Zbaum’s Blog

A while back I created some technology for Yanik Silver and Jim Edwards to help their affiliates promote their products.  They are both excellent at giving affiliates the proper tools, to make their affiliates successful and in turn themselves more successfully, not that either of those two guys needs any more help being successful

So this technology was just sitting on my server, only being used by their affiliates.  We had a product idea that we could create with this technology, but it faded, and never saw the light of day, especially with their super packed list of other projects, it just went on the backburner.

So I took it upon myself to create something that would actually give people value, and hopefully help their affiliate marketing efforts, oh and give it away for FREE!  I actually do really get a great feeling from seeing people use something that I created, and actually have it be useful, and help them make money!

So what is this technology?

It is a kick-ass way to create and distribute viral content, and in specific viral PDFs.  For those of you that don’t know what a Viral PDF is I will explain it very briefly.  It is a PDF that can be branded to a specific person.  The simplest example I can think of is personalizing a document to include a person’s name.  So instead of “Dear friend”, it could say “Dear Adam” or “Dear Mr. Zilberbaum”, whatever the name that has been “inputted”, or “branded”.  If this doesn’t make sense there are videos available at the Viral Content Creator website.

Big deal there is a lot of Viral PDF Software…What makes yours different?

There are many, many, many places that sell ways to create viral PDFs, but they are all such a huge pain-in-ass.  You either need to download software, or you need to format in HTML or some other weird format, and they are charging between $100-200.  So not only  are these methods complicated to use but they are also charging.  I couldn’t believe what I saw from the “competition”, and they are not even really competition because they do not offer a free service, and this is exactly why I created Viral Content Creator.

So how does Viral Content Creator work?

I wanted Viral Content Creator to work with something that everyone already knows how to use, so I figured what better solution than Microsoft Word.  Since most people are already using MS Word for their documents, I knew it was perfect. That is why Viral PDF templates are uploaded to our site from a MS Word document, it’s really that simple.  The only editing a publisher needs to do is insert merge fields into the word document.  This is a really simple process and of course videos are up on the site explaining how it all works.  I showed my girlfriend and couple other non-computer people the videos to make sure that the process really was as simple as I believed it to be.   And they all said yea that is “super easy”, so I made them prove it, they all had to create Viral PDF templates using Microsoft Word.  They all passed with flying colors and with no assistance from me!  So I knew I had a winner.

Some other cool features…

A couple other nice features  that I really like besides the simplicity, is when an affiliate finds a Viral PDF to brand, all they have to do is fill-in-the-blanks and click the Create PDF button.  I don’t think the process for affiliates could be any easier. If the affiliate is not an affiliate for that publisher, to the right of the fill-in-the-blank field, is a link that opens in a new window and allows for the affiliate to sign-up for the publisher’s affiliate program.  How cool is that?  In case I did not make point clear, after the Create PDF button is clicked, the PDF gets created instantly on-the-fly, right there….and contains all of the “branded” information!

My future vision of the website / Mission

As I said before I really do enjoy seeing people benefit from something that I have created, it  is one of the things I enjoy about being a software engineer at my core, as well as the massive problem solving involved.  The way I would like to see Viral Content Creator evolve over time, is not just a place where publishers send their affiliates to brand Viral PDFs, but a place where anyone who wants to find quality content for any niche can go to help supplement their own site’s content.  Of course they will be able to monetize, but this will be a direct effect from actually helping to provide the user with good information, and not junk!  As the web is becoming more and more transparent, and the free-line of information moves deeper and deeper into real, useful information.  Meaning that what used to be something that was sold as a lower end product will now be given away for free.   I am a firm believer in offering people value, and it will at some point come back to benefit you in some shape or form.  This is why I really want this to be a place where actual value can be found and given way for free,  and make publishers, affiliates and users all benefit.