well first of all, i am not asking any help to create a website...here is my scenario.. i have been writing as a freelancer from the past two years...and i have served a many of my clients...at max i got $4 my articles...but now i want to make a some sort of permanent income...don't want to keep bidding for hours..!! so as i am not a business person..i Googled a lot...and came up with selling PLR content..i can set up a website to sell my PLR contents myself...but i don't no how to get the clients...?? how to promote myself in the market..?? applying various marketting techniques which i am learning daily nowadays... over the last few months i have saved up some money...and i want to invest it to make more...and while trying to find any information on this..i found this forum..saw a few threads also..still i am going through... so you guys if you have any suggestion in any form then please tell me..any sort of help...any resource...practical exp...reference to any discussed thread..anything which might help me...thanks...
You have a tough job bcuz PLR articles aren't that sought after. I'm sure there are a MILLION ppl who have the same PLR articles you have. hell i might even have some that you have. It can be done but I wouldn't look to make too much. You prob won't get reocurring customers. I can DEF be done though. Good luck.
Create a blog. Put your personal bio. Publish some of your content to show clients how you write. Post comments on relevant blogs. Contact bloggers and ask them if they want to feature your article as a guest post. Join relevant forums and be helpful. Join social media like StumbleUpon and Twitter, and meet potential clients there. Post some of your articles on sites like http://ezinearticles.com/ . This should give you a good start...
thanks for replying... what do you mean by ...."there are a MILLION ppl who have the same PLR articles you have. hell i might even have some that you have.."....?? i am planning to write brand new original content...
thanks .."HowToMakeMyBlog.com's ".... i am planning to build a dedicated website...not a blog... if i write on a blog as a ghost writer...can i advertise myself their...i mean about my website... and is it ok to write some 4-5 articles and submit them to a many relevant blogs...??i might hire some freelancers to do it on my name... and what do you think of 1st reply i got..?? if i put a lot of effort..is there any chance i might succeed..??i am really tired of searching for jobs on freelancing sites...and most of the times being underpaid... though i am not a native speaker...but my clients have really appreciated my work...thanks...
If you want to make money doing something like this, there is absolutely no way around being a "business person." You need to get over whatever doubts you have in that area first, because like it or not, even PLR involves admin and marketing work regularly. Customers won't just fall into your lap. Most of the writers I know who sell PLR (the type you're talking about, where you're writing something new and not just recycling existing PLR articles) don't use it as their primary business. It's just a supplement to offering services; an extra income stream. That's the route I'd advise.
You don't have to avoid it just because you don't know a lot about marketing yet. Just spend some time learning about it first so that you don't waste time later. You're not going to find a lot of opportunities for residual income like that. You can earn from blogs, but you'll have to keep blogging. You could setup small static sites to earn ad revenue, but income will take time and might not be very much (and you still have to market them). You could write and sell e-books, but those have to be marketed too. No matter what you do, you'll still have to put in more work later to promote it and keep the income coming in.
You can look at the marketing section of my blog for some info - www.allfreelancewriting.com You can also look at sites like www.copyblogger.com and even something like www.problogger.com (promoting blogs is very similar to promoting a sales page for your PLR articles).
I would advise building up a mailing list. From your posts, I'm not sure whether you're planning on selling PLR to your articles or just giving the PLR articles away for free, but it would definately be a good thing to build up a list of emails that you could use. So, what exactly am I on about? Well, if you give away some PLR articles for free in exchange for their name/email, then you can email them with future article releases that you are doing. This means that you'll have a list of people who are obviously interested in PLR articles, and you can email them easily, telling them about the latest articles you have up for sale
no i want to sell them...why would i give it for free...!!! will you tell me how to create the mailing list..?? means that's ok i will give some srticles for free...but how do i do that..?? do i have to put a special offer on my website..?? or do the advertising through different forums like DP..??or do all of these...will you please tell me clearly how to do that...??thanks..
You might give them for free to build up a mailing list so that you can then send the list information about products that you're selling. Giving free articles is like an incentive for signing up, and then once they sign up you can send them as much info as you like. Aweber is the leading mailing list. It costs $20 per month, but you should be able to cover this with ease and still make enough profit. Advertising wise, you could try article marketing, an adwords campaign, and, yes, advertising on forums such as DP. Be careful you don't spam, though . For more advertising info check out the General Marketing section.
so this aweber will provide me the mailing list..?? to which i have to send the mails.. and will you tell me how to find out the hot keywords..?? means the one which will sell more... and by the way thanks for giving me this info... ok just now i googled for Aweber... but i can you please tell me how to get the visitors to my website...means what are the ways i can advertise my site..?? thanks... hey just now i googled for Free E-Mail marketting Plugins for Joomla...and i think it's available... so should not i start with these rather than using Aweber...i mean if it has more feature i can change to it later..
If you can put your articles into themes and sell them as a package, that's one way to go. However, if you want to command a higher price, you set up a unique service like 1ArticleADay.com (check out his site to see how he presents himself). Someone subscribes to get 1 unique article about a given subject matter sent to them every day for a week / month / year, guaranteed to be 100% unique content. Maybe your price per article is a bit less, but you can go after subscribers, rather than bidding on 1-off clients. You could even start hiring trusted freelancers to write the articles for you, so you could go after more clients. And some of them, if they like your service, will stay subscribed for a long time. Just my 2 cents. :::::::::: Ultimate PLR E-book Collection - PLRMassive.com
Yeah, to start you MUST rewrite these plr articles or at the very least, revise them (substitute words). No way they're worth anything unchanged. Get them flipped (rewritten) at FlipMyPLR.com and sell them on Associated Content, then after you get paid for it, grab an affiliate link to a related product, and incorporate it into the article, then submit to EzineArticles.com, SmarticleDirectory.com, or other top article directories. Or just get them rewritten and package them up and sell them. Then Voila , you've just milked that ol' plr article for nearly all its worth.
Hey thanks to all of you...I have been busy establishing myself as a content writer.now that I have made some $$$'s I am back to my Idea of PLR articles. I have summarized what I have learned so far. As ***jhmattern*** told to clear all the doubts, I start here. >> first of all I want to write fresh package of articles on Hot topics. say 10 articles in a single pack. >> Sell those packs limited buyers. I mean i will put a counter to sell a pack only to 25/50 buyers. And then remove the pack. >> set up a website myself ( I can do it ). >> And then Marketing my site. My plan is to provide a pack of at least 5 articles free of cost to first 1000 subscriber just to get their e-mails. (I don't have enough budget to join Buy them ) So i will do all the work myself. So here is my first problem how and where to do it.?? Some idea's I have. Join Forums like DP and advertise. ( So please let me know some similar forums) Then I am not sure about Twitter, Digg and all. I mean I have written articles on them. I guess I can tell you how to do it, but when it comes to me I don't know how to do it..Or I am just a little bit scared. So any help in this case.... I also heard about Press Release websites. so is it needed...?? May be this is not the right section to ask all the info...I will try to put into relevant sections..BUt may be all info in one place will help some other newbies like me.. AND One most imp thing...Is it Ok to disclose everything I am going to do On a Forum..?? Hope will get some really useful info as i always got on DP...
I'm going to echo the thing about being in business and learning marketing. I get the sense you're willing to do that, but I really want to emphasize how very important that is. As for the business model, writing and selling content can work, but like at least one other person said, it's probably not going to be your main stream of income. If you're most interested in no longer freelancing (and I certainly understand THAT), you might look at setting yourself up as an expert in a particular field and sell information in that field. For instance, if you wrote mostly about foreclosures, you might write ebooks on the topics you wrote a lot on as a freelancer. Selling products takes a different mindset and business model, but it's well worth learning to do.