Selling eBooks With Paypal Saturday, January 10th Daily News, Money Making

So a lot of you know that I wrote a small eBook regarding little scams and cons that you could do to pick up an extra buck here and there – some of you may even hold a copy of the aforementioned book as a review copy – thanks to those who got back to me with their reviews! Well, today I put the book up for sale on the digital point forums as a starting place. You can see the created post here. At the minute its not going too well, but its pretty much as I expected. Hopefully I will be selling it on the warrior forum, and setting up a sales page to advertise it – but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. I want to talk about setting up a method of automatically delivering your product to the user after they have paid.

You see, once the user has sent you paypal payment, you usually have to then send them the eBook manually – which means a lot of waiting on their end if the expected it instantly. So I wanted to set up a system where the user could pay via paypal, and then receive a link to their eBook instantly. Well, searching for one (that was free) took a lot of time, and I almost gave up on finding one before I found this brilliant free tutorial at ngcoders. This gives you a completely free php script that allows you to set this type of transaction. It also contains a way of creating links that are only active for a certain amount of time – so when a user purchases a copy of my book, they receive a link via email and then have 24 hours to download it before the link becomes inactive. Its great, and free, so very worth your time. Unfortunatly the only problem is that you have to direct them to an external link to click on the ‘buy it now’ button…a small issue for when your selling in forums and avenues that do not allow html coding.

I hope that has been of some use to you…I hope to detail in my next post how I have got on with advertising the book, telling you what I have done in order to make sales, and various websites I have listed it on. Catch ya later racers!

Dan