Are you stuck without the videos required for your video marketing exercise? Use
the public domain. It has a number of items from almost every conceivable
segment. The oriental as well as the occidental, you will find everything there.
Go for it and grab your share of the internet wealth. Consider the following
steps to use the public domain effectively.

1. The U.S. public domain holds an array of films on space program, news clips,
movie trailers, industrial films etc. Several of these have been digitized and
you can download them for free.

2. Most of the digitized versions are of a high quality and can be quickly
converted into a DVD like product to be enjoyed through TV. You know now how to
use this raw material for your profits, and it is perfectly legitimate too.

3. Archileve.org is one website which can be of immense help to you when you are
looking for public domain material. You can also use Google to fine tune your
search for specifics.

4. As a sample project, you could download material relating to life in U.S.A
during the 1940s and build a website around that theme. Spice it up with some
clips from World War II and the aftermath. Once you are finished, look for
companies selling memorabilia and sell the real estate on your site to them.

5. If you are gifted with a creative bend of mind, try putting together several
movies or film clips around a subject and build a documentary.

Are you stuck without the videos required for your video
marketing exercise? Use the public domain. It has a number
of items from almost every conceivable segment.

Public domain maps are a really great source of material for making money.

The first thought that enters everyone’s mind when thinking maps is just
reprinting them in a variety of formats and selling them as reproductions. This
is a very good way to earn an income from public domain maps. Prices you can
charge vary based on type of paper being used and the size of the reproduction.
Wide format reprints printed on archival papers or canvas can get as much as
$100 or more at a reproduction cost of $20-$30 depending on materials and size
of the print.

But reprinting maps is only one way that you can earn money in this lucrative
field.

Aside from the standard idea of making prints or wide format prints of maps,
there are many other great ways to earn an income from public domain maps.

1) You could print postcards of maps or particular scenes in maps. Many of the
old maps are beautiful and have many fascinating scenes contained within them
that would make excellent postcards or postcard sets. As an idea, you could make
a postcard set of a popular tourist town, get them professionally printed and
sell them to all the gift shops in that town.

2) You could make mousepads of maps. And with a service like cafepress
(http://www.cafepress.com), you can completely automate the manufacturing and
delivery. Lots of history buffs would love having an old map of their home town
or of the Civil War or of any other notable period of history they fancy.

3) You could create compilations of related maps on a CD or DVD. Make
collections of civil war maps, town maps for a particular state old gold mining
maps, etc.

4) You could compile a collection of maps with descriptions into a book (and
again use a service like cafepress to produce them on demand.) If you’ve been in
a bookstore, you will see these collections selling at a very good price.
Popular topics for map books include war strategy maps and early exploration
maps.

5) You could use the maps to build a variety of interesting screensavers. There
are many free or low cost screensaver programs available to help you build your
custom screensavers. You can sell the screensavers of offer them for a free
download in return for building a mailing list or introducing people to your
website.

6) If you are ambitious, you could use something like the old panoramic maps at
the Library of Congress to build advertising pieces – like restaurant placements
- for the towns that are represented in the collection. The map would be in the
center with the ads around the edge.

7) You could produce any type of hardgood – mugs, t-shirts, etc. with map
images. Cafepress offers a variety of items that you can print on. They even let
you build your very own store where customers can shop. They do all the back
office work and you collect a check based on your sales. So with Cafepress, you
could build your very own map t-shirt and mug store if you wanted.

That is certainly enough ideas to help get your creative juices revved up to the
non traditional possibilities of public domain map revenue opportunities.

One of the best sources of public domain maps is the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html.

Public domain maps are a goldmine of untapped income
opportunities. This article explores seven non-traditional
methods that a product developer could use to generate a
substantial income based on public domain maps.

I bet this little secret is going to get YOU excited… just like it did me. I
just discovered public domain treasures and it’s a perfect business opportunity
for many new internet entrepreneurs.

Did you know there’s a little known loophole in US law that allows anyone to
distribute, resell or give away expired copyrighted content? Officially, its
called public domain, and savvy marketers “borrow” it to publish instant
products.

Public domain refers to anything that is NOT protected under US copyright law.
This includes all works published before 1923 and under certain conditions,
works published up to 1978. A “work” can be anything, a book, movies, plays,
songs, photographs, instruction manuals, posters, courses, reports, etc. You
could take these works, repackage them and sell them for a profit. By tapping
into public domain content, all the nitty gritty work has been done for you.

There are almost an endless number of ways that you can make money with public
domain content. Let me suggest 10 different models you can use to activate and
tap the public domain treasures.

Model 1: Resell It.
You can re-publish public domain content exactly as it is. Whether it’s a book,
a movie or even music, you can take this content and quickly turn it into a
product. Just copy it as it is and start selling it.

Model 2: Website Content
You can take the text of the public domain work which relates to a product you
are selling or an affiliate program that you are promoting. You then create web
pages and include links back to your product page.

Model 3: Repackage
You can repackage a public domain work into a new product. You can use the
ideas and some of the content of public domain works to create new and better
products.

Eg. Walt Disney characters Snow White, the Little Mermaid were all stories from
the public domain.

Model 4: Multimedia
You can change the books in print into a CD or even a video set. Add to the
perceived value of the product by offering ways to consume the information. What
was once simply a “book” can now be a complete home study course or training
program.

Eg. The famous “Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill has been made into an
audio CD which is a more convenient format.

Model 5: Reprint Rights
You could sell your version of the information product along with marketing
materials. People love reprint rights and it’s a quick and easy way to make tons
of money immediately. You can sell reprint rights only to a derivative product
you have created from the original public domain material.

Model 6: Upsell
You can use public domain works and use then as an “upsell” to a regular
version of your best selling product. You simply present your buyer with an
additional opportunity to “upgrade” their order or add something to their order.

Model 7: Bonuses
Simply use the work as a bonus to your main offering. People love bonuses and
will buy a product just for the bonus, if its unique and not something they’ve
seen all over the net already.

Model 8: Viral E-books
You simply take parts of the book and turn it into a viral e-book by allowing
others to pass along or even sell this e-book as their own. Once you trigger the
“virus” its nearly impossible to make it stop because people keep passing it on
and than these people keep passing it on etc, etc.

Eg. Rebecca fine from Seattle, WA used this exact technique to accidentally
launch her six figure business with an interesting book, written in 1910 “The
Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D.Wattles. You can “super-size” this
strategy by creating a viral e-book with the material and then including
affiliate links that pay you commissions anytime someone buys from your
recommended resources.

Model 9: Google AdSense
You can use the material to create an information-rich website and then place a
tiny piece of code from Google to run their AdSense program on your site. You’ll
essentially partner-up with Google and get paid a percentage for everyone that
simply clicks on the ads Google places on your site.

Model 10: Articles/ Mini Courses
You could use little contents from public domain works and create a mini-course
that people would subscribe from your site. You just load a series of 4 to 10
articles into your auto-responders and it delivers it on a total auto-pilot.

You can also use the material into 500-800 word articles to distribute for free
publicity and traffic to your sites. Editors of e-zines and owners of web sites
are always looking for hot fresh content and in exchange they’ll send you over
targeted traffic.

Eg. Matt Furey discovered a little unknown book on “Catch Wrestling” and turned
it into a complete manual and video e-course of 12 lessons for his market of
fitness and wrestling buffs. He had earned over $1million dollars in sales from
this one book.

Among the topics available in the public domain treasures are:

Health & Fitness

Fun & Games

Sports & Recreation

Hobbies & Crafts

Education & Self Improvement

Food & Cooking

Animal & Pets

Home Garden & much much more.

Public domain works provides a huge opportunity to newbies in the internet world
to tap these vast treasures. Simply put, you can use these works to instantly
create e-books, manuals, articles, reports or any other type of information
products in a snap. GOOD LUCK!

Discover the treasure that lies hidden in the public domain
works and repackage the content as your own money making
information product.

Whether or not you actually like to cook, you can make a great deal of money by
revamping recipes and cookbooks you can freely access from the public domain.
There are several ways you can do this. We’ll go over a few of them here.

Ingredients are Free – That is, Ingredients are free from copyright in the first
place so whether or not they are in the public domain, you don’t have to worry
about copyright infringement by using the same set of ingredients that someone
else uses. But let’s say you do procure an old cookbook that is in the public
domain. You probably will have to change the ingredients somewhat, especially if
brand names that are no longer in existence are used. Also, pay attention to the
processes that are used and update them accordingly. Think about which, if any,
appliances, mixer, blender, microwave oven, etc, might need to be used that were
not mentioned in the original recipe. Also pay attention to the verbiage used in
the ingredients. For example, if the recipe calls for lard, you might substitute
vegetable oil or olive oil.

Make it Yours – Even if the cookbook or recipe is a part of the public domain,
infuse your own personality into it by recreating the list of instructions. You
can revamp a recipe in no time like this and add it to a blog or create an
e-book around a certain type of food or a certain way to cook. You can then add
affiliate links and promote products that go along with the recipes, which gives
you a virtually limitless list of products to promote.

Add Photographs – The cookbook or recipes you get from the public domain may or
may not come with photographs but you can certainly add your own. If you really
get into the whole cooking and marketing bit, you can test the recipes yourself,
take pictures, and post them all on your blog or website. If you’re just trying
to make a quick buck, you can certainly repackage old cookbooks but you probably
won’t do as well without adding the personal touch.

Recipes for Health – You don’t have to have a cooking or recipe blog or website
to make great use of recipes you get from the public domain. Many health and
fitness blogs and websites could be greatly enhanced with recipes that are good
for certain diseases and conditions. Diabetes, for example, is a condition that
is blog about and written about a lot online and if you have such a site, you
could certainly enhance it with recipes you get from the public domain, even if
they are not exactly diabetic to begin with. During the revamping process, you
can reinvent them to where they would be healthy for diabetics. You can try this
with a variety of health and fitness topics. Remember, the closer you are to
your subject, the better you are going to come across to your site visitors
because they are going to be able to tell that you are passionate about your
subject. That does not mean that you have to have diabetes or another condition
to promote healthful recipes but do take into consideration your personal
interests before starting such a project. Even if the love of your life is
chocolate, you can do this type of project and do it well so there is something
here for virtually everyone.

Whether or not you actually like to cook, you can make a
great deal of money by revamping recipes and cookbooks you
can freely access from the public domain. There are several
ways you can do this. We’ll go over a few of them here.

The genre of fantasy has a long history and one of the benefits of this is that
there are now lots of great fantasy books available in the public domain. Here
is a guide to some of these books both famous and not so famous.

William Morris is generally attributed with creating the modern genre of the
epic fantasy quest and Tolkien himself gives a lot of credit to Morris as an
inspiration for his own writing. The story idea of a Morris novel will be
familiar to you. It is of a young man who is thrown into a grand adventure to
save the world. In the adventure he must travel across strange and wonderful
lands while battling strange and magical creatures. His two most famous works
are The Well at the World’s End and The Wood Beyond the World. Both of these
books are freely available at Gutenburg.org.

Edith Nesbit is the creator of the modern fantasy novel for children. The theme
of her work usually is about several children in modern life who get
inexplicably thrown into the mystery, intrigue and wonder of a magical other
world. This is a theme that has been wonderfully expanded on my C.S. Lewis in
his Narnia novels. She published about 40 novels in the genre of children’s
fantasy and her best known works are The Story of the Treasure Seekers and Five
Children and It (Which has been made into a motion picture).

Edgar Rice Burroughs is another author from the turn of the century who wrote an
enormous amount of varying materials in the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Some of his more popular works include the Tarzan series and The Gods of Mars
series. The Gods of Mars series is eleven volumes long and the first volume is
The Princess of Mars. Of particular note to the fan of fantasy are his
Pellucidar novels. All of these works are freely available at Gutenburg.org.

There are many famous works of fantasy that are now in the public domain and if
you are looking for a familiar work you may want to consider the works of Lewis
Carroll or Hans Christian Andersen. Some other classic favorites would be
Aesop’s fables or The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night translated by Sir
Richard Francis Burton.

There are lots of great Fantasy books for children, teens and adults freely
available in the public domain and all of the books and authors I have listed
here in this article can be found at gutenburg.org. If you love fantasy and want
to delve into it without digging into your wallet these are some great choices.

The genre of fantasy has a long history and one of the
benefits of this is that there are now lots of great fantasy
books available in the public domain. Here is a guide to
some of these books both famous and not so famous.