Creating Your Own Product: Compiling Your Product

Copyright 2005 Ronald Gibson

Now that you have your information all typed up, it's time to 'package' it. There are a few key things involved with this step, so I will go through each one separately below to make it as easy as possible to understand.

CHOOSING A FORMAT

This is a particularly important step. And the reason is because you want to make your new niche product available to as many people as humanly possible. Statistically, most internet users are running on a Windows Operating System format. And that means statistically, most internet users can benefit from executable formatted products, or those that come in the ever popular .exe file extension.

Now, that's all fine and dandy, but if you decide to only use the .exe format, you're leaving out a good chunk of potential customers that run on non-Microsoft operating systems, such as Macintosh or Red Hat. But luckily, there is a solution to offer your niche product to almost every potential customer, no matter which operating system they run on.

And that is by using.....

The Portable Document File, or PDF, made possible by Adobe. The genius of this particular file format for information products is that because the .PDF files run on an independent program that can be utilized from any operating system, it then makes the document files platform independent themselves so long as the customer has the program to run the .PDF files from. And this gets even better