A PLR Experiment

If you haven’t been able to tell yet, I’m a huge fan of testing various income streams. It keeps me interested in my writing, and it lets me make sure I’m using my time productively in the long-run. My newest “thing” is a PLR experiment. I just released two sets of PLR business articles.

The two PLR article sets currently available (at FirstRateContent.com) are what I’m calling Startup Packs. Startup packs are a set of 10 very general articles covering a broad spectrum of topics in a niche. The idea is to have them available as starter content for those wanting to launch brand new niche websites. The current startup packs include:

1. Starting an Online Business
2. Internet Marketing

Now that the two startup packs are out of the way (I may release more later, but I’m not sure), I’m going to be launching smaller packs of articles covering more specific topics (for example, 5 articles dealing with press release writing, 5 on building email marketing lists, etc.). While most of the specialty packs will be obviously under one of the above umbrella packs, many will be interchangeable. The idea with those is to let those starter pack (or other) sites naturally grow their content from a beginner level to something more advanced, covering one niche topic after another, giving them some kind of “feature” topic every time they grow their site.

I priced the sets a bit higher than many PLR content packages (10 articles for $20 and being sold to a maximum of 100 buyers). I did this for a few reasons:

1. Even though these are far from my best quality work, they’re still much better than the majority of PLR content I’ve seen available for sale in much larger packs.

2. The articles are being written by an experienced business owner, Marketing / PR consultant, and professional business writer - which is something many webmasters simply couldn’t afford for regular groups of content (it would normally be a minimum of $.35 / word to hire me for business content writing, and that’s for non-exclusive rights). So I think there’s obviously more value in them than in articles that are just regurgitated Web research or rewritten content from elsewhere.

3. I set the rates to have the maximum potential of each PLR article equal the minimum I’d usually accept for a short Web article within my area of expertise. I have no idea if I’ll come anywhere close to selling all copies of any set, but that’s why this is an experiment and not a sure thing. I just want to see how the system holds up against my other writing income streams.

Well, that’s all there is to it. If you have thoughts on the experiment or PLR articles in general, feel free to comment.