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Ecommerce Software Can Help You Sell Your Books Online

September 2nd 2007 11:06

Do You Sell Your Work on Your Website?

Do you have a website or blog where you sell your own work--perhaps even the work of others? Or maybe you've never sold books, e-books, artwork, or crafts online before, but have been thinking of adding that feature to your site. Either way, you'll need good, reliable shopping cart software to make the job of selling and shipping your creative products easier, more accurate, and more convenient.


Ecommerce: The Current Trend

Ecommerce is the current trend in product marketing, and Ashop Commerce is one of the leading providers of ecommerce software on the internet today. Their website offers an ecommerce demo shop, where you can test drive their award-winning software to see first-hand what it can do.

The site also includes a long list of shopping cart features, arming you to compare their shopping cart software to other similar products and see how much more you'll get with Ashop. And flexible package pricing will help you find the combination of features that meets your individual needs at the best price.


All This, And a Free Trial, too

Aside from all this, Ashop offers a free 10-day trial of their shopping cart software, with no credit card required to take advantage of it. Yet, with its advanced functionality, you'll be able to accept credit cards online when selling your products.

Your website will likely need a shopping cart, if you plan to offer quite a few different items and/or make a significant number of sales. Once you have the software in hand, within hours, you'll be ready to use your customized shopping cart to begin selling online--or begin doing it better and more profitably.


Be a Contender

So, if, in addition to writing articles or blog posts for your site's visitors, you'd also like to offer your work for sale, check out the shopping cart software offered by Ashop Commerce. It will help you compete with some of the most powerful sites on the Web.

And perhaps, soon, it will help you to join their ranks.

Happy browsing,
Jeanne


This post is sponsored by Smorty.


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Comment by Yvonne Russell

September 2nd 2007 16:13
I'm keen to write an ebook, so this is interesting Jeanne. How are you finding Smorty?

Comment by Jeanne Dininni

September 2nd 2007 17:27
Yvonne,

I was actually quite impressed with how quickly they approved my first post, and what impressed me even more was how quickly they paid me for it. They pay every Friday, apparently, since that's the day my first payment went into my PayPal account.

I'm having a little trouble, though, figuring out what has caused my Smorty score to be lowered by half. After it had gone up a bit on approval of my first post, I suddenly found a large drop in my score when I logged in one day. I have no idea what it could be, but I've sent them a message about it and hopefully will hear from them soon.

I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for the visit!
Jeanne

Comment by Yvonne Russell

September 3rd 2007 16:29
Does the score affect the payment?

Comment by Jeanne Dininni

September 3rd 2007 18:53
Not to my knowledge. Each offer has a certain dollar value, which is the amount you get once you've completed it.

However, I'm not sure whether it affects which opportunities are offered to you, because, at Smorty, only a couple of opportunities are offered to you at a time--rather than a whole list being presented which you go through to choose the ones you'd like to complete. At least, that has been my experience. (Whether it's because I'm new or not, I have no idea.)

Jeanne

Comment by Anonymous

September 3rd 2007 21:41
Thanks for responding to my cry for help...let's see if this comment 'takes'

I love Smorty..the only difficulty I have had is 'capturing' the campaigns before they are all snapped up. Since I am not on the computer 24/7 they are usually gone before I get the email announcing them.

Comment by Anonymous

September 3rd 2007 21:47
Okay..I did what you said...the anonymous comment before me is me...Danielle ......Orble just won't take my tag or password...I'll figure this out eventually!!

Comment by Jeanne Dininni

September 4th 2007 00:32
Danielle,

Sorry you're coming up "Anonymous"! I 've noticed, though, that in the very first comment you left, on my PayPerPost entry, your name appeared and it was linked to your blog. That's exactly what we want. Whatever you did that day worked. That's the way you'll want to do it every time--if you can remember what you did.

Thanks so much for your good-natured attitude about something that could certainly prove frustrating!

As far as Smorty is concerned, I'm so new to their network that I don't really know much about how it works, though I've written two posts so far and one has already been approved and paid for. (They are very quick!) Is there a trial period or something, during which they only put a few opps on your account page, and later you receive other e-mailed opportunities; or am I simply not receiving e-mailed opps because there currently aren't any?

I'm also wondering what could have caused my Smorty score, which started at 500, to first go up to 505 after my first post was approved and then suddenly drop to 255 a few days later for no apparent reason--at least no reason that was apparent to me!

By the way, I've been wanting to let my readers know that you were the source from which I first learned about Smorty, but I've been so busy lately that I haven't had the chance to figure out the best way to go about it--aside from mentioning it in this comment, that is. I'm thinking I probably shouldn't alter the already-approved Smorty sponsored post. Perhaps I can add it to my August comments post--or maybe I'll write another post giving various bloggers credit for backlinks, leads, etc. I'll have to give it some thought. It was very careless of me not to think of it sooner! My apologies!

I'm so glad you haven't given up on leaving comments at Writer's Notes!

Thanks for your persistence!
Jeanne

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