Most people involved in the ever growing world of online marketing are familiar with PLR products. While I don’t recommend using them for physical content of non-affiliate sites (your blog, information sites, etc), they can come in handy if you’re into article marketing, putting together sites solely based around an individual topic to promote affiliate products (fake blogs, etc) or are wanting to grow this ‘must have’ list by giving away freebies. For pretty much those three reasons, plus perhaps a few more, it can make sense to use PLR articles and e-books to save yourself time.

I got some emails recently informing me of a new PLR membership site called Resell Rights Weekly. Now I’ve had a look inside and I have to say, it’s hardly ‘new’, but that’s not a bad thing in this case. When you have a look at the downloads section for just free members (not even looking at the upgraded Gold membership), it goes all the way back to August of 2007. That’s a little over two years of free downloads built up right there.

Free is good right? Who am I kidding, free is great! But is free any good? That’s what’s important here. And of course good depends on the individual and their needs, so I can’t exactly answer that question.

Looking though the list of downloads I see:

• Wordpress Blog themes and HTML templates (can be picked up anywhere these days though…)
• Adsense e-books, reports and programs (are there many out there who still do adsense?)
• Some graphics packs, some with PLR. (always handy, you can never have too many free graphics to pick from)
• Information ebooks on every aspect of making money you can think of (naturally)
• As well as other miscellaneous topics such as Flying and The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath (um… cool?)

Like most of these sites that give you free PLR content, you get everything but the kitchen sink when it comes to the topics they cover. Whether or not you could build a workable and liveable house out of all the parts is debatable. I’m not here to judge the quality of the existing content however, I’m here to happily announce that in an ever growing ‘fluff sales pitch’ world, I do in fact get everything the emails promise me. Sweet!

So, what exactly is being promised? Let’s have a quick look at one of the many copy and pasted provided emails.

I just found a new membership site that I just had to tell you about. It’s called Resell Rights Weekly and it’s totally free! If you have not done so already you can claim your free membership at: <link>. Here is a brief description of what you will get:

* Instant access to hundreds of hot selling digital products worth hundreds of dollars!
* Two hot new products each and every week with either Private Label Rights or Resale Rights!
* Instant access to over 10,740+ Private Label Rights articles!
* Instant access to 330+ free tools that will help your web business be more profitable!
* Instant access to the Resell Rights Weekly Members Forum!

Best of all, you keep 100% of the money when you sell these products, and you can sell them over and over again!  Check it out … you won’t be disappointed!

The only problem I have with the email is I received ten of the exact same one. It’s very clear this email was provided by Resell Rights Weekly themselves. Not a bad thing, but it is a perfect example of how modifying the provided text even just a little bit would make you stand out.

Other than that, you get what you’re sold. The digital products are divided up into months, with about eight in each. The 10,740+ Private Label Rights articles arrives via a link in your welcome email and covers everything from Apple iPhone to Travel Insurance and American Idol (I kid you not). (WHY they don’t just say “over 10,00″ is beyond me, why pick a number that looks like you thumped your fist into the numpad of your keyboard?)

The 330+ ‘tools’ are nothing more than links to tools, but still handy if you didn’t know them already. Links to things like OpenOffice, FileZilla, GifWorks and Gimp.

That just leaves the new products each week with either Private Label Rights or Resale Rights which naturally I haven’t experienced yet given I just joined, but I assume that’s where the back fill of previous months has come from. And lastly, the members forums which I’ve had a quick look over and it looks ok. With just over 700 members, it’s fairly active in a whole range of topics including how to generate income with Private Label Rights Products. A handy little forum for those just learning about PLR or learning internet marketing in general as they also cover PPC Marketing for Newbies and other non-PLR-specific discussions.

So far it’s everything it was promoted to be. A really nice change after a lot of the emails I’ve gotten recently, and, it’s all for free! Of course if you upgrade to the gold package you get so much more (naturally), and at the time of writing this post you can trial the gold package for seven (7) days for just $1.

If you do consider trying it out, I’d recommend doing it when you can set aside a couple of days to completely evaluate everything on offer as you get hit with the $19.95 per month as soon as your trial is up. Setting aside time specifically to look over it all however, you can download everything you think you might need and then cancel the gold membership allowing you to read and evaluate all the content in your own time for just $1. Sneaky huh?

For those who have signed up, please share your honest impressions and opinions via the comment section. I’d love to hear the feedback from people who actually use PLR content (I don’t) on the quality of what’s provided.

That’s the headline I expect to read once man figures out how to make computers complex enough to think for themselves… to act on their own. We’ve all seen Terminator, iRobot and Eagle Eye right? It happens! Everything in Hollywood is the truth…

A little over a week ago I received an email. I know, shocked me too. This was no ordinary sales pitch however, this email was spreading news of new “revolutionary” software that was “radically changing lives”… lives people!! (You’ll get the irony of the ‘new’ part when you read further down…)

Titled “Turn your computer into a marketing robot! Let your Computer do your work FOR you!” It asks me if I’d like to:

• Save hours every day?  (Yes please!)
• Get more done?  (Of course!)
• Increase your revenue? (Who doesn’t?)
• All while working LESS!?  (Oh my goodness you’ve read my mind!)

Granted, those questions at least pique my curiosity, so kudos for that. And the next paragraph, albeit poorly formatted in it’s email form, also keeps my attention. (Just)

It’s all about automating the things you do each day. It’s about taking the burden off of YOU, and putting it onto your computer. After all, that’s what your computer is there for, isn’t it? It’s there to HELP you. Yet so many of us sit at our computers every day, slaving away… when our computers should be the ones slaving away for US! This program automates the tasks that you hate, and makes your computer do the dirty-work.

Unfortunately for me, the first sales pitch giveaway was the fact that the affiliate promoting it used TinyURL. Don’t get me wrong, TinyURL is a great service, but it screams “affiliate link” when used in email and on obvious affiliate sites (review sites, blogs, etc). Of course, when it is used, it makes it even easier to identify affiliate links and avoid them – something those using TinyURL for their links should take note of.

See, TinyURL allows you to preview where the link is taking you. A very hand feature. So when I clicked on the link in the email, I see the following screen:

And there you have it, a Clickbank link. Of course, if I had absolutely no idea what affiliate marketing was, and there are millions of people out there who don’t, then the preview feature wouldn’t mean a lot to me. But for everyone that does know what it’s all about, they’ve either just closed the tab and ignored the link, or switched the details to their affiliate ID and the original promoter has just lost a sale. (Especially as this person hasn’t even updated their links to the new somewhat masked clickbank links… tsk tsk)

Ignoring the lack of attempt to mask the affiliate link, I click ahead anyway. Now the product itself, Push Button Marketer, isn’t actually too bad. When I first read the sales letter, I must admit, I was skeptical. After all, it can supposedly automate all of your day to day tasks like checking email, writing content, managing PPC campaigns, building websites or web pages, writing your sales letters, creating ebooks and blog posts etc. Sounds a bit much right?

As you read down however, you learn that it’s basically nothing more than macros. Hardly revolutionary, but at least somewhat realistic. And the fact that they actually tell you it’s macros and give you at least a minor insight into the product you might be buying is a good thing. I’ve seen way too many sales letters that say a whole lot without actually saying anything at all.

I did have a hard time believing that this software was created and manipulated by someone who graduated with a degree in Drama/Television. The two don’t really mix. But then I had to remember that I knew absolutely nothing about HTML, web pages or PHP back in 2004, and yet I learned as I went and ended up running the biggest membership site in it’s niche at the time. So I have to give the benefit of the doubt and think that if it really did take a couple of years as stated, then it’s well within the realm of possibility the brother-in-law was able to build this program.

My post isn’t about the program necessarily, although if you are familiar with macros and what they’re capable of, by all means go check it out. No I’m here to talk about the ‘marketer’ (and I use that term loosely) that sent it out. Or should I say the second marketer. See, in my research about the product for this post, I went back to my email account and did a search for a few different terms. And this search provided a very interesting result.

Mr no name Leonard Worley (apparently aka “Daddy Greens”) sent me the email on the 30th of November. However, back on the 21st of June this same year, I have word for word the exact email from a Mr Fabian Tan. Who wrote the email first? I think everyone here can figure that out.

I should also mention that Fabian’s email was correctly formatted, paragraphed and much more pleasing on the eye to read. Leonard’s? Not so much. And remember the purposely pointed out ‘new’ tag at the start of this post? If I received the first email back in June, it hardly makes it new in November (practically December). In computer software time, it would be researching retirement homes by now…

I understand that emails aren’t technically covered by copyright, and that everyone has to start somewhere. But c’mon? Copy and pasting someone else’s email word for word, right down to the “I’m personally looking forward to letting my computer do more of the tedious work of my business. I recommend that you grab this program right away and put it to work for you ASAP.”

Oops wait, Daddy Greens altered that line to “I personally use this every day letting my computer do more of the tedious work of my business. I recommend that you grab this program right away and put it to work for you ASAP.” I mean, why stop at just copying someone else’s email and changing it to your affiliate link, you might as well go that one step further and claim to use it every day.

Unless of course he is using it, and this is what happens when you do – identical emails from multiple people. Hrm, that probably wouldn’t be a good sales plug for the program now would it?

P.S. Push Button Marketer guys, a major annoyance with your site.  Every time a user goes to click on another tab (not even close your tab, but simply switch tabs), don’t have a pop up window that requires closing before continuing. Quickest way to have your page closed and never seen by that person again. Once when someone tries to leave, fine. But every single time is too much!