Greetings Blog Family,

I wanted to take a quick moment to share something with you that I discovered and had been trying to figure out for some time now. How to link from your WordPress blog to a PayPal payment option?

Why would you want to do this?

If you are actually asking this question, then making money with your blogging efforts might not be your main focus. And that is fine, but there are people out there that are interested in doing such a thing. These individuals might want to sell goods, products, ebooks, ideas, consulting, or even accept donations through their blog, but Paypal doesn’t work the regular way with WordPress.

Why not just use a plugin or a landing page?

Cause I am tired of loading 500 plugins to my sites and using one less will help with my sanity. Ok, maybe it isn’t that bad, but using less plugins than necessary couldn’t hurt. Besides, this method is actually easier than using the plugins that are available.

As for landing pages, well that is another possibility, but it also creates extra work as well. You have create, design, layout, and tweak the landing page to make sure that the branding is consistent with your blog and then upload the PayPal html to make the link work. What a hassle when you can just link directly from your WordPress blog and have all the branding and everything in tact already.

How to link to WordPress to a PayPal Payment.

First of all, go to PayPal and follow these instructions.

1 – Log in to your PayPal account

2 – Click Merchant Services

3 – Click Buy Now Button, or whatever is necessary

4 – Customize your purchase experience

5 – Click on Create Button

6 – THIS IS THE CRUX OF THE MATTER - You will have two options, one with HTML code for Websites & the second for links in email. Even though you are linking from your website, you want to use the Email option, believe it or not.

This is where my problem was in the past because I wanted to use the code for Websites. However, the code for websites is a form and  you are not allowed to use these functions on WordPress. So, use the email link.

7 – Search for a PayPal button that you would like to use & upload to your WordPress blog

8 – Insert the PayPal button in the location you desire, switch to HTML view and create a link from that PayPal button to the email link that you generated from your PayPal account.

9 – Save and Publish!

10 - Smile because you just created a link to your PayPal payment from your WordPress blog and didn’t have to use a plugin or landing page.

Hope this tip is useful for you in the future. I know it is going to help me take my blogging, site flipping, and niche site building efforts to the next level by allowing me to link directly to my PayPal payment pages and not having to use plugins or landing pages.

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

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Greetings Blog Family,

The time has finally come where we get to the conclusion of our first Internet Marketing Experiment #1: Creating an eBook with Help. You can see the first installment of this experiment here, IME#1.

If you recall, the purpose of this experiment was to create an ebook with little to no effort to give away on my blog to subscribers and build my subscription base and email list. The source for this technique was the eCode by Joe Vitale and Jon Ho Mok, from Chapter 30, page 141 #1, 30 Ways to Create an eBook with little to no writing.

So about a month and a half ago, I set out on this experiment. You can view the details here. 

The Results

The crux of the matter is YES, this technique works as I have successfully orchestrated an ebook from this method. Blogosphere Big Shots is the ebook and I urge you to downloads and test it out yourself to see what the quality of the book is now.

I invited 14 Bloggers to submit an article for the ebook, made topic suggestions, created a due date, collected the material, organized it, and produced the ebook. It really was that simple.

Suggestions

If you are going to try this technique yourself, here are few of my suggestions to you.

1) Work with Quality Bloggers – This will cut down on the frustrations because they will hit the deadlines and produce quality content that you desire. This business is all about quality content and good people will deliver that for you. Besides, you will appreciate their professionalism.

2) Define Topics and Length – I made a list of topics and ask each blogger to write on one or two topics. Also, I asked for 500 to 750 words from each blogger per article. This was to give them a guide, but I did let them know that if they needed more words to go for it. Some came in longer, but it was all good.

3) Set Due Date 1 Week Before You Need It – This is an editing trick I learned from running a magazine. Tell the contributors one due date, but have another week in your schedule for extra time. If everything comes in on time great, but usually things won’t and it will not throw your schedule off. Something always comes up when dealing with larger groups of successful people. your roll as coordinator is to work around these issues, so be prepared.

4) Edit as the Articles Come In – This saves time and efficiency. Reduces down time in the project. I didn’t do this personally, but have learned from that mistake. Besides since you are telling the contributors to send in the articles a week early, while you are waiting for all of them to come in you could be editing and not losing any real time on the project.

5) Give Links in the eBook to the Contributing Bloggers – This is the least you could do for them. In my eBook, I wrote a few sentences about the bloggers on their behalf in my own words along with a link back to their respective sites. All of them seemed to really appreciate the personal touch. Give it a try.

Go Get’em!

Well blog Family, there you have it. Our first Internet Marketing Experiment was a success. Hopefully, you learned something during this experiment. At the very least, I hope you realized blogging is a full contact sport and if you get out there and meet, mingle, and communicate with other bloggers, then anything is possible.

If you have any questions, please drop them below. i will be glad to share what I have learned from you and help you make this happen for your blog. I would like to know who out there is considering using this technique in  your business and if you do, please keep me posted and maybe even give me a shout out during your effort. It would be appreciated.

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

IM Experiment #1: Conclusion – Creating an Ebook With Help from Freddie Taylor on Vimeo

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