Doing something I've neglected for a while - creating a rebrandable guide

[KevinRiley]

I did a few of these back in 2008-09, and then neglected creating any more throughout 2010 and most of 2011. Dumb move. Those early rebrandables brought me lots of business.

So, I've buckled down and created a (IMO) great new step-by-step guide and made it rebrandable (with PDFBrand, this is too easy not to do). Then, I spent much of today creating a sales page, squeeze page, and directions to rebranding for my customers (I'll be selling resale rights to a guide that makes them two streams of income).

In a few days, I'll start selling resell rights and the full package (rebrandable guide, sales page, squeeze page, confirm page, thank you page, and directions PDF). This will, of course, bring in a direct income in sales, but it will also bring streams of targeted traffic to my new viral ad system (there's a rebrandable link in the guide that sets up the reseller with a nice source of commissions on my new system - we both win).

So, what's the moral for you? To get more affiliates for your own products, consider creating a rebrandable lead-in guide or report.

[ChristineCobb]

Hey Kevin
Can you talk about PDFBrand and how it compares with other rebranders you have tried. I have used ViralPDF but it's now conflicting with my AntiVirus program.

[nicoledean]

Funny. That's the topic I wrote about at IncomeCPR.com this month. Brandable Reports are so under-used and so very effective. I look forward to learning how you use them.

If you'd have any bonuses that you'd like to give my members or a case study, I'd be happy to send it out to them.

:) N

[KevinRiley]

Sorry Chris

I'm a total bozo. It is ViralPDF (got PDFBrand off the re-brander inside ViralPDF). Working fine with my AVG.

[ChristineCobb]

Thanks Kevin. I think I'm going to switch to AVG because I like ViralPDF.

[susannemyers]

Kevin, what a great eye opening post. I've used brandable reports for years, but never thought of making my paid products viral and then selling them with resell rights .. brilliant. This is definitely going on my to-do list for November.

[Jack Born]

I use a solution that I believe is better because your affiliates don't have to download anything. I created it myself and you can see a demo at

http://www.boxshotking.com/affiliate-resources/

The affiliate id is set as soon as they go to the site using their affiliate id

Example:
http://www.boxshotking.com/affiliate-resources/?id=surefirejb

That's my affiliate id.

In the recent webinar I did with David Perdew I talked a lot about "friction" and how any friction your affiliates hit will reduce how many affiliates promote and how many of your tools they incorporate into their promotions.

With downloadable branders, like Viral PDF, your affiliates have to:
1) Download the exe
1b) Have windows or the ability to boot into windows if they're on a Mac
2) Feel comfy about installing the exe file
3) Install the exe
4) Manually add their data
5) Run the exe and save the file

My plugin for generating these PDFs will be available to purchase shortly.

I wasn't planning on talking about this in the forum but this is one of those "I didn't like what was available so I built my own"

So wanted to add my two cents to the post.

[nicoledean]

That is super cool, Jack!

[Jack Born]

Thanks Nicole.