How To Create PDF Files For Free

As an Internet marketer building your own mailing list is very important. Your profits are made in repeat sales from your current customer base. In Internet marketing this is known as the "backend".

But to benefit from this you have to get people on your mailing list first. Using incentives in the form of free reports, mini-ebooks, etc have long been the staple incentive options for Internet marketers.

Most of these are PDF files. The problem for the budding Internet marketer here is that they simply don't have the cash to just throw around to buy a $100 peice of software. But thankfully I've found a way to create PDF files without using expensive software. In fact you can do it for free!

Ever wondered how to do this?

If you already have Adobe Acrobat or you've found another way to do it then stop reading right now. Otherwise read on...

I'm gonna keep this short & sweet:

One word: Open Office. It's completely free! Download it here.

Open Office is an equivalent to Microsoft Office. OO contains speadsheet, presentation, database and other capabilities. The one we're interested in here the word document moduule - OO's answer to Microsoft Word.

Now here's the deal: You write up your document, edit it, include your affiliate links & whatever other links you want.

Notice in the toolbar a PDF icon. When you're finished editing your document you just need to press this icon and OO will save it as a PDF file. Links and all!

The drawbacks
So far one drawback I can find is that you can't mask your affiliate links. There are a number of ways around this:

1. Use a URL redirect service such as TinyURL.com. You can also see if your webhost has this feature in their service. How to do it: Get your tinyURL URL and then go back and insert it into your document - before you export it as a PDF.
2. Direct them to a affiliate landing page (your affiliate website) where you further pesell them & warm them up first. The URL will of course be your own, not the merchants.
3. You can use an autoesponder sevice like Aweber to rediect to the sales page. I don't know how to do this but I recommend you visit the site www.aweber.com to find out how to do it. Failing this just "Google" the term "URL redirect" & see what comes up.

Alternatives

Acrobat has a 5 document trail, so you can go ahead and use this. But I wouldn't do so until I had all my documents (reports, mini ebooks, guides, cheat sheets, etc) ready first. Then it's just a matter of copy-&-paste.

Alternatively you can pay $9.99/month for unlimited PDF files creation. Clik here for more info.

In conclusion...

There are more complicated ways do create free PDF's. Uni students are often told about these, so we'll leave it to them. Otherwise if you know any just send them here to this post!

Yours in Life & Prosperity,

Paul Lambert.