Plr (and Pd) Without Frontiers

Private Label Rights (PLR for short) is a great idea and can be very useful, but profiting from it can be more difficult than we would like. Of course you can use it for contents - on your site, blog, in your ezine etc. Easy, no big deal. True, however, when you're trying to sell it, you may soon discover that your distribution- and promotional channels are meager and not up to the task. What's even more annoying you are soon going to discover that there are quite a lot of other people trying to profit from the same PLR stuff you're trying to sell. (If the stuff is worth anything in the first place, of course.) And, sad to say, some of them much more powerful, better placed and more skillful than yourself.

There is, however, a method of using PLR allowing you to earn real cash from it. It is not very complicated or anything... It's simply not often used, or at least rarely taught. I know it for I discovered it for myself and I'm really glad I did! The method is translating the PLR stuff to another language (or other languages) and distributing it to people for whom that another language is their native tongue. For example you translate PLR stuff written (as it almost exclusively seems to be) in English, translate it to Polish, and then distribute it to people speaking Polish (and most often living in Poland). Which would be exactly what I did. Of course being a Pole somehow makes such an idea more obvious and its execution somehow easier - but let's not exaggerate, you can do the same using hired people or personal contacts. Which, by the way, would be a fine example of outsourcing, in which I happen to be a great believer.

Allow me please a little digression: I think it's nice that there are some method of profiting from the Web that are easier for people speaking other tongues than English and living in, well... less developed (in Internet marketing categories at least) countries than e.g. US of A. I still keenly remember how I struggled to be earning online when PayPal wasn't available to people living in my country, and to make it more difficult I had no credit card and there were some pretty strict rules about foreign money transfers. And it was just a couple of years ago. That whole situation, by the way, was exactly what made me to try the method I'm trying to describe to you right now.

You get the idea? You take some good PLR stuff, you translate it to your own native tongue or to some other tongue, or perhaps find some people who would translate it to their native tongue... And for distribution you contact people who are in the business of selling books or ebooks for the chosen market and in the chosen language. They sell it through their usual channels and you get a commission you agreed upon. That's the general idea. I will describe it for you in much greater detail some other time.

We were speaking mainly about PLR but in the title we also have PD, that is Public Domain. Those things are, from our point of view at least, closely related. From my own experience I would say that PD is even better, more powerful and there's simply more really good, really attractive and sellable texts in Public Domain, than there are in the PLR. We're talking books here, it's different with short articles and such, but it's exactly books that you would like to publish in the way I'm describing.

Of course there are a couple of important differences in the way one would handle those two sources - PLR and PD. The most important is that PD must be treated with much more respect, as, after all, it's somebody else's work and not yours. PLR, on the other hand, can be changed (hopefully for better), stitched, grafted, abridged, twisted and embellished. (And that no matter whether you want to be considered the author or not.)

OK, that's it - that's the general idea. I really recommend you give it a serious consideration for, as I said, I have tested it and found it most pleasant and profitable. It's especially tasty with a good dose of healthy outsourcing but that's what's it all about in my opinion. (Even more so because the present economic crisis is making outsourcing easier and easier with each day.) If you agree, and if you find the whole idea convincing, jump on it and make some strangely effortless money. True, Poland and the Polish language are already taken, but there's the whole wide world - with all those lingos and all those national markets. And they are waiting… For whom are they waiting? For you, my friend, they're waiting you!

By: Piotr Obminski

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