Welcome, Warriors!

Wow!  I can’t believe how long it’s been since that dastardly villian, The Arrogant Alchemist, and I first met here in the dome.  I just looked back and Novemeber 25th was our opening round!  I should have had this guy in the bag by now!

When last we met, loyal Warriors, The Fair Maiden Beamer had just been issued a challenge.  A very serious challenge.  Perhaps the most threatening challenge, the most difficult challenge, she’s received to date.  The Arrogant Alchemist is threatening to TAKE OVER THE ‘DOME!

Now you all know how I feel about that.  This isn’t just an ordinary blog.  I don’t come on here every 3 or 4 days to to tell you about the latest advancements in acne medication or give you advice about raising dwarf hamsters.  Although, I do have a blog about hamsters.

Quite the contrary.  This blog, this Battledome, takes a good deal of time and energy for each post.  While there may very well be some PLR out there that tells you how to make $1000 in 24 hours, there is certainly none that shows you in as great a depth as the now famous Monkey Boy Battle.

And you may be able to find some PLR that tells you how to SPIN PLR, but there’s certainly none out there that tells you how to take a simple Wordpress Plug In and create a blogging empire like we learned about while doing battle with The Pitiful Programmmer.

Every post on this blog is truly a battle.  Strategic plans must be made and warrior tactics must be implemented!  The cry for blood echoes through these stands and I simply will not allow this Audaciously Arrogant Alchemist to step in here and take over this Battledome that I’ve fought so hard to defend.

However....The Arrogant Alchemist does have a good point.  And since the whole purpose behind the dome is to take apart a Warrior Special Offer and see what makes it tick, to Challenge these Warriors to either show us how we can make money with their WSOs or put them back on the porch with the little dogs, then I think it’s important that we at least listen to his side of the story.

The Arrogant Alchemist claims that he can spin PLR into Gold.  And that’s a pretty common claim these days.  You see it in half the WSOs that go up every day.  I know.  I have PLR bookmarked so I get an email everytime a WSO that has something to do with PLR is posted.

But the Alchemist doesn’t just claim that you can make $1000 in 24 hours.  He claims to be able to teach you how to scale your PLR  business so that within a year or so you’re making One Million Bucks! A very bold claim I might add, but intriguing nonetheless.  And a claim that The Fair Maiden Beamer finds utterly ridiculous!  How can he expect us to believe that you can make $1,000,000 off of that ratty old PLR we have hanging around on our drives?  I don’t know about you guys, but some of the PLR I have has been passed around so many times you can almost see through the paper it’s written on!

And why does this Arrogant Alchemist feel the need to take over the Battledome to show us that you really can be on a $1,000,000 run rate at the end of a year?  Can’t he just put it down on paper like everyone else does?  I’ll be happy to add his PDF to the stack I already have on my desk.

Anyway, listen up Newbies!

This will not be an easy challenge.  This Challenge may just take a little imagination on the part of The Fair Maiden Beamer.  And YOU!  And this Challenge may well take more than a week to pan out.  Because if this guy is willing to step into the dome and try to prove to me that I can be making a Million Bucks by this time next year, I’d be foolish not to at least hear him out.  Think about it.  I spent a week battling The Monkey Boy over his claim that you can makd $1000 in 24 hours.  And that only amounts to $52,000 a year.  This guy is claiming that if I follow HIS step-by-step plan, I’ll be making a little over 19 Grand a week.  And that would buy a lot of popcorn!

Here’s what he’s proposing.  And I’ll have to give you a little backstory here to explain this.

$97 Ebooks opened it’s doors at the beginning of October this year.  It was just a little “toe in the water” kind of thing, to see if it really was possible to make some money online.  And what started out as a teeny, tiny little snowball quickly developed into an avalanche of epic proportions!

Here’s just a sampling of what’s been happening behind the scenes for the last 2 1/2 months:

  • So many people have ordered ebooks and articles, that I had to hire help to get it all written – BUT – nobody wants another writer to do their ebook.  Everybody wants BEAMER to write their ebook.  So, even though Colin has been a tremendous help to me, I’m still buried.  I haven’t had more than an hour away from my desk since mid October.
  • When people order these ebooks, they contact me on the Warrior Forum via PMs.  And let’s just say, for example, their WF user name is MadDog2020.    But then they want to send me an email to go into greater detail about what they want.  So then I recieve an email from Harold that usually has nothing to do with his original PM from the WF.  And to top it all off, when Harold pays for his ebook, which I require in advance, he uses still another email address, and the name on that one is something like Willard Smith III.  So, every time I received an order, I’ve had to wade through at least 3 names and 3 email addresses trying to get all the information together to fill an order.
  • Because of this horrible mess with emails and usernames, I’ve probably written at least 4 ebooks for shady characters who never actually paid for them but I can’t prove it because I don’t have time to wade through the emails.  Now 4 free ebooks isn’t a whole lot of money and that’s not the point.  The point is, they take TIME.  Time that I could have spent taking care of the legitimate customers I have.
  • One of the biggest problems I’ve had is with people telling me they want one thing, and then when it comes down to it, they want much more than what was originally agreed upon.   Topics and time frames are always discussed before hand and one person ordered a simple little ebook on a topic I was already familiar with.  So I worked him into the calendar, he paid, and I told him to let me know if there were any specific items he wanted me to mention in his book.  AND HE SENT ME A 150 PAGE PDF PLUS 5 FILES FULL OF RESEARCH MATERIAL! That he wanted condensed down to 10,000 words!  3 days later, I was STILL writing this ebook and watching my calendar hopelessy begin to pile up.  I have not caught up since.  And he’s NOT the only one that has done this.

It was at about this point that The Arrogant Alchemist made his move on the dome.  When I told him that I was about to go down with my sinking ship, he completely took advantage of the situation and kicked me while I was down!

His first suggestion was that I could save myself a lot of heartache if I would get out of this custom Ebook business and simply rework PLR into new products.  And MY first reaction was to tell him to go piss up a rope!  If I wanted to spin PLR all day long, I’d go back to my blogging.

But then I listend closer to what he had to say.  The Alchemist is a wily little guy.  He’s not suggesting that we simply take a few PLR articles and change up a few words and then resell them as original content.  What he IS suggesting is that we take some PLR, whether it’s articles, methods or products, and use it as a basis to create our own products.  BUT- that we add value to the original PLR by adding our own original content to it.

Now to most people, when you say “PLR” they immediately think “Articles”.   But there are other types of PLR.  PLR just means that you have the Private Label Rights to something.  And that can be articles and ebooks, but it can also be Methods.  For example, the Arrogant Alchemist COULD sell me his whole plan for amassing a small fortune in a year and then allow me to do whatever I want with that plan.  I could put my name on it and tell you I created it and sell it to you if I want.

Someone else could sell me the PLR rights to his plug in or to a Wordpress theme he’s designed, or the coding and graphics for a sales page they created.  And that means, I could tell YOU that I created them and I could sell them to you or give them to you or whatever I want.

Of course, if I can buy these PLR products, so can you.  So why would you want to pay more to get them from me, if you can get them straight from the original creator for a fraction of the cost?  According to the Alchemist, you would pay extra for these products if I added some value to them.  So, in short he’s saying, save yourself some leg work by starting out using PLR as the basis for your own product.

A good example of this would be the Battle that Beamer had with the Pitiful Programmer.   In that case, you could think of this blog, this battledome, as my product.  And the way I created this product was by taking Steve’s plug in and adding my own twist to it and then printing it here on this blog for you to see.  In fact, I actually DID create a product based on Steve’s plug in.  That free download over there in the sidebar, the one titled How To Get More Out If WP Unique, is a product that I created by putting a different spin on a product that Steve had already created.  I just didn’t charge anything for it.  Wasn’t that nice of me?

So, how does the Arrogant Alchemist plan to take my problems that I’m having with $97 ebooks, mix them up with a little bit of PLR, and take over the Battledome?  What could these two things possibly have in common?

Well, for starters, for those of you who have never looked up there in your address bar because you’ve been too busy  sipping on beers and eating all of my popcorn, the Battledome and $97 ebooks are under the same roof.  Clean up the mess in one room and suddenly the whole house appears brighter.

The Alchemists tells me that if I were to do a major renovation on $97, I’d be able to increase my productivity, lighten my workload, make all of my customers happy and make a lot more money.  He says that if I were to turn $97 into a membership site and deal in PLR products, it could basically run itself and all I would have to do is add content occasionally.

And the only way I can prove him right or wrong is to let him

Take Over the ‘Dome!

So here’s what’s going on in the other room right now even as we speak –

I’m going to take a big chance and follow the Alchemist’s suggestions.  Because that’s what Boo and I do here.  We follow these Warriors, step-by-step to see if they really know what they’re talking about so YOU don’t have to waste your money if they DON’T.  And this one is a big risk, I must admit.  Like I said, there’s a lot of effort that’s gone into building both areas of this house and if one side crumbles the whole thing turns into just one big pile of matchsticks.

Here’s a peek at what’s happening across the hall…

  • I am turning $97 into a membership site.  And we will be dealing in PLR.  Now, this is all at the Alchemist’s suggestion.  The PLR we will be dealing in is NOT the rewriting of articles and ebooks.  We will be offering original PLR products.  You’ll learn more about that when we launch next Saturday, but for now, just know that we are following one of the Alchemist’s steps here.
  • The Alchemist also suggests that most Internet Marketers leave tons of money on the table because they’re perfectly happy selling that $47 ebook to 5 or 6 people a month and they don’t think about ways to increase their sales with that $47 ebook.  So what we’re going to do is use the PLR products that we’re going to sell as the opening for a sales funnel that will lead off into many different directions.  That PLR product will simply be a means of showing you the value of our product and from there you’ll be led to the custom ebooks and articles and sales pages that $97 Ebooks is really all about.

So, we’re following the Alchemist’s plan here.  We are building a membership site with PLR products as the opening offer in our sales funnel.  And what really sucks for ME, but really benefits YOU, is that I have to tell you that that’s what we’re doing here.  Since I’m trying to show you whether or not the Alchemist is a charlatan, I have to show you each step we’re taking here.  So I can’t just lead you, blindly, into my sales funnel, as most other Internet Marketers would do.  I’m going to have to work doubly hard now to get you to even look over the edge of the funnel becuase you’ll know what’s going on and you’re not going to miss a trick – or be taken in by one either.  But, this IS the Battledome and we’re very serious about showing your every step we take here.

For those of you new to Internet Marketing, you’ll want to pay attention and learn everything you can about the term “Sales Funnel”.  You may think it’s OK to put up a page and sell a $17 or a $27 ebook.  But you’ll have to put up a lot of pages to make any kind of money at it.  What you really need to do is put a back end offer on that ebook.  In fact, you should really consider giving it away for free on your blog or your website.  And THEN put a better back end offer on it.  That ebook should just be the first step the customer takes after they’ve decided you’re someone they want to deal with.

We’ve already taken several of the sub-steps required to kick this membership site off.  And the first step is naturally the hardest.  For me anyway.

The first thing I did was pick up a copy of Micro Membership being offered in a WSO by Ralph Pruitt on the Warrior Forum.  This is a very inexpensive plug in, only $27, that works with your Wordpress site to create a really easy to use membership site.  There are a lot of membership scripts out there, that cost a LOT more money.  But I prefer working with Wordpress and Ralph has been extrememly helpful in the process.

Now, don’t go thinking that I’m doing this all myself.  Because you all know how technologically challenged I am.  I actually paid for the plug in, but my very dear friend FlipDiva, of BlogsByFlipDiva.com is handling the installation and set up for me.  She says it’s easy, I say – yeah, rrriiiiigggghhhttt.  Anyway, it’s a pretty nifty plug in so if you’re interested you should check it out.  And I’m sure Flip could be talked into installing it for you, too.

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Click Here To See What Beamer Reads For Fun And Profit

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Do you have the ARROGANCE?!

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