Another lesson about rewriting PLR documents: get someone else to proofread them before you publish them under your own name. A writer should never proof read his/her own work because we tend to read what we intended to write rather than what we actually wrote. Someone else with good proofreading skills and an excellent command of the English language (a local English teacher does nicely) usually can find errors you, as a writer, may have missed.

Joy and abundance,

Cim

In response to Trevor Turner: What American dictionary do you use? My favorite dictionary, The Websters Dictionary from Random House was published in 1996. I use it daily and wouldn’t think of discarding in favor of my newest Miriam-Webster. Both of my dictionaries and my SpellChecker have licensed, v., and licensing, n. So, the only difference between US and UK spelling is they use a second “c” and we use “s”.

Nuff said about that issue. Just accept the fact that not everyone knows show to spell, and US publications and English translations of foreign publications seldom meet the standards you and I use, nor is grammar a strong suit with most writers. I have worked as a ghostwriter for some of the most ignorant writers of the English language. A lot of times their story, their message, needs no improvement and all I have to do is correct their spelling, grammar and syntax, only occasionally having to change phraseology or rearrange their thoughts into a more logical progression.

Now I am writing political speeches and articles for politicians and would-be politicians who somehow managed to get through high school and even college without learning as much about English as I learned in third and fourth grade. But they want to pitch their libertarian ideals and I’m all for that, so I even write pro bono for candidates with no money to pay me.

As for this article: I found it most informative, especially the part about licensing a “brand, name or image”. I had never considered that before, although I have paid photographers and graphic artists for “work for hire” images. I buy a lot of PLR and Master Resell Rights products to market on my various websites and blogs, most of which are so badly written that I won’t resell them until I rewrite them. I used to convert the pdf files to text files (I’ve yet to find a tool that converts from pdf to Word adequately). Then I’d spend an hour reformatting so all the headings and bolded text and other formatting match the original, after which I’d spend another hour or two fixing spelling, grammar, syntax, and other errors I find to bring the article, ebook, instructions or whatever up to my standards before converting the finished Word document to pdf and uploading them to a sales page on a website or blog. Something in my persona won’t allow me to sell poorly written e-books, no matter how well the subject is covered in the original document.

Would they sell as well undoctored? Probably! After all, I bought them, didn’t I?

Nowadays I only buy PLR which comes with the source files, both the Word or Text file and the graphics files, so I don’t have to waste time converting the pdf or reformatting. I still correct all the errors in the source file before converting to pdf and uploading them.

I’ve gotten lazy lately and have bought a few “auto-blogs” that are automatically updated daily with new posts from article directories I subscribe to along with new ads for various affiliate products through Amazon, Clickbank, and other affiliate programs. Though I’m disappointed with the quality of a lot of the articles that get posted, I don’t have to spend time editing them, and they have generated cash flow with almost no effort on my part. But every time I log in to moderate the comments, I read the latest post and think I should go back to my “old fashion” do-it-myself posting. It’s a compromise between available time and no quality control. I have too many other things on my calendar these days to spend my time editing other people’s articles. The major problem is the auto-blog software puts my name as author because subscribing to the article directory gives me PLR rights to the articles, and I’d rather display the name of the original author when I haven’t modified it in any way.

I do not have a list as yet hence I realize that my first order of business is to get one.

Thanks for this very enlightening article.

Regards

Dean.