Tell Your Story

Tell Your Story

What a fantastic 'business idea' for anyone that would like to market a product that should end up being very popular. Let's face it; we have a huge population of people over fifty years of age now, which will probably be your target market to aim for. With such a large group of older ones, there has to be quite a few people that would like to document their lives for a variety of different reasons. Nearly everyone would love a way to tell their stories, whether it be to publish them as an exciting novel or to be able to give their personal and family history in printed form to their children or grandchildren, or as a memorial for others. Make this easier for them by offering a story kit to help them to compile their life story.

Everyone has a story that exists within his, or her, own lives and their own memories. They may not know enough or be confident enough to go about writing their story down for others to read. This is where your story kit will help them accomplish a task. It will provide them with a means to gather information in a step by step format. This will help them overcome the fear of starting and break the process down for them into something they can manage and succeed at.

Your story kit could include; templates, ideas, examples, basic writing education, and more to help them document their stories. One of the hardest components of writing is keeping on subject and organizing thoughts. Providing templates to guide them in their thought processes will help them keep on track.

So many people today have seen how easy it is to loose track of our generations of the past. Since the 1900's our society has moved around a lot more than any other generations before us, this has caused a lot of family history to be lost. Since grand children and great grandchildren as a whole tend to grow up now without regular contact with their relatives, they are much less likely to learn and discuss family stories that they otherwise might have been exposed too generations ago. Therefore, there really is a market for this 'business idea'! A book that can be passed on from generation to generation if need be.

There is a lot of competition in this field also, so you need to strive to make your product different and better than the others offered already do. This is also a good reason to offer your product for a reasonable price, what ever the market can bear. To be successful you need to make a profit too.

Be sure to include in your kit how and where to place pictures with their writings. We are living in a society that easily can add these items and they will make the finished products much more enjoyable in the future. The pictures can even be the focal point of each story that they may share, making it easier for them to know what to include in their book.

Create this kit and sell it for $20 or more. If you find it hard to include everything, you would like to include in it, give your buyers the option to buy the additional tools if they choose too. Just sell a bare bones kit for a small amount of money, then offer other tools that they can add if they think they would be necessary. Add a well-written flyer or message with each kit breaking down what else you have to offer them, how easy they are to use, and what it will accomplish for them in finishing their project.

Resources:

http://www.lifebio.com/

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6658/famhist.html

http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/gfaol/reunion/WriteHist.htm

http://www.your-life-your-story.com/