A very cool pic from BestPicEver.

Very good article, with good resources!!
MarginsXs is signed up with a couple of the below recommended PLR sources, and is very happy!!
Good reading!
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Success or failure of the plr (private label rights) material that you purchase, either from WSOs or from membership sites, depends to a great extent on the

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Tonight, I was going through my back log of email.  I’ve always placed Michelle Brouse’s communications aside for later reading.  I like graphics, I like her graphics, and I like the way she doesn’t bomb me with emails/newsletters.  So, when I have time look stuff over, its a treat.

I got her newsletter : Headers, No fee Photoshop Tutorials, and let’s cover those COVERS!”, from October 13th.  The “No fee Photoshop Tutorials” are something……………… I just have to rave about them.  I immediately printed out (and saved what I needed to to my hard-drive) the 37 pages to ‘Designing an Ebook cover’ with Photoshop.  There is more.  She has (photoshop) tutorials for how to use:  the pen tool and create a  software box.  (I have Photoshop, and sadly, under-use it.)

Michelle mentions an alternate way of creating graphics. An associate, Doug Champigny , is putting together videos (and the sales page for the vidoes) using Corel 7.0.  According to the newsletter, this way is supposed to be easier??  No Photoshop (not everyone has it), and no scripts (Another area of under-use). I couldn’t give an opinion.  I’m Photoshop oriented, but it sure is nice to know of the alternatives and options out there!! 

Next, I took at look at her site:
Ecoverfx.com. Gorgeous. Then, I downloaded her free “Graphic Design On-line” ebook. I don’t think I’ve actually looked the site over or downloaded this freebie, but I may have? Anyway, I’m going to look it over, and pass it to my subscribers. (both the site and the eboook) Of course, I couldn’t stop there. Yep, just had to see the blog (www.michellebrouse.com). I got sucked in, right away, to the 98 MegPack. What an impressive array of available graphics for Personal, Resale, MRR, and PLR rights.

Thanks, Michelle, for great tutorials! You have great graphics!!
Looking way-forward to the next newsletter!!

Kathleen
MarginsXs 

By Kathleen Krueger/MarginsXs

photo by Morguefile

Private label rights products can be found all over the internet. People give them away, add them to sign ups as incentives, and are distributed at JV giveaways. They come as articles, graphics, squeeze pages, and sometimes software. You may have to search a bit to find specific ones you need for your subject or niche, but you will find them. And the time and effort it worth it.PLR are the most useful product you can imagine, and for the price as well.

With your PLR product, you will get the entire resale rights, and usually the master resale rights. The benefits for any private label rights products that you have purchased are listed below:

1. You can change the content and rewrite it if you want to. This will mean that you will have your own product that is not like anyone else’s. It is recommended that a person take time and make the product “unique to them”. Speaking for myself, a PLR product never looks the same once I’m done with it. Details have been added, and more specific information added, for example.

2. You can add your name to the product. I have no problem doing this! After the time I spend researching and writing, it is a proud moment to claim myself the sole owner, creator and seller.

3. You the power to control the product and what is done with it.
It could take you months to make your own product while with a plr product , a few modifications, it will only take you a very small amount of time to make it unique. One word of caution: the quality of your work is the quality of YOUR work, not the PLR. Expertise, tone, knowledge, in my opinion, really does show up in the product.When you receive or spend money on PLR, make sure you get the product “as is”, plus the master document allowing you to change or edit the content. I look for both the Word file, and pdf file, or with graphics, the graphic Photoshop files. The more experience you have with using PLR, the more you’ll understand all the components that should come with the orginial such as ad copy, source codes, etc.

The quality of PLR is varied, and it depends. Expensive doesn’t always mean its the best, and cheap or free doesn’t mean it was produced by a Chinese-speaking second-year English student. Top dollar PLR can go for about $97.00 to $1,000.00 or more. PLR Memberships are avaible all over the net, as well, and these have limits as to the members who can join.

Here are some ways that you can make money with private label rights:

A.You can make individual reports, ecourses, or even put them on a CD and sell them, all as your own product.

B. You offer different types of resale rights to your edited, and therefore new, content. To be very successful with this technique, its best to improve upon the old, or certainly add all your own details and depth of expertise on a subject.

Summary: There are ways that you can make money, develop your own product and company-brand, with private label rights. Start with what is FREE!! I highly recommend you play-before-you-pay, and continuing in the internet business will be a more meaningul, less stressful, pocket-draining, and profitable experience. MarginsXs recommends you sign up for free PLR memberships, and the
-Number One on our list is PLR Wholesaler. You get more than articles. You get free ebooks, access to content generator and link cloaker, and even an ad tracker. You even get updates on when new materials are placed on line.

PLR Wholesaler

-Number Two is PLRpro. These guys, Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsey, keep turning up a reputation that they are about The best in the business. PLRpro is geared for those from Beginner – Intermediate. Once again, support is there in the way of articles, lists of top performing affiliates,top keywords: for members, definitely geared for creating a high profit VRE portfolio. Free Membership is the way to start!

PLRpro.com

Best of PLR Success,

Kathleen

Great article to help self promotion! Includes details of several advertising networks and lots of online advertising tools.

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This article is posted in MarginsXs blog above. Great Digg post!!

Mashable:  great article.  I have a tendency to keep to the free stuff, thinking this is my area of best navigation and area of
knowledge. 30 Ways to Advertise Yourself has already proven invaluable to myself, my projects, my blog, and my readers.

Thanks for this.

Major Kudos!!

Kathleen
Marginsxs

Soon to have its own Page!

For the Dreamweavers!

I discovered some cool videos for those of interested in creating your own site. This is an inexpensive and approachable way to take the pain out of building a site.

If you are sick and tired of reading manuals and books to create your mini-sites, then…………

“Discover How You Can Quickly And Easily Create Unlimited Mini-Sites With Dreamweaver™ By Watching Exactly How To Do It With These Most Exclusive Step-By-Step Online Video Coaching Tutorials

Video 1 – (2 min 53 sec)

- Organizing your folders to make way for your files
(Looks simple but very important for you to do it right before everything mess up)

Video 2 – (9 min 43 sec)

- Working with the Properties box
- Creating a new site map (Site Defination) –** Important!!
- Adding your page properties – Add Title, background image, background colour
- Creating a Table
- Modiying the Table Properties
- Inserting a Header Image into the table

Here for More Information!!

Kathleen
Marginsxs

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Here are some ways to make Rss and your blogging life a great deal easier. Steve Rubel, of Micro Persuasion, gives 10 Power Ways to use RSS to benefit your blogging experience. The one I love is #3: Merge Several RSS Feeds Into One. There is a demo graphic, and I as I said, I just love what he’s done. Below are the titles of the ten tips. Please see: Micro Persuasion: Ten RSS Hacks for full details

1) Build Feeds for Your Favorite Writers
2) Got a Car? Subscribe to its RSS Feed
3) Merge Several RSS Feeds Into One, Then Stick it on Your Firefox Bar!!
4) Track New Audiobooks with RSS
5) Find Cool Stuff with a del.icio.us Inbox Feed
6) Build a Library of Search Feeds in a Heartbeat with gada.be
7) Track Wikipedia Revisions with RSS
8) Find New Desktop Wallpaper with Flickr
9) Subscribe to RSS Feeds in Gmail
10) Take a Break with RSS

Great article, Steve!!

Kathleen

MarginsXs

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RSS feeds are a great communication medium, and when properly managed, web feeds can bring in significant Internet traffic. RSS feeds should contain compelling themed content with episodic titles that are united in common broad theme. Use RSS feeds as an online marketing and search engine optimization tool. Just as optimizing an HTML web page will increase exposure, so too will an RSS feed that is properly optimized and promoted. Use these simple tips to improve your web feed exposure.
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Channel Title
The channel title in your RSS feed is one of the most important aspects. The channel title should be keyword rich and contain information related to the general theme of the RSS feed. In order to maximize compatibility with RSS readers, it is best not to include any HTML in the channel title. The channel title is a website visitors first glimpse at the RSS feed, so its important to make an impression and attract the interest of casual browsers. Additionally, many of the RSS feed directories and search engines use the information contained in the RSS feed’s channel title and description to index the feed. In order for the feed to be properly categorized, it is important that the information contained in these fields be relevant to the contents contained in the feed. If included at all, the blog, brand, or company name should be at the end not the beginning of the RSS feed channel title.
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Channel Description
The channel description field provides an opportunity to expand on the broad theme of the RSS feed. The channel description should contain related keywords and phrases, but it should be written to capture the interest of readers not search engine spiders. HTML can be used to decorate and emphasize specific text in the description field. In summation the channel description should provide a compelling overview of the RSS feed’s contents.
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RSS Feed Item Titles
The item titles should be 50-75 characters with spaces. In order to increase readability and compatibility with news readers, the RSS feed item titles should not be encoded with any HTML. Think of an RSS feed item title in the same way that you would a webpage title. The RSS feed item title is your opportunity to capture the interest of your reader. Really an RSS feed item title is nothing more than a headline. The most effective item titles are calls to action that grab the readers attention. Include pertinent keywords or keyword phrases in the items title and this will help any individuals doing deep feed searches for specific content.
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Optimize RSS
Optimize all aspects of the web feed. While the feed should be optimized for search engines, using the same techniques a webmaster uses on a website, the optimization should not be at the readers expense. The content in an RSS feed is often what leads readers to click or not click through. Readers will judge RSS feeds on the quality of the content. This means that grammar and punctuation do matter. Consistent grammatical errors will reduce the writer’s credibility and the number of subscribers.
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Anchor Text
Using RSS feeds, publishers have the unique opportunity to determine the anchor text that will be used to link to internal website pages. RSS feeds are often syndicated, and other publishers will often re post even more often compelling feed items. With that in mind, when including links back to a website in the item description field, use anchor text that is a relevant keyword or phrase. Anchor text is one factor that search engines use in determining a website’s ranking for specific keywords and phrases.
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Number of Feed Items
Routinely prune the old items in an RSS feeds and archive the content contained in the feed to ensure that feeds load quickly in RSS readers. If you are using a third party service to host your feeds, keep in mind that FeedBurner will truncate or not display RSS feeds that it finds to be too large.
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Heading Tags
If you are displaying an RSS feed as an HTML web page it makes sense to use H1 or H2 tags to display the RSS feed’s item titles. If the RSS feed is optimized, the website will benefit from the keyword emphasis by using the header tags.
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RSS Feed URLs
As with HTML web pages, the URLs contained in an RSS feed should contain keywords if possible. Use hyphens not underscores, to separate the keywords in the RSS feed’s URL.
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Add an Image
Consider adding an image to your RSS feed to enhance its appearance in an RSS reader. The image should be no large 144×400 and it is recommended that the image be 88×31. Most RSS readers will display the feed image above the feed contents, this is a great way to reinforce brand and establish brand recognition. Additionally you can add images to the RSS feed’s description field. In all cases, it is important that the full URL to the image be referenced, because if the feed is syndicated it will report a broken image if it’s attempting to retrieve it locally.

Some of the RSS feed directories use the feed’s website favorite icons to flag the RSS feed. The RSS feeds containing a favorite icon stand out from others in the directories so be sure to include a favicon in the domain’s root directory. RSS feeds are a great marketing tool, but like web pages, they must be optimized so that you can reap the full marketing benefits. Taking the time to implement some basic optimization tips will steadily increase your RSS feeds exposure.
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About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net a wireless text messaging software company.
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by Kathleen Krueger/MarginsXs
photo by Stock Exchange

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the best way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Of all the tactics available, even the experts agree, it is here to stay. How ever much or little you can learn and utilize is never a waste of time. Once you maximize the benefits of a well optimized website you will yield respectable earnings.Warning: optimizing your site might cost you thousands of dollars if you are not skilled in this area. I have read reports whereby companies evaluate this expenditure as worthwhile, while others said, “We stupidly wrote the check.” If you don’t have this kind of funding, or even access to a checkbook that promises you can sign over this kind of funding, a lower-cost strategy is available.And the truth be told, you can essentially get information on low cost SEO anywhere in the Internet. Once again, take care. Only several sources really show you how to work out an affordable search engine optimization endeavor. And those few that really inform include this article. Other great sources are Self-Promotion.com, and Mind Valley Labs.com. There is enough information there to give the novice informative lessons, and at the right price (free). Below, lets cover the basics:1. Link ExchangesLink exchanges or linking to and from other web sites. Anyone beyond Novice level is yawning right about now.  This tactic will become second nature. It does depend on the websites that you might like to exchange with, but once again, this tool will cost you nothing at all. All that is required is that you contact the author or owner of the web site you are interested in linking with. The more quality links, from mature sites, you acquire, the greater the chances of seeing the eventual spiking up of your page ranking meaning your website is being optimized.
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2. Write or Acquire Key Word Rich Articles

Writing truly informative and keyword-rich articles is one certain way to make your Internet Business more visible than ever. As many probably already know, it’s either you write your own articles, obtain them from article directories, or rewrite Private Label (PLR) articles.  Then you post these articles on your website.  In the case of articles from directories, usage is permitted as long as you keep the resource box or the author’s byline in tact.  Keywords are important, and so is relevancy, and content. Keeping your articles fresh, readable, informative, and content considered being of value, will the basis that will keep your audience coming on back to your site. There are plenty of guides on how to write articles.  One, for example, is this web site: http://custom-writing.org/blog/writing-tips/free-article-writing-tips/133.html.  Don’t overlook what article directories have to offer in writing tutorials.
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3. Catchy Domain Name

What better to make your target visitors remember your website but with an appealing and captivating domain name. As with naming pets, a name that is easy to pronounce, unique, and have a few syllables will prove to be very invaluable. Registering your domain name is not for free, but creativity and imagination is.
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4. Organize Your Site Navigation

Providing easy steps in navigating your site.  This step will strongly influence your visitors to use your site, and return. The overall impact, of course, is the continuation and improvement of traffic to your website.
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The Art of SEO, as many in the field like to call it, is always evolving.  The more you learn about it, the more you’ll be aware of the fact there are many methods that may work well for your website.  And tailoring these methods for your site may result in landing you on the top ten rankings of various search engines. A great result, for a low price, gives you something else: empowerment in knowing your web biz stuff, the ability to maintain, and reproduce results.  Inexpensive, yes, but as you see, not cheap by any means!

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