How To Guide: How To Sell on Your Web Site
A good web site makes it easy for a visitor to buy your work. Whether you handle the sale yourself or let an online book seller handle it, follow these simple steps to give a visitor what they need to buy. There are two different ways to sell your work through your site. You can use one or a combination of all these.
Have Them Contact You to Order
Direct Them to Buy From Another Web Site
There are two "order" pages on your site. Your book can have it's own order page as a book section page. In addition, your web site has an Order page that lists all the works you wish to sell.
Remember to open your web site in another browser as you make changes. This way you can view your changes as you make them. Once on a page, just click refresh to see the latest changes.
Have Them Contact You to Order
To sell your work without using newfangled technology, include your contact information and tell them to get in touch. Whether by phone, email, letter or all three, providing contact information can facilitate a sale and answer questions.
First, add content to your Contact page. Login to your Account Manager and click Website Manager, Contact Info and select the features your want to use.
Second, to manage your book's order page, click Website Manager, Books. Then click your book's title from your List of Books and click 'book sections.' In Choose Book Sections check "Order" and save changes. Then click to add/modify the Order page. On this page we suggest adding a paragraph or two with a sales or buy message.
Third, click Shopping Cart and click Select Items to choose which items appear on the web sites's Order page. Then click Page Content and add a paragraph or two with a sales or buy message and optionally to paste in PayPal or other types of buy buttons.
Direct to Buy From Another Web Site
A second option is to direct buyers to a website that sells your work. You can do this on your WFA site two ways.
One way is to simply include a link to another site in your content on any page. When adding or changing a page, read the Help document for tips on formatting a link.
A second and better way is to use your web site's Order page and activate an order button on this page and your book's Order page. The order buttons appears automatically when you add the Shopping Link.
- Determine the web addresses where visitors can purchase your work.
- Login to your Account Manager and click Shopping Cart. By default, the Shopping Cart is off and at the top of the page you will see links to Select Items, Page Content and Set Shopping Links.
- Click Select Items and check the items you want to sell and save changes.
- Click Page Content and add a paragraph or two with a sales or buy message.
- Then, click Set Shopping Link, enter the web addresses you determined earlier as links and save changes. The order buttons will appear automatically on your order pages.
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