If this works, all of us can make thousands!

by ckbank
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Guys, I just had a crazy idea. Maybe I am such a newbie that I think my idea is crazy. Maybe it doesn't work at all, but you know those eBooks that have "resell rights" or "all rights"? Well, couldn't a person use one of these as their own on Clickbank?
#make #thousands #works
  • Profile picture of the author BrashImpact
    Original content and ideas are MONEY IMHO anything else..is well, someone elses... Don't forget about positioning in the market place...
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    You're right, it is a crazy idea.
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    • Profile picture of the author ckbank
      You didn't say if it is legal to do or if it will work?
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    • Profile picture of the author sweetbribes
      You most certainly would not be the first person to think this or even act upon it.

      However, two things to consider:

      1) Online, your reputation is pretty much all you have to go on. If you acquire a bad one, it's hard to shake.

      2) Why would you want to output anything that you yourself would not find of value?

      Find some online business endeavor, like publishing quality e-books via Amazon's Kindle program, that would require a minimal financial investment (if any) in return for long-term, passive income.

      Unfortunately many people want the "internet lifestyle" but don't want to do what it takes to get it.

      Most online endeavors that make money are easy but tedious in the short term...and nobody likes tedious even if it would make them passive, not-so-tedious income in the long term.

      We all should learn to do, do, do instead of dream, wish, and wonder.

      I hope you get off to the right start and go straight from newbie to success story. Good luck!

      Swiitpea
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      • Profile picture of the author ckbank
        I am a hard worker. I just don't know how to create a product and put it online. That's all.
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        • Profile picture of the author sweetbribes
          Originally Posted by ckbank View Post

          I am a hard worker. I just don't know how to create a product and put it online. That's all.
          Thank you for saying this. I wish many newbies would just start off saying something like this when asking for advice on where to start. It's honest and to the point.

          One of the problems you will probably run into is that people will throw a gazillion ideas your way, and you could very easily develop SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome).

          It's obvious from my signature line what my preference is (I have more income streams than just Kindle publishing, but if I absolutely had to give up all but one, that would be the one that I kept).

          If you truly are a hard worker, and I am going to assume that you are, you will choose something that sounds realistic and that you can see yourself doing, find someone who is doing it profitably (and ethically and legally) and use them as your mentor.

          Follow success and you will become success. I truly wish you good luck.

          Swiitpea
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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Patrick
    Sure, OP, you can repackage PLR or "resell rights" products and sell them on ClickBank. I don't recommend it, but there's no law against it. But if the idea is to do this because it's an easy way to go about things, you have to realize that you will still need to recruit affiliates (beyond the ones who find you proactively through ClickBank's marketplace), create a website, send your own traffic to your offer (you shouldn't expect your affiliates to drive all of your sales), perform customer service, and all of the other work involved in being a vendor. So you might as well get out of the "easy way" mindset right from the start. Just my two cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author ckbank
      Well, I both have and don't have the easy way mindset. I know some free products out there that I cannot improve. If I can sell something that I think is good, where's my wrongdoing? Both parties benefit from such a transaction.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jon Patrick
        I don't think there's anything wrong with it, per se. If you have legal rights to rebrand the product, and you don't violate ClickBank's TOS, and you market the product successfully, and you deliver real value to your customers, then I don't think anyone can take issue with that. My point was simply that it's not a matter of just slapping a PLR product on there and watching the cash roll in - there will still be a lot of work to be done, which I thought you should know in case you weren't already aware.
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  • Profile picture of the author robestrong
    Since when is this news to anyone?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rose Anderson
    One thing to remember is that people who are interested enough in a topic to buy a clickbank product will probably buy more than one. When they see yours is a duplicate of one they already have (just a different cover and a few slight changes) they probably won't buy another product from you in the future. If you're looking for one shot sales that may be fine with you. If you're hoping to build a business, and sell more to you list later, then it's not a good plan.

    Rose
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  • Profile picture of the author Gengis
    Go to your word processor and start typing away, just let it flow kid and edit it later making it with chapters and subchapters etc..


    Don't cut corners cuz it'll bite u in the Ass later.
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  • Profile picture of the author yasser
    Originally Posted by ckbank View Post

    Guys, I just had a crazy idea. Maybe I am such a newbie that I think my idea is crazy. Maybe it doesn't work at all, but you know those eBooks that have "resell rights" or "all rights"? Well, couldn't a person use one of these as their own on Clickbank?
    Hey man. Are you kidding us. If the whole idea is having a product to put it on clickbank, then all of us would have been millionaires long time ago. There is a lot to do beside having a product which is the simplest part of the process. You will learn this lesson by time.
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  • Profile picture of the author zorm
    It's also worth noting that there are a LOT of products that have been on CB for ages and have only made a handful of sales - not even enough to cover the listing fee.

    I agree that Kindle would probably be a better choice.
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  • Profile picture of the author zorm
    Ooops! I forgot that the OP wasn't planning to substantially re-write, edit and expand the book.
    How about Tradebit?
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    • Profile picture of the author roundsoftz
      It works the other way around on tradebit... you buy a product for 1.49 and then spend 20k getting it ready for clickbank.
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  • Profile picture of the author marcuslim
    So tempting indeed to just slap together something and put it out there, but if everyone is doing this, how do you stand out? So don't think 'easy', think 'what can I do that's just a little bit harder than what most people are willing to do'. If you do it, you will be ahead, because the barrier to entry is higher. If the barrier to entry is too low, beware, countless others have probably already tried it and countless others will continue to do so.
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  • Profile picture of the author perfectlovehere
    Well you could repackage it I think but only if you have master resale rights. I think you should double check since I'm not 100% sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeffyman
    PLR Stuff is usually not of quality IMHO
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  • Profile picture of the author sriram rajan
    Please read the rights, resell rights products means lots of people will get their hands on it and you will need to stand out , may be having your product as the main one and using the resell product as a OTO or cross sell is a better option if you can create a main product related to the resell product.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Originally Posted by ckbank View Post

    Guys, I just had a crazy idea. Maybe I am such a newbie that I think my idea is crazy. Maybe it doesn't work at all, but you know those eBooks that have "resell rights" or "all rights"? Well, couldn't a person use one of these as their own on Clickbank?

    That is what PLR is designed for. You are supposed to "remodel" it into your own product.

    As far as Clickbank, I think it needs to be pretty heavily altered PLR to get accepted because they want original works.

    If you want to see your competition, just Google the name of a PLR ebook or look for it on Amazon Kindle.

    You will find a LOT of PLR you thought could be valuable selling for 99-cents.

    Mahlon
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