Plug in and earn money from your blog.

When I started blogging in 2005, I wondered if my blog can be converted into an e-commerce site.

This is 2009. In these 4 years, I have not come across an e-commerce blog that process shopping orders and takes payment through Paypal or Google Checkout.

Today, I happen to read about a Wordpress e-commerce plugin that will convert your WP blog into a full pledged e-com website. Since this is a plugin, you need not worry about all the technicalities of setting up an e-commerce website.

But, you need to do some initial configuration and tweak a few settings in WP admin panel. Once done, you have a real money earning blog in your hands. Then it is up to you to use your creativity to enhance your first e-com blog.

You can see the screenshots of the plugin.

Download the Plugin.

What is a hosted shopping cart?

Do you know that when the first ever offline supermarket was opened, the customers were not provided any container to keep their purchases in, before checking out to pay for it? They were forced to carry their own shopping bags or baskets.

Only at a much later stage, they were provided shopping cart with wheels which they pushed it along to keep their purchases in them. This is the first idea of hosted service.

Similarly, if we want to open our own online store, we can approach a shopping cart service provider to host a custom made shopping cart for which we can pay a monthly charge. We need not install the ecommerce software in our server.

But we must be fully aware that developing such software is not very easy. The software developers are required to sound technical knowledge in several areas of ecommerce, the prime area being the security the website provides to the customer. Then, they must choose the right database management program and finally make the entire online shopping experience a smooth and glitch free one.

Now, an even more advanced technology is introduced by Ashop Commerce. With their user friendly ecommerce software, merchants can build their own custom store front.

Build your own shopping cart.

A project on shopping cart software was given to my son by his university to be completed with in 6 months.

He is studying his final year B.E. Computer Science. He is teamed up with two others as collaborators.

I was relieved to know that he will be doing this project on which I can lend a helping hand due to my 9 years of internet marketing.

In fact, I have more than adequate knowledge on e-commerce. When I started my general web directory project, I equipped myself fairly well with shopping cart.

I know about the service of ashop.com.au as one of the premier e-commerce solution provider. My directory developer was an Aussie lady who taught me the basics of shopping cart software.

With Ashop.com.au, merchants are allowed to build their own custom shopping cart using the advanced merchant interface. One can build an online store capable of competing with the webs most powerful sites for a simple, low monthly fee.

Ashop Commerce shopping carts are integrated with all major banks, gateways and third party processors including PayPal and credit cards.

Sign up for a free 10 day free trial and play with the world’s easiest shopping cart building software.