What Do Customers Think Of PLR (Private Label Rights) eBooks

You've heard many things about using private label rights (PLR). Most of what you heard was from other bloggers, article writers, and product creators. But what do your customers think of you using PLR products?

I went to amazon and did a search of the customer reviews and this is what I found:

This is a snapshot of the book called "Raw Food Diet Guide: All You Wanted To Know About The Raw Food Diet"


As you can see the customer said "don't waste your money......." here's the link ---> Review 

Then he goes to say......

"This "ebook is a waste of time and paper that it is printed on.... nothing new to learn just some PLR drivel someone tried to pass off as "quality" work..."

Now this is the screenshot showing where Amazon took the book down:





Here is another one snapshot:

See how the customer said "more recycled junk".

See the link----> Review

Make sure you click on the link to the left where it says review details and you will see the book is not available for sale on Amazon.

Then take a look at this: All My Amazon eBooks Have Been Taken Off The Shelf! 

This person said that all of their books were removed from Amazon and he was just giving the Warriors a heads up if they were using PLR products.

So if a well known website like Amazon is eliminating private label rights (PLR) products from their site, why would you use them on your site without adding quality to the content and changing it. Most of the content that is in PLR is a bunch of crap.

You would have to sort through the information and just use it to get ideas. Never, ever, use PLR as is and never try to sell PLR eBooks on Amazon. Some people give them away to get subscribers, but that pretty much the best way to use PLR products.

I don't care what you heard about how PLR products can make you money if you sell them on the kindle, you can't. The only way you will get away with selling PLR material is if you are a darn good writer who knows how to do proper research and find up-to-date info to add to what you use from PLR books.

What is more important is what the customers have to say about PLR and some of them can spot it a mile away. I'm not saying private label rights products is all bad because you can get good ideas and create great content.

But you should never use the product as is. If you do use these types of products stay away from ALL private label rights articles because they are mostly poorly written. Also if you use PLR, just get ideas for your blog post. You don't want to lose readers because you are too lazy to write your own content.

There are many things you can do to create content. There's content curation, which is a good process for sharing the content of others on your site or blog. Also doing a simple web search to see if you can find anything news related to what you want to post.

I've used PLR products before and it has helped me to get ideas for articles topics, but I've never left it as it. It is always good to add your own thoughts and original content to all of your blog post, books you create, and articles you write. Most importantly do research before you even type or write the content.

PLR products are a gift and a curse because there's both good and bad involved. Fresh, original  and high quality content will always remain king. And if you want your site to be an authority, make sure you provide your readers with good quality content.

Always remember duplicate content will get your site banned from Google and all the other search engines. Many people are using the same exact PLR content you are using, so you need to be set apart and different from those who use private label rights content and don't change it. Most people just slap the content on their blog and leave it as is.

Don't believe me, just take some of the content and copy and past it in the Google search engine. Put the copied sentence in "parenthesis" and you will see a bunch of stuff pop up signalling the duplicate content.

Look at this example: "Sience it's already a widespread business, you'll" Copy and paste this into Google and this is what you get:




These people didn't even have the decency to check the spelling of what they copied. It also shows the quality of the PLR content which is not very good. Then look at how many results came up, over 10,000. This goes to show you that many people are using the same content as you, and they are literally not changing the content. It also discredits your name. This is what you want to be set apart from.

People even complain and wonder why they are losing readers and why they are not making sales. If you are doing what these people in the photo above did, you'll never make money and will have absolutely no readers.

Just be careful if you just happen to decide to use PLR products. Also if you use the products make sure it is very high quality private label rights eBook,  not the articles, and just use them to get some ideas. There is very little high quality PLR out there and you will have to search hard to find it. As I said before it is a gift and a curse.

If you are having a hard time, just hire someone to write the post for you or to create booklets and reports to giveaway to your readers and subscribers. Focus on building credibility and authority for your business.

The Traffic Is In The List Too!!!!!

You've heard many times that the money is in the list. But you know what, the traffic is in the list too! Email marketing is an old and powerful form of marketing and has stood the test of time to this date. Not only is it most marketers' ATM machine, but it is also a marketers' traffic generator. List can be built by creating a simple eBook or e-newsletter where readers can subscribe to you easily. Don't forget you can use a simple, compelling squeeze page, which is also powerful marketing.

Email marketing is still a fantastic way to promote your website or a product you recommend or one that you've created yourself. Plus with people flocking to Amazon, which is a site where all of their traffic is nothing but buyers, you can kill two birds with one stone by publishing a kindle eBook with your URL on the first page for as little as 99 cent and give it away for free five days in a 90 day period.

People will forever use the internet as a means for searching the web for information. Most don't go to the library no more. Its all about convenience  And the best part about this is you can come to their rescue and provide that information that will fit their needs through email marketing.  In my opinion email marketing will never get old, at least not for a very long time. I still recommend you use this method if you are promoting a product or if you are just simply trying to get more traffic to your blog. In my opinion  I feel you should focus more on using email marketing to get traffic to your blog by providing helpful information and less on selling anything. Because once you build that trust, they will see what you have to offer on your blog and you'll eventually make money anyway.

So now I will give you a few simple tips:

1. Don't ask for your subscribers' name just ask for their email address. If you ask for too much information you just may push them away. Eventually you'll have their name because if you are providing really good info, they will make a purchase from you or through you. If you happen to not have your own product, ask them to email their receipt or proof of purchase for a free gift if they click on your affiliate link.

2. Make sure you have a call to action at the end of every email. Example "you can find more information on my blog" and provide a link for them to click.

3. Always include a signature.

4. Share part of your blog post in the email and tell them to click on the provided link to read the rest of the post.

5. Use a catchy headline in the subject area.

6. Spark up emotion in your emails and get people excited to click on your link to your blog or website and encourage them to share their thoughts by posing  a comment on your blog.

7. Hold a contest on your blog or donate to charity and have a campaign on your blog and tell people about it through email marketing.

8. Most of the time offer them a free eBook or something else free where you subscribers can benefit greatly.

9. Offer something controversial or something that has viral tendencies.

10. Share funny or controversial pictures or jokes related to your niche with your subscribers and encourage them to share them.

Use these tips to help you generate traffic through email marketing. As I said before the traffic is in the list too, so use email marketing to boost your traffic and worry about making money later; the money will come.



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How To Be A Perfect Spammer!

We all know how to spam, right? And we know what spamming can do. But do you know how to be a perfect spammer? Will this post will show you how. One way to spam perfectly is by finding a popular blog and post a stupid comment with a link back to your blog on each post they've made in the comment section and bug the crap out of everyone. Lovely huh?

Want more tips. Check out what Corey Eridon said about spamming in a post on his blog titled "How to Be a Spammer In 20 Simple Steps"


Someone once told me that "how-to" content is really great for business blogging. Since I want to be a good inbound marketer, I thought I'd take a stab at writing a "how-to" blog post, and teach everyone how they can become a spammer.

I also heard that accessibility is important in your writing, so I narrowed it down to just 20 steps.

If you haven't made up your new year's resolution yet -- or you've already failed at three or four and need a new one to tackle -- any and all of these 20 steps would be excellent considerations. So, here you go, 20 steps to becoming the best spammer the world's ever seen! Enjoy. (And please regard all of this as totally straight-faced marketing advice.)

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1) Pin a bunch of stuff to Pinterest that has no visually redeeming qualities. Be sure to shorten the links in your pins' descriptions, too, if you really want to get marked as spam. Marketers who are particularly on the top of their game will make their links go to unrelated web pages; the cream of the crop will just make them broken links.

2) Cram your tweets with dumb hashtags, especially if they're unrelated to the tweet's subject matter. You might even consider crafting a tweet made entirely of hashtags!

3) Hijack someone else's hashtag. For example, when the next #twilight movie comes out, be sure to use that to promote your upcoming webinar, because of the natural tie-in between werewolves and your data appending service. (Twilight has werewolves, right?)

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As you can see this is a funny blog post posted by Corey Eridon, so funny I had to share it. And you will certainly learn to be the biggest and best spammer day in and out after you are done reading.

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Why You Should Welcome Failure

Failure should be a part of your life. If it is not, then you will never succeed. This is what I mean; when you are learning and in the process of trying to succeed, you are definitely going to fail at trying to be successful. This is actually a good thing. When you start learning how to walk, you fall first. Why, because you've never done that before. When you learned how to drive, you've made mistakes. Even if you didn't run over the mailbox, you still had to learn how to keep a straight path, which is difficult if you've never done it. Everything we do, we have to learn how to do it with the exception of a few things such as breathing. Breathing is something we automatically do.

When I first started making money online, I've failed. Why? Because I was still learning and I didn't know everything. I still don't know everything; never will. Plus there will always be things I will need to learn and get hip to if I want to continue to succeed in a forever changing world. So being afraid of failing cannot be apart of my thinking. I have to concentrate on gaining experience and failing if I want to be successful and so should you. You need to welcome failure into your life and let it be apart of your thinking so you can succeed  at everything you do.

If you are scared to fail at everything, just stay in the bed all day and do nothing. You can't avoid failure, it will always be apart of your life, even when you do succeed at one area or several areas. When you fail, that means there is more you can do to make yourself better and learn from your mistakes. You just can't accomplish anything with out failing. Now failing isn't easy. It can be painful and can cause people to not believe in your dreams and you end up having to believe in yourself when others will not. As a matter of fact, we shouldn't let other people's thoughts define who we are and what we can do.

There are many people who have dreams or have had dreams and never achieved them because of fear of failure. They get stuck punching a time clock at a 9-5 they never wanted because of fear of failing. More than 90% of people are in this category because they don't want to be a failure. But you know what, they've already failed because they gave up.

                                                       

Affiliate marketing or any other business or career moves we want to make will involve some level of failing. You just can't give up. I don't mean think negatively either, but be ready to welcome failure so you can learn how to be the best at everything you do. When you learned how to skateboard or ride a bike, you failed many times, literally. But you learned and now you don't fall anymore. The same will happen in your professional life and in your personal life.

Many people have had failed relationships and took what they learned from the past failed ones and applied what they learned to their new relationships. After these failures, they moved on to get married and are happier than they were before. And I bet some of these people never thought they could have happiness.

In the closing of this post remember these key points: successful people faced failure and they aren't afraid to fail and take risk; failure causes growth and maturity; failure causes us to succeed and work harder and set our goals higher; failure show us areas where we can improve; failure helps us to avoid past mistakes. So happy failing! Tell me what you think.


Brainstorming For Fresh Content? Try These Ideas

We all experience writers block every now and then. When it comes to keeping up with a blog, writing articles, or even writing a book, we all need ideas. This is especially true when maintaining a blog. Creating fresh content is a job in it's self, but there are things you need to be doing constantly to create new content.

                                                             

One of these things is read. Most days of the week, you should be reading other peoples blogs in your niche, keeping up with the trends and news related to your niche, and you need to do constant research in your field. When you are brainstorming for fresh content, these are the top things you need to be doing. The world is changing on a daily basis and your blog needs to keep up with it or you'll be left behind in the dust.

When doing your reading, be sure to take notes and keep a notebook for those notes only. Make sure you write down the website name and address where you found the information. Doing this will help you to create fresh content. How? Because you are finding new ideas for your blog and you can use these ideas for your blog. Just make sure if and when you decide to use information from someone else's blog, you give them the proper credit and a link from your blog back to theirs. This process is called content curation or blog curation, which is a topic I talked about in one of my previous blog post earlier this year. Using this method well help you create content quickly and easily and it will help you build authority in your niche. Plus you will also be known as the go to site for information and a hub. This is what you want and need if you ever want a profitable blog with fresh content.

Another thing you can do to create fresh content is use private label rights products (PLR). Using PLR products is a great idea only when done correctly. It has to be a very good product and you should never use the product without changing it. Private rights products should only really be used to help your create fresh content, not used as is because other people are using the product as is and you want to keep things professional, be unique, and set apart from sites with crappy or duplicate content. You can get good ideas from PLR products. You can take a private label rights book and look for a good article to use on your blog. However you must still do research and include up-to-date info on your blog. If you have a PLR video or audio, this can be converted into your own words and summarized for a post on your blog or as an article. If the PLR content is crappy, don't use it.

To get people to leave comments, you can use PLR products to put a short quiz in your content and get people to participate. Ask up to four questions in your blog post and give a multiple choice answer to each and provide the answer in the following paragraph and explain why. At the end of your post ask another question and have people to leave the answer in the comment session. Then do a follow up post explaining the answer to the question. Doing this will help you to always create fresh content for your blog and people will look forward to your next post. So you're building traffic and at the same time loyal readers, relationships, and participation, which will send Google and Bing a signal to send more traffic to your site.

You can create a blog post that give you the opportunity to have discussions with your readers. Start off by asking a question and go from there. You'll be amazed at what kind of fresh content you can create.

You can even hold a contest to see how many people come up with the right answers and give away small prizes to the top five or ten people who answer the questions correctly the fastest. Which would mean you would have to look at the timing of the comment the left.

Another thing you can do is pay close attention to questions your readers may ask. This could be the start of fresh content because you can use a blog post or an article to answer the questions. Simply choose the questions that are asked the most and answer it. Make sure you go into great detail and create your content.

You can also create content centered around creating a top 20 list and again explaining each list with a small paragraph. Do you have any ideas for creating fresh content?

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As Google and Bing continue to tidy up their search engines, we have to constantly continue to come up with advanced strategies to bring traffic to our websites and blogs.  Posting rich content to our blog is not enough and if that is the only thing we do, we will never make a dime. You have to network, post comments, be a guest blogger, build backlinks, post videos, and do several other things constantly to get visitors to your sites and blogs. New strategies are being born daily and so are products on how you can get more traffic to your blog.

Well there is one powerful free method you can use to get more visitors and sure buyers to your sites and blogs. The answer is Amazon. See when people visit Amazon, they are already looking to buy something. Their database is full of buyers. Amazons customers are looking for solutions at that moment, so why not cash in on some of the action. I did a blog post on “Use KDP Select to Increase Website Traffic” and I explained how KDP Select can bring in more traffic. I’ve had success with KDP Select and made a passive income from creating information products. I’ve even helped a couple of family members do the same.  It is very easy for you to do, especially if you are a blogger because you already create content on a regular basis and this is something you have to do if you want to maintain a good blog.



So here’s the strategy I use in my own business.

I create kindle eBooks. Some of them are not related to my blogs, a few are. The ones that are related I put links in them back to my blog or to a product. Since these customers are looking for solutions already, there’s a greater chance that someone will want the product that I recommend. And since we don’t have access to the customers’ information from Amazon, we have to create books with a few links placed in them, (you don’t want to overdo it though).

This strategy will help you to get new visits to your blogs and new customers. The guide just needs to be something short, but long enough for you to give valuable information to your reader. So don’t just throw together a book and expect to put it on Amazon. Your books will have to be accepted in order for you to sell it on their site and it needs to actually help your customer in some way.

So let’s say you are promoting an affiliate product on losing stomach fat, you can create a book on helpful tips to lose body fat and recommend the affiliate product and your weight loss blog/site.

 If you can give the best and helpful info, your customers will listen to you when you are recommending a book or a product and will more than likely buy it from your site or the affiliate product through you.

Now what I do recommend is you put a link to your site in every kindle book you create. You can use affiliate links, but I highly recommend you put your site or blog more so than anything. The reason I recommend you do this is because you will have more control and contact with your customers and you want to do things in a professional matter.  Since you most likely have affiliate links on your blog or site, sending buyers to your site will be the best thing for you, this way you’re building your business and not just passing all customer contact to the vendor of the affiliate product.

You also want to make sure you have your contact information such as an email address and/or a phone number in your kindle book. You can also include a link to send buyers to a squeeze page and offer a free useful product there.

I’ve seen some kindle books where people will have the link to their website or a free product in the preview or introduction area of their book. This way if a customer doesn’t buy their book, they can still click on the link and access the free product. I’ve even done this myself and got information I was looking for. There was a book I was interested in but instead of buying the book, I clicked on the cover to look inside and clicked on the link to get their product and I ended up on their email list.

This strategy works well in the affiliate marketing business and it works even if you have your own product and want to spread the word about your business.  You can also give your book away for free for five days if you choose to join the KDP Select program, but book has to be exclusive to Amazon to be in the program. If you choose not to enroll your book in KDP Select, just place a link on the first page of your book and guide Amazon’s customers to your sites and blogs. 




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Compelling Keywords To Convert Visitors To Buyers


How do you choose compelling keywords?

One of the most important ways to get targeted traffic to your website, blogs, and ads is to choose compelling keywords. One should think about what their possible prospect may type into Google or other search engines to quickly grasp their attention. People are always searching for something they crave and if you want to succeed, you must find the audiences that desire what you have to offer and draw them to your site or blog. To do this you need to choose compelling keywords that will convert your visitors into buyers.


Buyers are usually seeking for distinguishing answers to problems they have. You never know what a person is actually looking for and it could be in the product that you are promoting and if you write a well thought out article or blog post with specific keywords that will attract this visitor to your blog, you will more than likely make the sale.


Now to start out you need to put compelling keywords in the title of your blogs and articles. Make sure the keywords are targeted to the right audience. When choosing a keyword, its best to choose keywords with less competition that grants you a better chance to score the first page on a Google search. 


Keyword researching is one of the best ways to ace this task. Also don’t select words like “make money”; this will only make it a dilemma for prospects to find your site or post. It would best to use words such as “how to make money posting blogs”. This is more direct to the point and your outcome for a higher rank in search engines will multiply. Just search for keywords by going to Google and typing them in and put it in parenthesis to see how many results you come up with. If the results are too high to rank for, you may want to find compelling keywords with fewer results that you can rank for effortlessly.

It is more desirable to rank for lower comp
etitive keywords than high ones. You may get a first page position with a high one for a short time and then other people who are competing against you will push you off of page one. So while others are aiming for more competitive words, why don’t you tackle the lower ones? In the long run, you will have a favorable outcome and maintain your position for quite some time. 

If you really want to beat out competition short term to make some quick money with Clickbank, do a constant search on new products that just launched or explore products that is in pre launch on other sites that prospects thirst for and be the first to endorse them. Now although you are working on this task you still ought to think about attaining a long-term income. Eventually after you start promoting new products, other people can rank higher than you and you must write more articles with compelling keywords to keep on converting prospects into buyers

What else can a person do to choose compelling keywords? Leave your comments below.

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What Do Dogs And Blog Titles Have In Common?

I know you are probably thinking "what in the world do dogs and blog titles have in common?" You probably are also thinking they have nothing in common. Now dogs and blog titles do have something in common, they know how to get attention. But that is only possible if your blog title is attractive, eye catching, engaging, amazing, mind boggling, intriguing, and stirs curiosity. This is exactly what I did with my title. If you are reading this, more than likely you are reading this because my blog title made you curious.

If you want more attention to your blog, want more clicks, and more views, you have to create a blog title that gets attention. Fido gets your attention in different ways. For example, if your dog wants you to play with him, he will bring his toy to you. He will also bark or lick your face for attention. Fido doesn't have to do much for attention because he knows what to do and how to do it. Dogs will whine, cry, or bark if you leave them or if you put them in the kennel.

Dogs and blog titles have another thing in common, trust. In order to get a dog to be comfortable around you, you have to build trust. If you want more visitors to your blog, your blog title has to build trust. For example, when you create a blog title, make sure the post explains what the blog title is about. If you write a post and it doesn't match you title, you'll lose the trust of your viewers. The blog title should be related to what you are going to talk about in the post, not just a title created to get clicks.

You need to also feed your dog good food they will eat and you have to feed your readers. Once your reader clicks on your blog title, you have to keep your readers' attention with juicy, sexy, and enticing information.

                                                                   

Curiosity is a very powerful tool that is often used in marketing. You see it on the Television,  internet, in the newspaper, you even hear it on the radio. When you stir up curiosity by creating a blog title that leaves your readers hanging, you will most certainly get clicks. This method can be used in articles, emails, ads, and when you are selling your own products on your product page.

When you look at a newspaper, magazine, or online, you are going to choose to read the story where the headline either made you curious or immediately grabbed your attention and you will be compelled to read the whole thing. When you check your email, the same thing is going to happen. You are going to click and read the email where the subject line made you want to read more. If you have one email that says, "how this font can affect your search rankings and sales" and another that says, "increase sales using your iphone", which would you open first? You get my point? You must create blog titles that will stir curiosity and even emotion.

Next time you are having a hard time coming up with a blog title, just remember the times you've opened emails, read magazines, searched the web, and watched TV and ask yourself what made you read a story or click an ad. You can get good ideas by doing this.

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Top Reason You Can't Succeed At Anything

Do you allow your so called friends or family to hold you back from success?
There are quite a few reasons a person can't succeed at anything. It doesn't matter what you are trying to do, if it is affiliate marketing, being a big time sports star, becoming a successful author, or trying to get hired at your local grocery store, there is one thing that can stop anyone from succeeding, other people. That's right, you've read that correctly, other folks can determine your success if you let it.    

What do I mean by that you may ask? If you are one to worry about what people think, they will have control over your life. There are haters and people who don't believe in your dreams, but you have to keep it moving. What's even more hurtful is when this comes from the people you love the most, family and friends.

How can you beat this? You let them have their opinions. Everyone is entitled to feel how they want to feel, even if that means they don't agree with your dreams or anything else you may want to accomplish. I've had this problem myself. I have family and even some friends I know who didn't believe in me and that really hurt me. But I learned that it would not change. You are going to have to realize this also if you are struggling with this that it simply will not change. If you don't, you'll never succeed at anything.

As I mentioned a few sentences ago you have your haters. Some people simply want to rain on your parade because they didn't succeed at anything. You need to avoid these type of people because they will pull you down and you will become bitter.

I know someone now who let their family and friends influence them. He had a dream of being successful at something he loves so dearly, playing instruments. He allowed his family, friends, and other people from his town to tell him he need to be more like his father because his father was very successful. He had people telling him that he ought to be following in his dads footsteps and they were steering him away from his dream. He was very good at what he did and I feel he could have been successful if he had more positive people in his life encouraging him at that time. Now he is stuck doing a job he really doesn't like to do and a family member told him few years ago that he will be doing that job the rest of his working career. I told him to block that from his mind, but he believe he can't do any better and that it is too late for him.

Look, it is very important that you don't let people tell you that you can't do something. Don't let others tell you that you can't succeed at what you are tying to do. This is one of the biggest reasons why a person can't succeed at anything. Don't let your family or friends talk you out of your dreams. I was talking to a friend about one of  my dreams and one of my sisters said she needed a stiff drink. She didn't believe in my dream and it bothered me. But people will belittle you, laugh at you, and tell you "oh that can't be done, you should just give that up". The truth is they most likely are trying to stop you so they can stay ahead of you or because they were let down or didn't succeed at what they wanted to do.

So don't worry about your friends or family's opinion and negative thoughts. Position yourself around positive people who will encourage you to become a better you. Get around those who believe in you. Constructive criticism is ok, but anything to keep you from achieving your goals in a negative way, stay away from it and dream again. If you do this, you will succeed at everything. Also don't let a challenge stop you. Sometimes you will have some challenges, but it can be the challenges that help you to succeed. So face them and overcome them to move to the next level.

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