I’m a huge fan of PLR articles and there are so many different things you can do with them.

As well as creating PLR, I also buy lots of PLR myself from other people and use them in various ways for different projects I’m working on.

If you’re anything like me you’ll probably buy a new PLR article pack for one of two reasons:

1. You have a particular project in mind and you go out looking for a PLR pack that fits the bill

2. You just happen to see a new PLR pack that looks like it’s a bargain and so you buy it now ‘to use later.’

Now I’m generally not too bad at taking action (although sometimes I can definitely improve for sure) but I often find that when I buy PLR to ‘use later’ I never end up actually doing anything with it!

Take a look on your hard drive right now and I almost guarantee that you have absolutely loads of perfectly good PLR articles sitting there that you have just never used.

PLR articles are great – but if you leave them to gather digital dust then there’s really no point in having them!

So in today’s post I’m going to share with you one of the ways I like to use PLR articles:

Turn them into mini reports!

Yep – one of the main things I do with PLR articles is gather them up and turn them into PDF reports.

Let’s say you have bought a PLR article pack on the subject of Twitter.

(I’m using the one HERE as an example)

You could quite easily turn this article pack into a new report – and then you could use that report to build your list by giving it away on your squeeze page – or give it away to your blog readers – or anything you like. It’s a great shortcut to creating your very own information product!

Here’s how:

First of all I would take the articles and have a good read through each of them.

Then I would open up a new blank document in my word processor and I would paste the articles in one after another in what I thought was a logical order.

The bit about pasting them in a logical order is crucial btw. Remember that any report should have a beginning, a middle and an end – so start off with an article that introduces the subject, then follow it with the articles that delve into certain aspects of the subject a little more deeply, and finally an article which sums it all up.

You might find that the articles don’t exactly fit this way of doing things, but if they don’t then you don’t need to worry because they will just need a little editing and jiggling around…

Going back to the example, a logical order for these articles might be:

• Twitter For Internet Marketers
• What Are The Benefits of Twitter For Businesses?
• How To Get Targeted Followers on Twitter
• Twitter – How Do You Engage With Your Followers?
• 5 Twitter Mistakes To Avoid
• Top Tips For Getting The Most Out of Twitter

Not perfect yet but that seems to follow a fairly logical order to me. Your article titles effectively become your chapter headings.

Next you should go through the articles and rewrite aspects of them so that they flow better.

Take out any information that is repeated (for example the same point might be made in two of the articles, but you’d only want to include that point once in your report).

Remove any references from the text that reveals the content originally started out as an article – for example if an article contains the phrase “in this article we’re going to talk about…..” then you would replace it with “in this section of the report we’re going to talk about….”

Add information to the report that you think would add to the content – and if you can write a short introduction at the beginning of the report and a conclusion at the end.

Now it’s time to give your report a name.

In this example I think I’m going to go with “Twitter Unleashed: How To Use Twitter to Explode Your Online Business”

(It’s not the best title in the world but it will probably do)

Now add the final touches. Stick your title on the first page of your report, format your text (double line spacing, size 20 for the headings, size 14 for the main text, and calibri font works well for me), and add in a header with your report title and a footer with the page numbers.

Finally save it as a PDF (done in the click of your mouse if you’re using the free Open Office) and….

Daadaaaaaaaaah! You instantly have your very own report that you can do whatever you want with.

I usually use the reports I have created in this way as freebies to give away to build my list…

Pay a graphics designer to design you a nice ecover to go with your report, create a simple squeeze page and you’re ready to go!

I love this technique and yet I don’t see many people using it.

Go and try it and let me know how you get on.

Comments are very welcome.

Over the coming weeks and months I’m going to share with you useful information about using and profiting from PLR material. From HOW to use PLR, through to tips and tricks to help you get the most from it, I hope to guide you through the wonderful world of Private Label Rights and hopefully help you to make your business more successful.

I hope you find it useful – and please feel free to chip in with comments and questions. They would be very much appreciated!

Daniel