I won't have anything to do with PLR either as a buyer or seller!

I lose all respect for marketters who sell or use or promote PLR!

It is unfortunate that it is neccessary to include such a disclaimer about PLR in one's footer or signature but I agree with Robert that is is a very good idea to tell people so that those who feel about PLR as I do will understand that the product is not recycled rubbish (Or not-even-recycled rubbish!)

Wayne

(NOTE: my spellings are NOT typos - I am a native ENGLISH speaker and speller not American.)

(For those who've read my earlier post, others' is an intentional plural possessive, making the phrase a shortened form of "work of others" -- which is too formal in this context.)

Robert and Tony, my earlier post is not about the occasional mistype we all make when hurried, and often don't catch upon rereading our own work because we tend to skim when the subject is familiar. It's about consistent error that is increasingly pervasive in text both online and offline, even from authors who presumably are educated enough to know better -- or, at least, can afford to hire someone competent to proofread their work (since fresh eyes are more likely to spot mistakes, especially when they cloud the intended meaning).

Robert is right about needing to produce both content and sales letters rapidly for maximum income per unit of time spent. However, if the sales letter has many obvious errors, the prospect is well justified in wondering whether the product will have similar defects.

Consequently, a little extra time spent in careful proofreading could save sales otherwise lost, thus justifying the small, one-time investment. It might even reduce refund requests. While a terrific offer for an apparently excellent product will overcome sales page mediocrity or even blunders, tripping over unnecessary errors in otherwise valuable product content is irritating.

When I read a book or ebook, I want to learn from and enjoy the content, not feel like I need to edit it!

Accordingly, if the salesletter looks too sloppy, I won't buy a book or ebook from that seller if he or she claims to be the author.

First, if he or she really did write both, the quality of the product can be seen in the salesletter text.

Else, if the author of the product in fact outsourced the salesletter -- as is common, since not everyone feels or is competent to write a high-conversion salesletter (at least, not without Robert and Jason's software), then that product author should have proofread the salesletter before approving its use, to prevent its devaluing the product by association.

And finally, if the seller actually outsourced both (or used PLR content with an unchanged salesletter that came with it), then readers of Robert's blog today should now have a competitive advantage in that seller's market.

So, folks, all you need to do is what Tony just did -- take a second look at what you just wrote.

The cost of the time will be paid back to you many times over in respect, resultant sales, and fewer refund requests.

When you then say you are the real author of the content you are presenting, your prospects will think, "Great! It's got to be good stuff then, so I'll buy it."

How else did Robert get where he is so quickly?

(Yes, some of his programs do have bugs that might have been caught through more extensive testing. But he gets those gems out to us fast, lets us in all our diversity of usages test them for him, then fixes any flaws found -- and even adds more features -- rapidly enough to more than compensate. And none of the content was ever PLR. Of course, if you are here reading this, you already know that.)

Tony

Given the degree of cynicism prevalent amongst so many internet users, the protestation of originality could raise a doubt where previously none existed. The rather excessive "There's NOTHING remotely like it available anywhere else, online or offline" doesn't aid credibility - he "doth protest to much, methinks."

It all really comes down to knowing your market.

Tony

First, your wholly original content is exactly why I read all your emails (and save most), and it is also why I buy as much as I do from you (funds permitting).

Also, I am increasingly annoyed by the rising tide of poor writing everywhere, especially on the internet, and most particularly in PLR both in the IM niche and intended for resale in other niches by internet marketers playing at being authorities in topic areas they see as lucrative but really have not studied.

Much of this junk is outsourced to people whose first language clearly is not English. But even when it is, blind reliance on spell-checkers never intended to flag correctly spelled words that are wrongly used in context allows frequent confusion of you/your/you're, there/their, to/too, its/it's, and reversed roles between plural (with s) and possessive (with 's), just to name some of the worst cases.

The problem is that all this poor writing starts to look "normal" eventually, especially to younger people whose education seems to worsen year by year in the U.S. The result is erosion of our heritage in what most people recognize as the richest, most culturally encompassing, and most widely understood language on Earth (which is why it has become standard in commerce, aviation, and navigation).

Spell-checkers are meant only for catching simple typos and do not replace proofreading by an educated eye.

Since PLR content is less likely to have been properly proofread for either proper word usage or even logical sense, the most one can hope to get out of it is a hint on topic aspects to research in writing one's own text. And that's good, since most PLR lacks backing by real research and therefore contains much erroneous information (just like too many school textbooks today).

(The principal and quite legitimate exception is older, originally well-written content eventually offered as PLR to squeeze a little extra profit out of it before ceasing one's own sales of it.)

So, again, thanks for bucking the downward spiral by being original. As I said, that's why I keep reading what you write.

A statement of this type is EXACTLY what I was going to put into the sales page.

I haven't seen anyone else doing it, so was wondering whether it was worthwhile. Thanks for confirming the idea.

(And I wonder why nobody else puts this on their E-Books. Could it be that NOBODY actually writes their material themselves any more ?? )
Cheers, Eric G.

I don't see how a statement like that could hurt your sales conversions. It can only help. It may not be a big deal to some but that "extra" sale here and there adds up over a month.

Trying to be the devil's advocate here...since I don't see a scenario how this may curtail sales, hopefully someone will leave a comment with an opposite opinion.

Maybe someone can leave a comment about how this may hurt sales and why. I certainly can't think of anything off the top of my head.

I should add that I've bought a few of your things, and always felt you went the extra mile, and they were actually some of the few things that were actually worth the price of admission. As a matter of fact..your blog alone is a thousand times more valuable than any PLR junk out there!