Archive for March, 2008

PLR - What’s It Good For?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

In this installment of our PLR series of articles, I’m going to be discussing some of the things that PLR material is good for. And make no mistake about it…PLR is useful for a number of things. As a matter of fact, PLR material may very well be the most useful pieces of information any marketer could use for his business. This article explains why in no uncertain terms. It is my hope that after you are done reading this brief explanation that you’ll start to have your eyes pealed for some quality PLR material that you can use to your advantage.

Probably one of the most important uses of PLR is in product creation. Let’s face it…the big money, when it comes to Internet marketing, is in creating your own products. Sure, you can make a few bucks as an affiliate marketer, but the truth is, competing with all those other affiliates is not easy. However, if you have your own product to sell, not only do you earn income from your own efforts, but you also earn income from the efforts of YOUR affiliates.

The problem is, product creation, for a lot of us, isn’t easy. You have to do research on the niche you’re creating the product for and then you have to write the product…from scratch. Let me tell you, as a product creator, sometimes staring at that blank page can be one hell of a nightmare. It’s not fun. And if you’re just starting out, it can be damn near intimidating to the point of never getting started.

However, with PLR material…and good PLR material…you can have your first product cranked out in less time than it takes to write an ad for an affiliate product that you’re promoting. No, I’m not kidding. Good PLR material doesn’t take all that long to whip into shape. You can have a quality product out there in a fraction of the time that it would take to create your own product from scratch.

Product creation is probably the biggest use for PLR material, but it’s not the only use for it. Oh no, product creation only scratches the surface as far as what you can do with PLR material. In future installments of this series, I’ll discuss some other uses for PLR material…all of which are vital to effective marketing and income generation.

See you again real soon.

To YOUR PLR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

PLR - What’s It All About?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve probably heard all the rah-rah about PLR. I’ve been marketing online for years and honestly can’t remember when all the hoopla started. It’s certainly been a while. Well, for those of you who aren’t quite up to speed on PLR, this little introductory article should give you a good enough frame of reference so that you’ll at least know what everybody is getting so juiced up about.

PLR, or Private Label Rights, is a term used for material that can be purchased and then used as your own material as if you wrote it yourself. In other words, as soon as you make the purchase, it becomes your property to do with what you want. That means you can sell it, give it away, pawn it off at an auction…whatever. Well, not exactly. It really kind of depends.

Let me explain.

See, not all PLR is created equally. There are tons of rights that go along with PLR and quite honestly, these rights can drive you plain batty. I’ll get into individual rights in later installments. The point however, is that because there are so many rights involved with PLR, you have to be very careful when you purchase PLR material that you’re not doing something that you shouldn’t be doing.

That’s where the rights file comes in. Well, at least it should come. Not everybody includes a rights file with their PLR material. There’s no law saying that they have to either. However, when that happens, that’s when problems arise. See, the customer ends up buying the PLR package, and if it’s somebody who isn’t quite familiar with how PLR works, will simply do whatever they want with it. Now, if there is no rights file, they have a pretty good case in court, should it come to that. But the creator of the product could simply claim that it’s not PLR material to begin with and there ARE no rights. That’s when you run into trouble.

So, if you are deciding to purchase any PLR material at all, make sure you ask the creator if there is a rights file that comes with it so that you’ll know EXACTLY what you can and CAN’T do with the material.

In the next installment of this series, I’ll go over some of the common things that you can use PLR material for.

To YOUR PLR Success,

Steven Wagenheim