Ok, well, it may not be just 1 click, but I intended to convey the ease with which you could now transfer your WordPress.com blog to your self-hosted blog i.e., WordPress.org
The Deal
Today WordPress introduced “Guided Transfers to .org” feature inside your WordPress.com account where your WordPress.com blog would be transferred to your self-hosted server, for a one-time fee of $99
You will need to choose from the list of WordPress recommended hosting service providers!!
So, this brings-in affiliate fee to WordPress and they will be relieving from the load they had on WordPress.com to their webhost partner!
Keep in mind, you will have to keep paying for your hosting company regularly after the move. People who are very new to selfhosting may think that this is a one time payment. But it’s not.
WordPress is taking $99 fee for moving your blog(and installing WordPress on your hosting account, and to install some plugins, themes and some configurations); after the move you have to keep paying your hosting company. After the move, WordPress.com will not host any of your files and all files will be hosted by your hosting company, to which your blog is moved to.
Will traffic be moved to new location ?
If you were not using custom domain(domain mapping) at WordPress.com then to move the traffic you will again need to use their Redirection package, which costs around $99 per month.
Will my WordPress.com Email subscribers be moved to selfhosted blog ?
The straight forward answer is ‘NO”. Because there is no such feature in WordPress.org that is equivalent to WordPress.com’s email subscription. So, at the movement, this is not possible.
Not to forget, they also provide support for 2 weeks. Not a bad deal.
I know many people who are making their Credit Card payment via cheque / Demand Draft etc, even though they have enabled online banking facility!
The problem is, they don’t know how to pay their Credit Card bill via their bank’s online banking system.
Confession
I applied for Credit Card and got it just some days back and as it is my first experience with Credit Card, I myself struggled a bit to figure out things. The problem is, there are no proper documentation available. In my bank’s help page they have given details to log into my account and called that documentation as ‘How To Pay your Credit Card Bill via Online Banking’ #funny #bank
Here is the procedure: 1. Log into your online bank account. 2. Navigate to ‘Bill Payments’ section. 3. Under ‘Add’ tab -> Select a biller: All India Billers or ‘Add Biller’. OR
Bill Payments -> Manage Biller -> ‘Add’ tab. 4. Select the biller Name. (Here select your Bank service) Ex: If you have SBI credit card, then select “SBI Cards and Payment Service Pvt. Ltd”. 5. Click on ‘Go’! 6. Now, Register biller details, like ‘Nike Name’, Credit Card Number. 7. Submit
Now paying Your Credit Card Bill.. the bill of Credit Card that you just added to your online bank account. 1. Navigate to “Bill Payments” 2. Goto “View/Pay Bills” 3. Goto “Without bill” tab. 4. Select “Biller Name” 5. “Pay Bill” 6. Now it will ask for the amount to be payed, Schedule the payment or pay now and the Remarks. 7. Submit.
That’s it. You are done. Now sit back and wait for 3 to 4 working days to pass for this high speed transaction to be processed!!
If you have enabled SMS / email alerts then you will immediately receive payment alerts.
If something goes wrong in the process, then keep calm and remember “everybody does mistake and it’s natural’. Now dial your customer care and talk to them.
Let me know, if you found out something the hard way regarding your bank account, credit card, debit card, online banking, demat account etc. That would be very helpful to all of us and we really appreciate you for taking time to write.
And also, let me know how you use your online banking account.
Anybody can register a company and start selling their product online or offline. But the problem is, not every company is enchanting.
Who is Guy Kawasaki and why you should care ?
Guy Kawasaki is the former chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com(an online magazine rack of popular topics on the Web) and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. His nine previous book include the international bestseller “The Art of the Start”, as well as “Reality Check” and “The Macintosh Way”. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA. He lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and four children.
My Review:
I was very enchanted after reading this book, and I wrote a detailed review but later on stumbled upon a presentation video of Guy Kawasaki which covered a lot of things which I was pointing to in my review. So I thought, I would give you some pointers to things which I loved the most in this book. And please make sure you watch the presentation video of Guy, which I have embedded below in this review article(RSS subscribers will have to visit the site to watch it.)
Some of the biggest takeaway for me from this book: 1. “You need to convince people to dream the same dream that you do.” 2. “Keep it short, they’ll ask if they are interested.” 3. “The goal of premortems is to prevent the potential problems in order to increase the likelihood of success. Premortems: Identification of the problems in advance rather than after they occur. 4. The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.
5. The power of Data. Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
6. YouTube: I got some biggest tips about producing YouTube videos: To keep the intro to minimum or remove it! 7. Wrong use of social proof:
“Twenty-five million people are killing themselves by smoking” could convince folks that smoking is OK because 25 million people do it!
8. Presentation: This is one of the best part I got in this book. It includes some awesome, simple tips for delivering an Enchanting presentation. (page no: 115)
With every theory, Guy gives more than one practical example to prove the point. Showcasing social proof and as he tells “don’t fall for the example of one”.
Well, one thing to point: in page no 48-49
The company name of “Tata” comes from its founder “Jamsedji Tata”. And yes, “Tata” means “grandfather” in Kannada(regional language of Karnataka – Bengaluru )
Biggest Business takeaway for me from this book: 1. Enchant clients. 2. Premortum. 3. Deliver Bad News Early. 4. Whom not to enchant.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Enchantment ?
Chapter 2: How to Achieve Likability
Chapter 3: How to Achieve Trustworthiness
Chapter 4: How to Prepare
Chapter 5: How to Launch
Chapter 6: How to Overcome Resistance
Chapter 7: How to Make Enchantment Endure
Chapter 8: How to Use Push Technology
Chapter 9: How to Use Pull Technology
Chapter 10: How to Enchant Your Employees
Chapter 11: How to Enchant Your Boss
Chapter 12: How to Resist Enchantment
Conclusion
Can’t wait to get a glimpse of this book ?
Watch this presentation from Guy Kawasaki which covers most of the topics covered in the book, in brief.
As I told before, I had written a long review of this book and before publishing stumbled upon this awesome presentation. Please watch it fully, without fail.
This is the full, one-hour version of Guy’s Enchantment speech at Stanford
How this book helped me
With every new release of Apple products I always wondered, who might be the marketing genius behind these launches ? Ofcourse, it’s Steve Jobs. After reading this book, I understand, there’s something more than Marketing, and that is “Enchantment”.
Guy explains every bit about creating a company as Enchanting as Apple, Virgin or Zappos.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who want to Enchant someone.
“Read this book to create a company as enchanting as Apple.”
– Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple
Why you must buy this book ?
Because it is “the best” resource for creating a company that enchants. And it has excerpts from many other books. Guy has read many books, taken notes and has given condensed form of these books, hence reducing our effort to read all those books!
If you have a company and if you don’t read this book, then I guess, it would cost you a lot.
Facebook successfully implemented the LIKE button and is generously used by its users to like and share other people’s content.
Hope with this inspiration our old buddy Orkut has implemented “Like” button too.
Before “Like”ing..
After “Like”ing..
Emotions
You can choose any of these smiles while liking the content and express your emotions towards the content..
Like it or not!
But do you think Orkut users feel comfortable in acknowledging their “like”ing of whatever their friends share publicly ?
These “Like” button is only shown for the content shared PUBLICLY. For “Private” and “Friends Only” content sharing, Like button does not appear.
Orkut Badge
I guess these like buttons are algorithmically linked to the badges. The more people “like” your content, the more chances for you to get some badges.
Many people have been predicting that Orkut will shut down shortly! But nothing is convincing Orkut management to shut-it-down. The pig-headed discipline continues, and they are rolling out a major design enhancement shortly.
There is no “invite only” dramas; everyone will see the new design in 2 weeks time. Orkut Team is said to be busy in rolling out the new designs to all the Orkut users.
So, here are the interesting design changes: 1. Left navigation: To help you get to the most popular features easily. 2.Larger profile photo: A popular request. [Be sure to upload a higher resolution photo of yourself!] 3. Full profile view: Lets you and your friends see your info, interests, badges, testimonials and recent photos and videos. 4. New fullscreen slideshow for photos. [Similar to that found in Facebook!]
As far I’m concerned, I’m somewhat happy with the new design.
If you have forgot your Orkut password, then recover it and have a look at the new design.
All the best Orkut; I don’t know why, but, many of my female friends spend a lot of time in Orkut. Not sure how they spend their time in Orkut!
Orkut needs to add more modules: I mean, it has to add some more useful/engaging features. Otherwise, it’s hard to spend time in Orkut.
Q: I want to add a PayPal button to my Coaching Programme page wherein I have 3 services to offer. I want to use PayPal and get payment’s automatically into my paypal account and get notified whenever some one pays.
Note:
For this to work, you must have a Business account with PayPal.
Log into PayPal, click on Profile under My Account tab. In the “Selling Preferences section” click on “My Saved Buttons” link or “Create New Button” link.
In the right hand side, click on “Create new button” link.
Now it’s a simple 3 step process: Step 1: Choose a button type and enter your payment details Step 2: Track inventory, profit & loss (optional) Step 3: Customise advanced features (optional)
Under “Customize button” in Step 1, you can customize the PayPal button to have those drop downs. Ex: If you have 2 or 3 products to sell, you can use this option. Multiple prices
If you need more than one price for an item (e.g. you are providing 3 services with 3 different fee), leave this price field blank. Instead, in the Customize button box, check ‘Add drop-down menu with price/option’, and then enter your prices in the price fields that appear.
All these above steps are self explanatory and depends on your needs. You may be interested in onetime payment, someone may be interested in monthly subscription model and so on..there are options to customize the PayPal button based on your needs.
Getting Notification When Someone Pays
If you are not getting payment notification, then go to profiles, under My Account tab. Click on “Website Payment Preferences” under “Selling Preferences” section and configure it to get the notifications.
Change these settings only if you are not getting the notifications.
After configuring these simple 1-2-3 steps, you will get a HTML code, that you have to paste into your blog page, wherever you want this button to appear.
Caution:
Make sure you check the button before launching your product. I hope PayPal doesn’t allow you to make a test payment using your own PayPal account, so you will either have to get help from a friend or use your wife’s PayPal account! Testing is crucial.
Advantages
Customers can pay with Visa/Mastercard without joining as PayPal members.
PayPal has millions of users, so you can provide another option for them to buy your product or service.
Setup Shopping cart, buy now button, subscription option etc for free.
It’s secure. And people trust PayPal, most importantly because, they will not be giving Credit Card information whenever they buy a product or service.
You can set up the options in PayPal, so that you get the exact profit and lose stats.
You can automatically calculate Tax(if the option is enabled while creating the button).
You can get extra payment from your customers, by showing a second payment option for shipping.
This is the right time to start your website/blog, if you have been thinking of starting one.
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Use the promo/discount code “alistblogger” (without quotes) and you will get 25% off of your hosting bill.
I would suggest to take “Baby Plan” of HostGator. The advantage is, you will be paying the bill for 1 hosting account and you can host unlimited domains. Ex: If you have 10 domain names, you can host all these 10 domains under this plan and still pay only for one hosting account.
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If you are new to blogging, I can offer you Free WordPress installation and would help you get started with blogging.
There are only 2 options to withdraw money from your PayPal account. 1. Withdraw funds to your bank account 2. Request a cheque from PayPal
Requesting cheque is straight forward, it takes 2 to 4 weeks to reach you, after you have requested it.
So the quickest way is, withdrawing to your bank account directly. Below we show the exact steps to do this.
Adding Bank account
First add your bank account to your PayPal account.
My Account -> Profile -> Bank Accounts
Now add your bank account here. Get the IFSC code from your bank or from the bank’s website or bank’s customer care. It’s very easy to get, I din’t know it until I actually tried it.
IFSC stands for Indian Financial System Code .
You can go to www.BanksTracker.com and search for IFSC code for all the banks and branches in India.
Note: Make sure your name at PayPal and your Bank account matches character by character. The sir name is fixed, so it’s possible to add your relatives bank account and then withdraw it to their account.
After successfully adding your bank account, you can easily withdraw the money.
Withdraw Money
Goto My Account -> Withdraw -> Withdraw funds to your bank account
Happy News: The cost of transaction will be 0.00, if you withdraw Rs. 7, 000.00 or More. And a minimum of Rs. 50.00 for Rs. 6, 999.99 or less.
There is a currency converter tool, using which you can know the exact conversion rate you will get for your money.
The conversions are not same with PayPal and the standard conversion that you see with all other tools. If you see the actual curreny conversion of the day and then decide to withdraw your PayPal money, then you better wait and see the PayPal conversion rates before proceeding.
Google “1 USD in INR”
How does PayPal calculate currency conversion / exchange rate?
PayPal receives a quoted wholesale rate twice a day. We then add a 2.5% spread above this rate to determine the retail foreign exchange rate that is applied to transactions involving a currency conversion.
Keep in mind that some of the rates quoted in the media are the inter-bank rates that are available only to the largest international banks, which purchase currencies in quantities of US $1,000,000 or more. A more applicable comparison for consumers is the exchange rates quoted at airports or other consumer currency exchange shops.
In the purpose of withdrawal, you select the proper reason for getting the money. I choose, “freelance journalism”.
You can see the status of the transaction in your PayPal dashboard.
Now sit and wait for the money to come to your bank account, if you have provided all valid/correct information.
It usually takes 6 to 8 days for the Money to be transfered to your bank account.
Caution: If for some reason your transaction is not successful, then all your money will be transfered back to your PayPal account by deducting any bank charges and the return fee, usually Rs. 250
It took just 2 days to get the money to my local bank account from PayPal. And there’s no extra bank charges.
Usually when Google Cheque is processed, bank will deduct Rs. 50 as transaction fee. So, electronic transfer is the way to go!
