Tiered pricing is the recommended approach for monetizing content on the Guides.co platform - especially if you're developing your content as you go.

Step 1: Prepare Content & Launch

The first phase is to create and launch your content. unlike a book or video, you can continuously add more content and make refinements to your Smart Guide. Some of our most successful authors have launched new content within a day for free in order to gauge reader interest and get feedback.

If you have a mailing list or friends, this is the perfect time to get them involved.

Step 2: Gather Feedback & Update Pricing

Now that you've launched your Smart Guide on Accel.io and invited a few friends, family, colleagues to check it out and gauged interest, you can incorporate their feedback into the guide.

Focusing on improving the content with any steps that are missing or imagery/short videos can do quite a bit in terms of helping the reader better understand and apply your content. You can also set a price for the content.

Step 3: Refine Content, Update Pricing & Promotion

Now that you've refined the content, gotten more feedback and made some sales, it's time to take your content mainstream.

Focus on a few more edits, improvements if necessary (based on feedback) and set another "completed" price.

You're now ready to begin promoting the guide expensively to your mailing list, social networks and reaching out to bloggers. You're ready to make this as big as you'd like it to be.