Cash In Online

It’s been a while since we put anything on this site, but finally we have some new stuff for all the internet marketers out there.

Our first announcement is that our sister site has some new items for you to browse. If you’re new to internet marketing, or just looking for a way to ensure your income in these poor economic times then this e-book is just for you, One Month To Your Own Online Business gives you step by step instructions to start your own online business.

In my One Month To Your Own Online Business you will learn -

• How to understand the different types of internet business and quickly decide which one is for you.
• How to immediately begin an internet marketing business that is recession proof and thrives.
• How to start a business immediately without having to put any money down for advertizing.
• How to find a product or service that people want or need, so that your business transcends dire economic predictions about bankruptcy
• How to build a website to promote your business, without spending way too much money
• You will also benefit from following the user friendly step by step guidelines in this book that are based on one simple business model.

So if this is something you’ve been considering then go and take a look now at One Month To Your Own Online Business

Our second new addition is almost a companion title. Home Based Business Ideas gives the budding home business owner a few ideas to start them thinking about working from home. There are plenty of ideas for businesses you can start from your own home and even if you don’t take any of them up it will start your mind working on the ideas for your own home business. Take alook at Home Based Business Ideas for yourself.

I’ll try not to leave it so long next time, so look out for our next post here at CashInOnline

Thanks for your time
Doug Titchmarsh

If you’re doing any sort of business online which involves accepting payments for your goods or services, then you should already have considered the alternatives. Most online marketers use Paypal, as most of our customers can use it to make payments, and we can accept credit cards, e-cheques and straight Paypal transfers without the expense of having our own merchant accounts.

But there are alternatives to Paypal, and choice is a good thing where customers are concerned. For starters Paypal is still not available everywhere in the world, and some people still won’t use it even where it is. Offering an alternative payment option will obviously allow many more of your potential customers to buy from you when Paypal isn’t an option.

So what are the alternative payment choices?

Obviously you could get your own merchant account and process credit and debit cards for yourself, this would involve contacting a bank, and arranging the services with them, as long as your software can integrate with their systems. Another alternative for accepting payments is 2Checkout (http://www.2checkout.com ) they do charge a fee up front to join, but 2checkout is widely supported in shopping cart software. With 2 checkout you can accept cheques, credit and debit cards, and in addition they now offer affiliate facilities so you can sell your products and services through an affiliate network.

Another widely used online payment option is Clickbank, who accept payments from many different sources on your behalf. Again there is a small fee to set up a vendor account at Clickbank, and there are limits on maximum prices (you can request higher maximum limits, and they are quick to respond to requests). Another plus for Clickbank, is that they have lots of affiliates using their system, and if you offer a good quality product many of them may begin promoting it for the commissions you set when you add your product. A negative on Clickbank’s scoresheet, is that you can only sell one product from the account without using a script to redirect to others, although there are scripts available to do this and Clickbank does allow quite a lot of products on an account but only one salespage.

There is another alternative payment option which we just discovered, and which may help you to make more sales with an innovative way of giving everyone a win win deal. It’s called TrialPay and it’s ingenious in the way it works. As a merchant you can now offer your products for free, but still get paid. As a customer, your purchasers now needn’t spend money they don’t want to on your products, but still get them. TrialPay uses a system whereby their partners are offering incentives to gain customers or even visitors to their sites. Trialpay offers to pay you some of that money (up to the value of your products or sometimes even more) when you send your customers to sign up for free offers in return for receiving your products for free.

In simple terms, you get paid, TrialPay get their clients some extra visitors or signups, and your customer gets the product they wanted without paying anything for it. As a payment option TrialPay is truly win win win for everybody. We are currently trying it out at http://www.thediscountebookstore.com on several of our top selling products to see how it works out, see the TrialPay buttons for these products Niche Marketing Profits and Follow-Up Email Creator Pro and try it out to get those products for free from us and TrialPay.

Then checkout if Trial Pay can work for you as a payment option by using the button below to sign up for your free merchant account

I recently saw a book with PLR (Private Label Rights)  rights at The Unselfish Marketers Vault a website which I pay a monthly fee to download tons of the latest products with various rights. Usually I just download the e-book, look at the rights and put it aside in my “to do later” folder. I guess you’re either the same as I was and think that it just takes too long to re-write a PLR product and make it your own, or don’t know where to start.

So what changed my opinion of PLR products?

This E-book was in a niche I know a little about, so immediately it piqued my interest. The niche was also comparable with another similar niche market into which the e-book could be pushed with a little re-writing. When I say a little I really mean it, I’m as lazy as anyone so you can take it to the bank that this was a quick and easy few changes.

OK so you really want to know how the e-book was re-written to become the new product which it now is.  Well the first thing I did was skimmed the PLR e-books contents and looked for the keywords for the niche it was in. Then using Open Office (you could use MS Word, or even Notepad for this bit) I did a search and replace of the first keyword. This replaced all instances of the original keyword with the one I wanted. Then I searched and replaced the synonyms for the keyword. As an example for an ebook about caring for cars, you could change “automobile” to “motorcycle”, and then “auto” to “bike” etc. through all the synonyms for car and change to motorcycle words.

Once I’d done the quick find and replace, I read through looking for anything which didn’t make sense for the new niche, in our example, anything related to bonnets (hoods), boots (trunks) or doors obviously wouldn’t be right for a motorcycle themed e-book. I rewrote all the sections which didn’t fit the new niche replacing sections with more relevant material, but you could just delete them instead.  Then it was time for a final re-read of the new e-book. Again just skimming is ok, don’t look for perfection, look to getting it done and on sale, I added a small request for readers of the e-book to send me details of any errors or omissions and promised to update it as neccessary and send details out to those who registered their email address for updates (thus building a list of people interested in that niche who trusted me enough to buy the e-book to whom I may be able to sell something else later).

The final stage of the e-books journey was to rewrite the sales page using the same find and replace technique I used for the e-book. I also had to change the cover graphic, and sales page header but that wouldn’t always be neccessary. Then all I had to do was put the “new” salespage and download area including the rewritten ebook onto the web ready to sell. I used Clickbank for this as there may be a possibility of making sales through affiliates who have websites in the same niche. Total outlay spent was about $10 as I already pay for the membership anyway, and had a Clickbank sellers account unused (but that’s only $45 anyway and you can sell multiple items on Clickbank) so I paid out for a domain name to help it in the search engines. The cost in time, which is a most valuable asset, was about 5 hours over a few days, most of which was spent on remaking the graphics and sorting out the salespage.

I’ve decided to rework some other PLR e-books in the future too, but I’ll be looking into niches other than the common internet marketing one, but there is plenty to choose from on my preferred suppliers site ( “The Unselfish Marketers Vault” remember?). I hope I will soon have several products in various niches on sale carrying my name instead of someone elses. All for the sake of some PLR products and a small investment in time.

BTW the e-book I am selling is at http://www.classic-motorcycle-restoration.com