Wednesday, October 22, 2008

How to make money using public domain information by A. W. Metzger

Make money on public domain informations

There are lots and lots of free information available out there on the public domain. Do you know that you can make money out of it?

What is Public Domain? A simple way of explaining what public domain is that it has expired copyright and it is open to the public to use anyway they want to.

5 tips on how to make money using public domain information.

1. Images

One way of making money using public domain is using through images. There are hundreds even thousands of free public domain images out there. You can use these images in your business i.e. promoting or building websites etc.

2. Audio

Another way of making lots of money by using public domain is through audio. There are loads of places to go; you just have to search for them. They are all free and you can use them anyway you want to. You can use this audio for your business or for a movie. The ways you can use it is endless.

3. E-Books

Books - There are loads and loads of books on the public domain. You can down these books from the public domain - royalty free, and then use them yourself as a e-book and sell them on your sites.


4. - Prints/Posters and Maps

Prints/Posters/Maps - Prints is a very large area of the public domain and with modern printing equipment, you can actually run a highly profitable print shop in your house.
Prints can come in all sizes - anything from postcard size to huge posters - and can be offered on a variety of papers and materials - even canvas. So what can be printed? The
list is almost endless. You could print civil war photographs, old maps NASA space mission images, Military images, fine art posters. You can even combine elements of images and build your own unique images for printing - like a series of motivational posters with moving scenes and motivational quotes blazoned across the top of the poster.

5. Cards

Cards - There are a variety of cards that can be made of public domain images. These include postcards, playing cards, flash cards, sports cards, etc. The key to success in the card business is again to theme the cards to an interest that you identified. For instance, the Library of Congress has a great collection of baseball cards from around 1900 online. An enterprising person could use them to make decks of playing cards and market them during baseball season. Lots of folks who like baseball play cards and would be thrilled to have such a unique pack of cards to enjoy while playing their game. Or maybe you could republish the cards as a limited collectors set. Or use them as the basis of an early baseball trivia game. Or a set of postcards. As you can see, there are a number of ways you can use cards with public domain images to make interesting products.

I have only put 5 tips here in where you can use public domain stuff for different uses. But there is loads of different ways you can use public domain stuff.

My name is Alex Metzger, I have partnered up with my dad, William Metzger. I am the A in AW Metzger. The company that i work for is Market Impact and what we do is that we find
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