If you are like me you have more than one file of PLR sitting on your hard drive collecting dust. Knowing what to do with them and actually doing it is usually the problem.
Maximize PLR is a 90 day course set up to give you a new module every 10 days. Put together by Peggy Baron and Alan Petersen they cover a lot of different ways to use up your dust collectors.
They cover a lot of topics but by spreading the delivery out you will not get overwhelmed. They start with the easy ways to use PLR for basics such as list building and creating your own product but some of the other modules are things I have not seen before or unique twists on well known topics.
The videos are well done and easy to follow and they have added a ton of resources to help you.
Here are the module titles.
Build Your Mailing List
Create Your Own Information Product
Video and Audio Marketing
Membership Site
Article Marketing
Website Flipping
Interviews, Squidoo Lenses and Niche Stores
Offline Sales Channel
Tips, Tools, Techniques & Shortcuts
Definitely worth checking out and they are running a discount through May 7th.
Yesterday I told you about Joel Osborne’s new PLR release “Create Your Own Info Product“. Not sure how many packages there are left but only 100 will be sold so if you like one of these ideas don’t delay.
Now before I did anything I would take the time to edit the book, add in some affiliate links of mine (I love these types of affiliate landmines), add in my bio and links to my blog, Twitter, Facebook or any other social sites I use regularly.
You could add free bonuses inside the book that link to any of a number of free to join sites that would be complimentary. In this case a site like Instant Banner Creator would be ideal because anyone looking to create their own product would be interested in that service.
This is easy to do and if you don’t have or can’t afford Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat you can use Open Office to do this and create a pdf from it.
Here are three ways you could use this easily to improve your business.
This is a hot topic and would make a perfect ethical bribe or “bait” to build your list. Instead of using the sales page use the basic template to create a squeeze page, add your autoresponder code and send traffic to it. Add in bonus pages or a one time offer to your process to monetize it.
Set this up on any of the scripts like the Rapid Action Profits script which allow you to pay instant 100% commissions and sell it for $7 – $10 and offer 100% to your affiliates to create a buyers list. (By the way Joel will give you a chance to upgrade and get 8 more PLR products which would make it easy to create a one time offer.) Use that one time offer and pay 50% to your affiliates and you will not only generate a buyers list but generate income at the same time off your affiliates traffic.
Set it up as a product that you sell. There is a reason that I listed this third. In my opinion I would prefer to generate as many subscribers as possible from this instead of just a cash infusion.
By Mike Paetzold – Copyright 2009 – All Rights Reserved
Your mind set can make a huge difference in using private label rights products effectively. Personally, I feel and have found that if I get private label rights items I need to consume them in 24 hours.
If I do that, I don’t end up with a bunch of digital dust collectors on my hard drive. After all I am sure if you have been on line six months or more you have some of those on your hard drive too.
Here is how I try to do this. Yes, I said try. There are times that I will grab a package of PLR for an upcoming project and not use it immediately but I try to keep that to a minimum.
The first step is to create a folder to download the package to so I can find it easily. Now there are dozens of ways to categorize those but that would be an entirely new article. For our example we will use a folder called PLR with a sub folder of the topic. Download your purchase or gift to that folder you have created.
Unzip your file in that folder. This way all of the files will be in one place for that product.
Now each product will be different but most will have the web pages, a document file, may be a pdf and there always should be a license document. Make sure that you read the license before you start. This way you will be aware of all the terms.
If this were a private label rights ebook product there are three main things you will need to do before you can use the product as your own.
Edit the book
Change the graphics
Edit the pages
To get started open the word document in your favorite word processing software. Go through and read the book. Make notes as you read of what is good and what needs more clarification.
Make your additions and deletions to create a book unique to you. Add in appropriate affiliate links, add an about the author section and re-title the book to be unique.
Most private label rights packages come with the psd files to make editing the graphics easy. You can use your favorite graphics program to create a new look to your graphics. This is an area that for me I outsource it. Once I have the new book title and domain I will order up a new set of graphics.
Either way you will need to change the graphics to get the most from your product.
Finally you will edit the pages you receive. Adding in the graphics you changed and setting up your payment button are the must do items.
You may want to change the offer by adding a bonus or two that are unique to you. The more you do to make your product unique the more valuable it will be.
Now the first time you do this you probably will not be done in 24 hours but if you get in the habit of using private label rights products as soon as you get them you will find yourself with a lot less digital dust and more profit making sites. For complete step by step video tutorials on how to take the zip file and turn it into a money earning website check out The PLR Tutorials
You may use this article as long as it is unchanged (including the resource box) and all links are maintained.
About the author
Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.
After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses PLR to enter various niches profitably.
by Mike Paetzold – Copyright 2009 – All rights reserved.
You have downloaded a new PLR package and you want to make it yours exactly where do you start?
The absolute first thing is to read the license. Find out exactly what you can and most importantly what you can’t do with it.
Take the time to read the product, listen to it or watch it depending on the type of product. Take notes as you go through it and mark what you like and what it may be missing. Every product will have pluses and minuses so be realistic in your assessment but these notes will be valuable when you start your editing.
Now you have an idea of the quality of product you have. You know the exact rights you have. It is time to make a decision.
You can use this any number of ways subject to your rights.
1. As an “ethical bribe” to build your list
2. As a product that you can sell
3. As content for any number of things like articles, podcasts and videos
4. It may be something that you need to add more to it
For the balance of this article we will assume you are going to use it as a product and it is an e-book. The e-book is almost good enough as is. If it is not you could combine a couple products and combine them to make a product using the same basic techniques.
Go back to your notes and we will now edit the e-book. Put your voice into it. Add content where it needs it to increase the value that you provide to your customers. Once you have made your edits and added any appropriate links you need to add your own about the author information. This is where you can promote your agenda.
Quick aside – For a paid product you should only add limited links. For example if you are talking about building a squeeze page which requires web hosting a link to your preferred web host would be okay. Just make sure any links on a paid product add to its value. If you are creating a giveaway product you can use more links.
Once you have finished editing the e-book it is time to come up with a name and new graphics. I prefer to create the title, check to see if I can get a domain that goes with the title. If not I will keep trying different titles and domains until I get a good match. Now it is time to edit the graphics.
If I received psd files and can just change the names I will usually do it myself. If they don’t I will usually outsource it. What you do depends on your skill with graphics. The main thing is to make sure that you have good graphics for your new product that are different from what you received. You need to be unique.
Next you will need to edit the sales letter. Depending on the quality of the sales letter and how many changes you made to the e-book you may need just minor changes primarily in the graphics or it may need a total re-write. You need to make sure that you have a good offer. You can add unique bonuses (maybe another PLR product that you have redone) to increase the value.
Add your payment buttons and download pages and you are now ready to start promoting it.
For more information on taking PLR from download to money making product check out Mike Paetzold’s blog at The PLR Secrets.
You may use this article as long as it is unchanged (including the resource box) and all links are maintained.
About the author
Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.
After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses PLR to enter various niches profitably.
