Using public domain is one of those little insider’s secrets that a lot of people use to legally steal content and tap into millions and millions of pages of material that you can use for anything you want without asking permission or paying for it.

Here are 8 awesome ways that you can use public domain in your business…

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Last week I reported a major financial altercation, to the tune of $130, with the folks over at Article Marketer… here’s the post.  Today I’d like to update you on what transpired and how the situation finally ended.

As you know, I wrote the original post on March 24th at around 3p.m.  By 8p.m. the same day, this message was posted to my blog.

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ArticleMarketer.com stole money out of my Paypal account and refused to give it back — Let me tell you how it happened.

Article Marketer is an article distribution service that I used to use last year.  I was pretty happy with the service, but they discontinued their service last October and split into two different services:  ContentCrooner.com and DistributeYourArticles.com

Now I use DistributeYourArticles.com… the service is pretty okay, and I pay a separate monthly fee for it.

So here’s the rub on how they ripped me off…

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38.  Create an autoresponder course on a hot topic.

No one can resist learning about a topic that they’re already interested in… so why not create an autoresponder course on the subject.

Creating an autoresponder course is really easy.  All you have to do is write a report and then break it down into pieces.  Set your autoresponder up to mail out each piece to subscribers one at a time. Read the rest of this entry

22.  Become a guest author on another website.

If you’re a pretty good writer and can commit to a regular schedule of articles, then becoming a guest author or columnist is a really great opportunity.  You get free publicity and the website you write for gets free content from you… Another win/win!

If you’re really feeling good about your writing, why not extend this idea and ask to become a guest columnist/writer for a print publication?  All they can say is no. Read the rest of this entry

I often hear online business and marketing types talk about how important it is to have a good subscriber list.  In many cases, having a reasonable sized list of responsive subscribers can make the difference in whether your online business succeeds or dies a slow painful death.

You’re heard it before, “The money is in the list.”

What exactly is a list?

Simply put, a “list” is generally a database of subscribers that you contact regularly.  Your form of contact could be direct mail, email, phone, fax, or any other technology available.  For purposes of this discussion, we’re talking about how to successfully build an email list, but many of the strategies below could also apply to other kinds of list building.

Most online businesses create newsletters or ezines to send to their subscriber lists (a method I highly recommend), you can also create email lists in order to disseminate other types of information like website updates, ebooks, email courses, reports, blog posts, etc.  As long as subscribers know in advance what kind of information they’re signing up for, the sky’s the limit. Read the rest of this entry

There’s really no reason to make things complicated when it comes to figuring out what people want, need, and will spend their hard-earned money on.  It’s actually really easy when you figure out that there’s really only five things that people really buy and just about everything fits into one of those five categories. Read the rest of this entry