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I can’t believe how many internet marketers think that PLR is a waste of money. They don’t have a clue what a gold mine good PLR really is. Well, if you’re one of those who think that PLR is just a waste of your hard earned cash, then you might want to read this article. I promise you that by the time you are done with it, you will have changed your mind…completely.

PLR stands for Private Label Rights, but you already knew that. What you probably don’t know is that PLR is one of the most misunderstood and misused items in Internet marketing today. That’s right…people just don’t know how to use it properly.

The reason is because they think they can just pull it out of the box as is, slap it up on their web site and sell it…WRONG! That is the worst way to use your PLR material.

See, people think that the value of PLR is that the writing has already been done for you. Again, WRONG. The real value of PLR is that the RESEARCH has been done for you. That’s where the true worth comes in.

Think about it. You decide that you want to break into a new niche, say health. Maybe you want to write about acne. Well, you don’t know anything about it, so what do you have to do? Well, for starters, you have to do research…tons of it.

What’s tons?

You have to find out what acne is, what causes it, what the standard treatments are and so on. This research can take you days if not weeks. By the time you get around to actually creating your product, you’ve wasted one month of your life.

Why do I say wasted?

Because let’s just say that you find a PLR product on acne where all of this information, all this research, has already been done for you. What is then left for YOU to do?

I’ll tell you what…almost nothing.

Notice I said almost. See, you do have to rewrite the PLR slightly and make some other minor changes, but the time you will spend doing this is nothing next to the amount of time you would have had to spend doing the initial research.

This is basically the misunderstanding that people have about PLR. You can’t just buy it and sell it. But by following a simple procedure, you can turn your PLR into absolute gold.

How so?

My friend John Rhodes purchased PLR for about $10 and turned around and made well over $200 from it in a very short time, simply by doing a few rewrites.

If you want more info on how to really turn your PLR into massive cash, check out John’s new product PLR EXPLOITATION which may be the definitive product on such subject yet. John leaves nothing out. I know…I helped write it.

PLR gets a bad rap, but with this product, you can turn YOUR PLR into a gold mine too.

To YOUR PLR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
PLR EXPLOITATION

I have to admit it…I miscalculated. I knew video was big, but I had no idea it was THIS big. I’m going to give you some examples of what I’m talking about in a second. But trust me on this, if you’re not using video in some way to promote your business, you’re missing out big time. Okay, now for the examples.

First let me start off by saying that I usually get most of my traffic and sales from article marketing simply because I do write a lot of articles. Problem is, it’s a time consuming process. Sure, Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 makes it go a little faster, but it still takes time to compose an article.

Well, the other month, I started getting into videos. I began with one that was simply for fun. It was a video of me teaching my “son” about article marketing. You can view it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HetjdrvQTU

But then I started getting into more serious videos and I started a series called the Real Truth About Making Money Online which you can view from my downloads page here:

http://www.stevewagenheim.com/downloads.html

This series has gotten quite a few visitors with very little promotion. It really doesn’t take a lot to get videos seen because YouTube is so big these days. Basically just putting up a video and doing just a little promotion is going to get you views. And if your videos get picked up by other sites, well, that’s just a bonus.

I also made a video of me playing the guitar that you can view here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCbZk9w7Ifg

I’ve actually gotten some pretty cool feedback on this one.

Point is, by doing all these videos (I think I’ve done about 20 so far) I am beginning to make a name for myself as a marketer who does vidoes. Now, if you do videos that are good quality, well, you’ve got it made because these are gold.

But why? Why are videos gold, especially if you’re physically in them?

The reason is recognition and credibility. See, when somebody can actually see who you are, they’re more likely to trust what you have to say. Let’s face it, the Internet is a scary place and it’s hard to tell who you can trust and who you have to stay away from. Video makes this process a little easier for the prospect, especially if you come across as genuine and sincere.

If you watch my videos, I’m sure you will find that I am just that.

So, if you really want to increase your online earnings, get into making videos.

Make sure you get a haircut first.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
VIDEO ARTICLE SECRETS - Turn Your Boring Articles Into Video Delights

People are always asking and looking for more ways to advertise for free. It’s understandable if your advertising budget is nil or you just want to try something out on a trial basis. Here are four more effective ways to advertise for free.

Contests - It has always been an importance to me to utilize forums and get the most out of them. Here’s why. Forums owners love to have contests because it encourages interaction, motivates the members to be active participants and it brings in more members. Personally, I like contests especially when the winner receives an advertising prize or advertising package. By taking an advantage of these contests whether it’s a product you win or ad space either way it’s a win-win situation. If it’s paid advertising then it’s one way to see if this type of paid advertising works for you without having to pay out of your own pocket. Where do you find these contests? Of course, first and foremost community forums, direct sales representatives online parties and bloggers.

Contest Sponsor - Is when a webmaster is looking for people to contribute something for their contest. It can be a product sample, discount, or advertising space, e-book etc. Most likely the webmaster will be advertising their contest heavily to the public. Most likely they will list the prizes of what the winner can win along with your name and business. It’s a very simple way to get exposure for your product or business.

Guest Author - It’s a neat way to get back links and increase traffic to your business or site by being a guest author on blogs. It may be a slow process at first, but the more you blog the more exposure you will get. Blogging is a more casual approach than writing articles so if you’ve always wanted to write, but you don’t feel you have it in you then blogging is a good way to build on your writing skills. Since we’re on the topic of blogging, leaving comments on other blogs relevant to you will get you back links. Keep in mind though don’t leave comments just for the sake of it. Many will see through it as a thinly veiled spam comment. You really don’t want to leave that kind of impression even if it wasn’t your intention.

Testimonies - Have you received excellent customer support, reviewed an e-book you couldn’t put down or tried out a product that completely amazed you? Have you written a testimony to the company/business to let them know? It’s a good opportunity for you to allow them to place your testimony on their site provided you’re allowed to have a “little bit about you” blurb at the end. I can’t see a company/business turning this down. Seriously, who would say no to positive feedback? No one in their right business-like mind would.

Keep these four free advertising methods in mind the next time you’re networking online and see why contests, contest sponsors, guest author and testimonies are effective. It takes only a small portion of your time in exchange for some huge rewards.

About The Author
S McIntyre owns Work At Home Space, a free work at home resource focusing on telecommuting companies, daily telecommute job leads, articles, business resources and other work at home related topics. You can also visit her blog Healthy Perspectives, featuring an array of health topics, nutrition, reicpes and fitness for maintaining an overall healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.

Grizzly Brears over at How to Make Money Online for Beginners has written yet another brilliant post that, once again, proves he really does know how to make money online and wants to help you do the same!

Unlike the John Chows of the world who don’t know shit about making money online, other than the fact that they got lucky with a blog that doesn’t actually teach anything, Griz really does know what he is talking about and he has no problem giving away his knowledge so others can follow his path to success.

I will tell you right now how you can get all the information you need to make money online for free. It comes from three bloggers who have made it their mission to expose all the lies and misconceptions about making money online and give you the honest truth about what you need to do and how to do it. And they don’t charge a cent for the information.

These three bloggers are Grizzly Brears (mentioned above), Vic Franqui from Blogger Unleashed, and Courtney Tuttle from the Internet Marketing School.

I’ve been making money online as an internet marketer for the past 5 years (started in May of 2003). And I can say with 100% certainty that these guys know what they are talking about and the information they freely give away will work. I have learned more about making money online from those three in the past few months than I have in all my 5 years of internet marketing combined.

I have no idea why anyone would waste their time reading blogs like John Chow or any of the hundreds of other so called make money online blogs like his that don’t actually teach anything at all. The only thing they do is suck your money from you and whore their blogs out as much as possible to gain as much profit as they can without giving anything in return.

If you DON’T want to make money online but you do want to GO BROKE trying, then I suggest you follow John Chow and any other blogger that has adopted his style.

But if you are serious about making money online and you are tired of not getting anywhere with everything you have tried then I recommend you follow the Griz, Vic, and Court schools of making money.

Let me say it again…

Forget John Chow - Follow Griz! (As well as Vic & Court)

Oh and since you are reading my blog, I suppose I should probably tell you to follow me as well. There really is a lot of great home based business information here too so don’t forget to come back often. End of shameless plug!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Work at Home Based Business.

I really don’t like going on rants but every now and then I have no choice. In spite of the fact that I have adopted a brand new “what me worry” attitude, it still bugs me when people don’t run their business in a professional manner. Without naming names, because that’s just not cool, I’m going to relate a true story and in doing so, show you an example of what NOT to do.

I purchased a product a while ago. It was supposed to be for one price with no recurring charges. Well, it turned out that the old sales page was never changed and in fact, this was a recurring charge. Well, I was pretty upset about this, but because the sales page was in error, the person did eventually agree to give me access for a year. Well, better than nothing anyway.

But it doesn’t end there. See, then, a month goes by and my year long membership lapsed for some reason. So I had to write again and he fixed it. Okay, that’s cool. In the meantime, I had made an affiliate sale for this product (after he fixed the page) so that people would know it was a recurring charge. Well, I made the sale but then, after my account lapsed and was reinstated, my sale disappeared. Guess what? You got it…Another email.

I’m now waiting for response to this one.

Tell me…do you think I’m happy? I can’t remember the last time I had to go through so much with one merchant. Do you think I’ll purchase another product from this person? Do you think I’ll promote another product for this person?

And the sad thing is, the product is kick ass. It’s one of the best products for what it does that I have seen. But the guy just doesn’t run a very tight ship and I have no tolerance for that. I probably lost a commission, unless he can somehow resurrect the records. But even if he can, the experience has been less than pleasant and quite honestly, I have enough headaches without having to deal with somebody who has so many problems.

Point is, if you run a business, like it or not, customers are going to judge you NOT only by the product you sell but by how you run your operation and your customer service. I personally pride myself on my customer service and expect no less from those who I deal with.

You should expect no less and give no less.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
FREE Report On How To Do Niche Research