Pen2Paper.CO is launched and ready for business

Hurray! I've done it. I've put into practice all I've been learning and telling you about on my BiziLizi website and created the start of my online business.

www.Pen2Paper.co has been launched and is ready and waiting for customers.

Visit Pen2Paper and learn 'How to Make Money Writing for Children'. You can order the course or just a single lesson. Look inside lesson 1 and flip through the pages from the comfort of your own computer. Start learning immediately by ordering a digital download or have the lessons printed for you and sent in the post. There's some special offers for the launch of the course. Just £1 will buy you a download of the first lesson. You can also pay for 10 parts and receive all 12 lessons of the course 'How to Make Money Writing for Children'.

But this is only the beginning. I need to promote my online business. So please, tell your friends to visit the site. Add links to www.Pen2Paper.co wherever you can. Add links to your website and email me if you would like to do a link exchange. All of this will help get Pen2Paper found by the search engines.

And don't forget - it's Pen2Paper.CO NOT .co.uk or .com

Until next time.

BiziLizi
www.Pen2Paper.co

Page flip through lesson 1 of my course 'How to Make Money Writing for Children'

Look inside the first lesson of my course 'How to Make Money Writing for Children'. Browse the lesson and flip through the pages as if it were a physical document.

Read how I created the page-flip effect on my first lesson and it didn't cost me a penny.

Now it's time to put into practice all I have learnt so far creating my BiziLizi website and start to build the website for my online business. My next post will be all about the new website.

Thanks for your feedback.

BiziLizi

BiziLizi's been very busy ...

It's been a busy few days since my last post. I've learnt some really useful things that I've added to the BiziLizi website  that will really make a difference when I start work on my business website. It won't be long before I start work on the new site.

Read more about what I've been up to via the following links.

• I've added a physical product (that would normally be shipped) to my shopping cart page. This will be used for paper copies of the lessons in my 'How to Make Money Writing for Children' course.
• The email and webpage that the customer receives when completing a purchase have been customised. These are both managed by the Vibralogix script that is called following PayPal payment. The confirmation webpage has been built using the same style as the rest of the BiziLizi website and I'm pleased with the results. See what it looks like by making a purchase using one of the buttons provided for test purposes. You can use the physical product at the bottom of the shopping cart page and it will only cost £0.01 and will help me enormously with my testing.
• A SQL database has been created on my webserver that is updated with orders from the Secure Download and Shopping Cart pages. Once again I've used Vibralogix scripts to create the orders table and added some code they provide to the script that is run following payment.

I'd like to experiment with some page turning software to make it easy for potential customers to view extracts from my course prior to purchase. Hopefully, this will be the subject of my next post.

Then it will be time to put into practice what I have learnt and create my business website. 

Until next time, thanks for following my progress.

BiziLizi

New Shopping Cart

The payment part of my website is really taking shape. With the help of another product from Vibralogix called Vibracart, I've managed to integrate a shopping cart/trolley into the BiziLizi website to replace the Paypal one. I find this less confusing to use and it keeps potential customers on my site for longer before proceeding straight to the PayPal login and payment screen.

I've added a few payment buttons so that people can see how the new trolley works. For just £0.10 you can purchase extracts from my course 'How to Make Money Writing for Children'. When you've completed the transaction via PayPal you'll be provided with a link to download the lesson extract. The link will also be emailed to you. For a limited time, whilst I'm developing the BiziLizi website, you can also purchase the COMPLETE LESSON 1 from the course for a BARGAIN PRICE of JUST £1.00. THis would normally retail at £18.00 so it's a great opportunity to get started with the course before my business website is launched. Lessons 2 and 3 are available for download from the shopping trolley page for the normal price of £18.00 and more lessons from the 12-part course will be available soon.

Hope you like how the trolley works. Many thanks if you make a purchase. It will really help my testing and get some money into my business.

BiziLizi

Secure links to my downloadable products

Last post I was working on reducing the size of my downloadable products. I've now updated the downloads so that after a customer pays via PayPal they receive a link to securely download the file. I've used some software from Vibralogix called Linklok and this has made the task quite straightforward. Following payment, the customer is redirected to a page where they can immediately download the product. They'll also be sent an email with a secure link that they can use for the download. I've explained how I implemented this on my BiziLizi website and also provided a button that can be used to purchase an extract of the first lesson in my course 'How to Make Money Writing for Children'. The download only costs £0.10 and it shows how the secure links integrate with PayPal.

It would be great if you could test this for me. I'll receive an email when you make the purchase. It will only cost you a few pennies and will help me if some real customers test the links. Let me know what you think.

Many thanks for your help.

BiziLizi