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How to Sell Software Online

Posted on 29 January 2009 by snoob - web designer philippines

Are You A:

  • Software Developer?
  • Web Designer?
  • Wordpress Theme Designer?
  • Wordpress Plugin Developer?
  • A Publisher Selling eBooks?

And you want to:

  • Sell your products online?
  • Sell your software online?
  • Sell your wordpress themes & plugins online?
  • Gain affiliates that can promote your product? = More money?
  • Handle the payments easily?
  • Earn money while you sleep?

If your answer to the above questions are YES. Then you may want to sell your software or ANY digital products online. The problem now is where and how much?

E-Junkie is a service that will help you sell your products online. I have had a lot of publisher clients going with E-Junkie because its really simple to use and you got all the things you need to deliver your digital products online. All you have to do is upload and copy and paste the buy button and EJunkie will do it for you!

When you want to sell your digital products at e-junkie, you’ll just have to upload your product, then copy and paste your buy botton then ejunkie will process the payment for you. Your money will be sent to your paypal account and your buyer will receive the download link.

The best thing about the download link is that it is safe and encrypted and it will expire in a certain period of time in which you can also edit. This will protect your products from unnecessary “theft” compared to hosting your own product.

Here are more features of e-junkie

  • Easy to use, centrally managed service
  • Digital storage & delivery for files & codes
  • Supports multiple payment processors
  • Copy-paste Buy Now and Shopping Cart buttons
  • Supports variants for tangible products
  • Shipping and packaging calculator
  • Sales tax and VAT calculator
  • Packaged products
  • Inventory management
  • Product promotion
  • Discount codes
  • Affiliate management
  • Autoresponder, updates & newsletters
  • Sales tracking, built in support for Google Analytics
  • Customization
  • Download link renewals
  • Easy integration with 3rd party and custom services
  • Logs & e-mail notifications
  • and a lot more

The nice things about ejunkie is its marketplace where affiliate marketers can promote your products. You’ll set how much commission they will get for every sale they gave you. This is great, since digital products never expire, unlike physical products, you can sell it again and again. Let those affiliates work for you by paying them commissions and its like free money for you.

You might be asking, is there an alternative? Well yes, Clickbank, but clickbank charges A LOT for selling. And their marketplace has been known for selling Make money online scam ebooks. Also, Clickbank doesn’t accept some countries like the Philippines. Which makes e-junkie a great Clickbank alternative.

For affiliates, they pay via Paypal which makes it a lot better than clickbank check!

Ok, don’t take my word for it, just read the testimonial from Paypal itself!

If you sign up now, they have a FREE trial for sellers. While affiliates can already start promoting other products once accepted.

Start Selling at E-Junkie

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Your Wordpress Blog Into Classified Ads Website

Posted on 26 January 2009 by snoob - web designer philippines

You might have read on my previous post about ClassiPress. A wordpress theme that can turn your blog into a money generating classified ads wordpress site. You can either earn money by selling classified ads listings that are processed automatically using paypal or just make it free and ad adsense on it.

There is a new version of it right now which is the latest. That includes 5 color schemes to boot. More information about the new update is found below. To visit the classipress homepage just click on the link.

ClassiPress is the first and only premium WordPress theme designed to easily turn your Web site into a classified ads system. Our feature-rich theme was built for ease of use and tight integration with WordPress so you’ll be online and selling classified ads on your site within minutes.

Our product is great for any size business and easily scales because it’s built on top of the WordPress infrastructure. ClassiPress can either replace your current WordPress theme or run in parallel with your existing Web site so the choice is up to you.

Highlights Include:

  • PayPal Integration - Turn your Web site into a money maker. ClassiPress is built with PayPal integrated right into the theme. This allows you to charge a fee for anyone who wants to post a classified ad on your site (optional feature).
  • Instant Image Uploading - No more having to wait for customers to email you their images before posting the ad. Your customers can attached multiple images directly to the ad submission form.
  • Image Manager - Easily see what images have been uploaded and moderate as needed.
  • Auto Expire Ads - Automatically prune ads older than x amount of days. Makes it easier to set an ad price based on a specific time limit.
  • Subcategory Support - Our classified ads system supports nested categories for those who are looking for deeper listing capability.
  • Seller Contact Form - Visitors can easily contact sellers right from your Web site. The Ajax-driven contact form is neatly built into each individual ad page.
  • Integrated Login Box - Sellers can quickly login to post new ads right from your Web site header (optional feature).
  • Report Bad Listings - Visitors can report spam or inappropriate ads on your site. You will be notified by email when this occurs.
  • Multiple Currency Support - Choose from several different currencies based on your country location.
  • Email Notification System - Receive an email when a new ad has been created. You’ll also be notified once payment has been made.
  • No Plugins Required - ClassiPress doesn’t require any plugins to work. We do recommend using some plugins though to get the most out of your Web site which are included for free when you purchase ClassiPress.
  • Widgetized Sidebar - Easily ad or remove widgets from the sidebar without having to touch any code.
  • RSS Feed - Visitors can subscribe to your rss feed from any feed reader and instantly see your latest classified ads.
  • Advertising Plugin - Create additional revenue on your Web site by using the optional advertising plugin.

New v2.8 Features Include:

  • Five Color Schemes - Now you can choose from five different colors on how you want your site to look. Blue, green, pink, red, and classic colors. Easily change the scheme from an options page drop-down which means no messing with any code.
  • Updated Options Page - With improved features comes improved admin options. You now get five option pages to give you more control.
  • Breadcrumb Navigation - See exactly how deep you are on a page with detailed navigation links.
  • Email and Print - You can now easily have your visitors print and/or email the classified ads by clicking a link!
  • Tags - Each classified ad supports multiple native WordPress tagging for improved organization and searching.
  • Ad Visitor Counter - Shows how many daily and all-time visitors on each specific classified ad.
  • Feedburner Support - The new options page includes a field so you can instantly add your Feedburner URL.
  • Google Analytics - No need for a plugin. Just paste in your GA code and you’ll start tracking visitor behavior within seconds.
  • AdSense Support - Make some additional advertising revenue with Google AdSense. Just paste in your ad code and it appears on each classified ad.
  • PayPal Sandbox Mode - You can now test your PayPal account and process dummy payments before opening your site for business.
  • Custom Fields - WordPress allows you unlimited custom fields so why not take advantage of them? ClassiPress now stores all ad meta information in custom fields.
  • New Icons - We’ve spiced up ad pages by including some new icons. It’s a great way to help visitors (no matter what language they speak) quickly identify what it represents.
  • Multi-Language Support - ClassiPress now uses the standard WordPress localization framework called GNU gettext. This makes it easy for you to localize the included .pot file and change ClassiPress into your native language.
  • Supports 18 Different Currencies - Sell classified ads using almost any currency in the world. With PayPal as our payment processor, we make it easy to be a global business.
  • Improved SEO - We understand the importance of search engine optimization (SEO). That’s why we’ve baked in enhancements to help your site rank better.

Additional Benefits:

  • Ease of Use - ClassiPress was designed to virtually work right out of the box. All configuration is done through the management page without having to touch any code.
  • Tight Integration - ClassiPress works as a standalone website or can easily integrate with your current WordPress instance.
  • Easy Management - We designed ClassiPress with ease of use in mind. A dedicated options page is included for easy setup of all your Web site classified ad settings.
  • Support Forum Access - Our support forum is always available to you. There you can read about solutions and/or post your unanswered questions.
  • Free Updates Forever - Buy today with a piece of mind knowing that any future updates will be sent to you free of charge.

ClassiPress was designed to use the core WordPress features. Each classified ad essentially just uses the WordPress posts functionality and custom fields for the meta information (phone, image locations, end date, location, price, email, etc). The WordPress page functionality works just like normal. When you create a new page it adds a link to it in the footer. ClassiPress even plays nice with most WordPress certified 3rd party plugins (not all plugins have been tested against ClassiPress).

Here are some additional ClassiPress screen shots from behind the scenes within the WordPress admin area:

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Classipress - Classified Ads in Wordpress

Posted on 25 January 2009 by snoob - web designer philippines

Wordpress, a powerful blogging platform. Craigslist, the largest classified ads website on the internet. If you put them together, what will you get? Classipress. What if you can sell ad listings on your blog? Would that be cool?

Yes folks, its here. If you want to earn money, fully automated by selling classified listings on your site, Classipress is the right one for you. It integrates well with paypal and automatically approves listings that are already paid. It deletes or drafts listings that are expired until they are paid again.

Make Money With Classipress

You can set how much will each listing cost and for how many days. You can set X amount of dollars and x amount of days before they expire. You are totally in control.

ClassiPress gives you the chance to create a nice well rounded classified ad style website. The best part is there are no plugins needed. Everything is integrated into their template and it seamlessly works with ease. ClassiPress also has a nice quick web 2.0 look to it. Having such a nice quick view of what is to be sold easily gives the end user a good user experience.

Also, just like craigslist, user can make feedbacks on bad listings. Classipress has a reporting system in which users can “report” to you and let you know of bad listings. As you know Craigslist gets tons of spam, because its a huge traffic source. Craigslist needs the help of the community to help with spam and bad listings, ClassiPress provides this feature to you as well.

Another great aspect is the ability for users that are posting is to upload their own image. This gives them the ability to presell and create a classified ad that will attract users. This is fully integrated with the form and makes life easy for your end user. With the form you also have some sort of captcha, well a math equation. Any type of forms that are presented in CassiPress has this equation to help stop with spam, contacting the seller or even posting on ClassiPress.

Users that are interested in the Ad can contact the author of the ad directly from your site! This will give them an easy user experience and will make them comeback for more.

There are so many other features:

  • image manager for uploaded images in the admin panel. you can see or delete the images that have been uploaded
  • contact form in the description page so people can contact the person who added the ad
  • people can subscribe to the rss and be up to date with the listings in your site
  • subcategories for the main menu
  • login box in header for easier access if you want only registered people to be able to post
  • notification email to the admin when a new ad is entered
  • notification email to the admin when a new payment has been made
  • on the home page you can either show the category icons for each post or you can show the first image from the listings.
  • and many more!

The listing itself is also very clean. You have a title with the price in bright red. You have a sidebar which has all the information to contact the person who posted the ad and even a contact form. When a user posts more than 1 image you can also view each image in a lightbox style window. Which makes your site look much more trustworthy and credible.

So if you ever wanted to create your very own Craiglists.org style website, ClassiPress gives you the oppurtunity without killing your pockets. It gives you the SEO friendly system of WordPress and the power of WordPress! Quickly manage your own classified ad website with ClassiPress!

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