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Resources for Selling Online
Here are some resources to help you sell online (for example, by enabling
eCommerce).
- MerchantKit.com > Online Payments
Free Information on accepting online payments.
- Merchant Processing 101
An eBook for merchants who accept credit cards, giving a complete analysis and revealing hidden/unneeded fees.
- ClickBank (Publisher)
ClickBank's "publisher" option provides a simple method to sell and accept
payments by credit cards for downloable products (such as eBooks, software, etc.)
(This is reviewed here).
- Download Defender - Defend Your Products
This is a download protection system for products that are delivered over the Internet (software, eBooks, etc.).
It is intended to stop unauthorized people (i.e. people who haven't paid) from downloading your product.
- Verotel
Designed to allow you to accept payments for access to membership sites.
- Electronic Transfer
The premier online credit card processing service provides a complete low cost turn-key operation including 24/7 support, your own individual merchant account - no factoring, no piggybacking - fully automated online secure transactions. Nearly all merchant types accepted including brand new Internet sites, mom and pops, bad credit, no credit, high volume accounts.
- Cardservice International
Cardservice International, one of the largest and most recognized credit card processing companies in the U.S., helps business owners (internet, phone/mail order, and storefront) with the merchant account necessary to accept credit cards
- IMC's Complete Credit Card Processing Solution
- Smarter Scripts - Payment Gateway
- Hits4me.com - Accepting Payments
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"The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket shelves to advertising agencies, the ability to offer vast choice is changing everything, and causing us to rethink where our markets lie and how to get to them. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it, from DVDs at Netflix to songs on iTunes to advertising on Google. However, this is not just a virtue of online marketplaces; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for business, one that is just beginning to show its power. After a century of obsessing over the few products at the head of the demand curve, the new economics of distribution allow us to turn our focus to the many more products in the tail, which collectively can create a new market as big as the one we already know. The Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance. New efficiencies in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing are essentially resetting the definition of whats commercially viable across the board. If the 20th century was about hits, the 21st will be equally about niches. |
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By Andy Sernovitz
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Who Is Talking About You?
Master the art of word of mouth marketing with this fun, practical, hands-on guide.
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Praise for Marketing to the Social Web
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By Bruce C. Brown
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Interested in promoting your business and/or Web site, but don t have the big budget for traditional advertising? This new book will show you how to build, promote, and make money off of your Web site or brick and mortar store using the Internet, with minimal costs. Let us arm you with the knowledge you need to make your business a success! Learn how to generate more traffic for your site or store with hundreds of Internet marketing methods, including many free and low-cost promotions. This new book presents a comprehensive, hands-on, step-by-step guide for increasing Web site traffic and traditional store traffic by using hundreds of proven tips, tools, and techniques. Learn how to target more customers to your business and optimize your Web site from a marketing perspective. You will learn to target your campaign, use keywords, generate free advertising, search-engine strategies, learn the inside secrets of e-mail marketing, how to build Web communities, co-branding, auto-responders, Google advertising, banner advertising, eBay storefronts, Web-design information, search-engine registration, directories, and real-world examples of what strategies are succeeding and what strategies are failing. **Award-Winning Finalist in the Business Category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards **Bronze Winner in the Computer/ Internet Category of the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards |
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Over one million people list an item for sale on eBay every day—and 600,000 of these are professional full-time sellers. Now anyone with ambition and a dream can realize financial success on eBay. Whether readers are looking to be their own boss or launch a part-time business, eBay guru Skip McGrath walks them through a series of easy steps designed to generate income in less than a month. This practical guide reveals how to find products to sell, successfully compete in the crowded eBay marketplace, and optimize and grow one’s business. Three Weeks to eBay Profits offers instant answers to anyone who dreams of running this or her own business and realizing financial freedom.
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By Mitch Meyerson
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12 World Class Strategies That Cut Through the Hype and Make Real Money on the Internet "Much like The E-Myth, Mastering Online Marketing, is not just a collection of tools and tactics. Mitch has created a solid step-by step system for you to build and sustain a thriving e-commerce business... Read it. Digest it. Follow it letter by letter. Then get out there and do it - because that's how you'll experience the true rewards. " -Michael Gerber, author of The E-myth "Mitch Meyerson has done it again --offering no nonsense strategies and tactics for getting targeted traffic to your website, turning visitors into buyers, putting your online business on auto pilot and setting up multiple streams of active and passive income. This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to build a thriving business on the Internet" -Jay Conrad Levinson, The Father Of Guerrilla Marketing "Mastering Online Marketing delivers a solid step by step program for succeeding online. Based on years of research for his groundbreaking book, Success Secrets of The Online Marketing Superstars, this book spoonfeeds you the best tips and tactics to build your online business. Mitch Meyerson really delivers the goods!" -Yanik Silver, author of Moonlighting On The Internet “These days it is not enough to be “good” at online marketing; you must master it. Mitch is not only a master of online marketing, but he is someone who can effectively teach others the strategies used by the top online marketers today. Success and wealth are for everyone, and I do believe that by following the advice and strategies in Mastering Online Marketing, one can achieve great online success.” -Bo Bennett, author of Year To Success "Mastery is the key to success and this outstanding book shows you exactly how to master online marketing. Meyerson's clear, direct and rich content shows you how to avoid the most common pitfalls and use innovative strategies to cut through the clutter and stand out in the Internet. Highly recommended!” -Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid |
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Seth Godin takes the concept of one-to-one marketing to the next level in this exciting introduction to "permission marketing" -- a dynamic new technique that encourages consumers to seek out information and allows businesses to direct their efforts in the most efficient and effective way. Drawing on his own experiences as founder and president of Yoyodyne -- the first company to create promotions and direct mail campaigns on-line -- and on the success stories of companies like American Airlines and Amazon.com, Godin shows that permission marketing breaks through consumer resistance, creates trust, builds brand awareness, and greatly improves the chances of a sale. |
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By Maria Veloso
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In order for a Web site to sell effectively, it must appeal to the unique culture, mindset, and psychology of the Web. Simply put, what works in the brick-and-mortar world does not necessarily grab Web shoppers. Companies selling products and services online need to promote their wares with engaging copy that grabs attention and compels Web site visitors to buy. Web Copy That Sells presents copy strategies that have been proven time and again in the e-commerce arena. Maria Veloso, perhaps the most widely acclaimed Web copywriter in the world, reveals her revolutionary approach based on five simple questions, which, when answered, make the copy practically write itself. Veloso crams all the information from her 12-hour, $997 live seminars into a comprehensive book that will help any Web copywriter: * write sizzling and irresistible Web copy, e-mails, and marketing communications * quickly turn lackluster sites into "perpetual money machines" * use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and psychological tactics to compel Web surfers to buy * avoid the top three blunders that can wipe out your sales * convert up to 50% of online prospects into paying customers * and more! |
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By Brent Sampson
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
Get Your Book Listed
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So You'd Like to. Guides
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By Tom Wong
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So you have something to sell or you work for a business using salesforce.com, but you’re not quite sure how to maximize your profits with it? Never fear! Salesforce.com for Dummies shows you the quick-and-easy way to start selling your product or service online without the confusion or fuss. With an emphasis on customer relationship management, this hands-on guide helps you manage accounts, market your products, and improve service. Whether you’re a salesperson, channel manager, marketing mogul, customer rep, or executive, you’ll find secrets here for making your job easier, your day more productive, and your business more successful. This second edition has been revised to include Salesforce.com’s latest product and feature offerings as of the Summer 2006 release, giving you the tools you need to: - Build a product catalog
- Manage price books
- Calculating and customizing forecasts
- Drive demand up with campaigns
- Stimulate sales effectiveness with documents
- Deliver excellent service
- Analyze data with reports
- Verify your company profile
- Add users to salesforce
- Customize your page and search layout
- Extend your usage of Salesforce beyond CRM
This guide makes suggestions on how to dive more productivity and improve communication with standard templates from the Dummies Web site. With this book you’ll get up to speed fast and manage your business information more effectively with Salesforce.com today! |
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