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I’m new here and I have just one question. My main aim of blogging is to market my e-book and provide my contact information and directions as to how to get the e-book purchased. Can this be done on the ‘personal website?’ I mean the one that comes with $2.99/month.
Thank you.
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I’m new here and I have just one question. My main aim of blogging is to market my e-book and provide my contact information and directions as to how to get the e-book purchased. Can this be done on the ‘personal website?’ I mean the one that comes with $2.99/month.
Thank you.
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Can this be done on the ‘personal website?’ I mean the one that comes with $2.99/month.
Let’s start with the fact that there are no monthly plans of any kind here. We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/ Add a plan for each of your sites here: http://store.wordpress.com/plans/.
There is no e-commerce capability here. There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM and you cannot add a shopping cart to sites hosted by wordpress.COM. See: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
https://move.wordpress.com/E-commerce plugin options have been removed here at WordPress.COM. Secure payment systems are not available here at wordpress.COM. You need a wordpress.ORG install. Please read this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/e-commerce-22?replies=17#post-2575955
Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site you have two options.
(1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.(2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/See also: Moving to self hosted wordpress
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Thanks for your reply.
Yes! I’m selling an e-book I personally prepared and I don’t intend using PayPal because PayPal is not supported in my country.
In Ghana, the most convenient way to receive money is through mobile money so am asking if I can provide my email address and mobile number for interested buyers to contact me with the personal plan – will register a new domain.
Hope to hearing from you pretty soon.
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