Disclaimer: I will receive a small commission for the referrals I make in this blog post. They won’t make me a millionaire but they will help pay for my dog’s eating habits

If you are a 1shoppingcart customer currently paying $99 a month for the “Professional Monthly” service you will (or may have already) receive(d) an email from them 7 days before your next renewal stating:

Effective [immediately] your rate for the Professional Monthly service will be $129.

That’s $30 USD more per month and for what? Here’s what:

3 additional User Access seats (a $25 value) – Security and control. User Access allows you to provide access to contractors, staff and outside help with confidence.

Upsell Express; multi-step (a $49 value) – Create upsell and downsell channels and increase your average order value with single-click sales.

Well big deal! I didn’t ask for these features and I don’t want to pay another $30 a month for them either. Do you?

Here are some alternatives:

1. Stay with 1sc but downgrade your account from Professional to another level.

You will lose your list of affiliates, affiliate software, digital downloads and upsells. If that’s not a big deal to you, then you can downgrade your account and not miss a thing. If you still need affiliate software and digital downloads see option #3 below.
To downgrade your account you will have to call them. 1-888-792-1961, Mon-Fri, 8am to 8pm EST.

2. Stay with 1sc but upgrade to the annual account before the price goes up May 1st, 2012 and save $549.

You are currently paying the monthly rate of $99/month right? If you upgrade to an annual plan before May 1st, you’ll pay $999 for the year. If you don’t upgrade to the annual plan and stay with the monthly charge of $129, you will end up paying a total of $1548 this upcoming year!

To update your account log into 1sc, then go to My Account -> Renew/Upgrade and choose “Professional Annual $999.00″

Upgrade to the Professional Annual plan and save $549

3. Downgrade your 1sc account (option #1 above) and use these WordPress plugins instead of 1sc‘s affiliate software and digital download service.

WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin monitors clicks and conversions, add your product/company Ads, banners and links. It integrates with PayPal, eShop, Shopp plugin, WP Shopping Cart, GetShopped/Instinct’s, PHPurchase/Cart66, WooCommerce and E-Junkie (it does not integrate with 1sc). It’s quite a deal at the flat rate price of $49.95 and works fabulously with the WordPress eStore plugin.

WordPress eStore plugin will deliver your digital products to your customers via a “thank you” page and email sent to them immediately. All download links are secure, meaning the link will be encrypted so no one will know where your digital products are stored on your site and you can specify how many hours the generated download link is valid so that product download links are not shared around the web. It integrates with PayPal, 2Checkout and Authorize.net to gather payments and AWeber, MailChimp and GetResponse to gather email addresses. This plugin is available at the flat rate price of $49.95, or you can buy both the WordPress eStore plugin and the  WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin for a flat rate of $79.95.

How do you feel about 1ShoppingCart’s new Professional package?

Do you avoid adding new WordPress plugins to your site because you are not sure what it is they do exactly and you are afraid to add them to your live site?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could watch a full plugin review of WordPress plugins hand picked by Plugin-Aholic Sandra De Freitas, including…

• a demonstration of what the plugin does
• what benefits it offers to your business and your users
• how to install it
• how to configure it
• a place to ask your questions about the plugins

What if you could view the plugin videos on your computer but also on your mobile devices such as your iPhone and iPad?

Sound good? Is it the answer to your  dreams?

For only $4.95 a month, it can be yours!

Check it out at http://wpblogsites.com/playground/

1) Create an account on Google Analytics and get your Google “UA” number (you will see this at the end of your account set up)

2) Log into your WordPress account.

3) Go to Plugins -> Add New

4) Search for the plugin Ultimate Google Analytics plugin by inputing “ultimate google analytics” in the search field.

5) Click “Search Plugins”

6) Install the plugin by clicking “Install Now”.

7) Activate the plugin by clicking “Activate Plugin”

Then go to options/settings -> “ultimate ga”

9) Input your Google “UA” number.

10) Leave the other settings and click “Update Options”

11) Wait some time before Google catches your code and begins to log your stats.

12) Log back in to your Google account to see all of your stats!

Be sure to use your statistics to find out more about your visitors and cater to what they want. If they keep searching for the same terms when they find you, keep blogging about those terms!

Do you like this tip? Will you use it? Tell us your thoughts

Are you frustrated with the e-commerce WordPress plugins you’ve looked at?

Do you hate the thought of paying expensive ongoing fees for your shopping cart?

Are you only starting to sell services and digital products from your blogsite with PayPal and want to keep costs low?

I’d like to introduce you to a great WordPress plugin called "eStore". eStore allows you to sell products and services securely, via PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net or manual payment. There is a one time low fee for this plugin which allows you to sell unlimited number of products and services. You may also integrate it autoresponder systems such as Aweber, MailChimp and GetResponse.