to hand out to them)
- Develop a marketing plan; make sure you can monitor your marketing performance!
- Start marketing your product and adjust marketing where necessary
There are a lot of other things that are important such as shipping and handling (do you do this in house or do you outsource it), etc. But I would say you should just get started in a niche that you know well, or know a good expert in that is willing to help.
Always remember: don’t be affraid to fail. Failure is part of success. You learn from failures. Not acting is truly failing, because without acting you will never achieve success!
Don’t forget to check out the website: www.howtothrowlikeapro.com!
December 4th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Super man! Mooi dat je het geflikt hebt.