From a customer point of view, I have tried many sites to get content written and link back to my site http://www.directsaleschat.co.uk but it does not seem to help in more sales? If it worth highering a blogger to consitantly add more content related to my site “Mobile Phone Memory” or keep having bloggs writen that link into my site?

My competion is BIG companies with lots of funding, with my little company how to I compete with getting links, blogs, articles written to get more traffic?

Best regards,

Ariel

“I want to work at home and spend more time with my family.” “I love freelancing and have always dreamed of being my own boss.” These are the thoughts on everyones minds these days as more and more people stray away from the w…

This boils down to just a dime for the transaction fee on 1 U.S. dollar.

PayPal has not publicized this at all. I found it by chance. When I signed up there was only one way to do it, through the PayPal Integration Center, micropayments page. If you don’t use the link on that page to open your account, you don’t get the micropayment fees.

Basically, you open the account using the link and that gets you the special micropayment rate. They don’t give you any confirmation as such and you don’t get anything out of “customer no service” if you call them. I just had my wife send me a payment of a dollar and confirmed that a dime was all they took of it. That’s how I determined the account had the micropayment fees attached to it.

But, it does work and it’s really great because you can utilize all the developer thingies PayPal has for your blog shopping cart etc. Plus, your customer can pay with a credit card without being a PayPal member.

check it out…it’s worth a look.

Here is the link to their micropayments page.
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_micropayments.html

The REAL money, the real businesses, are on the other sides and consists of other different things like having your own product/s, service/s, etcetera.

Valeriu

With the trend that everyone is shifting towards RSS feeds, will the adsense being ignored? or shall blogger switch thier site feed from full publishing to excerpt.

I was taking a look at BitPass as well… Looks to be a good service, but when I dug into what a buyer sees when they try to buy, I can see why some / many never complete the purchase.

I even covered it recently…
http://marlincreek.com/content/view/60/1/

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Great post overall… some useful information to leverage at my own site.

I think it all comes down to making people feel comfortable with eBooks – ie: trying to replicate a traditional book as much as possible. Why else have a virtual book cover when there is no physical book?

I think as time goes on we’ll be seeing more experimentation.

How do I package them? So they read like an actual book, or is a 8.5 x 11 paper format ok? That’s our next step and we are a bit stumped.

Lesley

Ah, ePubDaily – I have slotted June 1 for its return. On my free time I’m lurking forums and blogs galore and getting a real insight on where ePubDaily should go. I think you’ll like it.

btw, you know you’re on my list as an email interview subject re: your Viral Copy eBook? Expect an email around that time. :-)

http://www.epublishingdaily.com/

Your last comment “the beauty is that one product can sell over and over for years. It’s much more passive” is clasic long tail theory.

With some of my eProducts I’ve seen the inital buzz of 50-200 sales and then 1-5 sales a month for many, many months – that’s where the passive sales come in: a long time after the initial release. That’s when all the SEO (especially the organically bulit up backlinks from your blogs and other sources) you’ve done for the sales page(s) kicks into gear and settles into Google.

And YES, it’s damn hard work researching, writing and packaging it – but when you do get it right, you just know.

‘Blogging the Book’ – that sounds like an interesting concept – that’s going on my “To Do List” :-)

It will take hard work no matter what. But the beauty is that one product can sell over and over for years. It’s much more passive, and you’re not depending on Google for all your income.

Thanks for all the great comments!

Brian