Low Quality PLR ebooks - pathetic.

[Marty S]

Last month I started looking into using some of these as I am a member of a couple of niche memberships. Previously I would just take an article (or a few) and rewrite them and use them for content on a couple of my websites.

Now, I wanted to use the ebooks as is, but really I found them of embarrassingly low quality. It doesn't even matter to me if I use an alias if the product is that lame. For example - this one in particular about anti-aging strategies had a section in it that basically warned people not to take cocaine. No, duh. Here is the paragraph:


Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs on the streets today. You definitely won’t look, feel or act young if you get hooked on this stuff. This drug affects the nervous system and can wreak havoc on your body.

Once people get addicted to cocaine, whether it’s the powder or the rocks (crack), it’s difficult to stop using. The drug gives them a “high” that they feel they can’t get anywhere else but from that drug.

Really now? I am supposed to charge (suggested $17) for this ebook? The ebook is 25 pages long, and personally I would feel ripped off - as I always compare these to what I would get at Amazon for the same money.

Anyway, what I decided to do instead was give the product away for free, and find a CB product to promote inside the ebook and just build an email list on this download. I also added some REAL content to it, and made a beautiful, professional looking ebook using (my new) iMac and a Pages09 template.

The thing looks so good now, that I feel I will be able to better position myself as an authority and profit long-term, rather than just peddling PLR crap and dealing with returns.

Anyone else have such strategies, or do you just shove out the lame ebook and see what comes of it?

[MisterMunch]

I hate crappy PLR eBooks too. I am lucky to never have bought one, but I have gotten a few memberships to these type of sites as bonuses from other products.

Just because you know how to make a PDF file, does not make you an eBook author.

I also dislice the common advice of putting articles together as an ebook. You want a book that take you from "I don't know how I can do this" to "That was a plan I can follow", not a compilation of related articles. For that you have blogs and ezinearticles.

[mm365]

Originally Posted by Marty S

Anyway, what I decided to do instead was give the product away for free, and find a CB product to promote inside the ebook and just build an email list on this download. I also added some REAL content to it, and made a beautiful, professional looking ebook using (my new) iMac and a Pages09 template.

I would suggest you add some real DECENT content to it. Becuase there's no point in building a list by offering free crappy ebooks... because when you come to promote another product which you ask payment for.. everyone who gave you their email addresses for this book are going to feel as if you only sell rubbish.

The trick is to overdeliver.

Don't give away a product worth ZERO. Give away a product worth $17. Then when you come to sell a product for $17, they are going to assume they are getting a product worth much more.

Hope this helps,

Daniel

[Andyhenry]

The crap is not worth wasting your time on - just find good sources or get it made properly.

[askmichaelknowles]

Hi,

I agree. Sometimes it is hard to find quality PLR material to use. Once of the things I use when I create a new product is the Public Domain. You can find all kinds of good stuff there. I have created several products using nothing but that.

[Mary Green]

I wouldnt even give that away. You have to give away quality or people wont take you seriously.

[Alan Petersen]

I agree with Daniel and Mary. To build a list off of crappy PLR products is not a good strategy. You want to build a great relationship with your list and that tripe you quoted won't cut it.

[Marty S]

Originally Posted by Alan Petersen

I agree with Daniel and Mary. To build a list off of crappy PLR products is not a good strategy. You want to build a great relationship with your list and that tripe you quoted won't cut it.

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I think that much is clear - basically what I was saying too, but interested to know if anyone else is using this type of content in a more creative effective way?

[Kim Standerline]

This is exactly what you should be doing with those free "crappy" plr books. Adding content and making them your own.

As you can see, you obviously had the basis to build something really good

Kim

Originally Posted by Marty S

Anyway, what I decided to do instead was give the product away for free, and find a CB product to promote inside the ebook and just build an email list on this download. I also added some REAL content to it, and made a beautiful, professional looking ebook using (my new) iMac and a Pages09 template.

The thing looks so good now, that I feel I will be able to better position myself as an authority and profit long-term, rather than just peddling PLR crap and dealing with returns.

Anyone else have such strategies, or do you just shove out the lame ebook and see what comes of it?

[Jeff Henshaw]

Really now? I am supposed to charge (suggested $17) for this ebook? The ebook is 25 pages long, and personally I would feel ripped off - as I always compare these to what I would get at Amazon for the same money.

Anyway, what I decided to do instead was give the product away for free, and find a CB product to promote inside the ebook and just build an email list on this download. I also added some REAL content to it, and made a beautiful, professional looking ebook using (my new) iMac and a Pages09 template.

Nine times out of ten, one gets what one pays for. Pay peanuts for content and one will probably find that a monkey has written it.

I in the past I sometimes found myself saddled with poor quality trash as you have descibed and the only course of action is either to do nothing with it, or take the core of it, rewrite it and add value - as you seem to have done.

Just as an aside, if a product is less thirty five to forty pages of content, excluding the index, I tend to refer to it as a report and use a spiral bound image for the cover. If it's longer than forty pages, I might then refer to it as an ebook and use a 'book' cover graphic. That's just a personal preference though, but I thought that I'd mention it.

Regards,
Jeff.

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by Marty S

Anyone else have such strategies, or do you just shove out the lame ebook and see what comes of it?

I just shove out the lame PLR eBook and see what comes of it. So far, money is what's come out of it.