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ecommerce, web hosting, software, merchant account, shopping cart, strategy, business, credit card processing, security,
PayPal, ClickBank
eCommerce
Extremely Effective, Affordable
eCommerce Alternatives
eCommerce is available in various formats including extremely good and very expensive as well as extremely good and low cost.
Normally, when you consider a bank, say, your own savings and loan bank,
the cost alone will dissuade you from even considering it. However, that is
simply because the real world banking system lags decades behind the
internet.
The services I will outline here are proven internet ecommerce
institutions. The options I am going to share with you have different applications depending on what you want to accomplish.
1) PayPal is the most widely used world-wide and continuing to grow in
popularity. They are extremely serious, very professional, very secure. Make
sure that your own program within their system is equally serious, professional,
and secure.
If they and you get a lot of refunds or other complaints, they will
withdraw their service to you. PayPal can be used in conjunction with
ClickBank.
2) ClickBank is ideal for sites with an affiliate program attached.
ClickBank can be used in conjunction with
PayPal
and thus can give your visitors payment alternatives. ClickBank,
too, is experiencing massive growth and are very easy and friendly to work with
and will also help promote your products and web site.
Now, with ClickBank, there is also a very valuable upside and a very
unfortunate downside.
The upside is that once you're in ClickBank,
every sale of your own product whether by you or by other members, your product
or service gets enhanced listing in ClickBank Merchants ... meaning, they are
promoting you within their very large ecommerce system. That's a very good
thing.
The downside is that when someone signs to become an affiliate to your
site or product, you will likely never know about it. Hence, you will not know
who you have in your affiliate system, hence not ever be able to know to whom to
send updates, new products, or simply encouragement.
So, what I and most of us who deal extensively with ClickBank
do to keep tabs on the importance of our affiliate program is to introduce ClickMate
to intercept who has joined our list.
To our shocking surprise, once we introduced ClickMate
into our Affiliate signup, all of a sudden we got over fifty affiliates in
just a few months. (How many, therefore, did we lose in the previous months
prior to ClickMate?)
If you have affiliates but don't know it, how can you keep them? You
can't! So, if you are going to use ClickBank, you need ClickMate.
Note: You will find Adrian at ClickMate exceptionally helpful in setting up your
ClickMate system if you need help.
These two have been around the longest. I have used a few others who have
gone by the wayside. So, now I get very concerned about anything new in this
very sensitive area of web mastery.
Visit these ecommerce sites:: ClickBank
and ClickMate.
And, PayPal
here.
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