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How to Get Into the News Media and Pull Big Bloggers Like Guy Kawasaki With Strategic Public Relations

Rawksoup.com: The Social Network for Geniuses

Over Achiever Secret #78: The Most Successful People On Earth Write Down Their Goals, Like This.

The Checklist: The Top Questions To Ask Before Your Web Marketing Campaign Goes "Flop."

The Top Five Questions You Forget to Ask Before You Hire an iPhone or Android App Developer

What Nobody Tells You About Your eCommerce Shopping Cart and Online Store

Industry Trade Secrets that Pros Will Never Spill About Facebook Pages Marketing

The Truth About Your Marketing Strategy: Google SEO vs Adwords vs Facebook vs Twitter vs Blogging vs Discussion Forums

For a Good Time, Follow Me: http://twitter.com/journik
LA 310 598 1606 | NYC 347 476 1267

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March 24, 2011
 

Help! How to Integrate Paypal Checkout Page Onto My Site

Ok. So I know Paypal is the simplest way to build a shopping cart. But there's a huge prollem. The checkout page is on a totally different url than the shopping cart page. I hate toggling back and forth to add another item to the cart. How do I make paypal look and function like interspire or magento? See attached napkins! via iphone app developers

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PS. Another way to ask the same question: How do I change this code to make the new page target a div within my current page? See: 

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November 28, 2010
 

Paypal: How to Keep a Credit Card Number on file And Charge Later: Delayed Capture

I've spent the last 3 hours googling how to take a customer's credit card number and charge it later. This is useful for products that are out of stock or if the customer wants to delay shipment. Nothing I found made any sense since I'm not an API programmer.

What's more, nothing came up when I googled the words "Keep a Credit Card Number on file And Charge Later." Turns out, this is because paypal and the people who blog about this sort of issue call it by the official merchant terminology: "authorization and capture."

Now, if you Google "authorization and capture," you'll get a lot of pages. But you won't be able to understand any of them. So I simplified it for you here.

Every paypal button comes with embeddable code. Whether you're embedding a buy now button, a add to cart button, or even a subscription button, all you have to do is add one more parameter to the code. Here it is:

paymentaction="authorization"

When you do, instead of making a transaction add to your paypal balance, paypal holds the money until you select "capture" from your paypal history list. If you have any questions, contact us at http://sparkah.com/website.php

 

Filed under  //   business   ecommerce   paypal   shopping cart  


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August 21, 2010
 

How to Get Free Rides Everywhere You Travel and $10 in Paypal

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This is how you get free rides everywhere you travel:

http://hackingtravel.com/post/989392814/how-to-get-free-rides-anywhere-you-tr...

All you have to do is post a message and set it as the home page of all the computers in your hostel for maximum exposure.

How you get an extra $10 via Paypal is just send a photo of all the computers with the homepage set as your http://stapleglue.com message to http://twitter.com/journik and I will personally Paypal you $10.

I will only use the photo to promote my new website: http://stapleglue.com So we both win! YAY!

- bob wan kim.
http://sparkah.com CEO

Filed under  //   hacking   hackingtravel   paypal   stapleglue   travel  


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June 28, 2010
 

Paypal vs Zen Cart vs OsCommerce Shopping Cart Software

If you've got fantastic products that will fly off of your shelves but don't know how to setup a ecommerce website, this is your lucky day.

There aren't many head to head comparisons between the three major ways you can create an online store. Did I mention, there are three major ways to create an online store?

eCommerce Shopping Carts / Features ZenCart and OsCommerce Paypal
Total Flexibility of Design Layout   Yes
Requirement for Design Modification HTML; PHP HTML
Hosting Owner Paypal
Additional Hosting Cost Yes  
Security Owner Responsible Paypal
Additional Security Cert Cost Yes  
Ideal for SKU Numbers 100+ 1-150
Support and Maintenance Experienced PHP User / Owner / HTML
Auto Product Tagging and Grouping Yes (CMS required or simple HTML work)
Product and Pricing Change Authorization Admin Paypal Account Owner
Main Usability Differences

Both ZenCart and OsCommerce allows product tagging, simple price changes, inventory depreciation, and more features t available in paypal.

However, for less than 100 items, and if quickbooks is used, ne of these features are necessary.

Also, these cart systems requires that all content and web design need to be inside of the system. Paypal does t swallow the website

Paypal is the simplest and most secure shopping cart management system. Recently, they even added universal button changes where one control panel detail can be changed and instances of that "buy w" or "add to cart" button will be automatically modified.

With Paypal, the ongoing cost of a 3rd party security certificate is unnecessary as all transactions happen on Paypals HTTPS servers.

The biggest difference is that both ZenCart and OsCommerce require all changes including price and design to be done within their software. Paypal does t. Paypal works with any simple html page.

If you have any questions or need help building out your online store and driving traffic to you, feel free to contact me at http://twitter.com/journik or 310 598 1606 - Bob Wan Qi Kim

Filed under  //   cart   ecommerce   oscommerce   paypal   shopping   zen   zencart  


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February 1, 2010
 

How to Export Paypal Buyer's (History) Addresses in CSV for Geolocation and Augmented Reality Visualization

I FINALLY figured it out. No. It is NOT intuitive. And no. The other pdf and html pages Google pulls up won't help. They are out-dated since Paypal's last crazy redesign.

All I wanted to do is put all my customers on map so that I could strategize where to open a retail store, concentrate meet-ups, and even put more funding into advertising. But paypal would not spit out a csv file for excel that had my buyers' addresses.

I would take that excel file, delete all the names, and dump only the addresses into a geolocation / gps conversion app that would convert the actual addresses into map data in KML, KMZ, or GeoRSS file format.

After days of research, I decided to just click all the links I could find. It worked.

This is how you export your Paypal Buyers' Address into a csv file (WHEW!):

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The results of my mapping are next... stay tuned! To get me involved in your marketing strategy and execution to hundreds of thousands of people world wide, contact me @journik http://sparkah.com

Filed under  //   KML   KMZ   addresses   augmented reality   georss   google my maps   googlemaps   import   lbs   mapping   or GeoRSS   paypal  


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January 30, 2010
 

Web Marketing Trade Secret #7: Why You Must Use Geolocation and Visualization for Your Paypal Customers

OK, so I just got done ranting and shit talking Paypal for not letting me export my buyer's addresses. 

This is no small FAIL. Once you can visualize your data in a geomapped perspective, new and startling revelations inspire your marketing genius. You start seeing epiphanies left and right. But since Paypal wouldn't let me ex-frikkin-port my address data, I took 3 hours to manually geo map my last few dozen clients. And it was worth it.

This is what I found:

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If you want to team up with me in marketing your brand, reaching your customers, and standing in like at the Soho Starbucks, contact my Team. We are a small but furiously ingenious web marketing firm.

UPDATE: How to Export Buyers' Addresses from Paypal into CSV or Excel

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January 30, 2010
 

Why Geolocate Your Paypal Customers? For Retail and Seminars!

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You gotta be kidding me. Is there no way to run a geolocation report of all the customers who've bought from my website?

I spent one hour waiting for paypal to generate a online report of all my sales for the last few years. It would be well worth it I thought. Afterall, with thousands of sales, I would be able to create a powerfully telling geovisualization of my customer base. Using this map of customer concentration, I could launch any or all of the following:

1. meet-ups

2. seminars

3. retail sales locations

4. shipping centers

5. branch offices...

You can see how any of the above five initiatives based on sales data of existing customers would launch me into the next phase of my business growth. I imagined color coding my geopoint from red to grey with red being the hottest latest buyer and grey being the oldest buyer from January of '08. I visualized a world wide map of the family of my customers with larger geopoints corresponding to larger orders. 

I salivated at the idea that I could launch meetups where larger volumes of sales were coming from and retail stores where higher sales tickets were being generated. 

But no. When I exported my paypal history, it came with no addresses. Do you know a way to get my buyers addresses out of paypal? Let me know @journik

Meanwhile... I took 3 hours to manually geolocate about 100 of my most recent buyers. The results were surprisingly worth my time. See what new marketing brilliance just erupted: Paypal to Google My Maps Geolocation and Visualization

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December 14, 2009
 

Is Paypal Making You Bleed Precious New Customers?

Do you realize that (if you use a paypal button) about 65% of first time web buyers actually think you have to have a paypal account to order from you? Think about it. You could be losing over half of your new customers who don't have a paypal account. And paypal has no intention of making it clear that you take credit cards.

THIS is what I did to stop the bleeding: http://sparkah.com/?p=67

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