Are Private Label Rights Dead
Private label rights, at one time anyway, were
very popular. This is not to say that they still aren't, as many
people don't have the time or skills to create their own products.
But with all the private label rights out there and the insane
prices that some of them are being "given away" for, you have to
wonder if private label rights packages aren't going the way of the
dinosaur. This article is going to take a look at the issue and
make a few guesses, based on facts, perceptions and just some gut
instincts. After reading this, you will hopefully come to your own
conclusion.
Let's start with the facts. Private Label Rights
are huge. There are quite a large number of PLR sites out there
that constantly provide material for people to use as their own.
The amounts of material are staggering. This brings up one very
important question. How good can all of this stuff be? Certainly I
am not saying that all of it is bad, or even a large part of it,
but when you go from one site to another and see 45 books on the
art of article writing, you have to wonder either one of two
things. One, either some of these books are garbage, or two, many
of them are all the same. In which case, you have to ask, do we
need them all? I have personally read several books on article
writing. For the most part, they all teach the same basic system.
Imagine that hundreds of these books started coming out because
somebody issued PLR rights to his own book.
Here's what I picture happening, as there are
only so many people on the Internet to get all this stuff.
Eventually, all these books will have circulated, people will
realized that they're all the same, taken from the same basic PLR
original, for lack of a better word, and they'll simply stop buying
them. This will be especially true as the prices of these books
come down. Why will they come down? Because with such a glut of
supply on the market, vendors will realize that they will
practically have to give these PLR products away or they won't be
able to sell them. The law of supply and demand doesn't just apply
to the real world.
Another problem with PLR rights is that there
are a lot of people out there who simply don't play by the rules.
They'll take a package that they don't have PLR rights to and
they'll rewrite it as their own and sell it as a PLR package. This
thing will start to circulate and eventually the original creator
will see what was done and he'll be on the phone with his lawyer
before you can say Jim Dandy. The mess of legal problems that will
certainly arise because of bogus PLR products will definitely make
buyers wary of purchasing these. I have personally been burned by
an illegal PLR product and because of this will never purchase
another one again.
Does this all mean that Private Label Rights are
dead? Maybe, maybe not. But it certainly is something to consider
if the bulk of your business is creating these products.
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