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A Budget Way To Take Payments On Your Site.

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by Lucas Heijn

The internet is a marketers dream. Here you have an audience that runs into the hundreds or even thousands of millions. All you need to do is get your slice of the action. I’ll discuss that in another article.

To get your slice of the internet cake, how can you set up a site to take payments? How can you do so on a tight budget?

It’s fairly simple really, and very affordable. The first time you do it you may sweat a little as everything you do for the first time is not easy, but you will soon learn. It is also most affordable for most people. So what do you need to do?

So what do you need to do?

A first thing you need is a web host. It will be unwise to choose a free host, as they will also advertise on your site. I’m sure that you would prefer your customers to focus on your products rather than your hosting provider’s products. You will also find it difficult to do all you need to do with such a limited host

You will also need a payment processor, one that doesn’t cost the earth. Free preferably

To create your web pages you will need some software. I personally use Dreamweaver. There are some very good free programs available on the internet.

Finding a good web hosting provider is your first job. Here are some things to look for:

As your business grows and you promote more products you will need more domain names. Your web hosting provider must allow you to run a number of domains on your account. You also need to be able to have a good number of subdomains.


Can you use CGI and PHP scripts on your site? How much disk space do you get with this account? How many MySql databases are you permitted to run? These are some of the things you need to get answers to in choosing a web host.

You also need a payment processor. There are hundreds of these. I am just going to look at three of them. They are all budget and very affordable. One is totally free to set up.

The first one is free. You pay a small percentage of your sale to the processor. This one is PayPal. Free to join and set up your account. You will need a PayPal email address. It is good to set up a dedicated email for this. You should be able to do this with your hosting account as you should be able to set up a number of emails.

2Checkout.com is another payment processor. They charge a one off fee of $50 to set up your account and then a small percentage of each sale. This processor also is used by many internet marketers.

The last on this list is ClickBank. ClickBank is free to join. It has a huge list of affiliate products that you could choose to promote. If you wish to become a vendor, selling your products using ClickBank you will need to pay a setup fee. This is about $50.00. ClickBank also charges a small percentage for each sale that is made through them.

All of these sites generate a code for you to use on your sales page where you want the buy now button. PayPay and 2Checkout.com both provide code you place into the HTML of the page. Clickbank generates a URL you can then link to a button on your page.

As you can see, setting up your own e commerce web site is not real difficult and is very affordable.

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To sell on the world wide web you need a reliable web hosting provider. Some web hosts also provide free value added tools such as an autoresponder as it is impossible to market on the world wide web without one.