Create Videos or Audio Tapes of Content from the Public Domain

Many people using public domain information look for the fastest way possible to profit, and that usually means selling the original public domain product ‘as is’, making no changes at all, and generally they end up sharing the market for information products with other lazy marketers.  There is an easier way.  Let me show you how this easier and much more profitable way works for anyone keen on creating video and audio tapes while also creating unique products and having little or no competition.

For audio tapes this might simply involve getting someone with a good clear speaking voice to read the entire text which you record onto single or multiple audio tapes.  Single tapes are hot sellers, multiple tape sets are even hotter sellers.  And the more you do to add to your single or multiple tape sets the less competition there will be for your products.  To be really different, instead of recording your multiple tape series from just one public domain original item, record them from a wide range of public domain items, usually based on one theme, but not necessarily.

Ideas:

-  Get a selection of books about Victorian magic tricks.  Take trick types, such as card tricks, slight of hand, levitation, from across a broad range of public domain books.  Create a video tape for each trick type, sell videos them separately or as a pack, showing someone teaching a selection of tricks of one main type per video.  At the end of each video talk about other trick types available on other videos and tell viewers how to order those other products.

-  Take a specific author, well known or unknown, (but a good writer all the same), and have someone record their stories, articles or books to audio tape.  One of the best things about writers whose work is now in the public domain is that many were largely unknown during their lifetime, their work may have been published in low circulation magazines and newspapers, and their work may have appeared many times in some publications.  These publications, say from the 1900s and earlier, are now in the public domain and can easily be picked up for pennies at boot sales, flea markets and auctions.  Read a few stories to judge quality and story telling or other forms of writing ability and choose one or two writers to feature on your audio tapes.  Again have someone with a clear voice read the stories, articles, books, and offer them singly or in groups.  You will find some wonderful children’s stories from Victorian and earlier writers which are ripe for converting to audio or video and should sell like hot cakes on eBay and elsewhere online.