Quick Write

What PLR means is that you buy the rights to stories already more than half written.  Then you finish writing them and put your name on the finished product, as the author. 

Is this legal?  Yes.  Does it work?

It can work, in fact - it can work two ways. 

1. If you have your own web site you can put up these articles as is, or slightly improved, with your name on them, or just generic.  If you need more information on how to organize and build a web site EASILY, click HERE. You can build a huge web site in just a little while. 
2. If you intend to publish elsewhere you will want to use the articles as a springboard for the creation of your own work.

Either way, you can put your name on there as the author.  Wow.  You could be an author, TODAY.

There are two ways to improve the PLR articles you get.  First, you can put two or more of them together and pull off the dross.  Second, you can do more research on the web and produce a really polished article you can be proud of.  Don't ever make the mistake of sending a rewritten PLR article out unless you have given it a good shellacking of polish.

Change the slant. 
Change the title. 
Change the content. 
ADD your own insights and your own examples.

• The first thing I do with an article I'm going to publish somewhere else is to rearrange the flow of paragraphs.
• Next I see if the article SHOULD be changed from "I" to "you" or even "he".
• Third I look for questions that have been left unanswered, or places where it is natural for me to add more content.  These are the points I will research FIRST, before I continue writing.  This can lead to a really good product you can be proud of.  For example, One morning I took a three hundred word article on pigeons and by nightfall I had turned it into a thousand word treatise on the same subject, but much expanded.  To really make it shine I took pictures of my own to illustrate the article.  Good?  You betchum.
• Rearrange sentences inside paragraphs, and even move them to other paragraphs if that is where they now belong.  Completely rewrite at least one sentence in each paragraph. 
• If you can add humor, throw it in.  If you have a perfect illustration, throw it in.  If you can make up a story - making sure your reader will recognize it IS made up - throw it in.  MAKE THIS YOUR WORK from beginning to end! 
• Sound like work?  Just remember that half the work has been done for you.  There is direction.  There is purpose.  Now there is you.

 Sales.. Thumb through the latest Writer's Digest looking for magazines that might accept your work.  Those that accept secondary publication rights are especially open to your articles.  Picking on them also means you can sell the same article to other magazines.

You can also offer your finished product to web publishers.  More and more publishers are getting wise to how easy it is and how profitable it is to produce an online magazine.  All they need is a good topic, good writing, and a good web site and they can make a fortune in far less time than it takes for conventional publishing.  You can supply the good writing.  Use the research tools I gave you to ferret out the PAYING magazines.  Type in the subject  BIRDS, for example -- then the word GUIDELINES.  If the web site has guidelines that usually means they will accept your article submissions.

Sell Your Own Products.  You can assemble your articles (AFTER they have been published) into book form.  Dress them up, put them in order, add illustrations, and you have a fantastic book.

Sell products that other people have created by giving your articles away.  It is possible to do this by email, but easier to do it by creating your own web site.  When you get your articles published you will be invited to ADD a resource line of sales message at the bottom.  Remember, this is an ad, but it should be a TWO STEP AD.  Use this space to persuade readers of your material to come to your web site for more information, or to write to you for some free gift.  Your free gift can be yet another article, preferably along the same lines as what you want to sell, and what you have just written about.  You will find this technique quite effective.