Get the most out of your PLR products collecting cyber dust on your hard drive

You Missed a Fantastic Webinar Last Night

Or did you? Were you there amongst the expectant throng?

I was one of about 300 folks lucky enough to be involved in the webinar with John Rhodes and friends. Google this guy and his credentials are impressive ;-0

This webinar was chock full of information about how to get the most out of those old and dusty PLR products languishing on your hard drive and if you are anything like me, there are quite a few.

PLR or Private Label Rights are an easier step onto the internet ladder than many others. Well that was what I believed as I entered this crazy arena of Internet Marketing. Trouble was getting the PLR was easy but I hadn't got a clue what to do with it once I'd downloaded it to my hard drive to nestle quietly and forgotten amongst its brethren to gather cyber dust.

After last night I know different!

The material on a particular subject has been found for you, thus reducing the time spent on research.

Someone has orgnised the information for you already into chapters or articles and such like. they have edited the work and so have saved you a lot of time and money.

Without that specific PLR item, you would of spent time on research, organisation, editing, proof reading, graphics etc all to get a product ready for market. Or you would of outsourced the work and then you can get a whole other set of headaches.

As time equals money, a $2-3 PLR piece is well worth the $time! Assuming your time is worth more than 50c or less an hour!

This information can then be used for loads of different things, from video to list building you name it. I can tell you that this information was extremely useful and has opened my eyes to the true worth of PLR products that I hadn't even realised existed.

I have pages of notes and haven't enjoyed a webinar as much as this one, ever I don't think and I've been on a few. Those guys should go on tour!! My nearest and dearest kept scowling as I kept laughing out loud with my headphones on and I'm afraid to admit I was still listening until the very end, over two and a half hours later! Not for the offers and stuff but because it was better than TV! By the way, there were loads of offers too! These guys really delivered.

I wonder how the wheat grass and tofu went down in the end, especially for a Texan lad? Mind you the break from the meat would do his gut some good! Sorry, I digress...

If this has whetted your appetite to read the sales letter for this type of information, its not even an affiliate link, just the straight forward URL. Thats how much last night impressed me!

http://www.plrexploitation.com/ Why are you still here, GO!!!

Focus, Focus, Focus!!!

Focus!

Stop chasing rainbows and the pot of gold at the end of it!

There is no MAGIC BUTTON (at least not yet)

Until you do this, you will achieve nothing. Sad but true, but chasing your tail achieves nothing.

Chasing after the 'magic button' is a fruitless waste of time, energy and money and the sooner you realise this the better.

I have been listening to Lee McIntyre all morning on his videos as part of the Point and Click Coaching Course

I must admit that he seemed to have been watching what I've been doing over the past few years. So much of it has rung true and given me hope and the drive to write this and get on with things again. Especially after yesterday :-/

This is speaking from experience and as the previous post shows, I still have a tendency to waste my time chasing rainbows if I'm not careful. I have the attention span of a gnat unless I get my teeth into something and then I can get so stuck into the minutiae to the umpth degree.

Think of me as being two forces pulling in opposite directions! Sometimes this works well but for the most part I am at loggerheads with myself.

One side of me has an idea and the other side dismisses it in a flash. I don't need well intentioned folks telling me that I ought to get a proper job. My more negative side tells me this sort of thing all the time, what ever I'm trying to do!

In some ways I think this is a good thing because it has made me more resolute and obstinate. Once my mind is made up, its very difficult to change it.

I have decided that I am going to make it online.

I am working on a product at the moment. I have been jotting stuff down for ages. I just need to focus and get my teeth into it, get it done, get it launched, and see what happens.

At this point I must point out that I have researched the niche and it may be good or it may not. We will see...

That Newbie Excitement

That Newbie excitement took over me today and I have managed to fritter away most of my time with very little to show for it.

The day started off poorly with both myself and my son sleeping in. Neither of us heard the alarm going off. I was finally woken by him running around the bed to climb in next to me.

Horrors, when I looked at the time. We were normally setting off for school and there we were, still in bed! Mad rush followed to get dressed and a quick phone call to school to let them know what was happening. Then Mr Mardy decided he wasn't going to school today.

Anyone out there with any knowledge of kids knows what the morning rush can be like if one part goes a bit off line. Here we go then, so I ignored him and to give him his due, by the time I'd finished in the bathroom, 10 minutes max., he was dressed and nearly ready.

Downstairs to sort out tocyn (a small snack for the afternoon) and a wrap to eat on the way to school. Not the best of ways for him to have breakfast but better than nothing and to be honest I think he enjoyed walking with his breakfast, very grown-up don't you know :-)

Dropped him off at school half an hour late, whoops. He didn't say anything tonight so I assume he didn't get dragged over the coals for a genuine mistake.

I told you I'd worked hard yesterday! Anyway, by the time I'd walked home via the supermarket, it was well into the morning then after breakfast and coffee it was nearly 11.00am.

How to totally muck up your day!! So I decided to get the meal ready for the evening and then I could work up to tea time.

I finally sat down to work at about 12.00. I know they said that you can work what hours you like when you decide to go online, but today took the biscuit for a hectic 3 hours only stint! Didn't use that time well which I'm cross about now. Threw out my whole day and my plans went out the window.

Spent the time going through emails which I had got out of doing. That is such a waste of time and I had been managing to get stuff done so well previously just by ignoring the inbox for a few days and not checking it till last thing in the evening. Anyway I had to set off for school again at 3.10 to walk him home at 3.30 so I didn't settle to do anything of much use.

There you go. A not so typical working day for a not-so-new-newbie fitting trying to get going online around a family and all that that involves.

Wouldn't have it any other way, apart from the sleeping in and the rushing and...

I won't work so late tonight and get a bit more sleep. Then perhaps I will hear the alarm in the morning!

Busy all Day, Learning Some More

Is there no end to the information that you can read and hopefully assimilate?

Today has been productive, I think anyway. I dare say the super efficient amongst you would not agree but I don't think that I've wasted my time at all.

I have read a very good article by Frank Salinas about SEO which is on my must do soonest list, which included suggestions and advice which is just what I needed. Notes still have wet ink!

Checked out the social bookmarking stuff and added some buttons to this blog site, wanted them for ages and didn't know how to get them. Happy bunny ;-) Looks more like the 'big guns' now, I wish...

Anyway, we are on our way. From little acorns and all that, and I've added the Blog Carnival gadget too which was easier than expected especially as everything else I've tried to do regarding banners and stuff has not been the easiest of adventures.

Perhaps the gadget, being for the 'carnival of struggling bumbling newbies' took pity on me and didn't put up too much of a fight, OR of course, I might have hit the right buttons in the right order this time. Wonders will never cease.

Hey may be I'm finally getting some where. It may not seem much to you, but I was impressed!!

To further impress myself and anyone reading this, I also submitted some articles to directories to drive traffic I hope. Well we can only wait and see. More to do tomorrow.

Oh the joys of learning, bring it on!

I've finally worked out how to get some!

;-) I've been wondering how you get these little doo-hickey buttons onto a site and now I have some of my own.

If you want them too, go to http://www.socialmarker.com/

Have fun with them and share...

Search Engine Optimization and Recommendation

Here is the advice on Search Engine Optimization I was on about in an earlier post.

Its on Matt Callen's blog at http://www.mattcallen.com/ and it is well worth the visit. Have a look around and sign up for anything he offers. I find his stuff that good.

Easy to follow and implement. He will be my little helper to optimize my blog pages and my article writing. There may be others too but I will let you know who, as and when I turn to them for help.

I'll let you know how its all going, so check back often.

Talking of articles, I was just at Ezine@rticles and bumped into a bit of tracking information. My articles have been looked at and a few have even been picked up. Don't ask me anymore about them though because I don't know, well at least not yet.

Lets face it, this first sojourn into article writing and blog posting was to banish the fear of the publish button.

I can now say that that fear has been quashed, well and truly!

This next half term, beginning on Monday, will primarily involve SEO and tracking methods underlying my article writing efforts together with continuing Lee McIntyre's Point and Click Coaching

I have the feeling that I am going to be a very busy Numpty for quite a few weeks to come.

Rallying call for those of you trying to make ends meet

A rallying call to the little people trying to keep their heads above water on comparitively less and less money, treading water faster and faster and still sinking.

The time to be brave and start online is now.

It doesn't have to cost anything at first and anyone can do it. Just take a deep breath and start at the beginning.

We will succeed together. I believe in you like you should believe in yourself. Lets go...

If you're feeling brave lets jump into internet business together with my tried and tested little helpers.

Why do we Fear the Unknown so Very Much?

Why as humans do we fear the unknown so very much?

There's an old saying, 'What you don't know, can't hurt you'. Bad grammar and all, or is that just where I'm from!

Anyway, this UNKNOWN thing. Its a bit scary, a bit nerve jangling, a bit exciting perhaps to some?

Maybe that's it!! Perhaps that is why some people charge fearlessly into the unknown, damn or be damned, besurker styley and the rest of us cowards (me included) hide behind the parapets with our heads buried in our hands hoping it won't happen to us?

Is that the same reason that some people make it online and others don't, bravery 21st century style?

Wealding a mouse not a pen nor a broad sword? Doesn't quite replace the romantic vision of knights of old but everything has to change they recon, call it progress, for better or worse...

At some point in everyones life a time may come when they must stand up and be counted. Perhaps during a time of economic downturn such as we now find ourselves in, people that you'd never of expected, turn around and say ENOUGH.

I no longer need to be part of this rat race that is destroying my self belief, my self worth, my health and my family life. I do not need, nor am I willing to put up with this any longer. I reclaim ME.

I know it all sounds very melodramatic but if you dared to, I bet you would. If it wasn't for the security of that pay check, as meagre as it may be. For the escape from the house, for what ever reason, we are allowed to con ourselves that to work for someone is the best way for us 'little people' to get by, pay cheque-to-pay cheque. Never quite enough, so that we strive and line the pockets of the upper management creaming it off from our hard work.

It is not fair but it is the way that lots of people choose to live. Think about it. I bet that you do too but perhaps you haven't thought about it quite like that before.

Because we're not sure about something, we are hesitant to get involved or even try it out. This hesitancy pervades through all our lives and for some, ultimately rules their lives.

Is this frightened life really what we had in mind for ourselves as we tried over and over again to get to that higher branch in the old tree when we were children. It is such a pity that so many of our dreams fade with the harsh reality of being a grown up. We even have the language to defend our lack of aspiration, a resignation to 'this is the way its meant to be...'

WHY? Who said that all I can aspire to is a dead end job on basic salary?

HOW dare they?

BECAUSE WE LET THEM DICTATE THAT TO US.

The 'there there, maybe its not for you' pathetic patronising that makes me so very angry.

IT IS for me too, and for you and you and as many as want to grab it in both hands and not expect it to land in their laps like pennies from heaven!!

Stop being afraid of the UNKNOWN and go out there and grasp it around the throat and declare 'I am not afraid of you anymore!'

Q. What are newbies scared of?

The last of my published articles, for the moment. I have 2 more waiting for approval :-)

A. Everything!

No, seriously. If you consider what it is that a newbie is scared of when it comes to actually trying to make money online in any area, a few things come to mind.

But people will know that I'm new to all this and laugh at my attempts at: writing blog posts; articles; adverts; Squidoo pages; hub pages. You name it.

You are just plain scared! Scared of the unknown. Never done it before and so it must be absolute nails and I'll never be able to do it!

Costs too much money and I have no income, etc.

Doesn't need to cost a bean.

Use free spaces like Squidoo, Blogger, Hub Pages etc. then reinvest in your business for a while before you make the grand gestures of spending your newly earned cash on treats for you and the family.

Be patient. Stay positive. Your time will come.

If I don't pick up every free e book/report on this, that and the other I will not succeed.

Rubbish.

Be selective or very strong with the delete button after you have read the article, or what ever it may be.

If you don't, you end up with a hard drive full of free stuff and of no interest to anyone anymore. This industry moves at the speed of a runaway train. So if you get it use it, or just pass. Something similar will be along soon enough.

Once you have the free product, you are on a list and then you get bombarded with a string of auto-responder emails trying to get you to buy other products. If you're not careful, you end up spending half your life opening, reading and deleting emails pushing the latest big thing.

The old adage, 'buyer beware' still holds true, NOT because I think you will be scammed but because you end up drowning in information unable to reach that life boat!

If this sounds like I'm writing from experience, then you've hit the nail on the head, because I am. Over the last few years I have spent far too much money on products that were not pitched at my extreme 'numpty' level.

Being ok around PCs, able to type and surf the net are not all that is needed to make it online.

If you think this sounds like other stuff that you have read, well I apologize. Obviously some of what I have read over the years has sunk in!

As promised:

I said that I'd post the accepted articles for you to have a look at and like I said, I think they worked because I was writing from experience and to a degree from the heart too.

So far the experience of article writing has been a good one :-)

One of these articles is already on a blog. I bumped into it yesterday trying to find a specific Google Mail account and making a right pigs ear of it, in true Numpty fashion!!

You see, I've not become super amazing at any of this. I just had the courage of my convictions... and pressed the button labelled submit!

Now the next job is to write with search words in mind. SEO. Not so easy perhaps but we will see. Watch this space and I'll let you know how it goes...

But I think that STEP 1 has been accomplished.

What is STEP 1 I hear you ask.

Well for me it was to overcome my fear of getting my stuff out there and to be totally honest with you, it wasn't half as scary or difficult as I 'thought' it would be.

There's that word again, 'thought'

Don't think too much about the what if's.

Sign up and read the information available on the Ezinearticles site, then write an article as well as you can and get on with it.

At this point I must say that the only thing I checked was the restrictions on links etc, not on the 'how to' element of article writing.

These articles were not primarily intended as search engine fodder, more, they were intended to be my way of dipping my toe into the world of ezine authorship, so as that, I think I can tick my done it box.

You can cheer for me now :-)

5 Things That Intimidate a New Comer to the Online Marketing Maze

Most of the scariest things spinning around in your head are those put there by you.

You imagine that it won't work. You imagine that people will laugh at your attempts to make a better life for yourself. See a pattern?

You 'imagine'. Stop imagining and start doing it and finding out for real. Be strong and resilient and get on with it. You are not alone. The way that you are feeling is typical of someone new to this. Keep reading and you'll see,

1. Failure and the patronising that follows, 'there there'~ 'never mind' as if you'd just scraped your knee.

Hey, snap out of it! At least you tried to make a difference! You don't have to give up after something doesn't work, What does first time anyway?

Get over it and analyse why this didn't work, make some changes and try again. If you give up, then yes, you have failed.

Giving up is the failure NOT that your idea or its implementation didn't work.

2. Don't know where to start?

Very good question. There are so many offers/programs/courses offered apparently, to beginners. Most of them are very good but you may not be ready for them yet.

There is a tendency for the 'make money' products to appear as an 'easier' option, as compared to say, product creation. This isn't necessarily true. If you know loads of accurate information on a subject, it wouldn't be that difficult for you to write it down as an eBook or record it as an MP3 download or make a screen capture video.

The problems begin with the techniques around the selling/production/delivery etc. This is when a beginners course is useful but you need a total overview too. The 'how to stick all the bits together' sort of thing :-)

3. Lack of money.

Yeah, this is a big one but not impossible to overcome. Although investment is a very helpful thing, if you haven't got it, you have to make do with what you can access.

There are plenty of free sites that you can use such as Blogger; Squidoo pages; Hub pages to name a few. Search for free web pages on your favourite search engine and have a go.

Your biggest investment will be your time whether you have money or not. Starting from scratch will take a bit more time but Rome wasn't built in a day.

Hold onto your dream. Believe that you will succeed. Be positive.

With a mind set like that, you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.

4. What if no one is interested in my product

If you do your research before you spend your time creating your products and pages for your chosen market, people will be interested, if they know that you are there.

You must drive people to your sites before you can sell them anything. 'Build it and they will come' only happens in the movies. People don't want to spend hours trawling through pages of results from search engines.

They want an answer NOW and hit that download button to solve their problem so you have to be there to provide it and make that sale.

That leads onto a whole other learning module about traffic and Search Engine Optimisation and there are loads of traffic and SEO manuals out there covering this ever changing subject.

5. You think, you could miss the boat on the next best thing since sliced bread

and never succeed so my emails must be read immediately because they'll hold the secret to my success.

Its unlikely that not opening your emails for a day or so will be the end of your chances on making it online. Great products turn up every so often and they stay around for a good while. If you have no list, there really is no hurry to reply to these affiliate offers.

I'm not saying NOT to bother, I'm just saying that you will get fair warning of a big product launch and you will get enough time to decide to get involved or not. It's not usually a one chance offer how ever I dare say there are exceptions.

Don't beat your self up over the emails, its not worth it. You can't do it all as a one man show, so accept it.

You do need a strength of character to repel all the nay-sayers who inevitably start muttering. The 'why don't you get a proper job?' brigade.

If you have decided to do this then see it through and shut them up with your success. Then of course, your success is attributed to luck, not the hours slogging at the keyboard until you hit on that 'golden ticket!'

Face it some folks can't cope with one of their own making good. Accept it and move on. Congratulations for keeping at it! This isn't school. No one grades your work. If anything its harsher than that.

You get visitors or not. You make sales or you don't. No sliding scale of A to U or 1 to 7 or whatever it is now. Mind you, at least you don't have to wait weeks for the final results! And you can try again with a modified version. I don't remember that happening when I was at school.

The only thing holding you back is you!