Archive for April 2009
Me, Murphy And 31DBBB!
I can’t believe it is Tuesday and nearly at the end of the month. I must admit I am starting to feel like I am getting on top of my workload. I probably have taken on more than I should but it makes life interesting. Although, all being well and if Murphy hadn’t stepped in, things would have not backed up. I had it all planned……
While I am behind in the 31DBBB, that’s the 31 Days to Building A Better Blog, I’m finding it excellent. Instead of just posting whatever, I now have some structure to follow. The blog that I am using, not this one, is one that I had waiting to build, not sure just what I was going to do with it or how I was going to use it so 31DBBB is just the thing.
The tasks for the first and second days, by the time I had finished those, the structure for the blog was right in front of me, mind you, it took me a little while for the ‘light bulb’ to flash on. Main thing is, that it did.
Some of the tasks have been challenging and have taken me out of my comfort zone, that’s a good thing…..afterwards that is. I’ve still a little way to catch up but now that that fellow Murphy has gone, then catch up is on the menu.
If you didn’t get onto this at the start of April then don’t fret, you can still do it. Sign up here and you will get an email each day with your tasks and the link to read the task in detail.
If you blog about anything or want to blog about something then now is your chance to start out right, I highly recommend it.
I said to someone earlier today, free is not always ‘free’ often times it gets very expensive. 31DBBB is the exact opposite, this free is so much value it’s priceless.
So do the Nike thing and Just Do It!
Cheers and take care
Carmel
Posted in Tutorials
Tomorrow Is Another Day
The past couple of weeks have been a trifle trying.
Murphy’s law…………..
Well laid plans……….. 
I know a short cut……………..
All of the above are what has made my past couple of weeks very trying to say the least.
First of all, Murphy’s law, just about everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
My well laid plans, they all went astray. What I had planned and what I was able to do, mainly because of the Murphy’s law thing, let’s just say, I couldn’t recognise my plans anywhere.
“I know a short cut”, NOT…….. I do know that short cuts are probably the longest way you can go. The person who told me the ‘short cut’ to reduce the amount of work I needed to do for a project, really meant well, but it didn’t work out that way, quite the opposite, it added probably an extra three days to the project.
At least now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it doesn’t look like a train……
Tomorrow is another day. Time to take stock and get organised but no planning, no shortcuts and I’m not talking to any Murphys for a little while.
Hope your days have been good to you.
Take care
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Time Out
Paypal Custom Payment Page, An Extra Bit!
There was one thing I forgot to mention with the Custom Payment Page with Paypal and that was, if you have more than one custom payment page that you want to use, you will need to select the Add advanced variables (this is right at the end before you save your button) and then add
page_style=nameofcustompaymentpage
Do this when you are setting up the Buy Now, Add to Cart or Pay Now button.
Whichever Custom Payment Page you have selected as your Primary will be used for all your transactions, so the above will get around that for your various website.
Okay, that’s it for now, catch you later and take care
Cheers
Posted in Internet Marketing
Set Up A Custom Payment Page With Paypal.
I found this useful so thought you might too
It is how you make a Custom Payment Page for your Paypal account. This makes accepting payments look much more professional. Often times your Paypal and the site you are selling from have absolutely nothing to connect them and your customer may just be unsure they are purchasing from the right person and so click off and you lose the sale. So to prevent that here is what you can do.
The first thing is:-
Log into your Paypal account and click on My Account
Then select Profile.
You will then have three lists with options. the one you want it the “Selling Preferences”
Select “Custom Payment Pages”
You will have the standard Paypal page as your Primary.
Click on Add and you will be taken to “Edit Custom Page Style”
Where “Paypal” is entered, change this to whatever you want to call your option.
The next section is where you enter the URL for your header image. This needs to be 750 x 90 pixels in size. If you don’t already have this ready then, simply change the size to the 750 x 90 px and upload it via FTP. Once uploaded to get the correct URL, right click the file name in your FTP client, on the menu that comes up, select Properties, you will see something like this
You need whatever is after the html/ in this case it is /images/ctbheader.jpg and attach that to your site URL yours would be, http://www.yoursitename.com/images/header.jpg . Now before you go any further, open a browser,copy and paste that URL into the browser and if you have done everything right, you will see the header image.
Now paste that URL into this section above.
Enter the color codes you want in the boxes below.
Save your settings.
If you want to match any colors this little tool will do it for you, you can download it here for free.
You only need the numbers and letters not the #
You can Preview your new Custom Page and if you want to make it your default then simply click on the radio button and your custom page will be used for all your Paypal transactions.
If you want to change at any time then simply go to your Profile and select Selling Preferences then Custom Payment Pages.
Below is how my Custom Payment Page looks with the header I set up, much better than the default Paypal settings.
You can add up to three page styles. I kept this simple but you can change the look dramatically by adding a page background color that reflects your website.
This is what Paypal says
“With our Custom Payment Pages feature, you can tailor PayPal’s payment pages to the style of your website and give customers a seamless payment experience. Choose custom page colours and add images to make PayPal’s payment flow yours! This feature is available exclusively to Premier and Business Account holders.
Custom Payment Pages can be used with all PayPal Website Payment pages, including those for Buy Now Buttons, Donations, Shopping Cart, Subscriptions and Web Accept Express. The page style you select will apply to every page in the payment flow, including account creation for new PayPal users. “
So now when you go to set up your Buy Now buttons, unless you wish to change your Custom Payment Page, you just go ahead set everything up and if your primary is set to your website header or logo option then you are set to go and your customer will know for sure they are on the right payment page.
I hope you have found this useful, thank you for visiting, take care.
Posted in Internet Marketing