I have an addiction. I’m a PLR-aholic. It’s true. I can’t resist it. I have piles and piles and piles of it on my hard drive. Over the years, I’ve gotten PLR from all kinds of different sources and boy howdy have I ever seen some horribly written articles! There are a small handful of PLR providers that I’ve come to trust and one of my all time favorites is EasyPLR.com by Nicole Dean. I have never once been dissatisfied with an article from her and I’ve been buying them from her for several years! And she has some really great ideas about how we can incorporate PLR into our online efforts. Here’s an article from her that I just love:

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I have been wanting to attend an internet marketing seminar for a very long time. Maybe for about six years. And I am finally AT one – and it is such an amazing one that I’m blown away! The COOLEST thing about this ’seminar’ is that it’s not a seminar! Really, it’s not. I mean it. It is a workshop! And what that means is that we are learning how to do cool affiliate marketing, product creation and lots more – and then acting on what we are learning.

And today, we’ve also watched a product be created – right in front of us! David Perdew and four of the presenters recorded an audio presentation (about how to create teleseminars/audio products quickly) and it is now ready for you to consume! And on top of that, it’s only $17.00! So you’re getting a peek into the workshop without even coming – for a steal!

The four presenters that were part of the ‘teleseminar’ were Lynn Terry, Mark Hendricks, Jeff Herring, and Cindi Dawson. It was a great combination of both personalities and also expertise. You can see a clip of the video, along with some testimonials of some of those in the audience right here: How To Create Audio Products In Less Than 90 Minutes.

This was so amazingly cool to watch them create the product and bring it to market while we watched. One of the books talked about this weekend was “Ideas That Stick” which covered all kinds of unique ways that people used to make ideas ’stick’. Having this done right in front of us like this is an idea that I would say is definitely going to stick.

This workshop ROCKS! If you were not able to come, this is a great way for you to get to ‘be a part of’ what we were doing and learning! Listen to what attendees had to say about the live seminar:

You can listen to the expert panel and learn, just like we did – how easy it really is to do this stuff! To read the details, click here: How To Create Audio Products In Less Than 90 Minutes.

I’ve got quite a few ‘audio ideas’ brewing in my brain already!! Now to implement!

I’ve been working on getting my husband some business from the internet. He’s not entirely convinced that it’s actually going to work. He is a contractor – mostly residential remodeling. And he just doesn’t see the value in marketing a local-only business online.

I’m working on it slowly, bit by bit. I had gotten a pretty good start on it – I started a website for him, and then I registered him at Merchant Circle. And then I started him a few Squidoo lenses. And then I left it all sitting there. I completely lost all my steam for it.

Recently, however, I received a message from someone on Squidoo about his lenses. The message was from a realtor and he has a group on Squidoo that he was inviting us to join. And ever since then, marketing my husband’s remodeling services has been back on my mind again.

I want so much to prove to him that it would be beneficial for him to establish an online presence, but, I get so distracted with all of my other sites and blogs. We’ll see – I may just make it work and wind up teaching him a thing or two!

Have you ever wanted to learn all about stocks and investing? I have always been very curious about it and have always wanted to learn how it all works. Well, now I can do just that. And I can trade stocks from real companies with virtual money. And at the same time, I will be entering into a weekly $1000 contest! So I will be learning and also eligible to win $1000! That’s awesome!

You just go to WallSt.net and sign up for the rookie challenge, and everyone who registers receives a free WallSt.net hat. It’s totally free to register and totally free to participate. I, personally, am looking at this as a chance to get a free education in the world of stocks. Yes, I know it won’t be a full-fledged education, but, it will definitely get me a lot closer to understanding all of it.

They rank the success of each user, tracking everyone’s performance, and comparing how you’ve done with all of the other Rookies. You will start out with $100,000 and you can invest it in any way that you wish.

The winners are determined by whomever has the highest percentage of gain in that week. You have to have $100,000 or more in total equity before you are eligible to win prizes. Oh, and every transaction you make costs a virtual $20.00.

I really like how much information is given on this site, I think they are really going to help a lot of people like me understand, at least a little bit, about investing. And the cool thing – it’s a social networking site – yes, Web 2.0 is reaching out into every walk of life. I love that. You have a profile, just like on many Web 2.0 sites, where you can add pictures of yourself, and tell people about yourself. You can make and add friends, and communicate with other users.

This could definitely be a very helpful site – to a lot of people! I know it will be helpful to me!

I’m so excited! I found a beautiful copy of my My Very Own Mail logo! Oh my gosh, isn’t it pretty?

My harddrive crashed in November, and I lost all kinds of stuff! And I lost my original images that the graphic artist had sent me, so I’d been using ones I was finding online in different places. And we all know how nice copies of copies look! Ugh!

Well, big ‘ol dummy me, I’ve been neglecting my first and ‘most precious to me’ website, My Very Own Mail, for quite some time now. I do still have a few sweet little customers, but, I have been far too busy blogging to update the website or market the business.

I keep noticing, though, that I am still getting a somewhat steady stream of traffic there, most especially on my Sample Letters pages. And horror of horrors! I don’t have any Google ads on those pages – my most-trafficked pages there!

And I keep meaning to get in there and clean things up, anyway, so I went in there this morning to spruce the place up a bit, and maybe place a few Google adsense units on some pages.

And that is when I found this beauty, hiding amongst the images in my site builder. Actually, no – it wasn’t in the images – it is its own page! Want to see: My Very Own Mail LOGO

That wasn’t even the final draft, as you can see the font is wrong – we switched it to Kristin ITC, which is what I use frequently on the site, and in the letters. I tried to do that – switch the fonts – in Paint – this morning, as you can see on the image at the top of this post. (I can feel you cringing, Loretta!) And that is why it surely doesn’t look like a job done by a graphic artist! Ah well….I tried!

I’m so freaking excited every time I look at it, though – I haven’t seen the image so crisp since…well…since Nodumbvember!

Back up! Back up! Back up! That shall be my new middle name!

It has been kind of interesting, though, finding/running into, pictures I’ve posted on the web in various spots and getting so excited and snagging them! For example, I used to be a pretty active member of Ryze, but, I grew bored of it. But something recently led me back there – and there were a couple of pics there. Little things like that keep happening, and I am snagging pictures right and left!

Again I say – BACK UP!!

So just who was that very talented graphic designer who created my logo? Well, that would be Jennifer Johnpoll, of azxure Dawn designs. She totally rocks! I absolutely love the graphics she created for me! (She is also one of the owners of Punkymoms – the coolest online community ever!)

And now I see that I really am a complete idiot! HA! She has the graphics – my graphics – right there in her Portfolio! I didn’t want to bug her about it, because I was a knucklehead who crashed my machine – and who knew if she even had them anymore! Somebody just smack me, okay? But you can see from her portfolio, that she does really great work!

I have been running my first website for quite a while now. I started my personalized letters for children business, My Very Own Mail, back in 2003. Online advertising and traffic generation can be overwhelming responsibilities, but, with all of these new consumer-generated advertising networks popping up, things are getting just a bit easier. See, I can purchase some advertising through one of these networks, and then some nice people, who are hopefully awesome bloggers, will get paid to blog about my website. And then I should gain some more traffic and maybe even a few sales from having my name out there more. And even if I don’t make sales from it right away, it’s still good, because, I’m building a name for myself on the web, and gaining some backlinks to my site.