1. The main article directories for you to consider if you're going to publish your articles manually are: http://goarticles.com and http://ezinearticles.com.

2. If you want to automate your article marketing and submit to hundreds of article directories, look at these two submission services: http://1webcenter.com/submityourarticle and http://1webcenter.com/articlemarketer

3. Know the keyword phrases by which you want your articles to be discovered in the search results, and be sure your article headline has the phrases, and the body of your article includes a "liberal dose" of the main keyword and related phrases.

4. In your author's resource box (at the bottom of your article), be sure to refer your readers to a page where they can subscribe to your list.

5. Post your articles to your blog FIRST, then submit them to article directories. This will not only make your blog more content-rich, but also help google to establish ownership of the article when choosing between your blog post and other sites that syndicate your article for display in the Search Engine Results Pages.

Think of how it works In the offline world…a) we swipe our credit cards in the reader which b) in turn, sends our credit card information to the bank/merchant account provider for verification and approval and c) sends the result of the verification back to the terminal.

In the online world, you can loosely think of the shopping cart as the card reader. It provides a secure online web page for you to enter your credit card information, sends that information to the merchant account provider's computers, waits for the approval/rejection notice, and either continues the transaction or tells the user the transaction's not valid.

That's the "payment gateway" function. Some shopping carts, like http://PowerUpCart.com have the gateway built in to the shopping cart – which also provides the ability to create "storefronts", and deliver the products after the completion of the transaction.

There's more to it, of course, but I think that addresses your main point of confusion.

I like the analogy you used about the different musicians all playing the same song yet with their own unique flavour and nuance, that helps to take off some self imposed pressure …

I can’t type fast enough, so awaiting your replay.

Louisa from Malaysia

~ Joy

Louisa and I will be attending Harv’s Warrior Camp from Oct28- Nov 2. we will be a bit behind in your prelim training.

Joy Ayscue
Energy Coach

You don’t want a static website. The Search Engines will be more active in finding your site the more you change it. Daily or at least weekly is good.

Susan Graham
Business Coach

Also to sell something b4 u cre8 it – I’ve done that too and it really gets you focused and into action.

This is great.
Thanks!
I very much appreciate your approach.

Caitriona

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(soon I’ll have this automatic on my website! but I don’t yet know how to do that)

Glad to be here!

Anna

Also, hello to Christie in Nevada

Lisa

How are you?

My question is about selling products from my website.

What are the basics I need to sell an e-book from my site?

I’m confused about how auto-responders fit in with shopping carts and merchant accounts.

Thanks.

Susan