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5 Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions For Your WordPress Site

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:37:33 +0000

To build a successful e-commerce WordPress blog and sell product, a good shopping cart plugin is necessary. Based on what type of product you want to sell, different shopping cart plugins might suit your needs. After a research I found some ecommerce shopping cart solutions to help you decide what to use and you will also have an idea of how different WordPress shopping cart plugins work.

1. WP eStore

A fully featured and user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin to sell any digital or non-digital product.

Main Features:

It provides the security for your product.
You can integrate it with Nextgen Gallery plugin.
Pre-integration with WP eMember and WP Affiliate Platform.
It allows your customer to download digital product securely.
Integration with Aweber, Mailchimp, GetResponse.
Easy Checkout system.
Multiple payment gateways.
It allows you to have multi site license.

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

WP eStore shopping cart plugin can be found here.

2. ShopperPress

It is an easy to use shopping cart theme which allows you to sell any type of product online.

It allows you to analyze and track sales.
A complete web-based control panel.
It allows you to have 20+ built in payment gateways.
It provides you online security.
Shipping and Tax are easily customizable.

ShopperPress can be found here.

3. Market Theme

It is one kind of shopping cart based theme which allows you to turn your site in to a digital store.

Main Feature:

It allows you to have a nice product display.
It is compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU
It allows you to sell affiliate products.
It allows multiple payment methods.
It allows you to have multiple attributes for different products.
Smart search option.
Eligible for multiple usage.

Market theme can be found here.

4. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

This is a shopping cart plugin developed by tribulant.

Main Features:

Easy to use shopping cart interface.
It allows you to set up multiple products in to multiple categories.
You can add images to showcase your products.
Your customer can any download digital product securely.
It allows multiple payment methods.

You can get the WordPress shopping cart plugin here.

5. PHPurchase

PHPurchase is a simple WordPress shopping cart plugin for selling products online.

Main Features:

It allows you to set up a complete store on your website.
It is PCI Compliant.
It automatically keeps track of your order.
It allows you to offer a discount.
Shipping option is provided.
It allows you to change the look of your blog.
You can also customize the checkout process with this.
Auto integration with multiple payment gateways.

Here is the official demo video showing an overview of PHPurchase shopping cart plugin-

You can get the PHPurchase shopping cart plugin here.

How to Start a Complete Online Business on Your WordPress Blog

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:52 +0000

As the time goes by, WordPress is becoming very popular as a CMS (Content Management System). If you’ve already started blogging in WordPress, may be you are thinking of setting up an online business. The first thing to solve any problem is to identify it. Once you identify it, it’s very simple to get the solution. In this case you have to think what exactly you need to start an online business on your WordPress site.

When it comes to set up an online business with WordPress, You need to have 3 things-

1. A WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.

2. A WordPress Affiliate Plugin.

3. A WordPress Membership Plugin.

Why do you need to have those plugins?

If you want to sell anything from your blog, you really need to have a reliable and easy to use WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Which will automatically handle all your product sales.
Once you start selling products from your own website, you will certainly want to increase the sales. To increase your sales you need more traffic. You can get more traffic if other people refer traffic to your website. But they won’t refer traffic until you offer them a specific commission for each conversion. That’s why you need to have an Affiliate program on your website.
When you have both the shopping cart and affiliate program running, you can now set some of your blog contents (e.g- page,post) to premium so that only paid members can view those. A fully featured Membership plugin will be useful in that case.

1. WP eStore

It is a user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin developed by tipsandtricks-hq.com. You can sell any kind of digital or non-digital product from your website with this plugin. In fact, I’m using this plugin to sell e-book from my site. They provide great support to the customer.

You can see the Official plugin demo videos to see how it works-

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. WP Affiliate Platform

This is an easy to use WordPress affiliate plugin to manage your affiliates. With this plugin any one can sign up for an affiliate and promote your product on his/her website.

Here is the official demo videos to see how the plugin works-

i) WP Affiliate Platform Installation

ii) WP Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration

iii) WP Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation

iv) WP Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test

3. WP eMember

A fully featured membership plugin for WordPress. With this plugin you can easily create different membership levels and protect different contents of your blog for different members.

Here is the WP eMember official demo videos on plugin usage-

i) WP eMember Installation

ii) How to Create Membership Levels

iii) Configuring the Settings Options

iv) Managing Content Protection

v) Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

Another good thing about all these plugins is they are pre-integrated with one another so you can use them simultaneously.

If you want to set up your website for online business, get all the Plugins as a package here

Boost Your Google Adwords Profits With Conversion Optimizer

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:57:23 +0000

We all know about Google Adwords, one of the best ways of promoting your own products through advertising online. If you already have an Adwords account probably you are thinking how you can increase the conversion rate of the e-commerce products you are promoting. Well, If it’s a text link ad may be you are thinking how you can make its texts more attractive; if it’s an image ad may be you want to make it look more beautiful or colorful so that people become more likely to click on that. But you might not know that you can also increase your profits with an Adwords feature called Conversion Optimizer.

What is Conversion Optimizer?

Basically, Conversion Optimizer is an Adwords feature which significantly increases your conversion rate at a lower cost

How Conversion Optimizer Works

1. It monitors your conversion tracking data and see how often each auction leads to a conversion.

2. Based on the performance it determines which auctions will be good to use.

3. It automatically adjusts your bids on a continuous basis. Consequently, your money gets invested for the best auction.

4. It also creates an ad rank on the basis of your CPA bid, quality score and predicted conversion rate.

Benefits of Using Conversion Optimizer

It allows you to increase your profits.

It is Easy to use.

Decrease you time for managing bids.

You can enable and disable this feature anytime.

Disabling this feature will revert all your campaigns to the previous state.

It allows you to get the maximum CPA goals.

It is completely free for Adwords advertisers.

To get started with Conversion Optimizer, click here

10 Most Popular Plugins For WordPress

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:05:22 +0000

We all know that plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything. Based on the number of downloads and average ratings I’ve found 10 most popular WordPress plugins-

1. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin generates a XML sitemap which helps search engines to index your blog better.

Visit the plugin page

2. WPtouch iPhone Theme

WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme automatically.

Visit the plugin page

3. All in One SEO Pack

It Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

Visit the plugin page

4. Contact Form 7

A simple contact form for wordpress which can manage multiple contact forms

Visit the plugin page

5. TweetMeme Button

It Adds a button to let you retweet your blog posts easily.

Visit the plugin page

6. NextGEN Gallery

This plugin allows you to create a image gallery with a flash slideshow option.

Visit the plugin page

7. Maintenance Mode

It Adds a splash page to your blog that let the visitors know that your blog is down for maintenance.

Visit the plugin page

8. Fast and Secure Contact Form

This plugin allows you to create a customizable contact form to let your visitors send you email

Visit the plugin page

9. WP-PageNavi

This plugin adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

Visit the plugin page

10. Post videos and photo galleries

It allows you to post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily

Visit the plugin page

How to Sell ebook From a WordPress Blog Using Free WP Shopping Cart Plugin

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:45:23 +0000

Selling e-book is easy if you know how to do it. My last e-book “How to Sell eBook from WordPress Site- The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to selling eBooks from Your Site” was appreciated by many people. But the people who want to sell e-book for the first time might find it harder to follow any premium WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin. Even Many people may not know that they can sell e-book from their WordPress blog using a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.This e-book “How to Sell ebook From a WordPress Blog Using Free WP Shopping Cart Plugin” is the simple version of my last e-book.

The main features of this e-book-

How to sell e-book using free WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin.
Easy explanation with details.
Clear Screenshots to help you fully understand.

Some screenshots from inside the e-book,

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Screenshot 3

Free WP Shopping Cart plugin can be found here

Download the e-book from here

How to Create a Simple ‘Buy Now’ Button with PayPal

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:47:57 +0000

Transaction through PayPal is very common for online shopping these days. PayPal can be used to sell both digital and non-digital products. If you do not use a WordPress Shopping Cart on your site, you might want to know how you can easily create a simple ‘Buy Now‘ button with PayPal and put on your product page or post to sell products.

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a simple ‘Buy Now’ button with PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account, you can sign up for one here. If you already have a PayPal account, all you need to do is just log in to your account and follow the tutorial.

Note: You need to have a PayPal ‘Premier‘ or ‘Business‘ account to be able to create ‘Buy Now‘ buttons. If your account type is ‘Personal‘, you can upgrade it to ‘Premier‘ or ‘Business‘ for free to be able to buy and sell online.

This is a very basic tutorial to create a simple ‘Buy Now‘ button. I did not customize the ‘Buy Now‘ button or the settings but you can play around with it on your own. Alternatively, if you are using WordPress then you can use a Free WordPress Shopping Cart plugin which will automatically create a simple PayPal button for you. The Free WordPress Shopping Cart can be found here.

How To Sell Digital Or Non-Digital Products Online With WordPress eStore Plugin

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:55:51 +0000

Last week one of my friends asked me about selling digital or non-digital products online. He runs a wordpress blog and wants to sell products from his website but he does not know what wordpress plugin to use. He already knew from some other people that Instinct’s famous WordPress e-commerce plugin is not that user friendly. He needs something simple to use. Then I told him about WordPress eStore plugin, a very simple plugin which has various stunning features. Today he gave me thanks for telling him about such a good wordpress shopping cart plugin. Now he can sell products from his wordpress blog very easily and securely.

Just like my friend there are many people who want to sell products from their wordpress websites but do not know how to do this with a plugin. And even if they get a plugin, they are not sure about having trusts upon that. Some of the websites say many good things about their products and offer you to buy the products. But once you buy and have difficulties with their products, they do not give you supports. So, before buying any product you need to think if that product is going to be useful for you or if you can get good customer support from them. Considering all the facts, I recommend every people to use WordPress eStore plugin, a product of tipsandtricks-hq.com. So far I have heard from other people, It will mostly fulfill your demands and they give the customers good support.

At first, I am giving you some basic ideas about how to use this plugin on your wordpress blog.

1.WP eStore Installation

This video tutorial shows you how to install this product on your websites easily. You need to upload and activate the plugin to use.

WP eStore Installation from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.

2. WP eStore Settings Configuration

This tutorial shows you how to configure different settings of this plugin.

WP eStore Basic Settings Configuration from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.

3. How to Configure a Product

This tutorial shows you how to add a product that you want to sell.

WP eStore Product Customization from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.

4. How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

As you have added the products, this tutorial will show you how to display the products on a post or page and start selling easily.

WP eStore Product Display from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.

So, these are the basic tutorials on how to use this plugin. All you need to do now is get a WordPress eStore plugin and start selling digital or non-digital products from your wordpress blog instantly. The plugin can be found here.

How To Use NextGEN Gallery Plugin On Your WordPress Ecommerce Site And Get More Out Of It

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:47:45 +0000

NextGEN Gallery is a popular wordpress plugin which allows you to manage and display images on your site with a Flash slideshow. In this article you will find some good tutorials on how to use this NextGEN Gallery plugin easily. I have also mentioned some other plugins that can be used to get more out of it.

This video tutorial shows you how to use the Nextgen gallery plugin with wordpress easily.

This is another tutorial which shows you how to order images in the NextGen Gallery wordpress plugin.

This is a nice tutorial which shows you how to add images to your website by using NextGEN Gallery.

Following plugins can be useful to use on your wordpress blog along with NextGen Gallery-

1. NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget

With this widget you can set the number of galleries you want to show.

Visit the widget page here

2. NextGEN Gallery Search

You can search within your galleries with this plugin.

Visit the plugin page here

3. NextGEN Custom Fields

With this plugin you will be able to add custom columns to the NextGEN Gallery.

Visit the Plugin page here

10 Simple WordPress Ecommerce Plugins To Make Money From Your Blog

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:10:00 +0000

Money making from an ecommerce site is not that easy. It depends on various facts that how much money you are making from your site. However, I have found some simple solutions which will help you make money from your wordpress ecommerce site easily.

1. WordPress eStore Plugin

A nice plugin to use with wordpress for selling digital products online. Some of the main features of this plugin-

1. You can sell digital products securely.

2. You get the benefit of easy checkout.

3. It gives you the ease of design and usage.

4. It can be easily integrated with NextGen Gallery plugin.

5. It is pre-integrated with WP eMember plugin and WordPress Affiliate Software plugin

Visit WordPress eStore Plugin page here

2. WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin

This is really a great plugin which gives you a fully functional affiliate platform on your website. Some of the main features of this plugin-

1. You can easily install it.

2. It manages all the reports instantly.

3. It can be integrated with WordPress eStore Plugin easily.

4. Also It can integrated with various shopping cart plugins, Instinct’s WP-eCommerce Plugin and WishList Member plugin easily.

Visit WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin Page Here

3. WordPress eMember – Easy to Use WordPress Membership Plugin

It is one of the best membership plugins that you can use to limit some pages from viewing among different members of your website. Some of the main features of this plugin include-

1. You can install it very easily without any complexity.

2. You can make different membership like free,basic,premium, ultimate etc. and decide which post or page can be viewed by which member.

3. Easy integration with wordpress affiliate software plugin and WordPress eStore plugin.

Visit wordpress membership plugin page here

4. Advertising Manager

This is a good plugin to make money from the Google adsense of your blog. Some of the features of this plugin-

1. It manages all the ads on your site including Google Adsense.

2. It can recognize many ad networks automatically.

Visit the plugin page here

5. AmazonFeed

Some of the features of this plugin include-

1. It loads category related products from Amazon.com automatically.

2. You can easily earn rewards as an affiliate and for this you need to enter your affiliate tracking code.

3. It gives additional contents to your visitors according to your posts.

Visit the plugin page here

6. Chitika | Premium

It is a CPC search-targeted advertising plugin. Some of the features of this include-

1. You can change the display of your Chitika | Premium ads very easily.

2. It is fully Adsense compatible.

3. The ads of Chitika|Premium target the US and Canada search engine traffic.

Visit the plugin page here

7. Free eBay Store

You can use this plugin to show eBay listings automatically on your website. Some of the features of this plugin include-

1. You can give tags to your posts or pages with your eBay Campaign ID.

2. You can cuztomize the layout of your eBay store.

Visit the plugin page here

8. WP Simple Adsense Insertion

A very quick and simple plugin to add Google Adsense to your site easily

Visit the WP Simple Adsense Insertion plugin page here

9. Quick Shop

This plugin provides a sidebar widget on your site that shows the content of the cart and user can add or remove the items very easliy at any time.

Visit the plugin page here

10. Easy AdSense

With this plugin you can easily make money from Google adsense of your website.

Visit the plugin page here

5 Nice Forum Solutions For WordPress Ecommerce

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:55:13 +0000

Forum is a general part of any website. If you are someone who is selling digital products online from your website, you may want to set up a forum on your website where the customers can talk about their problems or share their ideas with other people. It gives your website more functionalities. Here I am giving you five simple forum solutions which you may find useful for your wordpress ecommerce site.

1. bbPress

It is really a nice forum software to use with wordpress. Some of the features of this include-

1. It is fast and light.

2. It has simple interface.

3. It contains customizable templates.

4. It is highly extensible.

5. It has good spam protection.

6. You can use RSS Feeds with that.

7. It can be easily integrated with your blog.

Visit bbPress page here

2. phpBB

Some of the main features of it include-

1. It has high security with multiple-language interface.

2. It gives support for a multitude of database servers.

3. It has complete layout customization.

Visit phpBB page here

3. MyBB

MyBB is another useful forum package. Some of the main features of this include-

1. Good security.

2. Fast and no disturbance on your discussion board.

3. Customizable with ajax.

4. Easy management with inline moderation.

Visit MyBB page here

4. Phorum

Some of the main features of this include-

1. It performs good.

2. It gives you total freedom.

3. You can easily customize the forum.

4. You can design the shape of forum.

Visit Phorum page here

5. vBulletin

It is a premium forum solution for you. Some of the main features of vBulletin include-

1. It is fast and has efficient database back end.

2. It has template driven interface.

3. It has a powerful search engine.

4. It contains a nice language system.

5. It has a flexible plugin system.

Visit vBulletin page here

WordPress eCommerce » wordpress e-commerce

5 Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions For Your WordPress Site

1. WP eStore

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. ShopperPress

3. Market Theme

4. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

5. PHPurchase

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How to Start a Complete Online Business on Your WordPress Blog

Why do you need to have those plugins?

Recommended Solutions

1. WP eStore

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. WP Affiliate Platform

i) WP Affiliate Platform Installation

ii) WP Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration

iii) WP Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation

iv) WP Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test

3. WP eMember

i) WP eMember Installation

ii) How to Create Membership Levels

iii) Configuring the Settings Options

iv) Managing Content Protection

v) Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

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5. TweetMeme Button

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8. Fast and Secure Contact Form

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