Re: Neew low upfront cost ways to set up site to sell ebook.

E-book forum members,

Anyone needing a website with selling capabilities needs to look at
XSitePro. I bought the software in August after struggling with Dreamweaver
for two years. It cost $197.00, is very intuitive to use, offers advertising
connections to Amazon, Google Adsense, and PayPal. I have made five website
since then, reworking all my sites. Their website has a video that shows the
easy use and wide capabilities. As an example, adding a site search box to
the page takes less than three minutes. Adding an audio file to a page takes
less than two minutes, and video is another simple option. Check out my
website in my signature to see what I have done. Taking content from my old
site and building the site took less that a week! I plan on adding e-books
later.

In the next two weeks I am teaching a class at writer's conferences where I
will set up a website from scratch in an hour. In my opinion, this software
is a no-brainer for writers. They also have a free software for creating
headers and banners that you can download at http://www.XheaderPro.com.
XSitePro and XHeaderPro are Windows based software. I run mine on a Mac with
an Intel processor and Fusion software that allows me to run Windows on the
Mac.

They also offer affiliate links so if you buy it and set up an affiliate
account, you can benefit from referrals. Here is my affiliate link to check
out the sofware:
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John Vonhof
Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes, 4th edition
http://www.fixingyourfeet.com
Fixing Your Feet blog at http://www.fixingyourfeet.com/blog




On 2/17/09 6:50 PM, "joseph harris" <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: "Ed"
> 
>> Hi, I would like to set up a site or store to sell an
>> ebook for
>> download.  I need a hosting account, shopping cart,
>> merchant account,
>> etc. The cost of building a site on my own to do this can
>> easily
>> require an investment in the thousands and I do not want
>> to do this
>> for an untested item.  Can anyone recommend a way to set
>> up a site and
>> process orders without a large investment?
>> 
>> Thanks, Ed
>> 
> 
> Ed,
> 
> Your best bet is to set up PayPal to take the money and
> deliver it to your bank account, and then choose from the
> many free scripts for a website. The best for a beginner may
> well be Wordpress, but you would need to learn a bit of html
> at least to adapt it. Better go for one that has a cart in
> it, like Mal's - though for one book a simple PayPal button
> might serve well enough. Paypal makes a small charge per
> transaction at its basic two levels, with no setup costs.
> 
> Cost to this point: a bit of your time.
> 
> Find a good low cost host - I think 34sp.com has a service
> in the US as well as in the UK. At the testing stage you
> should not need to lay out more that $40-$50.
> 
> If you really need some elementary instruction on coding and
> setting up a website start with the tutorials on About.com;
> costs nil. And then buy a SAMS or O'Reilly book.
> 
> For a domain name you can pay anything from around $5 to
> $1000 [more if you really, really want a sought after name
> and suffix].
> 
> That should get you up and running for under $100, and
> relatively painlessly. [An equivalent in the UK can be done
> for under £30 - book extra].
> 
> When your turnover hits $1m you can spend $20k on a web
> designer ;-).
> 
> Joseph Harris  -  Debt Control Man
> author: Control Your Debt Crisis on Your Own Terms
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