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Multi-media And Your Plr Products

MultiMedia and Your PLR Products

A powerful way to easily increase your PLR profits and build stronger relationships with your customers is to create multimedia products based on your PLR Products!

These include audio recordings webinars and videos.

Multimedia products boost the perceived value of your plain text products and allow your customers to get to know you. They hear your voice often get to know your personality and a picture of you forms in their mind.

Few people realize how quick and easy it is to take your PLR products and turn it into a much more valuable multimedia product.

All it takes is a few hours of time to take out the important points of the product… and then repackage the information in a new form.

All in all it may take a single day or two worth of effort to increase the price of your product by 20 or even 50.

So instead of earning 3000 from a 100 sales of a 30 ebook… you’re earning 5000 or 8000.

So how’s it done?

The easiest way to create a multimedia product is to create an audio recording.

Simply pickup a piece of FREE software called Audacity at audacity.sourceforge.net/ and a decent microphone for your computer.

You can then read your PLR product into the software or hire someone to do it. Or the best option is to take the key points from the product and do a quick presentation of it.

You can then offer this in addition to your .PDF ebook.

Moreover you can also go to FreeConferenceCall.com to make your recordings there as well.

The next way to create multimedia products from your PLR products is either do a webinar or record your PowerPoint presentation on your computer screen.

A webinar allows you to do a presentation in front of an audience. You’re not just recording an audio but you have a visual to go along with it.

A good service you can use is: gotowebinar.com/

You can also use a screen recording software to capture a PowerPoint presentation such Camtasia over at: TechSmith.com if you don’t want to buy the product use the free trial to capture your presentation.

For a free powerpoint creation tool visit: OpenOffice.org

Inside your PowerPoint you may cover a section or chapter of the PLR product.

Your main points can then go on each slide for easy digestion by your new customers.

Finally a third way you can easily create digital products is to record yourself doing a presentation. This is the most involved way but it also adds the most perceived value and should be considered.

A keep point to realize around all of this is that you get to do everything in advance. If you don’t like the way you said something you can easily delete or redo it.

Moreover you shouldn’t worry about trying to get it perfect.

Think of it as an informal presentation to a friend… not a product or presentation from a major company. Your customers know you’re just an average person with valuable information.

In other words creating multimedia products is an easy choice. They’re easy to make since you already have the research and writing that goes inside and they equal a big increase in profits.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Joseph Murray is a professional online retailer working full time since April
2006 and the founder of several successful websites including the ‘Newbie
Warrior Forum’ and ’7 Dollar Books’ as well as numerous niche sites. For more information please visit http://www.josephmurray.com

Promo Mugs As Drink Ware

Promo mugs are one of the best and hottest picks among the vast collection of promotional items used these days. Mugs have been in use for long and they are not very unique items. But the utility functionality and acceptability make them great promotional gifts. Most organisations and business houses prefer the use of promotional mugs as their business marketing tool as they have proved their worth as being proficient advertising catalysts.

Benefits of using promo mugs for brand visibility to the advertisers are multiple. It is not only that promo mugs with company logo are gifted to potential customers and clients for making their brand name popular. The immediate impact of such gifting gesture can be experienced by boosting up sales and maximised profits. The printed promo mugs offer the greatest visibility and exposure to the brand as compared to other promotional items.

Mugs are commodities of daily use and they can be used in several ways. Promo mugs serve well as decorative items desktop gifts holders mementos and paperweights. However the commonest and most significant use of promo mugs is as drink ware. Mugs are usually meant for drinking water juice tea coffee or any other beverage of choice. Holding the mug by the handle users find it convenient and enjoyable to have their favourite drink. Almost 90 of the total populations in the U.K. are addicted to tea or coffee. Statistics reveal that almost all of them start their day with refreshing brewed coffee or tea. If the morning tea is in your preferred mug then it adds an extra flavour to your drink. Therefore the usability of promo mugs goes unquestioned. Even if someone does not drink tea or coffee he can use the mug to drink milk juice fruit smoothie or plain water. A mug as a drink ware can thus be used for a number of purposes. Businesses and companies using promo mugs as their promotional tool can rest assured that their investment will never go in vain and they would not have to see their promo mugs with their company logo thrown out in the trash. From the advertisers point of view the usefulness of mugs in daily life is highly beneficial. With every sip of drink every day the users are reminded of your brand name and logo on a regular basis. Promo mugs with your company logo keep your customers and clients in touch with you and they can refer back to you for any business ventures at ease.

Promo mugs can therefore be suitably used for any trade shows fairs exhibitions or store visits to gift customers and potential clients. You can make your upcoming conference interesting and enjoyable for the attendees gifting them with attractive promo mugs and serving their preferred beverage. Coffee shops and caf are appropriate places where you can distribute your mugs with business logo. They are the places where most people spend their leisure time. The mugs with your brand name and logo get noticed time and again by a large number of customers and even if you are not gifting the customers individually with the products your brand name gets popularised.

To get the best quality and durable promotional mugs to gift your valued customers and clients refer to www.ideasbynet.com. Select the promo mugs of your choice and order online as soon as possible.

About the writer:  Gareth Parkin is the cofounder of Ideasbynet the UK’s largest online source of promo mugs other promotional products. He has taken UK gift market of products like promo mugs by storm through modern business thinking latest search engine marketing techniques. For more details visit ideasbynet.com

The Five Top Free Traffic Tactics

Traffic is always nicer when it’s free I mean if you can get it for free then why would you pay for it?

This article will explain to you what the top methods for generating free traffic are and why you should use them but remember the only way to know what works for you personally is to test and track all your advertising efforts doing this means you can tweak your efforts and achieve mximum results every time.

Here are the top free traffic tactics:

Joining and participating in forum discussions. This is a very easy way to gain traffic as all you really need to do is talk with people in the forum a lot of the forums will allow you to include a link to your website with your posts and therefore the more you post the more chance you have of gaining traffic. You should only post in forums that are related to your niche and preferably ones that receive a lot of traffic.

An affilate program. Opening an affiliate program for your website could be the single most profitable thing you ever do because you can leverage the marketing efforts of hundreds maybe thousands of people. You pay affiliates a percentage of sales that they generate usually around 50 and they constantly drive targetted traffic to your website for you.

Writing and submitting articles to article directories and publishers. If you can write short 400 8211; 900 word articles then you can use them to drive targetted traffic to your website. There are hundreds of article directories and thousands of publishers out there that are always looking for fresh content they can use and if you can provide them with it then you will be rewarded with traffic. You can find these websites by using the search engines.

Build a community. Build a website that is full of high quality information products and a way for members to interact with each other and the website will grow via word of mouth. If your members really enjoy being at your website then they will want to tell their friends about it and will want their friends to join the website as well. This method of generating traffic can be very powerful but you can only achieve this by really providing a lot of value in your website and making people want to tell others about it.

Create free viral products that people can distribute for you. Write short reports or ebooks and allow others to pass them on for free or sell them for profit the main point is to have links inside them to your website and to get those links shown to as many people as possible. This can work very well with your affiliate program as you can allow people to “rebrand” it with thier affiliate links and give them an excellent reason to pass it on to others.

Those five tactics for generating traffic can be extremely effective and can result in thousands of targetted website visitors you should always put a lot of effort into every bit of advertising you do as it will be better in terms of results and you should always remember to test and track all your efforts to find out exactly what methods are working the best for you.

I would suggest using all of these methods to start driving traffic to your website and always be on the lookout for more methods you can use. Get started today and enjoy the results tomorrow.

About the writer:  Dorothy Thompson is the editor of The Writer’s Life www.thewriterslife.net one of Writer’s Digest Top 101 Websites for Writers and the author of the selfpromoting eBook “A Complete Guide to Promoting Selling Your SelfPublished eBook” available at http://www.thewriterslife.net/promoteebook.html.