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I bet this little secret is going to get YOU excited… just like it did me. I
just discovered public domain treasures and it’s a perfect business opportunity
for many new internet entrepreneurs.

Did you know there’s a little known loophole in US law that allows anyone to
distribute, resell or give away expired copyrighted content? Officially, its
called public domain, and savvy marketers “borrow” it to publish instant
products.

Public domain refers to anything that is NOT protected under US copyright law.
This includes all works published before 1923 and under certain conditions,
works published up to 1978. A “work” can be anything, a book, movies, plays,
songs, photographs, instruction manuals, posters, courses, reports, etc. You
could take these works, repackage them and sell them for a profit. By tapping
into public domain content, all the nitty gritty work has been done for you.

There are almost an endless number of ways that you can make money with public
domain content. Let me suggest 10 different models you can use to activate and
tap the public domain treasures.

Model 1: Resell It.
You can re-publish public domain content exactly as it is. Whether it’s a book,
a movie or even music, you can take this content and quickly turn it into a
product. Just copy it as it is and start selling it.

Model 2: Website Content
You can take the text of the public domain work which relates to a product you
are selling or an affiliate program that you are promoting. You then create web
pages and include links back to your product page.

Model 3: Repackage
You can repackage a public domain work into a new product. You can use the
ideas and some of the content of public domain works to create new and better
products.

Eg. Walt Disney characters Snow White, the Little Mermaid were all stories from
the public domain.

Model 4: Multimedia
You can change the books in print into a CD or even a video set. Add to the
perceived value of the product by offering ways to consume the information. What
was once simply a “book” can now be a complete home study course or training
program.

Eg. The famous “Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill has been made into an
audio CD which is a more convenient format.

Model 5: Reprint Rights
You could sell your version of the information product along with marketing
materials. People love reprint rights and it’s a quick and easy way to make tons
of money immediately. You can sell reprint rights only to a derivative product
you have created from the original public domain material.

Model 6: Upsell
You can use public domain works and use then as an “upsell” to a regular
version of your best selling product. You simply present your buyer with an
additional opportunity to “upgrade” their order or add something to their order.

Model 7: Bonuses
Simply use the work as a bonus to your main offering. People love bonuses and
will buy a product just for the bonus, if its unique and not something they’ve
seen all over the net already.

Model 8: Viral E-books
You simply take parts of the book and turn it into a viral e-book by allowing
others to pass along or even sell this e-book as their own. Once you trigger the
“virus” its nearly impossible to make it stop because people keep passing it on
and than these people keep passing it on etc, etc.

Eg. Rebecca fine from Seattle, WA used this exact technique to accidentally
launch her six figure business with an interesting book, written in 1910 “The
Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D.Wattles. You can “super-size” this
strategy by creating a viral e-book with the material and then including
affiliate links that pay you commissions anytime someone buys from your
recommended resources.

Model 9: Google AdSense
You can use the material to create an information-rich website and then place a
tiny piece of code from Google to run their AdSense program on your site. You’ll
essentially partner-up with Google and get paid a percentage for everyone that
simply clicks on the ads Google places on your site.

Model 10: Articles/ Mini Courses
You could use little contents from public domain works and create a mini-course
that people would subscribe from your site. You just load a series of 4 to 10
articles into your auto-responders and it delivers it on a total auto-pilot.

You can also use the material into 500-800 word articles to distribute for free
publicity and traffic to your sites. Editors of e-zines and owners of web sites
are always looking for hot fresh content and in exchange they’ll send you over
targeted traffic.

Eg. Matt Furey discovered a little unknown book on “Catch Wrestling” and turned
it into a complete manual and video e-course of 12 lessons for his market of
fitness and wrestling buffs. He had earned over $1million dollars in sales from
this one book.

Among the topics available in the public domain treasures are:

Health & Fitness

Fun & Games

Sports & Recreation

Hobbies & Crafts

Education & Self Improvement

Food & Cooking

Animal & Pets

Home Garden & much much more.

Public domain works provides a huge opportunity to newbies in the internet world
to tap these vast treasures. Simply put, you can use these works to instantly
create e-books, manuals, articles, reports or any other type of information
products in a snap. GOOD LUCK!

Discover the treasure that lies hidden in the public domain
works and repackage the content as your own money making
information product.

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