Setting limits on PLR article usage

You could simply state the limits in the terms and conditions of your sale. Each article may be used one time.

Then offer multiple use pricing. Or have an unlimited use pricing like developers who build Wordpress plugins do.

Have a penalty clause that charges them $5k per violation or something big (depending on the industry) if they share with other people in their offices. This should at least push them to buy more content from you instead of simply distributing it freely.

Do you have access to an attorney who could review your contract? It'd be worth finding someone that can read over it and make sure it holds up.

Other than publishing the rights that I want to apply to the PLR, a contract is not binding - is it?

A PLR client is really on the honor system. The only way to find out they did not comply with the rules I published would be to happen upon the situation.

Thanks, Matthew, for joining the discussion.

There are tons of PLR products being sold. Most have licenses that vary
in scope, but enforcing a license is difficult.

In your case, you would need to prove that the information was actually shared
with other office members, even if you had your buyer sign a contract (digital sig.).
Contracts are legal and binding, if they are prepared correctly. So, you would
need to hire an attorney who is familiar with internet property rights.

If you do spend the money for an attorney, and if you are able to find a buyer
who is willing to sign a contract, then your major hurdle is monitoring who has
your material. Most people who buy PLR products are interested in using the
material in a variety of ways. Some material may be used as-is, such as for
email correspondence. Other parts may be re-written and maybe used for blog
posts, or whatever. The point is, usually when people buy a PLR product, they
buy it so that they can use it in a lot of different ways, including sharing the information.

What you might do is to turn your info product into a physical product.
Sell 1 copy for $7 + S&H, 5 copies for $30 + S&H, 10 copies for $55. For example.

I'm not sure what else to tell you. I guess you need to weigh whether or not your
anticipated sales will offset any costs that you will incur with attorney fees and
internet monitoring of your material (if that can even be done effectively).

Good luck.

I would look at going the physical route and selling the copies yourself. It's a bit like 'selling books by the truckload.' That's a product that someone sells - and I can't remember the product. The ideas is to write a book that is useful to a large market and then sell to the people who would distribute. Like a book about pregnancy you sell to large OB/GYN offices or emergency preparedness to insurance agents. Now, think more about selling to State Farm who then distributes to their agents instead of individual offices.

You can find printers who will produce at low cost, double the cost for yourself and it's still a reasonable cost for the individual agents to purchase from the company. The upside is you are marketing to several insurance companies who take care of the distribution to their agents. The down side is that if you lose one client it's a big chunk of business.

If this angle doesn't sit with the large company you can do the same thing with large insurance agencies who have a large number of agents who work for them - but you can increase your ROI because they aren't reselling to the agents.

If you want to stick with selling the product digitally then monitoring the distribution will actually cost more than you're eventually making. You could place a cost of the product depending upon how many agents are in the office - but then there isn't a recurring income on the product.

On the third hand - you could offer both on your site. Sell the digital copy or offer to do the printing and delivery at a cost they'd find hard to beat using a local printer. Now you have recurring income and you can personalize the product to their office.