QA 55 – What do I sell online if I am not an expert at anything?

In today's Q&A, we are helping Tony discover what he can create a digital product around even though he doesn't have specific industry expertise. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Smartpassiveincome.com Pat's site for security guards. Pat's site for food truck owners Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all you are listening to a Q and with S and J. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome to a Q and A with S and J. got a great question today from Tony Visintin. I hope I said your name right Tony. Tony writes in and he says how can I create a digital product if I don't have any teachable knowledge or expertise on any specific topic like you guys have football coaching or librarian sources? Or put it in another way what kind of approach will I take in creating a digital product if I try to learn the topic from scratch, I'm not an authority in it but I am going to learn how to do it and teach other people? JOCELYN: Alright Tony, this was a common fear with a lot of people have. We hear this question a lot. People say I am not good at anything, I don't have any skills, I do a job where I have to follow a certain procedure and I really can't deviate from it, something like that. But the truth is that everyone has some type of skill or something that they are good at that you can use that translates to an online business. It may be something you do at work, sort of like what we did and maybe some type of a hobby. It maybe that you're a stay-at-home mom and you have the best stain treating formula ever and that something that translate to an online business. Any type of problem that somebody may have, if you have a solution for it then that could be the start of an online business. Ask your friends and family, go to them and say I would like to start an online business but I am really not sure what to do, what are something that you think that I am really good at that maybe I could teach someone else to solve one of their problems. And I am willing to bet that people will probably tell you something. Ask your mom. Moms love to help out their kids. SHANE: Your mom will brag on you Tony. JOCELYN: Yeah and ask her. Just say, what could I do that I could teach somebody else and I bet a lot that they would probably come back and tell you something that maybe you didn't even think of. SHANE: Another thing that you can do is you can really inventory this and inventory all the things that you do in a week. Just get a piece of paper, a yellow note pad, whatever, and carry it around with you for an entire week and write down every single thing you do at work, in your free time, when you are just laying at bed at night, like Jocelyn said you are working a hobby or something, you're looking up information, what do you search for on Google, things that interest you. Try to look for something in that list. You are going to come up with this huge list, two or three pages long by the end of the week if you just chart every single thing you do. Each line is a new thing. And look through there and start taking things off, yeah I do know a lot about that. You know what I know quite a bit about that and always remember you don't have to be the leading PhD Nobel prize winning expert on something to teach it online. You just have to be expert enough. You just have to be ahead of the people that you're going to teach. There are people who know a lot about online business more than we do. We follow them but there are a lot of people who are just discovering this world of selling things online and we have decided to help teach those people how to start an online business. So you don't have to be the authority, you just have to have some kind of expertise and be expert enough. JOCELYN: I have a friend that I met at a live event a few months ago and she does a website about personal organiz...