| The exciting term, infopreneur, is becoming a | | | | an individual's ideas, products or services. |
| hit among today's entrepreneurs who want to | | | | Information sharing is like presenting a |
| capitilise on the sea of opportunities | | | | business card. It opens up doors to new |
| available on the internet. An infopreneur, | | | | business opportunities. With more media |
| apparently combined from the two words | | | | exposure, it can easily increase popularity |
| "information" and "entrepreneur", refers to | | | | to one's business. An article published on an |
| an entrepreneur who makes money by selling | | | | article submission site, gets republished |
| sharing information on the web. | | | | several times to various websites which |
| | | | increases visitor traffic in the twinkle of |
| Infopreneurs fall into two categories. One is | | | | an eye. Most infopreneurs have their own |
| where infopreneurs sell information which are | | | | website which is a centre for their business. |
| created on their own. The other kind is | | | | By publishing information on the net, they |
| whereby infopreneurs piggyback off | | | | leave a link behind for interested readers to |
| information from certain sources, modify as | | | | follow through and land up on the |
| their own and sell them. The selling part | | | | infopreneurs' sites. For an example, an |
| might not exactly refer to selling | | | | infopreneur may have written on a specific |
| information to readers directly all the time. | | | | topic such as "the best ingredients to use in |
| Instead, sometimes information will be made | | | | cooking a Bombay styled mutton biryani". An |
| free to be read by anyone. In this case, | | | | interested reader who finds the information |
| revenues are earned through advertistments | | | | useful would then click on the link left by |
| which are relevant to the information. | | | | the author to visit his website where there |
| Infopreneurship serves as an important | | | | would be more related information on that |
| purpose to the public especially when people | | | | particular topic. |
| are looking for information on a specific | | | | |
| topic. Then again, the reliability of the | | | | Gone were the days where there existed an |
| source has to be checked for. | | | | industry era peacefully before technology |
| | | | started exploding into the scene in |
| The selling part comes in when an infopreneur | | | | exponential forms. Today we are living right |
| offers information products in a variety of | | | | in the heart of the information era and what |
| formats including books, e-books, special | | | | more relevance could it be other than |
| reports, audio formats, videos, workbooks, | | | | infopreneurship. Information is the |
| booklets, and virtually any method in which | | | | underlying vitality in today's success to |
| one can deliver information. This method is | | | | both an individual and a company. So if you |
| practised by entrepreneurs cum infopreneurs | | | | feel the need to share loads of information, |
| and successful results are obtained. | | | | be it for profitable or non-profitable |
| | | | reasons, dive right into the limitless stream |
| The reason for successful infopreneurship, be | | | | of information superhighway aka internet |
| it selling information or sharing information | | | | today. |
| for free, is that it is a great way to market | | | | |