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Selling PDF files/documents on the Internet through PayPal:

“I want to start selling PDF files online, but I don’t know where to start.”

“I don’t want to have to keep paying someone else to keep selling PDFs for me.”

“What do I need to do to start selling PDF files from my website?”

Do you have questions like these about PDF files? Have these questions and thoughts been on your mind for quite some time?

If so, consider yourself lucky to come across this article. I’ll tell you what you need to do to start selling PDF files (or any other file) from your own website.

While there are other ways to start selling PDF files, I strongly suggest you have a few things in order before you begin. If you really want to make money from the PDF documents you’re trying to sell, these things are extremely important.

In order to appear professional and attract customers who will buy your PDF files, you need to make sure that you do the following:

1. Get your own website (purchase a domain name and UNIX web hosting from GoDaddy.com).

2. Set up your website (a page on the web/Internet where you can describe your PDF documents for customers to find).

3. Set up a merchant account at PayPal.com (this is the trusted payment system that will process payments made for your PDF documents).

4. Buy a unique PHP Code (this is the main ENGINE that will sell your PDF files for you).

Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are the first things you MUST have completed to start selling PDF documents online. You may have already completed steps 1 and 3, which is even better. But make sure you do steps 1 to 3 before proceeding to step 4.

It is important that you resist the temptation to be cheap here. Don’t set up a lazy blog and use it for a website. Do not do it! You must purchase a real website for your PDF documents. Selling PDF files online can be a very lucrative business if you choose to take it seriously.

Once the above three steps are in order, all you need to do now is purchase some PHP code. What that code will do for you is this:

Every time a customer clicks the “Buy Now” or “Buy Now” link on your website to purchase your pdf product, PayPal will process their payment. And once the payment is completed successfully, PayPal will redirect the customer to the PHP code and that PHP code will make your PDF document available for the customer to download immediately.

After the customer downloads your PDF document, a notification email will be sent to you (the site administrator) informing you about the download of the PDF file. This way you have a record of EVERY PDF download your customers initiate.

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