PLR Articles Poll – Pick Your Own PLR Articles

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There’s an area near my home town that’s full of PYO (‘pick your own’) fruit fields and orchards, and it’s their boom season right about now. So to join in the action, here’s my Pick Your Own PLR articles poll!.

My latest pack was Bodybuilding PLR . What shall I write about next?

There are lots of choices below. You can also leave more suggestions in the comments section and I will add them into the poll.

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Blatant Lies And Product Launches

It’s time for a rant …

You may have noticed it is becoming more and more common in IM launches for the sales page and launch emails to use blatant lies and broken promises to imply scarcity.

For example, a UK marketer launched a new product last week. He advertised that ‘only 349 copies will be sold’. 71 had already gone in early bird sales to a small list, so there were 278 available at the moment of launch.

The next day it was ‘only 47 copies left’.

Now, given the number of people who were promoting this, I think it’s very unlikely that he only sold 231 copies in the first 24 hours. But there’s no countdown on the sales page, so without seeing his Clickbank account we cannot know for sure.

However, the day after that, no way can he claim there are any copies left. The last 47 must definitely be sold by now. The product is coming off the market … right?

Wrong. Instead, he sends an email saying that because this product has been selling so well, ‘the gurus’ have been begging him to keep it on the market so that they can make more money by promoting it. And of course he has to do whatever ‘the gurus’ ask …or that’s the excuse. So he’s going to keep selling it, but in 24 hours he will increase the price.

He even names these ‘gurus’. I happened to know one of them, so I asked him if it was true that he had asked for this product to stay on the market.

No, it was not.

And now 4 days later the product is still available, still at the launch price and – unbelievably – the sales page still claims that only 349 copies will be sold.

So he didn’t limit copies to 349, he didn’t raise the price and he lied that this was because named gurus had asked him to go back on his sales page promises.

That’s 3 blatant lies in 1 product launch.

And this is not an isolated case. This is typical of big product launches these days.

Does it matter? Well yes, I think it does.

First it means that the number of people using the technique described in this product is not going to be restricted after all. I don’t know if that will affect the effectiveness of the technique. Quite likely it won’t. But why disappoint buyers by leading them to believe they were getting something exclusive in the first place?

The result is that anybody who bought the product feels scammed and loses faith in it … so they will be much less successful with it than they might have been. (That’s why I’m not naming the product: I’m told it’s a good product and I don’t want to stop you using it if you own it.)

And everybody who received those launch emails, whether they bought the product or not, loses faith in internet marketers.

I advertise limited numbers of copies of many of my article packs and I really do limit them. The software that I use counts them down, and when they are all sold it displays a ‘Sorry, sold out’ page until I get around to taking them off the website.

So when other marketers make false promises to their customers about how many copies of something they will sell, it means that visitors to my website are less likely to see the value of my products. They won’t believe what they read.

Plus it can damage the reputations of the honest marketers who promoted that product to their subscribers in good faith, especially those marketers who were named and blamed for his decision to keep on selling.

(So take care if you are promoting ANY newly launching product to your list of valued subscribers, even if you have seen a review copy and know that the product is good. The product owner might just turn around and bite you in the a*** .)

I think it’s very sad that this kind of deception is becoming so common.

Sure, there’s a Clickbank guarantee on the product, so anybody who feels scammed can get a refund. But does that make it OK?

MySQL Database Backup Only 20 Bytes?

MySQL database backup only 20 bytes? Eek! That’s an empty backup. Here’s how to fix it if that happens to you.

I updated all my cPanel passwords following the hacking last week. A tedious thing to do when you have a lot of sites, but worth doing from time to time.

However, there was a problem. After the password changes I realised that my automatic backup was registering just 20 bytes (i.e. nothing in there) for all of my MySQL databases.

The databases hold things like sales data for my PLR articles sites, customers’ download links, all the posts on my niche blogs … important stuff. So I wouldn’t want to be unable to back them up.

It took me a lot of internet searching to find fixes, but once found, they were very easy.

1. Easy fix for 20 byte MySQL database backup problem

This worked for 95% of my sites.

  • Log into your cPanel
  • Click on ‘MySQL Databases’ (not the wizard, the other one)
  • Select the database(s) and click on ‘Repair Database’
  • Run your backup again.

In a few cases you might still only have 20 bytes. If so, try this:

2. Slightly more complex fix

  • In cPanel main menu, click on File Manager.
  • Run a search for a file called my.cnf (it is usually in a folder called /etc)
  • If you have the file, open it up with the edit option. You’ll probably see that it still has an old cPanel password in there. Update it with your current password and save. BUT don’t overwrite the database password if that’s in there, unless you changed that too.
  • Run backup again.

Note: Don’t include in your password any special characters that have a meaning in html (e.g. # !) because they may be read as html commands in my.cnf.

If you don’t have my.cnf, you might need to create one. But the above 2 options plus dealing with special characters solved all of the MySQL database backup only 20 bytes problems for me, so I can’t tell you how to do that. Look for some sample my.cnf files online maybe?


My Site Was Hacked

One of my sites was hacked on Wednesday :-(

The hackers just wanted cash, so they changed the PayPal email from mine to theirs without doing any damage to the site … not even changing the site’s password, so that I didn’t notice anything when I logged in.

(I was glad about that … it’s a bit like if your house is burgled … you’re almost grateful if all they take is money.)

But other victims did notice and reported them to PayPal, so pretty soon the hackers’ PayPal account was locked.

This meant that for a while you couldn’t buy anything from my site because the order buttons were taking you to a locked PayPal account … until I came home and found an email from a helpful customer telling me there seemed to be a problem.

But everything is fine now … all emails are changed back to mine … password changed to something stronger to keep it safe … so please go ahead and order anything and everything that you want!

Self Esteem PLR ArticlesThe newest offer (currently available at WSO price with 10% off) is my pack of 10 top quality PLR articles on Self-Esteem.

You can get that here (if there are copies left – it’s limited to 50 licences):

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The upsell is a PLR ebook called ‘How To Boost Your Self Esteem …Fast!’

If you ONLY want the ebook without getting the article pack, you will find that here:

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… BUT you get $5 off the ebook price if you get it as an upsell to the article pack. So if you want both, please get the articles first.

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Weight Loss PLR Clickbank Product Reviews

It’s not often that I recommend PLR from another marketer but these weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews are an exception:

Download weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews

In this pack, you will get Review Articles on 20 HOT weight loss products from the Clickbank Marketplace. All these articles come with Private Label Rights so you can change them however you want to make them your own.

Putting up Clickbank product reviews and sending traffic to them is about the easiest way that I know of making money online. A good review leading to a top converting product means plenty of hands-free sales. And these products are some of the hottest on Clickbank.

The reviews stress the benefits of the products but they are not all positive. This is extremely important for your credibility and will actually help you make sales.

Of course, you could edit the reviews to make them all positive, but I don’t recommend that. My experience is that it’s better to include some negative reviews and say at the end “so instead, buy this [similar product].” Your visitors are much more likely to trust you, and buy the product that you do recommend.

There’s a screenshot of a sample article on the page so you can see the quality. I’ve seen the whole pack and the others are equally good.

The price is great too. In fact, the whole deal has my full recommendation.

Go here to see all the details of these weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews:

Weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews

Weight loss is the original ‘hungry niche’ of ravenous buyers – it’s hugely lucrative.