Month: April 2009

5 Reasons Why I Hate Executable Ebooks And Why You Should Too

This is going to be a controversial post but it’s something I feel very strongly about. No doubt a lot of very experienced marketers are going to disagree with me. That’s fine. On the one hand we have PDF ebooks compiled using the industry standard Acrobat Reader, a product that has been around for 15 years, developed by a very respectable company – Adobe. And on the other hand we have the dreaded “Ebook Applications” or “Executable Ebooks”. Grrrrrrrr.

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Resale Rights Warning – Check The Restrictions

Many marketers, especially “newbies” don’t check the terms and conditions of their resale rights license carefully enough. In all the excitement at having some products to sell it is all too easy for them to overlook whether a particular product really can be sold where they think it can. While many products come with a “do whatever you want with it” type of license, many do not. There are restrictions. If you want to save yourself a lot of potential trouble you MUST check what those restrictions might be….

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Resale Rights Licenses – Where You Can Find Them

When you buy your Resale Rights product, whether it is MRR or PLR, it is important to check exactly what those rights are. Effectively there is no such thing as “standard” resale rights as some have claimed. Yes, sometimes the distributor of a “Resale Rights bundle” will include their own “standard license” but that may vary from someone else’s. Resale Rights licenses can appear in different formats, can be found in different parts of your package and may have different terms and conditions applied to them. Let’s take a closer look….. Continue reading “Resale Rights Licenses – Where You Can Find Them”

Digital Media Products – More Than Just Ebooks

When people think of digital media (that’s information products as far as you and I are concerned), they tend to just think of ebooks. Most of us have read ebooks, most of us in Internet Marketing have bought other people’s ebooks and are familiar with that format. Thanks to Adobe’s PDF format having now become the “industry standard” this is now the most widely distributed form of digital media. However, there are other categories, which can be much more lucrative than ebooks and you would do well to consider them.

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Bestmultimediaguides – THE Online Resale Rights Warehouse

More and more people are setting up an information marketing business. I know this because a lot of them have contacted me since I set up my eBay shop Bestmultimediaguides. The most burning question on the lips of virtually all new info marketers is – “From where do I get my raw materials?“, in other words the information products with resale rights. There is almost too much choice – sites giving away ebooks for free, expensive membership sites, special “Resale Rights Bumper Package Offers”, the list goes on.

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Confessions Of A Resale Rights Junkie

In the previous post we looked at the typical elements contained when you buy Resale Rights (whether PLR or MRR) to an information product. The most basic would be just the product itself (an ebook, a piece of software, some graphics etc) with NOTHING else included. Far too many Resale Rights packages are put together like this, with apparently attractive prices to match – “Buy 200 Information Products worth at least $2500 for only $7!!!”. Even worse are the “free packages” – “Download 100 free ebooks just for signing up to my newsletter!”. Here’s why they WON’T help you…

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Resale Rights Packages – What Do They Contain?

Private Label Rights (PLR) and Master Resale Rights (MRR) packages typically come in a range of shapes and sizes. There are many web sites set up to sell you ebooks and other digital items (software, graphics, videos, etc), and from time to time marketers will put together apparently good packages like “Buy 100 Products with Resale Rights” for $70. On the face of it these seem like great deals, however scratch the surface a little and a different picture emerges…..

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Private Label Rights And Resale Rights – What’s The Difference?

As an eBay seller, expect to get questions from potential buyers about your product. Whilst I’m not going to write about the importance of good customer services today (I’ll leave that for another day), it is very important that you answer any questions quickly and honestly. Since I have been offering Resale Rights for every single product I’ve been selling on eBay, that has also been one of the most common questions I have received. What exactly does “Resale Rights” mean?

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How We Cracked The Credit Crunch

One unexpected bonus, or side effect, of selling lots of information products via eBay was that I was also, unknowingly at the time, advertising myself to like-minded people. People who were already selling information products, or intending to sell information products, suddenly got in touch with me. Sometimes it was to do a deal on multiple purchases, others asked me if I could locate ebooks on a particular niche. I was starting to become the Mr Fixit of resale rights stuff on eBay….

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How To Make Money With Resale Rights – A Case Study

Read this post very very carefully – there is valuable information in here that NO-ONE else is telling you. If you act on it, it could be worth a lot of money to you. Initially I was going to “pad this out” into a short 16 page report and charge maybe $20 for it but I’ve decided to give this away for free…so read it carefully!

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Emigrating To Turkey

July 10th 2008. The big day had arrived, I was finally leaving Britain. It’s a strange feeling when something you have been planning for a number of years, something which had seemed a bit of a pipe dream when we first considered it, actually becomes reality. We had left our house some 2 weeks earlier and stayed with my parents whilst we had a few loose ends to tie up. On of my biggest concerns was what would happen to my eBay business which was starting to pay real dividends now.

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How I Beat The UK Property Crash

By the beginning of 2007 it was obvious to me that UK property market was about to come crashing down. I’m no economics expert, nor some kind of property guru – quite the opposite. However common sense told me that a UK average property price of £200,000 combined with an average wage of £22,000 spelled disaster. The historical ratio of average property price to average wages was 3.5. So the 2006 average salary of £22,000 should have equated to an average house price of £77,000! No-one in the media, in politics or the property business picked up on this. The good times were never going to stop….

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You Know Something….And Someone Will Pay You Handsomely For That

It’s very easy to be overwhelmed when getting into the information business. There is just so much of it out there. Everyone seems to be saying “get your own product, that’s where the money is”. But how can you, as a newcomer to internet marketing create your own product? What can you offer that is new? My point is that absolutely everyone, including YOU, has information or knowledge or experience of something inside their heads that other people will pay a lot of money for.

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Front End Profits On Ebay – Is It Possible?

When eBay still allowed the sales of digital products via digital download it was one of the hottest money making products around. Literally hundreds of sellers were doing this, and selling them for next to nothing. Can you remember seeing them? Just like me, you probably wondered how on earth these people could make money from products selling at such ridiculously low prices. So I decided to investigate this a little bit further……

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Dominating Ebay In 11 Weeks

By the end of June 2008 I had more digital items listed on eBay UK than anyone else – 390. Three months previous to that I hadn’t even listed one single item; I was still trying to work out the process of how to do that. Through a lot of trial and error I had reached the top of the tree with no previous experience of this business. To make things more difficult for a “novice” like me following eBay’s decision to ban the sales of items via digital download there was almost no information out there. As our American friends like to say, it was a “whole new ball game”.

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Stop Worrying About Your Competition – You Don’t Have Any!

I’ve received quite a few emails lately from people who are concerned about competition and how it’s a factor stopping many people from starting a business. This is understandable up to a point, after all you want to give yourself as much chance of success as you possibly can. However, I’ve come across people who are almost obsessed with the potential competition to the extent that months and even years pass without them getting started. It’s an interesting subject so let me expand on that…..

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Outsourcing – How You Can Easily Get It Wrong

Outsourcing is an essential part of any marketer’s business. It is approaching impossible to manage every single task yourself and be successful. That is a lesson I am slowly learning – in the beginning I tried to do every little thing myself, but frankly there aren’t enough hours in the day. However this cautionary tale shows that outsourcing is not something to be taken lightly, and here’s why you must choose your outsourced workers wisely….and keep a check on their activities.

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