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Article by: Nicole Dean
Content is always in high demand. Right now the focus seems to be on Private Label Rights (or PLR) articles. PLR articles are pre-written and sold in packages to online businesses looking for content. The big selling points of PLR articles are that you may edit the articles and that there is no author bio required (so they don’t have any outbound links).
Compare PLR articles to free reprint articles. Free reprint articles from places like ezinearticles.com or freeaffiliatearticles.com are written by people who have something they’d like to share. (Or, they are sometimes written by people just publishing junk, in the hopes that they’ll get some incoming links. But, good article directories will delete those, so we’ll focus on the good ones here.)
So, which is better? Honestly, each has its place. Sometimes you’ll find an excellent free reprint article that you’ll want to share with your readers and you won’t mind a bit having an outbound link, especially if there is an affiliate program associated with it. The free reprint article added value to your readers, and you didn’t have to write the article. That’s what free reprint articles are all about.
Other times you’ll already have an idea in mind for a topic and you’ll just want a boost getting that section of your website done. If you run across a high quality PLR package on that niche, you’re set to go.
So, how do you know which PLR service or membership to choose? Here are some guidelines to follow:
1. Some PLR sites offer a monthly membership where you receive a grab-bag of articles – on any topic. If you already know what you need, this may be a waste of money. Other PLR sites will list topics and you can buy the articles in a shopping cart. That ensures you receive the articles you need when you need them.
2. Are the articles written by professional writers with experience? Or are they outsourced to the cheapest overseas help they can find – no matter the quality? If the articles are going to be a reflection of your business, you’ll want to ensure that the articles are well-written.
3. Who’s running this thing? Is the PLR site run by someone who knows about content or someone who thinks they can ride the content wave and make a quick buck? Make sure you’re hitching your wagon to someone who knows what they’re doing.
Those are just a few tips to keep you from wasting money on a PLR site that you can’t use. Continue to use free reprint articles, but look into PLR articles as well. They can both benefit your website and your business.
Nicole Dean invites you to check out EasyPLR.com – where you’ll find high-quality PLR articles on niches sold in very limited quantities.
I, personally, recommend this site for all your PLR article needs.
Create An Ecourse That Sells
Aug 13 2008
Posted by Marie in Affiliate Marketing, Business, Email Marketing, Web Traffic |
If you want to generate traffic to your website, increase the size of your mailing list, and sell more products, consider creating an e-course. An e-course is information, usually delivered a chunk at a time, as in one lesson per day, via email.
An e-course can be on any topic. Take a look at your website and think about what your target market would like to learn about. If your website is devoted to information about beauty treatments, you can create an e-course explaining how to have a spa day at home. If your website contains information about sewing, you can create an e-course that explains how people can start their own sewing business. The choices are limitless.
Once you know what your topic will be, start writing. If you are not familiar enough with the topic to write from your own experiences, research the subject first. You may want to write the entire course in one word processing file; once the work is done, you can read through it and find appropriate section breaks.
If writing an entire e-course seems daunting, don’t worry. You don’t have to write a book. Just write a few simple lines about a given subject in order to answer a question your target market likely has. Do this every day for a week, and you have written your e-course. You can also get others to help you write your ecourse for free or very inexpensively. (More info on this below.)
Once you have written your e-course, you will need to get it delivered to your subscribers. The easiest way to do this is with an autoresponder. You can subscribe to an autoresponder service for around $20 per month. You can create lists in your autoresponder, and load unique messages for that particular list.
Your autoresponder service will generate a bit of HTML code to display on your site or blog. When someone clicks on the link, they will be subscribed to your list. When someone subscribes to that list, they will receive all the messages in the order you select.
When you write your e-course, you should have some products you want to promote in mind. For instance, you may have created an information product about affiliate marketing. You can create a free e-course about affiliate marketing in order to promote your information product. You can also include links to other products you are an affiliate for.
You do not have to give your e-course away. Your e-course can be the information product that you are selling. You can also make it interactive by including links to audios, videos and other information.
Promoting the fact that you have these e-courses available will help bring traffic to your site. You can even make some of the links customizable for others to put in their affiliate links and give the e-courses away for others to use. If you do this, keep the links to your website unchangeable, so the people who end up reading the e-course can still come to your site for more information.
For more information on ecourses and how they help grow passive income from your website, visit http://www.MiniCourseMoney.com It includes ideas to help you brainstorm your topic and a step by step checklist on setting up your first ecourse.
A few years ago, blogging was not the easiest thing to learn. Fortunately, these days, technology has changed and information on blogging is easier to get a hold of.
Blogs are essentially a mirror of one’s thoughts. Blogging allows a person to post their ideas, pictures, thoughts and more. It is a place where one can develop their very own fan club or following. Blogging is a great way for someone to learn how to write well. Since a blog allows you to dialog between you and your readers, you will slowly start to develop a relationship with them while practicing and developing your writing skills.
Expressing your thoughts using words is not an activity most people want to engage in. It’s not a matter of just making sure you include informative content - as a blogger, you need to make sure your posts are captivating. Below are a few tips you can apply to your blog to make sure you are able to keep your readers interested in your posts and continue to subscribe to your feed:
1. Check Your grammar - It is a turn off to read posts that are not grammatically correct. If it were me reading a blog post with lots of wrong grammar, I can see myself quickly hitting the escape button. Also, using the right grammar and punctuation helps get the idea across better. It is easy to check grammar, you can simply use the tools you already have in your computer for example “Microsoft Word”.
2. Improve your vocabulary - You do not have to use over-complicated words but avoid being redundant in your blog posts. It annoys me as a blog reader to keep on seeing the same words over and over again. Using a variety of words makes the blog posts more interesting. Having said that though, make certain that you know the meaning of the words you are using in your post. This ensures that you are aware of the message you are trying to share with your readers. You can access the dictionary or thesaurus online if you do not have the traditional dictionary in your home office.
3. Practice makes perfect - This is what will make you a successful blogger. The more you post entries in your blog, the more comfortable you will be and the more confident you will be in blogging. The more you post on your blog, the more traffic you can have. Before you know it, you would have your own fan club or followers.
One thing to remember while you are in your blogging journey, as a blogger, you are writing for other people and not just for yourself. That is why it is important that you write from the perspective of your readers and make sure that your blog is interesting to them.
To learn more about Blogging, sign up for a FREE eCourse - “Blogging Made Simple” by Clicking here!
