If you are new to PLR articles, here’s a crash course for you. PLR is a type of articles that once you purchase, in the most part, you can do anything you want with PLR articles. You can edit or change them. You can rewrite them. You can combine or chop them. You can even claim authorship to the articles.

But having said that, what good do PLR articles do if they can’t make you money? Many of us have bought them but never put them to use.

If you have bought or going to buy PLR articles, here are 10 things you can do to make money from PLR articles.

1. Blogs – Use PLR articles for your blog. I do this when I have no time to crank out articles for my blog. Won’t you be penalized with duplicate content by the search engines? You ask? I don’t think so. It never happens to me. But to be safe, mix PLR articles with some original content. Attract visitors to your blog with carefully selected keywords. You can monetize your blog with Adsense, affiliate products, advertising placement, or even your own products.

2. Autoresponder messages – Another great use of PLR articles is to use them to follow up with your subscribers. Build trust by providing them with great content through PLR articles. Not only can you build credibility with them, you can also promote some products in the messages in an indirect way by telling them how the products can help them.

3. Go audio – Turn PLR articles into audio programs by reading out loud the content from PLR articles. Oftentimes, audio programs fetch higher price than ebooks as the perceived value is higher. Better still, you can offer both the articles and audios.

4. Create a special report – This technique is very effective. This is what you do. Turn your PLR articles of the same theme into a report, say 12-20 pages. Use this report to promote your website, newsletter, product in the report. Give readers the rights to distribute the report. This is a great idea for viral marketing.

5. Create a niche mini site – Use PLR articles of the same topic to start a mini site. The main objective is to promote affiliate products to your visitors. Besides providing useful content, you can add one paragraph at the top of the page that promotes an affiliate product. You can do so by providing the benefits of the product in bullet form. Include a picture of the product if you want.

6. List building tool – By combining 5 PLR articles, you have created yourself a mini report or 5-day ecourse. Offer this report or ecourse in exchange of emails. Create an opt-in page for people who are interested in your report or ecourse. Those who want to read the report or ecourse have to sign up to get it. This is an excellent way of building your list from scratch. Once you capture the emails, you can follow up with them with other content or offers.

7. Create an article directory – It’s easier than you think to create an article directory. Firstly, download and install article directory software that manages and publishes your articles. You can get it free from ArticleDashborad.com. Once you have installed the software, post your PLR articles to the directory. There are many ways you can profit from the directory. Such as Adsense and promoting affiliate products.

8. Sell physical book – Not many have done this. But that does not mean you should not do it. You can combine and/or expand on PLR articles and publish a physical book. Not only have you created a new source of income, people also place higher regards on published authors and it’s a great branding tool. One great resource to help you get started is Lulu.com

9. Setup a membership site – Membership sites are great because they provide recurring income. The members pay you as long as they remain members. You only need to sell them once. One of the easiest ways to build content for your membership site is by using PLR articles. The next thing you need is a password protected site.

10. Flip websites for instant cash – Create a new content site with PLR articles (15 – 30 articles). You can use a website template or a blog for this purpose. Put it up for sale as a turnkey website in marketplaces like Sitepoint or Digital Point. You can make instant cash with 1-2 day work.

If you are looking for PLR articles, check out Reliable PLR. Over there, you only buy what you need. No membership required.

Let’s call it PayDotCom Affiliate Scam or PAS for short.

If you are merchant using PayDotCom (PDC) to sell your products online, please beware of this tactic.

This is the modus operandi the affiliates use in brief:

• The affiliate had two PDC usernames.

• The affiliate sent a number of orders to the merchant.

• Merchant paid him for those sales. Merchant started getting more orders from him.

• All of sudden, merchant started getting chargebacks (sometimes one a day and can be up to 5 a day). Upon investigation, by looking at where the sales came from, they all came from the same (one) affiliate.

• All the customer were having the same email addresses - Gmail or Yahoo account.

How did the affiliate make money?

First he made orders through his own affiliate link. Then the merchant paid him commissions to his affiliate account based on the “sales” he made himself. Then, he asked for refund for purchases orders he made. The net effect? He earned commissions from the merchant for ZERO sales (because of his chargebacks).

Who suffered the most? The merchant of course! Because he paid the affiliate the commission for sales that have been refunded.

Pretty sneaky, huh?

If you are currently using PDC for payment processing, be more alert about this trick. If this happens, the only thing you can do is to report to PDC and file a complaint to Paypal asking for a refund (for affiliate commissions that you had paid).

As of now, I have not found a good alternative yet. But I was told Google Checkout and E-junkie are two solutions that are worth looking at to reduce scam, fraud, and chargebacks. They are reliable and the feedback I receive is great.

NOTE: If you plan to sign up with E-junkie, enter CRAFTBOOM as the promotion code. You’ll receive 104 days free trial instead of the normal 7 days. The code is tested to be working at the time of writing.

From my experience in coaching and talking to others, I can see very clearly why people fail online. To sum it up, there are not more than three core reasons.
1) Attitude. I am not talking about positive thinking. I don’t believe in all the hoo-hah of making you feel good. But I do believe that having the right attitude is the most important ingredient for success. You must believe in yourself that you can do it and you can achieve what you set out to achieve. When you are in the face of adversity and failure, you don’t give up and keep trying until you succeed. You are responsible for every result – positive and negative. You don’t blame others for your failure. You take failure as gracefully as success.

You take charge of everything within your control and make sure that you are on track to achieving your goals. You know that you have to give yourself enough time to try out something and you don’t give up prematurely. If you have found something that works for you, duplicate what you have done and double your success.

2) Action. Many people dream of being their own boss and just that… they dream. They don’t take concrete action to make their dream come true. They fail to follow through a plan that brings them from where they are now to where they want to be. They give themselves excuses that are longer than shopping list – for not doing anything. They wait for the “best” time to create a website, develop a product, or write a marketing campaign. However, it seems that the day never comes. They say they don’t have time for their business because they have a job to do, a wife to take care of, children to play with, and a dog to feed.

They fail to realize that achieving a dream requires action. Only actions bring results. Find and allocate a time slot everyday to work on your online business. Move toward to your goal of being your own boss by taking action, right now right here. This is a phrase I like: When something gets done, even if it’s not successful, is more valuable than something that is not done.

3) Focus. This is very common in Internet business. One day you follow this fail-proof strategy by Guru A. The next day, you dump what guru A teaches and listen to Guru B with his latest discovery. One good thing about the Internet is its flexibility. It’s not as rigid as brick and mortar business. With online business, you can switch business model as often as you like. You can start a new website in just a few minutes. But there’s a flip side to it. Flexibility is a double-edged sword. If you don’t use it to your advantage, you’ll find yourself end up with too many websites that don’t generate income.

If you want to succeed online, pick one model or better still choose one profitable market and reach out to them in many different ways. Stick to it until you succeed. Create add-on products to sell to the same market until you dominate the market. Don’t swing from one model to another without really trying. If you do this, be prepared to face more failure. Focus on one thing until you make it. Stop blindly following the latest product launches because they do more harm than good to you. They distract you from your original plan.

As you read this, did you realize that I do not include “how-to” as one of the reasons of failure? Because technical knowledge is aplenty and it has nothing to do with why people can’t make it. If you need help in choosing a market or any other topic, just do a search in Google and you are good to go. Or go to an Internet marketing forum and post your question. I believe many are willing to help you there. Better still, in order to save time, you can grab a copy of the book from Clickbank Marketplace if your budget allows and that’s all you need.

But all the information you have will not do you any good if you don’t put it to use. Why? See Reason #2 above. Everything that prevents you from succeeding online can be boiled down to three main core reasons. If you can overcome these hurdles, the odds are in your favor.

It’s as good as the paid ones. It has some excellent features that you can use to create professional looking websites.

It is called Evrsoft First Page 2006.

I just tried it out the other day and if you are into coding (or plan to), one of the cool features is the editor will suggest to you what words to use based on the letters you have just keyed in.

Besides that First Page 2006 also has some useful ready-made templates. Such as blank page, feedback form, privacy policy page, 2 or 3 column layouts, FAQ page, and many more. Great for minisite creation.

If you are not well verse in HTML programming like me, some features can really freak you out. But as far as I am concerned, if the editor can provide the basics of creating a website, that is what I want. I just ignore other features and concentrate on what I use.

Check First Page 2006 out to see if this is what you need. And if it is, make it part of your arsenal as HTML editor is one of the must have tools for online marketers.

NOTE: You will be asked to register and purchase a professional version of First Page after your trial period is over. If you don’t want to spend money on this, don’t purchase as the unregistered version still can be used.

Furthermore, this is the way how freelance writers work. And they are all over marketplaces such as eLance, Guru, GetAFreelancer. It’s something that you should consider, especially if you are strapped for cash.

In a nutshell, you create a website with PLR articles. And you sell the website for instant cash.

Here’s how to do it - step by step.

Step 1: Choose a topic

With this approach (by using PLR articles), you don’t need to do a thorough niche selection because the work has already done for you by the person who created the PLR content. All the topics of your PLR are good. But personally, I find health and hobby related sites sell better.

Step 2: Create a website

To setup a content site, I prefer using a blog than normal HTML sites. Because it’s easy and flexible. I can use many free templates available online, not to mention some useful plugins that I use to enhance the perceived value of the site. Here’s what I do to setup the blog:

• Register a domain name. Preferably keyword rich domain. I will do a search in free Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery tool and look for ideas for my domain. I will register a .com or .net domain if possible.

• Create a new webhosting account. For an easy transfer to the future buyer, I would encourage you to have a separate webhosting account for this site. I sign up for a reseller account whereby I can create unlimited webhosting accounts as and when I need - at a fixed cost.

• Install Worpdress. By using the Fantastico in cPanel of your webhost, it makes installing Wordpress a snap. Sometimes, to make the site more complete, I will install forum on the site. Pick a WP theme that is suitable for your topic by searching online. Try themes by Brian Gardner or Chris Pearson.

• Install plugins. Plugins I use for creating websites to flip are Adsense Manager, Tubepress video, and Contact Form.

• Add content. With Wordpress, it’s easy to post articles to the website because you don’t need to know HTML codes and FTP. Use what you have from your PLR library to create content for your website. I will have 10 – 20 articles posted. You must read the terms that come with your PLR articles before posting these articles.

Step 3: Sell the website

You can use either Site Point or Digital Point to sell your website. Both have it’s own pluses and minuses. For Site Point, you have to pay to list your website for sale. For Digital Point, you have to make at least 20 posts before you can put up your site for sale. When I started out, I used Site Point because I couldn’t wait to fulfill the minimum posts on Digital Point. For a content site like this, you can sell between $90 - $200 a site. You can fetch higher price if you have more pages of content (say 30) and other features like forum, videos, sitemap, contact us form.

Sad but true, now you can’t get a price as high as before. But as long as you can cover your cost (domain name – around $10, PLR - negligible, webhosting - negligible) and make a good profit, there’s no reason you shouldn’t do this.

Again, this is not a long term business model but it’s excellent in generating instant cash. But there are many ways to bring flipping to the next level: How To Turn Flipping Websites Into A $40,000 A Month Business

SIDENOTE: If you are looking for high quality, reliable PLR articles, check out Reliable PLR. No membership required. You can pick and choose what you want.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against membership sites. But creating a membership site brings some problems, especially to lazy marketers:

1. It involves a lot of work. Many of you can’t even create a single web page (not to undermine your capabilities but it’s a fact), let alone a comprehensive membership site. We have not even talked about the content yet.
2. You can’t set it and forget it. Membership site is not a model that brings in passive income. It requires constant content creation and promotion. Literally, you work till you die or you sell the site.

Looking at the above concerns, many people will lose steam even before the site is up. Persistence is an issue here.

If you insist on creating a membership site, I urge you to create a membership site with a twist – without the problems above.

This idea comes from a trusted guru: Jimmy D. Brown. He’s simply a genius!

With his membership idea, aptly called Fixed-Term Membership (FTM), all you need is one page of content to begin with and you can take orders within 48 hours.

I must say this is the lazyman’s way of earning recurring income from membership site.

In contrast to traditional membership sites, this takes minimal time to set it up. Once you set it up, you can let it go on autopilot.

You can get quite a bit about the FTM concept from the sales letter on Membernaire. You don’t need to join the membership to find out how he did it. He even shares with you some of the ideas for a fixed-term membership site.

If you choose to join, the length of the course is 52 weeks. That means you’ll receive 52 lessons delivered weekly to you on how to setup and promote a FTM site, and also how to keep your members active – in PDF format.

The membership fee is $27 per month. You can stop the subscription if you find it not up to your expectations within 8 weeks.

I have had a look at the content and oh boy my head is spinning with ideas now.

Want to know what Membernaire covers in the first 10 lessons?

Here you go…

1. How To Setup Your Own Membership Site In 48 Hours Or Less
2. FTM Quick Start 1: Preparation
3. FTM Quick Start 2: Presentation – 4 parts
4. FTM Quick Start 3: Production – 2 parts
5. FTM Quick Start 4: Promotion
6. The Magic Sentence That Keeps Members Paying
7. How To Double Your Profit In One Easy Step
8. Getting New Subscribers Automatically
9. The Backdoor To Keeping Members Active
10. Turning On Your Built-In Profit Streams

Remember these are only 10 out of the 52 lessons you’ll be getting (I hope Jimmy won’t come after me for revealing this!)

Jimmy has helped eliminate the barrier of entry of a traditional membership site. With the FTM strategy, he makes it easy for “normal” people to start and build a profitable membership site.

Seriously, forget about traditional membership sites. It’s just too much work. FTM is the way to go if you want to have recurring income.

I understand that Membernaire had closed its door a while ago when it reached 1000 members. But Jimmy has reopened the door again now. So take a look before he closes his door for the second time.

Visit the site: http://www.abelcheng.com/FTM.html

If you are in Google Adsense program, this can have an impact on how fast Google pays you, especially you are not from the US, UK, Canada, or Australia.

Of course, the best way to get paid by Google is by account transfer. But Google allows account transfer for some countries only.

That was the case with me. Before this, the only form of payment is checks. But a few months back, Google introduced another payment method for my country: Western Union.

I knew nothing about Western Union but I decided to give it a try. So I changed the form of payment in my Adsense account setting to receive payment via Western Union.

(You can do so by clicking “My Account” >> “Account Settings”)

When the payments come, what I need to do is to logon to Adsense and get the payments details. Go to an authorized Western Union counter (it can be either a bank, post office, or a Western Union branch) and fill in a form.

That’s it. You can cash out or bank into your bank account.

I prefer Western Union to checks for a few reasons:

• Immediate cash - as fast as the payment details are out from Google, I can get the cash. As compared to check payments, I have to wait for at least a month before I can see money in my account.

• No charges - When I bank in Adsense checks, my bank charges me some fees - a percentage of the check amount. But for Western Union, I pay nothing. Every penny I make from Adsense is pure profit.

When was the last time you check your Adsense account settings? You may want to see if Western Union option is available in your country. If it is, change the form of payment to Western Union. It’s like getting your paychecks faster. For me it’s a month earlier!

Geez, how fast time flies?

If it’s not a great product, it would have been disappeared long time ago. Just like many other products we see…

The tool that I talking about is Site Build It!

www.sitesell.com

I can’t recommend enough this product and other products by Ken Evoy. He’s one of the few marketers who doesn’t squeeze out of you the last dollar you have. Also, you don’t need to worry that Ken will bombard you with other back-end products.

I like his professionalism and dedication toward his work and products. And his customer service is top-notch - a rare breed in Internet marketing circle.

Okay…enough about Ken, let’s move on.

The tool has stood the test of time and now it is even a better time own it - with this $100 special.

The usual price is $299 for a year subscription. But if you add $100, you’ll get a second package. You can buy for a friend as a gift or share with him.

Your investment? Only $200 per package. You save $100 as compared if you order on normal days.

To take advantage of the offer, hop over to:

www.sitesell.com

If you have been struggling to create a website, this is the tool for you. Why not create it right from the beginning?

When you order, do it before October 31st to take advantage of the promotion.

Have fun,

Abel Cheng

PS: While you’re there, remember to check out a story about Nori - how a 15-year old girl literally generates thousands of dollars by doing exactly that with the tool.

Ways to make money from Nori’s site:

* Google ads — thousands of dollars per month
* Real Estate agent — also very high (she is
a friend, so I keep it a bit confidential)
* Anguilla Villa Rentals
* Hotels, too
* Anguilla Car rentals
* Referrals to offshore corporations
* Affiliate income
* Sale of my own DVD and anguilla keychain,
as well as local crafts

Her website has grown from strength to strength over the years. How much time does she spend on her website?

She said, “I only spend an hour per week on my site, tops.”

Her story is only the tip of an iceberg.

www.sitesell.com

What if you could have a peek at who’s making what. Then that could well answer your doubt.

Paula’s List of Blogger Salaries

Top 5 are in the millions. Top 120 altogether.

After having a look at this, you may want to seriously consider starting your own blog.

What? You don’t know how to start a blog? Don’t worry, that’s why I am here.

I have something for you to help you kickstart your blog. It’s called Blog Profits Blueprint. Written by Yaro Starak.

Interestingly, Yaro is one of the bloggers featured on Paula’s list. Why is it important? Because you learn from someone who has made it.

Click here to download the Blog Profits Blueprint

In the free report, you’ll learn:

• How to choose your blog topic: passion or profit?
• Why bloging is not a job, it’s business
• 7 ways to create pillar content that attracts traffic
• How to market your blog and marketing mistakes most bloggers make
• Single best way to make money from a blog

If you still find it hard to take action on the advice in the report, you can sign up Yaro mentoring program.

In the program, you’ll be coached on successful blogging. Details here:

Click here to join the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program

Good luck.

By Jack Canfield, America’s Success Coach

I believe you have inside you a core genius… some one thing that you love to do, and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It’s effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you’d make it your lifetime’s work.

Successful people believe this, too. That’s why they put their core genius first. They focus on it—and delegate everything else to other people on their team.

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching, training, coaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is writing and compiling books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 100 books.

Compare that to the other people in the world who go through life doing everything, even those tasks they’re bad at or that could be done more cheaply, better, and faster by someone else. They can’t find the time to focus on their core genius because they fail to delegate even the most menial of tasks.

When you delegate the grunt work—the things you hate doing or those tasks that are so painful, you end up putting them off—you get to concentrate on what you love to do. You free up your time so that you can be more productive. And you get to enjoy life more.

So why is delegating routine tasks and unwanted projects so difficult for most people?

Surprisingly, most people are afraid of looking wasteful or being judged as being above everyone else. They are afraid to give up control or reluctant to spend the money to pay for help. Deep down, most people simply don’t want to let go.

Others (potentially you) have simply fallen into the habit of doing everything themselves. “It’s too time-consuming to explain it to someone,” you say. “I can do it more quickly and better myself anyway.” But can you?

Delegate Completely

One of the strategies I use and teach is complete delegation. It simply means that you delegate a task once and completely - rather than delegating it each time it needs to be done.

When my niece came to stay with us one year while she attended the local community college, we made a complete delegation - the grocery shopping. We told her she could have unlimited use of our van if she would buy the groceries every week. We provided her with a list of staples that we always want in the house (eggs, butter, milk, ketchup, and so on), and her job was to check every week and replace anything that was running low.

In addition, my wife planned meals and let her know which items she wanted for the main courses (fish, chicken, broccoli, avocadoes, and so on). The task was delegated once and saved us hundreds of hours that year that could be devoted to writing, exercise, family time, and recreation.

Most entrepreneurs spend less than 30% of their time focusing on their core genius and unique abilities. In fact, by the time they’ve launched a business, it often seems entrepreneurs are doing everything but the one thing they went into business for in the first place.

Many salespeople, for example, spend more time on account administration than they do on the phone or in the field making sales, when they could hire a part-time administrator (or share the cost with another salesperson) to do this time-consuming detail work. In most cases, in a fraction of the time it would take them and at a fraction of the cost.

Most female executives spend too much time running their household, when they could easily and inexpensively delegate this task to a cleaning service or part-time mother’s helper, freeing them to focus on their career or spend more quality time with their family.

Don’t let this be your fate.

Identify your core genius, then delegate completely to free up more time to focus on what you love to do.

I believe that you can trade, barter, pay for and find volunteer help to do almost everything you don’t want to do, leaving you to do what you are best at - and which will ultimately make you the most money and bring you the most happiness.

(c) 2006 Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, America’s Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and the nation’s leading authority on Peak Performance. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at www.JackCanfield.com