Warning: Use Free Reprint Articles At Your Own Risk
November 18, 2008 by Debra · Leave a Comment
You writing articles for your blog… and writing and writing. A day comes when you will wonder if you could add a few articles that are not original. Could you run right over to a free reprint articles website… grab a great article and publish? Sounds like a great idea doesn’t it?
Well… Yes and No. A significant portion of your web content should be original.
There are many really good and informative publishers who have built websites almost entirely with free reprint articles. While there isn’t anything wrong with creating archives of quality information and profiting from it, this approach will not win you long term followers.
Search engines know when you have original content and when you are using content that exists elsewhere. There is growing evidence that preference is given to websites that contain more original content.
Not to mention – if your goal is to establish yourself as a resource of value; your readers will expect you to express your knowledge and original opinions.
Is there a place for Free Reprint Articles?
Sure there is.
If you find high quality content that shares the information you want your target market to benefit from, by all means use it on your website.
You can keep the focus on you and what you have to offer by creating article introductions and closing comments.
Position these comments above the article title and below the author’s resource box. So long as you maintain the proper live link to the author’s website this is perfectly acceptable and a great way to show your reader that you have read and personally approved on the content that you’re sharing.
Using Free Reprint Articles is really a fun way to share an alternative idea or view. By keeping everything relevant and adding your own personal touch to the article… you are not “cheating” your readers. Plus… it keeps the article as part of the conversation that’s happening between you and your loyal readers.
The big idea - Use Reprint Articles - Just use them wisely. Remember that adding content to an already written article is so much easier than writing articles from scratch.
Niche Hunter Volume One - How To Find Wildly Profitable Niche Markets For Your Public Domain Products…
November 15, 2008 by Logan · Leave a Comment
When selling a product, a lot of people make the mistake of developing their product first, and then trying to find a market for it. The process should really be reversed. Find a market first that spends money, then find out what they want and give it to them.
Fortunately, there are a lot of places online where you can do your market research for free. They’ve done most of the work for you already. You just need to know where to go and what to do to connect all the dots.
Niche Hunter Volume One show you how to get the answers you need to these important questions when considering a niche market:
- Do you have an interest or passion for the niche? If not, do you think you can develop one? Or will you get bored with it quickly?
l - Are other people passionate about your niche? If not, do they have a desperate problem they want to solve?
l - Is the market big enough, but not so big you’ll have too much competition when you’re just starting out?
l - Do the people in this niche spend money?
l - What products are being successfully sold right now to this niche? Can you sell something similar? Can you improve it, give them something they want that all other products of their kind are currently lacking?
l - What are these existing products in your target niche being sold for? Could you be profitable selling a similarly priced item? Or are your potential competitors selling cheap on the front so they can upsell, cross sell, or make their money on the back-end?
In Niche Hunter Volume One, you’ll learn tricks for finding and evaluating potentially profitable niches that you can use public domain material to create products for.
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How To Use Copyright-FREE Public Domain Content To Create Your Own Information Publishing Empire…
November 15, 2008 by Logan · Leave a Comment
We’ve just released a new seven part ecourse…
The “Public Domain Crash Course” Seven Part eCourse is the perfect primer to get you started learning how to plunder the Public Domain and get you on the fast track to creating your own new products using copyright-free material!
Every day for the next seven days starting today, you’ll receive a valuable new lesson regarding “How to use copyright-free public domain content to create your own information publishing empire”…
The lessons are delivered via email. Here’s what you’ll find in your inbox over the next seven days…
- Lesson One - What is the public domain and how can it help me create products at lightning speed?
l - Lesson Two - what types of public domain material are available for me to choose from?
l - Lesson Three - What else can you do with public domain information to make money?
l - Lesson Four - The right tools for public domain republishing
l - Lesson Five - How to use public domain material to create your own physical books
l - Lesson Six - How to use public domain material to create profitable audio products
l - Lesson Seven - Let’s get physical with the public domain - how to create a wide variety of products using public domain material
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The Amazon Kindle / Public Domain Connection Part Four - Standing Out In A Sea of Kindle Competition…
How To Leverage Amazon’s Digital Text Platform To Create Products For Kindle Users And Drive More Traffic Back To Your Websites, Grow Your Lists, and Create A New Source of Supplemental Income For Your Information Publishing Business…
Strategies For Making Your Products Stand Out In A Sea of Kindle Competitors…
With over 190,000 other books currently cataloged in the Kindle store, how can you make your books stand out in the crowd?
Whether you’re using leverage method 1 or leverage method 2 as described in Part 3 of this series there are several things you can do to give yourself an advantage when selling your ebooks in the Kindle store.
You’ve got 2 weapons at your disposal…
1) You absolutely MUST maintain some form of exclusivity.
Trying to sell the exact same book as everybody else is a real quick way to get your book into the 99 cent bargain bin.
Unfortunately, a lot of Kindle publishers know about sites like Project Gutenberg and they also know that the vast majority of books on Gutenberg are copyright-free so you’ll find a lot of stuff taken from there and republished on Kindle.
Consequently, you’ll find many publishers competing with each other trying to sell copies of the exact same book – for obvious reasons that’s not a position you want to find yourself in.
If you are leveraging method 1 (generating new revenue streams by only selling books made with content that you wouldn’t be monetizing by other means anyway) then you would really be shooting yourself in the foot as far as price is concerned.
In order to demand the best possible price for your book (remember, you only get 35% so the higher the better) you really need to be the only one selling that particular book.
Try to stick with titles that no one else is using.
Check the Kindle store listings first and search for the title of your book –http://amazon.com/kindlestore
Try to avoid the same content that others are using.
Public domain stuff from the years 1923-63 works great for this because most of the well-known online public domain repositories like Project Gutenberg avoid this golden 40 year span like the plague even though there are millions of public domain works from that timeframe.
They avoid this timeframe simply because it takes more effort to perform copyright renewal searches to clear the works and if they miss a renewal and mistakenly use something that is still protected, they could get sued – therefore the overall commitment of time and resources (not to mention the risk) is much, much greater.
This is great news for you and I as info publishers because it means that we have a HUGE pool of public domain books to pull from that should have absolutely zero competition in the Kindle store simply because most of these other publishers are either too lazy or too ignorant to pursue public domain works from this time frame – but we know better don’t we? 
If you are going to use common books such as works off of Gutenberg, you can make your product standout by designing unique cover images for it (these are displayed with the listings just like eBay auctions), and making sure that you are doing everything you can with your title and description.
You can also use marketing tactics that you are already employing elsewhere - offer a free download of some sort with the purchase of the book and mention this in the description.
There are no rules that I am aware of that disallow you from this.
Example: You could take a public domain book from Gutenberg and offer a free mp3 audio download of the book with purchase. Upload the audio book onto your website and provide the download URL inside the book.
This will help to make your book stand out from the others. It takes nothing to put this together and it doesn’t cost you a penny if you take the time to record the audio yourself.
Just make sure that you provide a nice, easy short URL because your customer will most likely have to use a PC to download it so they’ll be entering the URL into a browser.
HINT: Force your customers to opt-in to get the free download so that you can capture their contact info.
2) Put your marketing and copywriting knowledge to good use…
In order to make your Kindle products really stand out you can put your marketing and copy writing skills into play. This is something that a most Kindle publishers have no clue about.
Here’s a few pointers for making your ebooks stand out…
Title – they actually give you a very generous amount of room in the title field for your book, 128 characters. Use this to your advantage by using powerful benefit-driven keywords at every opportunity.
You should have enough room to insert the actual title of your book followed by these keywords. Think of this as a headline.
This is one of the first things (along with the cover image) that perspective buyers will see so make it count. It’s every bit as important as your auction title on eBay or your headline in a Google Adwords ad.
Cover Image – no explanation should be needed here – you already know how important this is. A really nice, vivid cover image will draw eyes off of competing products and on to yours.
Description – I don’t know yet exactly how many characters you are allowed to fit in this field but I can tell you one thing – it’s a lot! Your description is where you can really let your copywriting skills shine.
You can’t do any real formatting like bolding, italicizing, or underlining but there are more basic ways to draw attention to the various parts of your text if you use a little creativity – asterisks, clever uses of the right and left arrow symbols, tildes, hyphens, and underscores are useful for drawing attention to certain aspects of your copy when used correctly.
Think of this area as a mini sales letter.
Use strong benefit-driven bullet points to describe your product. Most lazy publishers use this field to provide a really quick summary of what the book is about.
You can go way beyond this and actually compose a full blown sales letter.
Tell your prospects why they need your book and what problem it will help them solve. This is also the part where you would discuss any bonuses that you are including with the purchase of your book.
TIP: Always, always place your bonus download URL at the end of your book.
The Kindle store now let’s shoppers download a preview of the first 10% of your book so if you’ve got the download link on the first page or anywhere within that first ten percent, you’ve just lost an edge (unless you really don’t care whether or not they ultimately buy your Kindle book because you were just trying to get them back to your site and collect their info anyway! In that case stick the URL right in the front).
Author – most publishers overlook this field but there is a lot of power here.
You can use this field for branding yourself (or whoever wrote the book) as an expert and establish instant credibility with Kindle store shoppers.
You could follow up the name of the author with some sort of impressive tag line or title.
Remember, you’re competing with a lot of other books on the same or similar topics so credibility counts.
Would you rather buy a dog book by a guy named Bob Smith or a dog book by A. BARTON, B.S., D.V.M., Veterinary Surgeon or perhaps Barbara Callahan – The Dog Whisperer? See what I mean?
Category – This one’s a no brainer but I’ll say it anyway – make sure you place your books in the right category, ok?
That may seem silly to say but if you don’t it will be very unlikely that interested shoppers will ever find your book as I believe that the majority of shoppers in the Kindle store find what they need by browsing by category.
If you’d like to learn more about this “Kindle” thing and more importantly how you can use it to earn a nice supplemental income, go check out this 4 minute and 34 second video to see exactly how my buddy James Jones is earning a nice residual monthly income selling Kindle books with:
- no list
- no website
- no traffic
- just a few minutes of effort (literally just 15 minutes a day)…
Amazon Kindle Public Domain Connection Part 1
Amazon Kindle Public Domain Connection Part 2
Amazon Kindle Public Domain Connection Part 3
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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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Bug Book For Children Copyright Free
November 7, 2008 by Debra · Leave a Comment
Do you know a child who loves bugs? Betcha didn’t think those six legged creatures were crawling around the public domain. Guess what…they are and they offer myriad product opportunities.
Check this out. Go to archive.org and do one of two things. You can head to this book directly – Smithsonian Scientific Series - Insects Their Ways and Means of Living, or you can search texts with the keyword Insects and/or bugs.
The Smithsonian puts together a fantastic book. Inside you’ll find is an abundance of wonderful bug pictures and plates.
These amazing images can be used to create coloring books - online downloads or print.
They can be used to create fantastic wall art – imagine a giant grasshopper on the bedroom wall of a little boy. Or dragonflies and butterflies for little girls.
There are pictures of roaches and bed bugs but I cannot imagine a parent putting those guys on the wall – however if there’s an audience here’s the opportunity!
The book is divided into sections and each bug receives full attention. Readers will learn all they ever wanted to know about the notorious Cockroach or the Termite. The images can be used to create stencils, cross stitch patterns, stickers, and iron-ons.
Create a Book Series
The text, all 431 pages, can be segmented into smaller insect books for children. And we all know how much children like to collect things right? Create a series of books, one for each major species, using the content in the Smithsonian Series and you’ll be able to create and sell a whole series all about bugs.
Use These Public Domain Print Images For Other Product Ideas
You can use some of the inside images for book cover art and create a truly professional product. Children are captivated by bright colors and all things gross, creepy, and crawly. Girls of course tend toward ladybugs, butterflies, and dragon flies. Boys probably prefer spiders, ants, grasshoppers and the more wiggly bugs. This book has it covered – whatever gender you want your product to appeal to.
Remember, children like to collect so bug trading cards using the information inside the book for your content and the images for the card graphics may be a great way to sell more than one product.
You could create cards for each type of bug. There are hundreds of spider species for example and each species could be a specific card.
The only thing you have to do to create the products is sort through the information and decide what each card will highlight and then find a printer nearby to create the cards.
Quick product at a very low price – that’s the magic of public domain.
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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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Who Are You Writing Articles For
November 7, 2008 by Debra · Leave a Comment
Why are you writing articles? Are you posting them on a blog? Or… are you writing articles for article distribution so you can get links and visitors to your blog? Or… maybe your writing articles to use as guest blogging.
It’s not easy coming up with article ideas… and then you have to choose the format and the keywords and… and… and…
Of course, the reason we publish articles is so people can find those articles, read them, use them and we hope that it eventually generates a sale or two for us.
If you have a blog already… or are thinking of starting one, make sure you keep your reader in mind when your designing your website and when your writing the articles for your website. It’s so important to have a vision before you start a project.
Is your site more about product reviews, launch updates, events, facts, deals of the day or is it more about helping someone find and answer to a question.
For instance… ii you start a site answering “Questions about coaching”. This type of approach is ideal for a blog because there is some kind of interactivity going on and also it’s easy for you to publish your questions and answers. When you have the occasional long form articles, you can always add them to a page on your blog. Your articles and blog need not stand alone, they can be complimentary.
Other sites especially those built for educating and dispensing information would be better off with a regular article based site. While you can use a blog as a content management tool for your articles, a regular website offers much more control when you’re trying to optimize each web page individually. True, you can optimize a blog however, overall I find it’s easier to optimize a website.
Keep Your Blog Articles Relevant
You might build sites in all kinds of niches, from gadgets to babies. Or… you may find one target market and build upon it by creating different sites related to that niche. Example, the main business is coaching. They have one site on coaching FAQ’s, one for coaches, one for life and balance articles for a working mother and so on. If your business is structured like the latter, it’s going to be a lot easier for you to figure out which approach you should go for.
Why? Because all of these sites are working in tandem to support your main business. It doesn’t matter which you use, in the end, the focus is on your business, you are promoting your services no matter where people go and you’ll reap the rewards. Each of these sites also become a network of content.
Doing so also means you could keep only one blog and use it to direct people people to new articles, highlight special articles or alert people about a tele-seminar call, kind of like a news hub just for your business. Another nice plus to this is you don’t have to build so many blogs that you won’t be able to keep up with. (Something I’m guilty of)
If you find yourself with a ton of blogs and no time… You don’t have to do it all yourself. If find you can’t find time or resources to squeeze in another article or blog, ask around and see if other bloggers in a relevant niche are interested in allowing you to be a contributor to their blog.
Okay… now that I’ve vented and ranted about “Who Are You Writing Articles For“? I don’t even know if you have a blog. If you don’t… I’ll bet you want to know how to build the best blog you can right from the get go. And… I think you might need some help with “best practices” for blogging so you don’t run into trouble down the road because you didn’t plan things right in the beginning.
Got the answer right here and it’s a good one. Blogger, entrepreneur Lynette Chandler has been helping small business owners with their blogs. She authored an e-course to help new bloggers start their blog right from the beginning. Click Here and Grab yours at Start Your Blog Right The First Time
Horse Related Public Domain Product Ideas
November 5, 2008 by Debra · Leave a Comment
Horses Past and Present, a book which can be reformatted to include horses of the true present, since 1914, the photos and images could be pulled, and it also talks to the history of England so portions could be used to create articles for horse aficionados.
Horses have been a part of our culture and lifestyle for thousands of years. The Native Americans used them for transportation, farmers used them to make crop harvesting faster and more productive, we race them and of course we ride them for pure joy and pleasure.
Much of our Equestrian culture came over on the boat from England. Horses Past and Present by Sir Walter Gilby and published in 1900 is available in the public domain.
The book includes a complete chronology from before the conquest to Queen Victoria. It’s a fantastic collection of the horse history in England including both work horses and show horses.
Horses Past and Present also offers a number of great images which can be used as part of your overall product or as an individual project. There are only about a half dozen images in the book so a coffee table book or calendar type product would need to be supplemented with other public domain images.
They’re easy to find, using the resources at archive.org you can search the images or other text with the keywords horse or equestrian. You can also find public domain magazines for equestrians and use the images and graphics there.
If you’re creating a book from Horses Past and Present consider creating a series of volumes. You could divide this particular book into several volumes and add more images.
Additional volumes can be created from public domain magazine content and other equestrian books in the public domain. Bring it up to date by hiring a ghostwriter to write about horse racing and work horses in 2000. You’ll have a complete history of horses. You can also visit horses in other cultures to broaden your theme.
Horse lovers are plentiful. Finding a product which appeals to them, provides value, is easy to market and costs little to create can be difficult. Use public domain content to meet the demands of your audience and your bottom line.
Sharing What Grandma Knew In Your Writing
November 5, 2008 by Debra · Leave a Comment
Think you don’t have anything “new” to write about? What about sharing what grandma knew in your writing?
Articles and blog posting can become a grind. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s pretty dog-gone stressful. So why not put out one of your Public Domain magazines and using that for content?
If you have been following this blog (and me) around for a while… you know that I use this strategy often.
Just today I found someone else who used some copyright-free magazine content to write a new blog post. And it’s fun, interesting and useful content.
clipped from: Hey… did you notice I used clipmarks.com to share this article with you? I just shared another great tip for creating articles and blog content. Plus… clipmarks is just another way to get traffic to your website because public clipmarks are search engine friendly. :
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The Amazon Kindle / Public Domain Connection Part Three - Enhancing Your Information Publishing Business…
November 2, 2008 by Logan · 3 Comments
How To Leverage Amazon’s Digital Text Platform To Create Products For Kindle Users And Drive More Traffic Back To Your Websites, Grow Your Lists, and Create A New Source of Supplemental Income For Your Information Publishing Business…
Two Ways To Leverage Amazon’s Kindle Store To Enhance Your Information Publishing Business…
I know what you’re thinking…
If I’m only making 35% of the list price and Amazon keeps the other 65% why would I want to waste any time publishing my stuff for Kindle users?
It’s certainly much more profitable to sell my info products directly from my own websites and keep 100% of the profits, right?
If you are already selling books in print on Amazon, then you are already used to giving a huge chunk of your sales dollars away so repositioning your print products for use in a digital market and only getting 35% probably isn’t that much of a stretch for you but what about the rest of us?
When you’re used to having absolute control over the profit margins on your products it can take a little bit to get used to giving up 65% of your books final sales price with no other benefit (such as giving a 65% commission to your affiliates for sales you had to make no real effort to achieve and growing your customer list at the same time).
However there are two very distinct ways to look at this when contemplating how you can leverage Amazon’s Kindle user base to enhance your info publishing business…
- Generate a new revenue stream by only selling books made with content that you wouldn’t be monetizing by other means anyway.
You could sell ebooks to generate additional revenue for your business that contain content that you are not using elsewhere in any of your core, higher-ticket info products.It makes no sense to take a ebook that you are selling successfully in your marketplace for $27.00 and list it in the Kindle store for $9.97 (the average best seller price).
You can list the price for your products all the way up to $200.00 but I think you’d be hard pressed to get the same amount of money for your info products in the Kindle store that you would from selling the product from a website that caters to a specific niche – remember this is much more general audience.
The idea here is that if you have public domain or PLR content laying around that you’re not going to do anything with anyway, then this could be a good way to monetize that content in some way.
Fiction books, biographies, and books on less popular topics would be a great example of this – remember, it doesn’t cost you a penny to publish an ebook and get it listed in Amazon’s Kindle store so you’ve got nothing to lose if it tanks.
I never sell fiction books from any of my websites but I am definitely considering list some for Kindle users – Kindle users love fiction!
l - COVERT STRATEGY – Use the Amazon Kindle store to sell “special reports” and other products that lead back to your “meat and potato” products or lead capture mechanisms.This is by far my most highly recommended usage of Kindle.You can use public domain or private label rights material to create “special reports” that you can sell on Kindle for the sole purpose of getting traffic back to your main websites and products.In this way, you’d be leveraging the Kindle store as a means of promotion rather than profit. In this case you would want to make these “special reports” as inexpensive as possible to get them into the hands of as many people as possible.The idea would be not be necessarily to make money off of the Kindle book itself but rather to drive traffic back to your site so that you can “pitch” them on your other “real” high-profit information products.Now you can market your real products to these prospects on the back-end without Amazon even knowing about it (or caring for that matter).You see, that’s one of the things that has always bugged me about selling physical books (and now Kindle books) on websites like Amazon – when a purchase is made, they don’t pass along the customer’s information to you, you can’t add that person into your sales funnel because you have no idea who they are and you can’t follow up.Most of the more marketing-savvy authors that have print books published (even when they’re sitting on the shelves of Barnes & Noble) have some sort of mechanism in place within the actual print book that leads the reader back to a website with the promise of collecting some free goodies.
And of course they have to provide contact info to get these goodies!
So now the author is benefiting way beyond his cut of whatever he or she gets on sales of the print book – now they are growing they’re own private list of customers that have already indicated their interest in the subject by the purchase of the book and the author can market products to that list for much higher profits.Some publishers allow this and some don’t but you would be surprised how little money an author of a print book actually makes off of sales of these books (those that are with major publishing companies anyway).
The smart authors use printed books as nothing more than bound and printed lead capture mechanisms – and you can use the same strategy with books that you sell to Kindle users!
Consider selling a special report that contains a link back to a special page on your website where they can download a free bonus like another special report, an MP3 audio, or even a video.
Make them have to opt-in for the free bonus and now you’re using this traffic to build a pre-qualified list.
One more thing to think about - there are already several magazines and newspapers publishing “Kindle” editions and charging a subscription fee - do you have an online niche newsletter that you could sell a “Kindle” edition subscription too? You could even sell subscriptions to your blog on Kindle.
Even if the content is otherwise free from your actual website, you could justify your “Kindle” edition subscription fee by explaining that it takes you considerable time and effort to prepare the material for use on a Kindle reader. And, if they don’t subscribe because they find out that they can get your content free just by coming to your site then so what? Either way, you’ve exposed a new prospect to your website and products!
Next in Part Four of this series, we’ll discuss strategies for making sure that your Kindle products stand out above the crowd…
In the mean time if you like to learn more about this “Kindle” thing and more importantly how you can use it to earn a nice supplemental income, go check out this 4 minute and 34 second video to see exactly how my buddy James Jones is earning a nice residual monthly income selling Kindle books with:
- no list
- no website
- no traffic
- just a few minutes of effort (literally just 15 minutes a day)…
Amazon Kindle Public Domain Connection Part 1
Amazon Kindle Public Domain Connection Part 2
Amazon Kindle Public Domain Connection Part 4
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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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