This is a story of how a Fortune 500 company turned a failure into a spectacular failure (that shouldn’t have happened) and what you can learn from it for your own business.
In the early 90′s, I worked for Motorola as a consultant on a project called EMBARC. EMBARC was a 1 1/2 way pager with [...]
Entries from May 29th, 2010
The Importance of Learning From Failure
May 29th, 2010 · No Comments · It's Your Business, Public Domain How-To
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Using Public Domain Content For Local Offline Marketing
May 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Case Studies, Public Domain How-To
I have a friend that has a highly profitable offline Information Publishing business catering to a very tightly focused market ~ Veterinarians.
She has no website, she has very little overhead, she has no employees (in her info publishing business anyway) and yet she produces a product using 100% Public Domain content that she sells to [...]
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Find Public Domain Treasure by Touring Your Local Library Online! Part II
May 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Public Domain How-To
Last week, we talked about “Finding Public Domain Treasure by Touring Your Local Library Online!”.
Have you been waiting for Part II? I hope so… because your local library could open up an entire new set of ideas for you.
At the very least, it gives you access to “bunches o’ stuff” you may not have otherwise known were [...]
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Choosing How To Use Public Domain Content
May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Public Domain How-To
Finally – you have learned the secrets of digging out those Public Domain Content gems.
Once you have “figured it out” – the light bulb is burning bright – then what?
I got this question today -
Good Morning Debra,
I have a question that maybe you could cover in one of your newsletters…
If you have quite a bit [...]
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Find Public Domain Treasure by Touring Your Local Library Online!
May 22nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Public Domain How-To
Sometimes you just need to hold that old book in your hand.
Oh sure… it’s much easier to spend hours online downloading all those great Public Domain books onto your hard-drive. It’s already in a digital format, just ready for you to chop up and create your next brand new project.
But… did you know that you [...]
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Profit Frog – Hundreds of Public Domain “Profitable Hobbies” Magazine Articles & More
May 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Books, Public Domain Magazines
Here’s an odd yet very interesting and potentially profitable site – ProfitFrog.com.
One of the things that attracted me to this site is the fact that it hosts reprints of exactly 350 articles from the Public Domain magazine “Profitable Hobbies”…
From the site:
“From 1945 through 1956 Profitable Hobbies magazine published hundreds of ways that men and women made money [...]
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Vintage Printable ~ A Magic Carpet Ride of Public Domain Art & Ephemera
May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Images
Here’s a fun site that’s chock full of wonderful Public Domain Art and Imagery from old books, paintings, photographs, maps, and more!
About Vintage Printable (from the site)…
Welcome! Vintage Printable provides public domain antique scientific, naturalist, and other images for you to print or download. The illustrations here are curated by me, Swivelchair, an anonymous biopharma [...]
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Hybrid Content Theory & The Joy of Republishing Public Domain Cookbooks
May 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Essential Reading, Public Domain How-To
Last week, we discussed “The 5 Modes of Public Domain Publishing” and how knowing what “mode” you are working in can help guide you in properly positioning your products in your target market.
In summary, the five common basic modes we as Public Domain Publishers usually work in when creating products using content from Public Domain books and other [...]
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Shorpy ~ An Amazing Collection of Hi-Def Photographs From The Library of Congress
May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Case Studies, Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Images
Here’s a fine example of how to monetize Public Domain photographs from the Library of Congress archives by restoring them and offering them for sale as high-definition prints…
About Shorpy…
Shorpy is an online archive of thousands of high-resolution photos from the 1850s to 1950s. Our namesake, Shorpy Higginbotham, was a teenage coal miner who lived 100 [...]
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Six Ways to Profit From Public Domain Movies
May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Public Domain How-To
The Public Domain consists of tens of millions of books, images, musical items, architectural items, films and more.
And it is not just materials that were once copyrighted but are no longer that are in the Public Domain. Almost everything produced by the U.S. government is in the Public Domain once it is created. This includes [...]
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