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Is selling PLRs profitable via WSOs?

by ebizman
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This question is to experienced PLR sellers...are you seeing success from selling PLR packages via WSOs?
#plrs #profitable #selling #wsos
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  • Profile picture of the author jaggyjay
    I'm not an experienced PLR seller, but if you check the stats on W+ you'll see that "PLR" ranks very high atop of what is being search for here on the Forum. So, there's definitely money to be made with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author ebizman
      Originally Posted by jaggyjay View Post

      I'm not an experienced PLR seller, but if you check the stats on W+ you'll see that "PLR" ranks very high atop of what is being search for here on the Forum. So, there's definitely money to be made with it.
      I was just checking WSO alerts actually, and what does the number next to the top keywords mean?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
    Originally Posted by ebizman View Post

    This question is to experienced PLR sellers...are you seeing success from selling PLR packages via WSOs?
    It depends on what you mean by success....

    If you are selling PLR to your own product then it's allowed, but you cannot sell a product that you bought with PLR. Even if you change it's name etc...

    I have sold PLR to a few of my Graphics products, and have had success with them, meaning I have made money selling PLR to my products.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    Here's a fact. If anyone begs to disagree, I'd love the chatter.

    Tons of people have recently been having PLR written, or written personally, thrown together as a low-cost or free WSO, all in the attempt to start building their potential buyer's list. On paper, this should work. Build a list of people who want your product and continue to provide them with it. To make such a list profitable though it takes many months and lots of effort to build a real, positive, and thus profitable reputation. This latter part is where 99% of the sellers fall short due to their lack of sticking with it. No PLR WSO with no previous backing will make a lot of money. Perhaps a few sales. And this discourages the seller to not do it again, or perhaps if they do do it again, not many more times before throwing their hands up and stopping. It does take much more time than this, though... and as I'm typing on my iPhone and i have no idea how the grammar for this long paragraph ended up, I'll conclude for now.
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  • Profile picture of the author pamb10
    It does really depend on what you mean by success....Success is not only measured in money made....more importantly it is how many new customers you reach!
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  • Profile picture of the author Resale Rights Ninja
    PLR is probably the most search for term on warriors plus.

    Sorry to be the voice of doom but when you are starting out it will not be very profitable for you, unless...

    1) You have affiliates/JV partners promoting for you and...
    2) Your product looks good, and is good

    Your best shot is to create a wordpress plugin.

    The problem with selling PLR is that unethical marketers will but your product and immediately launch it at a dime sale starting at a dollar. They will not follow the terms of your license and your product will quickly become worthless.

    Also if your product is not protected in some way people will share the links or the product all over the place.

    Tips:

    1) First launch your product without resale rights
    2) If your product is video you can protect if from being downloaded by putting it in a secure members area and use easy video player.
    3) If its software your can protect your product by having customers enter a code.
    4) The best part of having a WSO is that you can build a list of buyers.
    5) The best part of PLR is getting exposure (hint: put affiliate links in your plr ebooks)
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Gram
    I honestly don't see why anyone would buy or sell PLR at all. I would never put it on my own websites and for the people that re-write it, you might as well write from scratch and have a completely unique article.

    I think of PLR as being in the same (crappy) category as spun content but that's just me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    Well, Paul, as a PLR seller myself, I must say that you dislike it because you don't understand its purpose. It is certainly not a substitute for unique, "money site" content. Any PLR seller will hopefully be able to tell you that if you create two sites, one with a unique article and one with a non-unique article, the latter will lose. With that said, PLR content can be used in a plethora of ways (and comes at a fraction of the price as well).
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    • Profile picture of the author alphadude
      Since this is an IM forum, are the bestseller WSO PLR articles on IM?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    Not necessarily. The articles can sell very well for evergreen niches, product reviews, pretty much wherever there is demand... or wherever demand is created. The most important thing is quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    Quite honestly, It hasn't really been that profitable for me in the last 2 or 3 years. Thats why I rarely run WSO's.

    I think in order for any WSO to be profitable these days you have to have a bunch of affiliates lined up to promote it first. Not just for PLR but for any WSO product.
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  • Profile picture of the author lauuuer
    It will depend on the quality of the PLR and how do you promote your WSO.

    If you have a quality PLR Package and a lot of affiliates promote your WSO, then it'll for sure make you some big cash.
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    • Profile picture of the author Doug Wakefield
      Depends on your definition of profitable.

      My first one was "profitable" after a few days. Second one took a while longer.

      I would take them both back to do a few freebie giveaways to build a list. I don't want to use the word "never," but unless I had some killer package, I doubt I would do another paid WSO for it. Only change would be to do a store-wide sale.
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      • Profile picture of the author RayMarketing
        Hello! New poster here, but long time WF reader and stalker.

        To answer your question, I believe PLRs to be an extremely profitable way to make money. I've been doing so for a while now, not as WSOs but on my personal writers blog, on writers classifieds and sites like elance, as well as to private clients of mine.

        I found out that the trick is to stay on top of current search trends and news. If a new product is coming out soon in your niche, then create PLRs on it and sell! Whenever something new comes out, then you know new websites and blogs are going to be born around them: You have to seize the opportunity and write about these products to feed these new blogs.

        For example, 2 weeks before the first Ipad came out, I wrote a 10 article pack about it: How to buy it, where to buy it, the options, advantages, tricks on how to sync it to your computer, how to download apps... It sold out after day one (limit of 25 packs) at 15$ per pack... I didn't do any advertising at all. Organic google did all the work.

        Whenever you feel like a new technology, new product, new car, new brand, anything new really!, comes out, then write away! Bloggers and websites will NEED your PLR products to stay current... you won't need to advertize at all...

        Of course, you need to write very good content because more than half of my business today is REPEAT business. IF whatever they buy makes them money, traffic, subscriptions, then they will be back for more...
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  • Profile picture of the author ezplr
    It all depends on your reputation, just like Ross said. People may be hesitant to buy PLR from you, if you haven't built up a reputation yet. Which is what i'm personally trying to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    Last year I did an analysis of many dozens of WSO PLR offers to try and answer this question. I do not claim any statistical sufficiency. But my research concluded PLR offers were rarely bumped. Most PLR sellers did not offer another PLR package.

    My conclusion was this is not profitable, or sufficiently profitable, for a high majority of PLR sellers.

    If you want to do your own analysis, sign up WarriorPlus to receive an alert for every PLR offer. After receiving about 6 months of notices, or whatever length of study you want to use, go back and review the details about each offer. Keep track of each seller so you can tabulate how many times they offer a WSO and if it is PLR.

    Painstaking? Yes. But as with any business this is the type of research that needs to be done before deciding if a particular venture is worth undertaking. Fortunately, the forum and WarriorPlus make this information available to study and analyze.

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