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Adding a PayPal Buy Now button in SynthaSite

by Angela Booth. (c) 2008. All Rights Reserved. Initially written for Sell Your Writing Online NOW subscribers.

I love SynthaSite for helping new writers to get their sites online.

Once your site is online, you may want to add PayPal buttons, so people can buy your writing services and products.

Adding a PayPal Buy Now button to your SynthaSite site is very easy. Here’s how.

Here’s a site I set up in SynthaSite in just a minute or two

I set this SYWON site up in just a couple of minutes. Easy, fast and free setup and maintenance is the beauty of using SynthaSite.

Now, let’s imagine that I want to add a PayPal Buy Now button to this site.

First, I need to visit PayPal.

In your PayPal account…

Go to your PayPal account and log in.

Tip: open your SynthaSite site for editing too, it makes it easy to copy and paste the code for the PayPal Buy Now button.

Click the Merchant Services button.

Click the Buy Now Buttons link

Look for the link to the Buy Now buttons.
Click the link.

Fill in the form to create the code for your button

PayPal generates the code for your buttons, all you need to do is complete the Web form. Type in a name for your item, and a price, and then complete the rest of the form.

If an option doesn’t apply to your product, ignore it.

Get your code

PayPal provides good Help, so get help if you need it.

Eventually, you’ll have completed the form to your satisfaction. Then just click the Create Button now button.

You’ll receive some code, which you will copy and paste into a SynthaSite page.

Back in your SynthaSite editor…

Look on the Content Sidebar.

See the HTML widget?

Drag it to your page.

An HTML editor will open.

Paste your code into the HTML editing screen

Just paste, and click OK.

Your PayPal Button

Depending on which button you chose, your button will look something like this once you’ve saved your site and it’s online.

So click the Update button now.

Update your site

Click Update My Site, and your site’s updated, with your PayPal button ready to receive orders.

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Here’s what a subscriber writes
Wanted to say, when I started with you I had actually just cancelled my membership with [an outsourcing site] because I was frustrated at spending so much time over 12 months and not getting anything back.

Since starting with you I have had, and completed 4 jobs, had great feed back on 2, AND am so thrilled because I have just landed a job for an ebook.

Cheers and thanks
Kaye Dennan

Read more reports from happy subscribers.

If you want to make money money from your writing, Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) shows you how. We look forward to welcoming you and helping you to build a successful writing career and business.

 

Want to make money online everyday using your writing skills? Millions of Web sites need your words, so you can have money flowing into your PayPal account every day.

Let’s look at five tips to get you started.

1. You’re a Merchant, So Provide Samples to Make Sales

As a seller of writing services, your potential clients want to know what they’re getting. This means that you need to create samples, until you’re doing paid writing work which you can add to your portfolio to show your writing style and skills.

So, how do you create samples?

Here are two ways. Firstly, look through all the writing you’ve done for work. Could you use some of this material as writing samples? (Of course you’ll ask, before you use work product.)

The second way demands that you create samples on the fly, as you need them. You’re magically creating samples out of thin air. This is a great way to develop a quick “portfolio.”

Let’s see how this works. You visit an outsourcing site, and choose projects you’d like to bid on. Then just write a sample to show the client what you can do. If a buyer wants an article on photography for example, write a 500-word article. Whether you win the project or not, you can use this article in your portfolio.

2. You’re Starting from Zero - You’ll Taking Time to Get Rolling

I recently received a call from a despairing writing student: “I’ve placed 50 bids on X site and haven’t won any projects!”

My response was: “You’re just starting out. Place 100 to 200 more bids. You’ll take time to get rolling, but you will get more jobs that you can handle, as long as you keep placing bids.”

Remember that buyers are placing projects, but they have businesses to run too. This means they’ll take their own time in choosing providers for their projects.

My student placed 80 bids, then won two projects in one day, and five projects in the next week. Then she had to start rejecting projects because she was too busy.

3. Experience Equals Money - Build Your Portfolio and Feedback/ Testimonials

The more experience you have, the busier you are, so the more you can charge.

Every piece of feedback you receive, and all testimonials, will increase your income. So when you’re starting out, focus on building both your portfolio and your feedback.

4. Easy Marketing With Your Web Site - Miracles Come in Small Packages

Your Web site can be a never-ending source of writing jobs, but don’t expect to get a flood of clients on your first day. Your site takes time to start sending you buyers from the search engines. The longer your site is online, the more traffic.

5. Keep Your Clients Forever - Use Permission Marketing

When you get a client, ask their permission to stay in touch with them. Once you have 50 to 100 past clients, you’ll never need to hunt for writing jobs again - they will keep you very busy.

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Want to make money with your writing?

You can. It’s never been easier for anyone, with minimal writing skills, to not only make a great income online, but also to build a million-dollar business.

Every Web site needs text content, and if you can produce that content, you’re golden. All you have to do is write, and keep writing, without wasting time.

Here’s the key: the more you write, the more you earn. You don’t just earn more in the aggregate, you earn more from each and every writing job, because when you’re experienced, you can charge more.

You need to WRITE!

Stop wasting time as a beginning writer

When you first start out, you need credits - the people who hire you want to see examples of your writing. So get your first five writing jobs, or your first ten, and get some material for your portfolio.

You can easily get all the writing jobs you want on the outsourcing sites. These jobs will build your portfolio fast. A couple of days ago, in the ezine, I wrote “Winning Writing Jobs on the Outsourcing Sites the Easy Way” to help.

Once you’ve created some great examples of your writing, you can charge more. You’ll also, we hope, have a group of buyers who look on you as “their” writer, and will hire you again.

So stop wasting time thinking and wondering - get to work, and get those first few writing jobs.

Stop wasting time as an established writer

You’re an established writer. You have writing credits from Web sites, magazines, or maybe you’ve published a book.

As an established writer, you have POWER. Use it wisely.
At this stage, you need to decide on a business model.

Here are some examples of business models:

* My own business model is writing and selling guides, classes and instruction manuals for writers;

* Writer Jon R.’s business model is Web copywriting. He writes everything from Pay Per Click ads Web sales pages and white pages;

* Writer Tiffani J.’s business model is writing and selling Web sites;

* Writer Larry P.’s business model is a blog network of health blogs, which he monetizes by selling advertising and products.

Your business model gives a structure to your writing efforts, it enables you to set goals, including financial goals, and to meet those goals.

Once you’ve decided on a business model, get to work, and WRITE.

Are you wasting time? You shouldn’t, because every minute and hour you waste is money lost.

Your confidence will build as you write

Many writers lack confidence. Here’s the cure: WRITE.

As a beginning writer, you’re scared of your clients. That’s fine… you’ll soon understand that they’re even more scared of you that you are of them.

So grab any and every writing job you can, and your confidence will bloom.

If you’re an established writer, your lack of confidence stems from a lack of direction. Choose a direction - a business model - and write.

Here’s a vital truth: if you choose a business model, you CANNOT FAIL. Your confidence will blossom as you write, and achieve the goals you’ve set.

Writing challenges are always solved when you write… so, write. Stop wasting time; make money.

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