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PayPal_Payment_Notifications_on_Your_Phone
| PayPal Payment Notifications on Your Phone
On the Internet, the general rule of thumb is that when someone
sends you an e-mail, you're expected to have read it within 24
hours.
If you sell a hands-on product, like a high ticket item or
coaching program, you might want to be notified of a sale
instantly, even if you're away from the computer, so you can
follow-up with your customer within minutes and impress the heck
out of them.
This can be done with your web host's existing control panel,
requires no programming, AND could be applied to any payment
processor like Clickbank, StormPay, 2Checkout, etc. as long as
that processor sends you an e-mail after every purchase.
For this you need a cell phone. (Did you know your cell phone
most likely ALREADY accepts text messages through e-mail? I
didn't until I looked into it.) Figure out your SMS e-mail
address:
If your provider is AT&T, your SMS address will end in:
mobile.att.net If your provider is Cingular, your SMS address
will end in: mycingular.com If your provider is Nextel, your SMS
address will end in: messaging.nextel.com If your provider is
Qwest, your SMS address will end in: qwestp.com If your provider
is Sprint, your SMS address will end in: messaging.sprintpcs.com
If your provider is T-Mobile, your SMS address will end in:
tmomail.net If your provider is Verizon, your SMS address will
end in: vtext.com If your provider is VoiceStream, your SMS
address will end in: voicestream.net
Don't see your carrier in this list? Call them up and find out
if you can receive SMS messages through e-mail.
The first part of your SMS e-mail will be your phone number,
without any spaces, dashes or parentheses. So if your cell
number was (817) 555-1212, that number without all those extra
things would just be 8175551212.
Put the two together. So if your number is (817) 555-1212 and
your cellular carrier is Verizon, your SMS e-mail is:
8175551212@vtext.com
Send a test e-mail to that address to make sure your phone gets
alerted.
Now let's setup an e-mail forwarder just for PayPal
notifications. Go into your cpanel and go to the E-Mail section
and choose Forwarders (it might be a little different on your
web host). Add a forwarder for "paypal@example.com" where
example.com is your domain name.
This forwarder should point to your main e-mail address and the
SMS e-mail address. Separate them with a comma. So if your main
address was something like webmaster@example.com, we would be
forwarding paypal@example.com to: webmaster@example.com,
8175551212@vtext.com
Send a test e-mail to your paypal@example.com address and check
to make sure the test message gets to both the phone and your
regular e-mail address.
Finally, change your notification address in PayPal. Login, go
to Profile -> (Account Information - Email), and add an e-mail
address like paypal@example.com which will only be used to
notify you of payments. Once that's added be sure to hit "Make
Primary."
Get a friend to pay you a penny through PayPal. You should get
notified via e-mail AND on your phone. Now when you get an order
and are at the library or playing in the front room with your
kids you can take a minute to call your customer and thank them
for the sale, instead of sitting in front of the computer all
day.
If you really want to impress a customer, add the ability for
them to enter a phone number (it's an option you can choose when
you create your payment button).
When you get paged you could check the transaction and see first
of all, if they provided a contact phone number, and if they
did, check their state or country to make sure you aren't
calling in the middle of the night in their timezone.
About the author:
Experienced PHP/JavaScript Tutor Solves 19 Of Your Most
Frustrating Direct Response Sales Page Hang-Ups
http://www.salespagetactics.com/Your_Clickbank_ID
(The above article may be copied as long as this resource box is
included, but You may rebrand the above URL with your Clickbank
ID)
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