Please buy my articles, anybody?

I tried a little online money making experiment this week. Basically, it involved writing some articles and then selling them. As usual, I had high expectations that my offer would be very popular and make me a nice few quid in a short space of time (the old entrepreneurial spirit!).

Anyway, being as I am a member of the excellent Warrior Forum it seemed natural to offer my articles for sale in the WSO section with PLR rights. If you're wondering what PLR is then it means Private Label Rights and basically gives the purchaser carte blanche to do what they want with them; e.g. put their name on the bottom as the author, use them as content on a Website, re-edit them, compile an e-book, etc.

I figured that by offering the articles as PLR at a low price rather than exclusivity at a higher price then the number of people who bought the PLR articles would raise the overall profit margin. It sounds like a good idea and I notice that there are others doing the same, although it wasn't something I had tried before (If you're interested you can view the sales page for a limited time HERE.).

I bet by now you're wondering how it went? Not as well as I would have liked. Perhaps there is a limited demand for PLR articles on the subject of Credit Card Debt? Whatever the reason, it was a real buyer's bargain getting 5 articles for only $6.00 and I won't be repeating the experiment in a hurry!

We live and learn...

Free eBay Tips and Tricks Newsletter

Regular visitors to My Rich Pickings will know that I am also the webmaster of Easy Profits with eBay, the site that offers free tips and tricks for eBay sellers. But if you don't subscribe to the Easy Profits newsletter you will be unaware that the first ever issue is now available to read online.

To celebrate the first issue I have included not one but two FREE downloads. There is also a feature on the benefits of the eBay Turbolister program and I reveal an often overlooked money spinning technique that can make you bonus profits from eBay sales.

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Unbeatable Service and Prices!

Just a quick one today...

With all of the delays and poor service I have experienced lately during my business start up phase, I thought I would mention an excellent online printing service based in the UK.

www.goodprint.co.uk supplied me with 200 business cards of superior quality and meeting my exact double sided design specification. The whole thing took less than 3 days from the time I uploaded my design to receiving the finished cards. And the price was a very reasonable £26.85 too - cheaper than my local high street print shop can supply single sided business cards!

Well done guys, and thank you. I'll be back for more!

What, no customers?

If you remember, today was supposed to be my official first day of trading? Well, there have been a couple of setbacks and I still haven't been able to do any advertising, mostly due to the fiasco with my new phone line. After a further two weeks delay and a hole in the road, it was finally connected and declared to be in working operation on Friday.

I bet Alan Sugar wouldn't have to wait a month to get a phone connected.

Anyway, as you can imagine I haven't got much time for hanging around here, so I'll keep it short for today.

Despite the setbacks and being behind schedule, the doors are now open at TDL Web Developments. God bless her and all who sail etc...