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When I checked my email this morning I found one of those ‘Payment Received’ emails from PayPal, with no product name. So I opened it up to see what the person had bought, and found that it was a payment for just 10 cents.

For a moment I thought somebody had hacked into my sales system and changed the pricing on one of my products to get it cheap…grrr..but that wasn’t it.

No, there was a note in the PayPal comment box promoting a product launch. I think they were trying to get JV partners.

Now, what you’re meant to think here is that these people are just paying you 10 cents to get your attention. But in fact, there is something a little more manipulative going on.

Gifts like this – in fact, any promotional gifts – exploit the psychological expectation of reciprocity that almost all human beings have.

What does that mean in simple language? It means that if somebody gives you something, you have a deep – almost instinctive – feeling that you should give them something back. And if you don’t reciprocate because you don’t have anything to give them, you feel that YOU OWE THEM.

Like any kind of debt, this is an uncomfortable feeling. In most cases, you will try to get rid of it by repaying them in some way, either with a gift or by doing something that you think they will like.

This is why we feel so bad when somebody unexpectedly gives us a gift at Christmas and we don’t have anything for them.

Marketers play on this to get us to buy stuff. You receive a gift (whether it’s a free pen in the mail from Cancer Research or a free ebook you download from somebody’s site) – you feel you owe them – so you are more likely to buy whatever they are selling.

And this applies whether or not you liked or wanted the gift. You might even HATE the gift. It doesn’t matter. Most people will still feel bad if they cannot give something back.

I’m saying ‘you’ for the recipient here, but of course YOU are the marketer as well. You are probably already benefiting from this human response by giving something away for free on many of your sites. But with the free download, we are just offering a gift that people can take if they want. We are not giving them something whether they want it or not, like my 10 cent emailer did.

Have you ever thought about doing something like that? You could. You only have to click on marketers’ Buy Now buttons to see their PayPal emails, then send money. These guys either did it with Mass Pay or as a gift in PayPal, because I wasn’t charged a fee.

Would you think it’s worth trying for some product launches? Of course, you would need to check PayPal’s terms. But if they are OK with it, would you do it? Or is it too sneaky…or too risky financially?

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P.S. You may be wondering if I clicked on the link in that email and joined their launch. The answer is no, but I did have that nasty indebted feeling…

…so I refunded the payment, and sent them a link to MY site in the comment box

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What does Google Panda mean for someone like you, who uses
PLR articles? And for someone like me who writes them?

Like most marketers, I try to stay up to date on developments in SEO, especially when they relate to Google.

One piece of information that has come out of the Panda update from earlier this year is that it is now very important to have a low ‘bounce rate’.

In other words, the Google bots know how long visitors stay on your site (because they track them) – and it matters. It seems clear that if you can keep your visitors entertained for longer, you will be rewarded with higher search engine rankings – at least in Google.

Gone are the days when all we wanted was for a visitor to click on an Adsense ad and disappear as fast as possible! Now, we actually want them to READ our content first.

So what does all of this mean for you as a user of PLR articles?

It means that you should be looking for PLR articles that are LONGER and BETTER QUALITY than the average PLR, right? Because that is what is going to keep your visitors on your site.

And so I am making sure that I provide exactly that: PLR articles that are longer and better quality than many others.

Most of my articles are over 500 words. Some are considerably longer.

What is more, you can easily make them even longer and make them unique at the same time, by adding a few more words into each sentence.

Check out all my current packs at Flamillion PLR.

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Wow…it looks like this is the first time I have posted this year, and summer’s almost over. Oops! Maybe if I give myself permission to write a very short blog post, that will help.

So here goes…

I had to laugh today. I received an email from GetResponse headed “How to avoid the spam folder”. And guess where it was?

Yes…in my spam folder.

I have two accounts right now, but I was thinking of closing one. I think I will be sticking with AWeber.

They mention one thing that is quite useful and not everybody knows about it. That is to check the domains that you are linking to at Blacklist Alert.

You need to check the domain of every link that is included in your email, and if you are using redirects to affiliate programs, also check the final destination URL. If any of them are on the blacklist, many email providers will automatically block your email.

This can be pretty serious. I had this happen to my main PLR site once and it was stopping customers from receiving their download links. I had to spend a lot of time re-sending download links and probably lost some customers too.

It turned out to be caused by another user of my shared hosting account who was spamming. Hostgator closed the spammer’s account and I had to apply for the IP to be cleared on the blacklisting sites. That takes time but it’s worth it.

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Looking for a Kickstart PLR bonus? I have the perfect thing for you here. Or check out my Kickstart PLR review.

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Kickstart PLR Bonus

Here it is in a nutshell: if you join via my link you get to choose any free product that you want from Flamillion PLR.

You’ll find that some of Martin’s article packs are in the same niches as some of mine, for example back pain and diabetes from the packs that are available right now*. So you might want to pick one of those as your bonus pack, to give you extra articles to build out your site in that niche.

Or if you prefer to choose one of the ebooks or newsletter packs from my site, that’s fine too.

Just email me with the date and time that you joined, plus your name of course, and let me know what you would like for your Kickstart PLR bonus. You can email me at: info (at) the-success-project .com
(substitute @ for (at) and remove spaces)

Click here to visit Kickstart PLR now

*There’s a new pack uploaded at Kickstart PLR every10 days, and at the same time a current one is removed, so there may be different niche article packs available at the time that you join.

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Kickstart PLR review summary: this service run by Martin Avis is the only monthly PLR membership that I recommend.

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Here’s why.

First, after being a member of several PLR article membership sites in the past, I always used to feel they were too likely to sacrifice quality for quantity.

To attract more members, they tried to cover every niche under the sun. They competed to offer the most articles for the cheapest monthly fee … and you can guess what the result was: the quality dropped like a stone.

Of course, we don’t want huge fees. But I’d rather have a small number of good quality articles than 1000 useless ones, and I hope you feel the same.

So from time to time I have considered setting up a membership site that offers truly high quality articles. You’d get 30 or 40 top quality articles every month … articles that you could truly use.

But … I like my freedom. I like to be able to disappear for a week or two to places where there’s no WiFi and only a patchy phone signal. So I prefer not to commit myself to a certain amount of writing every month.

And now I’m pleased I didn’t, because Martin Avis has come up with a PLR membership site that is exactly what I would have liked to create, and more.

Click here to visit Kickstart PLR

More about this site …

Martin is running this service with his wife Delia. They are producing top quality articles every month with a very smooth delivery pattern. I’ve met Martin several times at the London lunches that he organizes for internet marketers in the UK, and I know that he has personal expertise in many of the subjects on the list.

He is also a marketer of high integrity who has a lot to teach. And what’s more, he likes creating software and has produced some useful tools for article marketers that you get for free when you join. That’s where he’s gone the extra mile and given you more than I could have.

One of the tools is a ‘theme surveyor’ which pulls up LSI keywords related to your main keyword. This is great for rewriting because you will find not only synonyms but other words commonly used in that niche that can spark ideas or just help to make your article unique.

There is also a tool that converts TXT files to HTML code for static web pages, and several pieces of software that will help you rewrite your articles or analyze the competition.

All in all, Martin has gone the extra mile here and provided amazing quality while still managing to price the membership within everybody’s reach. That’s why it gets 5 stars from me in this Kickstart PLR review. I’m even offering a Kickstart PLR bonus through another post on this blog.

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I hope you’ll find they still have room for you …

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