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This secret made one woman R320-million in 2 years
Money Making Insider | 18 February, 2010 | Hot Topics:
The 'law of attraction' is something that's quoted widely in self-help books.
The idea, basically, is that your thoughts are like magnets: bad thoughts create bad situations and good thoughts create happiness, success, wealth and prosperity.
You may believe this to be true.
Some say the theory dates back to 3,000BC. Legend has it William Shakespeare and Julius Caesar believed in the law of attraction. There are many others who will swear blind that the power of positive thought bought love, riches, happiness and abundance into their lives...
Me - I'm not sure about it.
It just seems a bit too... nebulous.
I don't believe that concentrating your thoughts on something is enough to make it happen (or not happen).
In my experience, positive results require ACTION.
In any case, whether you believe in it or not is largely irrelevant to today's email. I bring it up merely to highlight the proven profit power of something else. Something Lewis Geary shared with me last week….
This secret made one woman R320-million in 2 years
Lewis Geary
Rhonda found a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles in the public domain.
The book was all about the law of attraction, and how you can use it to bring wealth, happiness and abundance into your life, simply by concentrating your thoughts appropriately.
As the book had fallen out of copyright, Rhonda was free to take it, use it, reproduce it and sell it, in any way she wanted.
She did just that - and a few months later, the global phenomenon known as "The Secret" was born. First, as an Internet-only pay-per-view film, which became a huge viral / underground hit. Then as a book, which has now been printed in 38 different languages. There are further spin-off books and movies in the pipeline.
It's been reported that the success of "The Secret" book, online film and DVD made its creator Rhonda Byrne around R320- million in two years.
In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of '100 people who shape the world'.
Not bad when you consider all of this came from a book she found in the public domain that had fallen out of copyright!
Now I'm sure Rhonda has worked extremely hard for her success. She's a very clever lady. She has repackaged Wallace Wattle's work very well - the marketing for her products is extremely slick, and she's acquired quite a following.
But the point is: she didn't create this work from scratch. She re-interpreted it and repackaged it.
You can do this, too
If the idea of making money on the Internet excites you - but you don't have either the time or talent to create your own product to sell, this is virtually on a plate for you.
There's a huge stockpile of public domain works available; hundreds of thousands of books, articles and pages there for the taking... and this cache grows daily.
Whatever kind of information product you want to create: Fitness, investing, gardening, self-help, knitting, pets, you name it; there’s a huge stash of ready-made content online that you can grab for nothing, republish on the Internet in whatever format you'd like, sell on as many times as you like for as much money as you like - and, best of all, pocket all the profit!
The information is all there for you. You just need to know what to do with it. Here are three suggestions - they may not make you the same money as "The Secret" has made for Rhonda Byrne, but we've all got to start somewhere...
1) You could update and rewrite the book, and sell it online - through a website, through affiliate marketers or through an email, if you have an email list.
2) You could break the work up into chapters and sell each chapter as an eBook or report ... or the whole thing as a multi-part home study course
3) You could even record yourself reading the book out chapter by chapter - then create a set of audio CDs you can sell as a home study course.
Of course there's some work involved whatever you decide to do - but it's a lot less hassle than having to write the whole thing yourself, from scratch.
A great starting point for finding free-to-reproduce work is Google. Type in "Public Domain books" and hit search.
Or you can visit one of the specialist online public domain depositories. The most famous of these is "Project Gutenberg" - named after the doe-eyed actor from the Police Academy films.
Not really... it's actually named after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution - you knew that, didn't you?
You can visit the Project Gutenberg website by clicking here...
A word of advice though - check the copyright laws VERY carefully before you start copying and pasting huge swathes of someone else's work.
Laws governing when works fall out of copyright differ from country to country - so make sure you know where you stand before you re-publish any work.
This proves that you don't have to have a new, original idea to make a heap of money.
You don't have to be the world's greatest thinker or the world's greatest writer to have a multi-million- selling book or DVD.
You just need to know where to find works that have fallen out of copyright, and reproduce them.
Whatever money you make from these sales is yours - no royalties, no profit-sharing, no commissions.
I don’t know about you - but that sounds like a GREAT idea to me!
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