Basic Paypal IPN Setup

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   Go to the Instant Payment Notification (IPN) setup page in your PayPal account. First log in to your PayPal account, click on “Profile” and then the “Instant Payment Notification” button in the “Selling Preferences” list. Setting this up ensures that your Zen Cart store and PayPal are synchronized with each other when payments are made.

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   To properly set up IPN service, click on “Edit IPN Settings” on the setup page. Enter the IPN notification URL and select the radio button for “Receive IPN messages.” Click the “Save” button and then on “Back to Profile Summary” on the next page. The IPN notification URL is found in the top left-hand side of the PayPal IPN’s information settings in the payment modules of your Zen Cart administrator area.

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   Set the Auto Return feature to allow customers to automatically return to your Zen Cart store after paying with Paypal. Click on “Website Payment Preferences” under the “Selling Preferences” list on your Paypal profile page. Turn Auto Return on by selecting the “On” radio button. Enter the “Return URL” in the space provided; this URL is found next to where your IPN notification URL was listed in your Paypal payment module in the Zen Cart admin area. Scroll to the bottom of the Website Payment Preferences page and click “Save.”

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   Log in to your Zen Cart administrator panel with the username and password that you created when you signed up with Zen Cart.

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   Go to the payment modules in your Zen Cart admin control panel. Click the “Payment” option under the “Modules” tab to see a list of all possible payment options for your customers. Click the “Paypal IPN – Website Payments Standard” payment option and click “Edit” at the top.

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   Enter the appropriate information in the left-hand-side information box to properly set up PayPal on your site. Confirm that the “True” radio button is marked to enable the PayPal module. Enter your primary premier or business PayPal email address under the “Business ID” section. Choose other desired options in this section as well, such as selecting your preferred transaction currency; click “Update” at the bottom of the page when finished. If you’re unsure of your primary PayPal address, this is the email address marked as primary in the “Email” section on your PayPal profile page.

PayPal Express Checkout Setup

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   Go to the API Access setup page in your PayPal account. First log in to your PayPal account and click on “API Access” under the “Account Information” list in your PayPal profile page.

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   Click “View API Certificate” on the API Access page to view your API credentials. Write down or copy the API username, password, and signature on the next page.

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   Log into your Zen Cart administration and choose the “Paypal Express Checkout” option in the Payment modules. Select the “True” radio button to enable this payment option; scroll down and set any other desired settings, such as choosing to allow customers to “skip” the checkout payment page when making a payment. Paste your API username, password, and signature in the appropriate boxes. Select “Live” to make the PayPal Express Checkout payment option ready to use. Click “Update” at the bottom of the page when finished.

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There are thousands of application available with one click once you have a Facebook profile. But, don’t get caught up in adding every tom, dick and harry application, just because you can. Think logically about your goals for being on Facebook and then choose the tools that will help your communicate, achieve and amplify those objectives.

Here’s a complete directory of Facebook applications

And, here are my favorite applications for business use.

• Telephone – With Telephone you can call, send and receive voice messages through Facebook, just like having voicemail on your phone. All you need is the application and a microphone and you can start sending messages to your friends.
• Slideshare – SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. You can upload your own PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF files and view presentations shared by others. This is a great way to spread thought leadership and expertise through presentations you may have delivered locally.
• CircleUp – For Groups and Events is a lightweight collaboration app for groups and events. This tool facilitates some of the communication needed to promote your group activity and events on Facebook and elsewhere. This is particularly useful if you’ve created and maintain your own group on Facebook or often promote teleseminars and workshops.
• Free Conference Calls - Use Free Conference Calls to organize a business meeting on the fly. With free conference call you can call in from anywhere; your home, mobile, Skype, or any VoIP service. Using this app inside of Facebook can help make some immediate connections a little deeper.
• Facebook Video – Facebook Video provides a high-quality video platform for people and pages on Facebook. With Video, you can upload video files, send video from your mobile phone, and record video messages to your friends. This application is so easy to use that it makes sending video introductions or message a powerful way to network on Facebook
• Testimonials – Use Testimonials to gather your personal and professional references in one place. Encouraging customers and contacts to post testimonials about your work and expertise adds great marketing content to your profile.
• Introductions – Introduce your friends to each other and make new ones. Ask for an introduction to a web programmer or good lawyer. Then make introductions for your friends. This application speeds the process of effective networking by helping focus on giving and receiving introductions in a systematic way.
• Business Cards – Business Cards helps you network better on Facebook. Personalize your card and attach it to your Facebook messages! View postings and network with others! This application is much like the signature common in email messages. It’s just one more way to say business when using Facebook.
• My LinkedIn Profile – Makes it easy to promote your LinkedIn account with a badge on your Facebook profile. Cross promoting social network activity is a great way to extend your reach.
• What I Do – Allows you to promote your services/products to your Facebook network. Display your skills/wares on your profile box and list yourself in a business directory. Recommend your colleagues services and products too.

So, I would love to hear how you have effectively used specific Facebook applications for business.

If you are a entrepeneur this a great opportunity to earn online income.

From the mouth of Drop Shippers South Africa:

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Here are some ways you can sell online to get you started.

www.bidorbuy.co.za
is the 20th most visited website in South Africa . They only charge a small % of your sales fee and are South Africa’s biggest online market place. It can’t be any easier than selling on bid or buy. The buyer EFT’s you, you EFT Drop Shippers, the goods get delivered directly to your buyer and you make your markup.

Our own bidorbuy online store is here

www.junkmail.co.za is great place to place free ads and they are the 40th most visited site in south africa.

www.facebook.com How many friends do you have on facebook. Just post your latest hottest products on your status update. You can also create a facebook page and group to promote your business.

Google Adwords and Facebook Ads are probably the best place for paid advertising.

Create a free blog and keep people informed. You can start of like this and then you can move on to your own website.

With Joomla it is so easy to create your own online shop. If you don’t know what joomla is it is a complete content management system. Other developers have done all the work.

www.manfredk.com For affordable Joomla and other websites.

You just choose what you whant and then you put your website together!

Setup your bulk emailer and autoresponderhere

You can create email and sms campaigns aswell as surveys and keep your customers up to date on any specials you may have. The free account allows you to have 50 people in your mailing list. Once your customer base grows you can upgrade to R100 per month starter account.

Earn yourself R100.00 for every person you refer to Dropshippers.co.za. To get your account with dropshippers visit them here

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The money is in the list. If you are not building a list of subscribers who are interested in your products and services that you can market to over and over you are wasting your advertising dollars. This is the number 1 most important tool you need for marketing on the internet period.

So which is the best autoresponder service? In my opinion it is Aweber. I was a 4 year customer of one of their main competitors when recently I switched my sign up forms for new subscribers to Aweber. I was stunned. For the same traffic I doubled my subscriber rate! I got twice as many confirmed opt in subscribers with Aweber than I did with their main competitor! I went from about 80 confirmed opt in subscribers per day to 180!!!! This means with the other service that I had for 4 years I had been losing about 100 subscribers per day. Considering that each subscriber is worth about Ten Rand that comes to about R 3000.00 per month loss by choosing the wrong autoresponder service!!

Why did the former service perform so poorly? Email deliverability. This service got themselves on some blacklists and the confirmation emails people get to confirm their subscriptions were going directly to the trash. Wasted advertising Rands, wasted time!

With Aweber ALL of my confirmation emails were getting directly to the inbox and therefore more people confirmed and joined my newsletters.

Aweber just has it together. They deliver big time. If you have another autoresponder service I would switch. I you do not then sign up below for Aweber’s free test drive and get educated directly from Aweber about how valuable autoresponder can be to your business. Do it right the first time and you could save thousands of dollars! Don’t make my mistake and choose the wrong autoresponder company.

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* Or simply register it to make sure that no-one else does!

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