It is no secret that blogging has become very popular these days. It is a quick and easy way to make an online presence, allowing people to post their thoughts onto the internet for the world to see at the push of a button. Best of all, you hardly need any web design skills of any kind. Blogging is also becoming a popular marketing technique. The search engines love them, because of the rapidly changing content. Internet marketers love them partly because of the ability to leave comments which include links back to their websites and because they are a great search engine optimization technique. So why not find a way to make a buck off of them?

Let me start by saying that Information Sells! If you have some good information to offer put it in ebook form. People love ebooks. There are even handheld ebook readers due to be released in the near future. There are also many ebook compilers available online for a minimal cost. Many ebooks now offer 100% resale rights, giving you the legal right to sell them from your website and keep all of the profits. Visit http://www.transational.com which specializes in inexpensive resale rights products.

The good thing about these products is that when you set it up for sale on your website or blog, you can just let it go from there. This system will be fully automated, requiring you to do absolutely nothing, no shipping, no processing of payments, but if done right, the profits will start rolling in.

Step 1 Tools you will need

Ok now there are a couple of things that you will need for this step. The first is a PayPal account, which you can set up for free at http://www.paypal.com. This will enable you to accept credit card payments. The second is called the Paylock Generator which can be downloaded here http://paylockgenerator.com/ for a whopping $9.99, and will create the buy now button, similar to the expensive shopping cart systems used on commercial websites. All you do is fill in the information to the text boxes, push the button and copy the code to put into your site. If you are selling a tangible item, be sure to add in the shipping and handling cost as well. The last thing is a place to store the ebook, making it available for instant download. I personally use http://www.box.net for this. Box.net is a free online storage site which gives you a separate link to each file you put on there. You paste this link into the Paylock Generator success textbox, and when the payment is processed through PayPal, the buyer is taken to the download link instantly.

Pretty slick isn't it?

Step 2 Put the ad for the product on your blog.

A small advertisement is all you will need. If your blog is interesting enough, and the product is related, it will sell. A small catchy image won't hurt either. To place a picture on your site, simply put in the following code putting the name and file type between the quotes. Under that write a short catchy description of the product.

This is where paylock generator comes in. All you have to do is open it up and fill in the information which includes, your PayPal email address, the name of the item you want to sell, the purchase price, the success URL (the link to where the file is stored) and a canceled URL, I suggest using the link to your blog from this. Then you click the ?Make Button? button and paste in the code from paylock generator to where you want it on your blog. It's actually pretty self explanatory.

Step 3

Keep doing what you have already been doing. Keep writing in your blog or adding content to your site. Oh, and one more thing.... Watch the profits start rolling in.

If you do this once, you will be a pro at it.

Patrick Rafferty is the webmaster for Transational Ebooks http://www.transational.com Please visit the site for contact information.