Secret Public Domain Tips, Tricks, and Insider Information?
February 17, 2008 by Logan · Leave a Comment
Hi again!
By reading through some of my previous posts, you’ve learned about the public domain and how you can use public domain content to create instant information products.
The question here is:
How do the big Internet Marketing Gurus do it, and how can you cash in on their insider secrets?
What if you found a comprehensive, power-packed public domain success blueprint that handed all of the following to you on a silver platter:
• Exclusive Step-By-Step How-To Info & Public Domain Training That Teaches YOU Everything You Need To Know About How To Create Your Own Products Quickly Using Copyright Free Material….
• A Proven Six-Step Formula For Success That Will Guide You Through The Entire Process Of Finding, Repackaging, And Profiting From Public Domain Material Quickly & Easily….
• Easy-To-Follow Recipes For Product Creation That’ll Have You Cranking Out Your Own eBooks, Audio Programs, Content Websites, And More In No Time And With Very Little Real Effort…
• The Inside Secrets Behind Some Of The Most Successful Websites Selling Products Based On Public Domain Material And How They Do It…
• 52 Hidden Online Resources For Public Domain Books, Movies, Music, Audio Books, And More That You Can Download With Just A Few Clicks Of Your Mouse…
• And Much, Much More…
I don’t want this to become a sales letter - this isn’t the place for that. Consider this as just something for you to think over. I’m not asking you to buy anything. Far from it. Instead, I just want you to consider where you want to be in just 3 months from now.
Do you:
• Want to own several information products that have strong, continuous demand in niches with little or no competition?
• Want multiple income streams that will pay off your bills and let you build your savings?
• Want to develop a solid base upon which you can really invest in big-time online business opportunities?
• Want to earn a full-time income by living at home and working online for as little as a few hours a day?
• Want to earn more money than you do right now (stupid question, right?)?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then I strongly urge you to think about the benefits of starting an online business using public domain works. In fact, if you want, you can even go ahead do it the hard way – spend a few months learning about the public domain, copyright laws, the ins and outs of finding profitable niches and then spend a few more months learning what works in an online business and what doesn’t.
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FACT: Of The Millions Of Books Published In The U.S. Between 1923 And 1963, the U.S. Copyright Office Estimates That Only Roughly 15% Had Their Copyright Protection Renewed. This Means That Around 85% Of All Books Published In The U.S. Between 1923 And 1963 Are Up For Grabs! That’s Billions of Pages of Material That You Can Use To Create Your Own Outrageously Profitable Multi-Media Information Publishing Empire…Faster Than You Ever Dreamed Possible…. |
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Making Money From The Public Domain…
February 16, 2008 by Logan · 4 Comments
Hey there…
In my last post, I told you about what the public domain is, right? As a reminder, here it is again:
All creative works that are not protected by copyright law form the public domain.
The primary goal of Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine is to provide you with lots of fresh new money-generating ideas for instant profit from the public domain.
In this post I’ll reveal just one of those ideas, along with a few ideas to build your business. These ideas are about books in the public domain and how you can use them to create niche products that you can use to jumpstart your very next online income stream!
Instant Information Products
Selling information products is without doubt the most inexpensive and easiest way of generating serious online income. But the problem is finding the quality content that makes up the product. Do you write it yourself? Let’s face it - most of us can’t write very well or even worse you may not enjoy writing at all! If you do enjoy writing that awesome! But, writing every word of content yourself can take way too long. How many would-be authors do you know that have taken months, even years to finish a book?
Other than doing it all yourself, you can also try paying someone to write your e-book. Places like elance.com, rentacoder.com, freelance-work-exhange.com and guru.com are great outsourcing websites, but the trouble here is that to have someone write quality content, you need to pay them a lot. Cheaper freelancers will be jumping at the chance to write your next best-seller, but the experience is a bummer as the work produced
9- times-out-of-10 sucks.
So, if you are not the next Jim Edwards, Marlon Sanders or Yanik Silver, what do you do? You certainly can’t afford to spend $500 or more straight-up for someone to write your first product. You want something that is affordable, and allows you the chance to MAKE the money before you start spending it.
Right?
That’s where the true power of the public domain lies. You can take a readymade product and use it for your business. Even if you want to sell it just as it is (although you might want to edit it a bit to update the writing style and put in your own information), there are many, many works lying in the public domain that are ‘instant information products’.
There are literally thousands of great ‘how-to’ type books in the public domain that would make great info products.
So how can you profit from this? Just follow all the steps in this Checklist:
The Checklist
• Find a profitable niche - do your research!
• Find a quality public domain work - it’s easy when you know where to look.
• Create your e-book
• Purchase hosting and domain name
• Create your website
• Market your product!
That’s it. The difficult part is finding the idea – after that, everything is just a set of tasks that need to be done in every business, and as such, there are countless free tools and strategies that you can use to gain an edge.
In the next post, I’ll tell you more about a secret Public Domain ‘insider’ resource that can help you get an incredible jump-start.
Take care,
Logan Andrew
Editor & Contributor, “Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine”
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FACT: Of The Millions Of Books Published In The U.S. Between 1923 And 1963, the U.S. Copyright Office Estimates That Only Roughly 15% Had Their Copyright Protection Renewed. This Means That Around 85% Of All Books Published In The U.S. Between 1923 And 1963 Are Up For Grabs! That’s Billions of Pages of Material That You Can Use To Create Your Own Outrageously Profitable Multi-Media Information Publishing Empire…Faster Than You Ever Dreamed Possible…. |
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A Crash Course In Plundering The Public Domain…
February 11, 2008 by Logan · 4 Comments
Hello!
Welcome to the Pirates of the Public Domain Official Blog. If you are new to the concept of Public Domain, you’re in the right place! Don’t worry, this is just a short trip down memory lane, we’ll just cover what the public domain is and what the obvious advantages are of using public domain works within your online business (and yes, there are a few definitions as well).
Exploring the Public Domain
Now before I get into the whole ‘definition’ phase, let me tell you straight off what you should know before anything else.
The Public Domain is a GOLD MINE.
It is a wonderful resource for instant content - Whether you are looking to add to your regular online business or want to start a new one, you can use public domain works to generate whatever content you need.
• Imagine saving the time required to write your own e-book or 100 articles!
• Imagine saving the money you pay to ghostwriters!
Interested?
Here’s what the Public Domain is:
The Public Domain refers to that huge treasure chest of published or unpublished ‘works’ that are not protected by U.S. or International copyright law. Since the copyright law forbids legal commercial use, the public domain (which contains everything that is not governed by copyright laws) is free for you to use in any commercial setting, without fear of lawsuits or the need for giving credit or reference.
So basically you are free to use this work for your own benefit!
There are two main aspects of the public domain:
• What forms the public domain?
• How can we profit from the public domain?
Let’s look at them one by one.
What forms the public domain?
– All generic information such as facts, figures, scientific knowledge (but not inventions), mathematical formulas, ideas, etc.
– All publications by the U.S. government and its agents.
– Previously copyrighted works that have passed into the public domain due to expired copyright or other reasons (the biggest goldmine in my opinion).
– Work that is placed into the public domain by its owners.
Most of the public domain that we will be looking at is the second and third categories (government publications and previously-copyrighted works) because you can use this works directly – no need to create your own products or content!
How can we profit from the public domain?
This is where it gets interesting. Usually, if you get an idea from a product, or like a book and think about writing something similar, you know that you can’t just copy the product or book directly. That would get you a serious lawsuit for copyright violation.
On the other hand, public domain works are FREE for your use. You can republish them as is, although you might want to make a few changes like adding in your own information, editing layout and packaging, etc. Or if you want, you can use the public domain work to create your own derivative work.
Examples of Public Domain Works
All copyrighted works that were published before 1923.
That may seem unimportant, until you realize that while today there is a staggering amount of books and other works published and copyrighted each year, when we talk about the public domain we are literally talking about centuries of published work! And most of this is extremely relevant to today’s world.
For example, there are strong niche followings for these areas:
– Self-improvement
– Making more money
– Art
– Classical movies
– Fiction
– All sorts of hobbies
– History
And much more!
For any one of these niches you can find at least a dozen, profitable business ideas. And with the public domain, it becomes a snap to take the information you require, re-package it, edit it if necessary and voila – you have built the backbone of your online business (content) in no time at all.
Thoughts
A business is either a service or a product. And as such, there is a certain level of quality that you must adhere to in order to be successful. It is also important to build a degree of trust, and in the long run that only comes with your customers believing that you can over-deliver.
Pirates of the Public Domain is all about helping you over-deliver in your business. By teaching you how to use public domain works to provide essential content for your business (whether you sell it as a product or use it to support any services you provide), it will lead you to consistently jump-start your business ideas by giving them shape through the power of the public domain.
In my next post, I’ll talk about how you can create instant profits out of the public domain.
Take care,
Logan Andrew
Co-Editor & Contributor, PiratesofthePublicDomain.com
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FACT: Of The Millions Of Books Published In The U.S. Between 1923 And 1963, the U.S. Copyright Office Estimates That Only Roughly 15% Had Their Copyright Protection Renewed. This Means That Around 85% Of All Books Published In The U.S. Between 1923 And 1963 Are Up For Grabs! That’s Billions of Pages of Material That You Can Use To Create Your Own Outrageously Profitable Multi-Media Information Publishing Empire…Faster Than You Ever Dreamed Possible…. |
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