Friday, 28 March 2008

Make More Money Doing Less Than You Do Now.

Here’s an idea for you.

One of the most productive and useful areas to locate information that you can use to produce your own unique, professional, specialist and above all, valuable products is the public domain.

There are huge amounts of information products just waiting to be snapped up by someone with the mind to do so. Books, music, films, scripts and specialist knowledge that’s been lost through the advent of time, it’s all there.

Once your interest is sparked there are many ways and places you can locate more information than you could ever need. Some of it will need bringing up to date and you can get someone else to do that, a lot of it is ready to go with very little work at all.

Let’s say you decided to focus on a playwright and collect as many plays as you can by them. It would be inadvisable to try to claim ownership of the plays as though they where yours and that would probably be counter productive anyway as most playwrights already have a following.

You could put together all the plays you can locate into a presentable format and then sell the whole thing on to fans, followers and anyone you can garner interest from. That would pretty much be a ready made specialist niche.

The best thing about this is that it costs you nothing to locate and collate this kind of information. You don’t even need to produce any of the products until a customer has paid so no money is coming out of your pocket.

Next you could locate some experts and ask them for more specific information about the playwright in particular. Produce another product from that information and sell that to anyone who bought the play scripts.

You could create audio products of the plays and sell them on as well.

A major product would be to produce audio files of all of the plays to sell with the life story of the playwright. You could either sell it as one big product or you could set up a monthly membership style delivery system where people pay you a set amount to receive one audio play and a little information about the life and times of the chosen playwright.

Of course you wouldn’t have to focus on plays; you could use music by a particular composer, films by a particular director or films with a particular actor/actress. Once you start getting creative the possibilities are endless.

Now here’s the amazing bit. If you were to set this up on a monthly mail order basis you could produce the products for a few pounds/dollars each and then sell them on for say 19.99 or so. On just a thousand orders, which isn’t really that much, you could be making an extra 20,000 a month. It’s very easy to get a specialist company to fulfil the orders for you so you wouldn’t even need to handle the product.

Can you see the potential?

The thing is once you have a project like this up and running you can leave it on auto pilot and start work on another. So now you’re doubling your profits and creating multiple streams of income.

All of this from a little creative thinking, a small amount of work and using other people’s knowledge and information to create a product of your own.

This is how many of the “Big Dogs” in information marketing produce the products that make them rich without ever having to work too hard at all.

Here are some places you can start to locate public domain information:

Info about the public domain and fair use policies: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter8/8-a.html

Public Domain Central: http://www.publicdomaincentral.com/

Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php

Eldritch Press: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/

Films: http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/

Small Directory: http://www.booksforabuck.com/general/pubsources.html

Music: http://www.pdinfo.com/

Links: http://www.blinklist.com/tag/public%20domain/

Small site with links: http://www.pddoc.com/

Another Directory: http://www.savetz.com/pd/

Choral Music: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

There should be enough info there to keep you busy for a while.

Friday, 14 March 2008

Gurus Speak In Tongues.

It’s a sad fact that the word guru is now becoming synonymous with the “self proclaimed ones” who simply want to cash in on the growing number of people that genuinely want to make money from information and Internet marketing.

Some of them might not even realise who they are; ignorant to the fact that providing semi worthless information is counter productive in the long term. But with many it’s blatantly obvious that their main goal is to provide endless information and products that do little more than line their own pockets and increase their database of semi naïve prospects.

Marketing to the marketers, like lambs to the slaughter.

Anyone who’s been around the internet marketing world for a little while begins to recognise the self proclaimed ones from the genuine gurus. Not that internet marketing itself isn’t a huge and profitable niche, it definitely is. But it’s much cheaper, quicker and easier to create lots of products based on theories and ideas and sell them fairly cheaply than it is to provide something of genuine quality that does exactly what it says on the box.

The difference is clear in the way some products stay around for ever and will always be valuable and how the majority disappear faster than they appeared. The key here should be to take note of who promotes such products.

One of the first things anyone wishing to get involved in Internet marketing should do is to familiarise themselves with the two types of marketers. This is necessary for two good reasons.

1 You’ll lose money and probably not make any yourself. Actually you may lose a lot of money.

2 It’s unlikely you’ll learn anything worthwhile except how to be like them and the endless promoters of the next hot product work harder than anyone and line other people’s pockets.

A few top tips:

If something isn’t sought after by a hungry market then its never going to sell.

Beware of new hot products that make bold statements about the amount of cash they generate. Do some research first; the easiest way is just to wait a while and see how long it’s around for. Hot, profitable products do exist but you have to ensure that what you are buying is the genuine article and not just something masquerading as one.

Don’t buy anything that you don’t get at least Master Resell Rights to. The internet is full of people advertising, promoting and trying to sell identical products. You have to be able to change things slightly so that they become more unique and create traffic and sales for you.

Try and locate unique, quality products that no-one else is selling and acquire master resell rights. This one simple action can put you in a very powerful position because you will not only own the rights to something no-one else is promoting, you will be able to sell resell rights to others at a bigger profit than you’d make just selling the product.

As long as you identify and promote good quality products that provide a service to the end user you will develop a trusted reputation and a growing customer base that you can continue to sell to.

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Making Extra Money Shouldn’t Be This Simple.

Cashing In On The Information Market.

The information market is on an ever increasing upward trend. The popularity of the internet makes it even more so. It’s extremely easy now to locate hot target markets and provide the information they seek or require at a profit that is quite surprising. Information marketing is currently one of the most lucrative and easily run businesses to be involved in.

The huge advantage of running this kind of business is the lack of expense and overheads. It’s very easy to set up a small business from a home office, review and collate relevant information and then format it in a way that is profitable. Everything can be done from the comfort of home with a few simple tools, a computer and an internet connection.

One of the biggest advantages has to be the fact that this can be easily achieved with very little work. The main workload lies in researching target markets that have high profit potential. Once located there are countless scores of people who will willingly and happily produce everything on request providing a finished product of very high quality that can be advertised, promoted and sold to the previously identified market.

Having set up one mini business you can leave it to run on auto pilot and simply repeat the process with another hot targeted market.

This really has to be one of the easiest ways to build a profitable and adaptable business that has the potential to create very stable multiple income streams of high profit at very low cost.

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Make Money Doing Nothing.

This isn't the paradox it sounds like. There are a growing number of people who make money doing nothing much at all. Actually they make lots of money.

Its actually a whole lot easier than you think.

The first issue that most of us have to get over when considering something like this is learned/taught behaviour. We are taught from an early age that you have to work hard to get anywhere in life. That puts you off straight away. Especially when you are a child and you just want to have fun.

We bring that hard work ethic into adulthood and by this time it is deeply rooted, we don't believe that lazy people will amount to very much in life. "You can't make money doing nothing"

But that is all part of what we've been taught. In reality its not about being lazy, its about being smart. Its true that you can't make money doing nothing without putting something into it first but it doesn't have to be hard work. It can just as easily be fun Which can amount to the same as nothing. A famous poverb says "Find a job you love and you'll never do a hard days work in your life." How can we not love a job if we make money doing nothing.

Removing ourselves from the social beliefs and the hard work ethic can be a little scary, daunting even, but it is also refreshing and a huge relief when you begin to realise you don't have to be part of the rat race to be successful in your life.

Even more so when you can get other people to do most of the work for you. There are plenty of people who will. In fact there's plenty of information already available. With just a few hours of Internet browsing you can locate lots of information on any given subject. Once you've collected it up you can find someone else to put it all together for you into something you can sell for years to come.

You really can make money doing nothing except living your life on your terms.

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