Widgets are the new craze now almost every social network out there uses widgets and so do alot of websites. Well since you are in the business of selling I wanted to introduce you to a widget that can help boost your sales. I like to call it the Paypal Mini Store Widget. It is made by Paypal Labs Paypal's developement company that listens to product ideas from Paypal's user base and develops the ideas into real products.
Admin Section:
This a really awesome widget. You can add item titles, description and a link to the product image. You can set the amount you have in stock and it will pull from the stock when some one buys the product. You are able to add shipping prices based on the dollar amount of the order. For example you can set it up so orders between a certain value say $1 - $20 will be charge $5 shipping and orders $100 and over get Free shipping. You can also choose to display the items in a thumbnail view, user scroll view or you have the items behave like a slide show so that they keep changing. This is the option I chose because for some reason I noticed people are attracted to moving objects online.
Store Front:
On the store front your customers can. View an item and add it to cart all with in the Storefront Widget. They also have the option of promoting the store for you on their social network like Myspace when they click the link at the top that reads help sell these items. Once they are finished shopping a link at the bottom of the widget prompts them to checkout and when they click it they are taken to Paypal to pay for their order. They can also rate the product between 1 -5 stars and write a review but they cannot save it unless they have a valid Invoice ID which limits reviews of the items to real customers only.
How Can you use this Widget ?
Place it on your blog or social network page to promote your store and urge your friends to do the same. Also if you have a content based website and the store is not your home page you can add the widget to your home page. To sign up for the Paypal storefront click here.
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