ABOUT SEAN KELLY (CREATOR OF VIRAL PDF)
Sean Kelly is a software developer who creates software
applications related to PDF files. His products include
PDF Locker, PDF Printer and Viral PDF.
ABOUT VIRAL PDF
Viral PDF is a piece of software allowing you to brand PDF
files that you have created. What this means is that you
can allow readers to rebrand certain links within the PDF
with their own links. For example, maybe you could allow
readers to change certain links to their own website.
Alternatively, you could allow readers to convert links to
your own product into affiliate links so that they would
get a commission everytime this link generates a sale.
You may be wondering why you would want to allow readers to
change certain links in your report when you've gone to all
the trouble of creating it. Well there are a number of
reasons, but the main application will be if you want your
PDF to go viral i.e. you want it to be distributed as
widely as possible across the Internet. For example, if
you have created a short report which contains links to
your premium product and has the main purpose of selling
your premium product, you will want as many people as
possible to see this report. The more people that see the
report, the more chances you have to sell your premium
product.
So first you will grant resell rights and/or giveaway
rights to this report. However, what's the incentive for
people to resell/giveaway your report instead of other
reports? What about a cut of all the commissions that
their report generates? If they can rebrand this report
with their affiliate link to your product, then they will
gain a commission everytime their report generates a sale
for you, so they will be much more motivated to distribute
it. It's a win-win situation for both you and the reader.
The reader wins because they get paid to distribute a
product they haven't even had to create. You win because
you get affiliates selling your premium product for you.
Therefore, by making your report brandable, you can
seriously increase it's distribution across the Internet.
Now you know what Viral PDF does and why you would want to
use it in this way, I will now discuss Viral PDF's ease of
use. Basically, you prepare your ebook as normal except
the links and text you want to rebrand have to have an -8-
tag on either side. Now I'll be honest. It did take a
little while getting used to writing my ebooks in this way,
but once you've written a few ebooks which have been
formatted for rebranding you start to get the hang of it.
The instruction manual that is included with Viral PDF is
well written and explains this tag system perfectly. Once
you have tagged everything (text and links) you want to
rebrand, you can then convert the document into PDF format.
There are two pieces of software included with Viral PDF;
the Viral PDF Signer and the Viral PDF Rebrander. Once
you've written your ebook in the correct format and
converted it into PDF, the next step is to sign the PDF
file. To do this, you open the Viral PDF Signer, drag
across the PDF file you want to be signed, click Sign and
then save it. This really is an easy step (just drag and
drop) and once you have done this your PDF file is all
ready to be rebranded. The signed copy is what you will be
distributing to your customers with the Viral PDF Rebrander
so they can rebrand it.
Overall, Viral PDF is not the easiest product to use. You
don't simply select the links and choose what you want them
replaced with. However, once you've done a few test runs
it gets pretty easy to use. What I really liked about
Viral PDF was Sean Kelly's customer service. I was having
problems with the Viral PDF Signer not working with my PDFs
(I was using Open Office to create my PDF files). Sean got
in touch promptly saying the problem was due to the
formatting of Open Office PDFs and he would begin work on
an update immediately. Sure enough, in a couple of days
Sean sent me the update and it worked perfectly.
My main criticism of this product is that it doesn't seem
to support encrypted PDF files. Therefore, people can copy
the text within your branded PDF file. Apart from that I
have no complaints. Viral PDF does everything Sean says it
will and once you've had a few runs it's pretty simple to
use.
GOOD POINTS
- You can give your customers more incentive to distribute
your ebooks.
- You can increase affiliate sales of your product. - You
can increase your website traffic.
- Sean's customer service is excellent.
BAD POINTS
- Viral PDF doesn't work with encrypted PDF files.
- The interface does require a little practice and takes
some getting used to.
HOW I HAVE GAINED FROM VIRAL PDF
I have created a number of brandable ebooks and plan to
develop more. I've also benefitted at the other end of the
scale. I have branded other people's ebooks, rebranded
them and received affiliate commissions for my efforts.
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