Have you ever encountered a challenge with Paypal?  Like your account being froze?  Paypal limiting your account? Plus other scary things I’ve heard people complain about.

I’m sharing this resource with you because I get these type of questions ALL the time, like “Paypal froze my account.” Plus I get questions when marketers sign up to use Wahmcart as their shopping cart service.  People want to know is it really safe to use Paypal as their preferred merchant, as well as utilizing it on ebay – I’ve heard of people complaining about ebay paypal problems too.

Garry Sayer recently wrote all about it, “How to Stay On The Good Side of Paypal.”  I can go with that simply because, in my personal opinion, as a marketer, utilizing Paypal as my preferred merchant account works great for me.  Why?  Paypal knows internet marketing.  They understand that businesses can and do make thousands of dollars in a day (looking forward to one of those days, LOL!)… anyway, because they are on “our” side, it’s less likely for them to always question what you’re selling and why, like most merchant account providers.

In Garry’s guide he addresses some of the following issues: Read the rest of this entry »

I’m so glad I read today’s lesson by Nicole Dean on “Payment Options.” She confirmed exactly what I know to be true. I’m an active member of her very detailed and easy to follow membership at, www.NicoleDeanIncomeCPR.com .

Side Note: I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicole this week, check it out here.

Here’s what she had to say:

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Payment Options:
The best option is usually to offer both paypal and credit card options for payment. I do not. I only offer paypal (except through the products that I sell on Clickbank.com) – for reasons we’ll get into in other lessons.

I would not normally recommend you only ever offer credit cards without also offering paypal. A lot of people are trying to cut back on debt or don’t like using their credit cards. I’m one of the people who usually won’t buy something (unless I need it) if I have to put it on my credit  card.

Too Many Options:
Is the potential customer presented with one option or several? You may be confusing him/her by giving several options – if they aren’t explained clearly. [End Quote]

Paypal is the number one choice online when it comes to choosing a Merchant Account.  Quite frankly, I don’t understand why small businesses take on the expense of setting up a merchant account with monthly quotas, monthly gateway fees and all the other unnecessary expense of having one!

With Paypal, there are no monthly gateway fees or monthly quotas.  You are only charged when a transaction is made.  (If you choose to use Paypal Pro – the fees are different).

Since I’ve been using Paypal since 2000, I’ve never encountered a problem too severe to handle.  It’s all about COMMUNICATION.  If you know you’re having a big launch, you should call them and let them know what’s going on.  This way, they’ll be ready to see an influx of payments coming in and since you let them know — it won’t startle them.  One of the most important reasons I like Paypal is because they understand Internet and Affiliate Marketing. Not all banks do therefore, sometimes it causes a problem like holding your funds for weeks, even months on end (for the fear of chargebacks)!

If your potential customers don’t understand Paypal, then it’s in your best interest to educate them on how the payment process works.  You can set up a page PRIOR to the actual transaction – informing them of how the payment process works.

I’m not saying that by having your own merchant account is a bad thing — because it’s not, as a matter of fact, having both sometimes increases your ability to sell more — but, if you’re on a tight budget, why take on an expense when you don’t have to?

PayPal for Business Owners

This guide takes you through some of the important functions of using PayPal for business. It does include step-by-step help for creating invoices and using other important features.

• Create & Manage Invoices: Helps you easily create itemized invoices for your customers and clients.

• Mass Payment: How to pay affiliates, bonuses and more to multiple recipients in one transaction…without having the recipient incur any PayPal fees.

• Reports: How to create monthly sales reports, financial statements and transaction reports.

Download Paypal For Business Owners

Is there any particular reason you don’t use Paypal as your merchant provider?  I’d love to chat with you about your experience and hopefully provide a solution for it.

Here’s to a super productive day!

P.S.  Want to submit your question for Chat Thursdays?  Send an email to: support @ wahmcart.com

It’s exciting when you decide to sell information products online. You pour your best into creating the product, then you find a great shopping cart like WAHMCart to set up for sales and then you wait… for the sales to roll in… only they don’t.

Sound familiar?

That’s because you may be missing an important piece of information product success – the marketing.

There are plenty of ways for you to market your product and today I want to start with one you may have considered too pricey, complicated or confusing. It’s using graphics, banners and buttons to advertise your products.

Graphics have many uses in your overall marketing plan, including:

• On your salespage to emphasize important selling points.
• On your blog to promote your products.
• On other sites to advertise your products.
• As a tool for your affiliates who want to promote for you.

So I bet you want to know how to get these graphics working for you ASAP, with little cost in the fastest way possible?

Free Website Graphics For Your Information Products

1. Start with Gimp. It’s a free piece of software that puts up a fair fight against Photoshop (which costs $699 by the way). Grab your copy at www.Gimp.org.

2. Download a free 125×125 button ad template from Gimp Graphics Mojo here

3. Watch this free beginner’s video on how to use Gimp to create your graphics:

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After you get started with those you might want to learn more, like, how to create website headers, facebook welcome pages, twitter backgrounds, make your image backgrounds transparent and more.

In that case you’ll want to check out the course I offer here:
Free Web Graphics With Gimp

Oh and make sure you enter in the coupon code: gimp to save $20!

Enjoy your new toy… and please post below if you have any questions!

Take care,
Angela Wills
MarketersMojo.com

Tags: angela wills, gimp, great graphics, sell more info products

Your Skype Step-by-Step User Guide

Skype is one of the easiest ways to communicate, share and collaborate with others, whether they’re right next door or on the opposite side of the world.  You can literally keep in touch with friends, family, and even business associates.

What is Skype?

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a nominal fee using a debit-based user account system. ~ wikipedia

Almost everybody I know uses Skype!  I’ve seen it used on television game shows and talk shows.  The great thing about it is skype is often used for the small business individual.

With this simple illustrated guide, you’ll learn:

• Skype to Skype Calling:  Make free phone calls to anyone with a computer, a mic and a Skype account, no matter where they are in the world.
• Video Calls: Interact with your friends, family and business associates, by both voice and video with Skype’s video call features.
• Instant Messaging: With Skype chat, you can send instant messages, share files between one another and even create your own multi-person chat room right on the spot.
• Screen Sharing: With Skype, you can share desktops with one another over a fast and free connection.

If you don’t already have Skype download it. It only takes a couple of minutes – then you’ll be ready to call friends, family or even business associates for free!

If you’re in the US, you will soon be able to use Skype on even more mobile phones, like the iPhone on Verizon’s network.  Download Skype to your new iPhone to make great value calls to regular phones, as well as free video calls to other people on Skype.

Want the step by step instructions on how to properly setup and use Skype?  It’s free when you grab

The Twitter Promoted User Guide! for only $3.50

You may may have seen “Promoted” advertising on Twitter and wondered how it works. While most Twitter advertising requires big budgets, this guide will give you an overview into how it works and what opportunities Twitter offers businesses.  Twitter is in the process of implementing “New Twitter”, a slightly more complex layout to the site, with a few added features. This guide includes images and information to help you navigate through the new site…and switch back and forth, if you prefer.

You’ll learn:

• Promoted Accounts: Shows readers how they can appear in the “Who to Follow” recommendations and how Promoted Accounts works.
• Promoted Trends: Shows how promoted trends works, estimated budgets and more.
• Promoted Tweets: Shows how Promoted Tweets works, what makes the ads appear and information about companies using Promoted Tweets.
• Tracking and Analytics: When using Twitter Promoted, Twitter provides real-time and in-depth analytics. This guide explains the analytics provided.

You will also receive the Fully-Illustrated New vs. Old Twitter guide – FREE!

How To:

• Switch to the New Twitter
• Familiarize Yourself with the New Location of Your Twitter Tools
• Timeline – Home
• Timeline – Profile
• Search
• DM (Direct Messages)

Click here to get Your Skype Step-by-Step User Guide AND The Twitter Promoted and Fully-Illustrated New vs. Old Twitter User Guide!

Lynette Chandler of TechBased Training, created a class designed to help you up to speed on CSS quickly so you can put your new skills to work and is great for anyone who is new to web design or those who want to fully grasp CSS so you won’t have to guess and do a ton of trial and errors each time you edit a site or WordPress theme.

“Get trained for better paying technical work so you can stop working so hard.  Make more and still have time to enjoy the important things in your life.” ~ TechBased Training

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content.

This class covers:

• Understanding basic HTML code and how that translate into what you see on your browser (you have to know a little HTML to use CSS) so you know what you are working with
• How to read and comprehend CSS syntax so you can master them and create your own styles
• Applying CSS to HTML tags
• What’s the difference, why and when to use ID’s, Classes and spans so you will finally know what to do when customizing a WordPress theme and not leave it to guess work
• Understanding CSS hierarchy so you won’t waste time with trial and error
• Applying and overriding existing styles with your own, particularly for WordPress themes so you can customize themes without touching the original theme making upgrades painless
• And much, much more…

Although the class has ended, you can still register to receive a limited time replay of it – NO CHARGE!

This is a great opportunity for:

• Beginner virtual assistants
• Anyone who’s beginning to offer web development services
• VA’s who want better grasp at CSS and stop wasting time on trial and error tweaks
• Business owners who want to have their people trained for them!

Tags: cascading style sheets, CSS Style Sheets, Lynette Chandler, TechBased Training