Fundamental to any business is MODE of accepting payment, if you cannot accept/receive payment from your buyer how you are going to pay your bills?! I faced the same problem in online business being a citizen of 3rd world country.

At the begging when I get started in IM.  I was very anxious to start making my First MONEY online.
Affiliate marketing was the easy way to get started so I started learn everything I could about affiliate marketing  then the day come, when BIG dream as an Affiliate was shattered,  as I could not sign up with Clickbank.  Yes Clickbank will not accept affiliates from my country.

But every affiliate product or guide taught me  to go to Clickbank and start promoting affiliate products.  My affiliate marketing is doomed I cannot make a buck online, these were the feelings I have that time.

I stopped thinking about Affiliate Marketing, LOL for me  Affiliate marketing was promoting the product  listed in Clickbank. Clickbank Slap?

I tried to capitalize my skills of web development  and joined a small community of freelancers to bid  on the small projects, But …

I faced another problem that clients will not assign me projects as I did not accept Paypal as a payment source (I was using Western Union and did not know much about Paypal).  When I tried to get Paypal, another discouraging moment  in my life, I could not sign up, as they also do not accept  signup from my country. Paypal Slap?

So problems like this made me very disappointed at start  and my ambition of making MONEY online started to slow down .  I tried loop holes, like getting US bank account and  inking that to Paypal and Clickbank, and It was busted by Paypal.

With the passage of time, I started to focus on Opportunities than Problems.  Yes there were many alternatives I never thought of,  or did not know about them all together.

Today I have found solid alternatives to these problems and  I am earning a good consistent living online. I am going  to share some tips for Warriors who may face the same  situation I had to face when I first get started online.

A. Well if no PayPal, go for 2Checkout.com ,
yeah as simple as abc #61514; ,with 2Checkout you can even accept  Paypal payments (we were lucky they added this feature in 2007). There is two big disadvantages you may face with 2Co  but again we have solution for that right in this thread :

1. you can not simply give your email and accept any payment.
You have to create a Product for every payment in 2Co panel and then accept that.   But most of the time people are so much used to paypal that they will not use anyother sytem, they will ask you  give them paypal email of yours so they send you any amount they wanted to send you.

It will be very time consuming and difficult for you to accept varying amounts of money from various clients,
I mean varying amounts charged to clients depending on the situation and work done.

I have found solution for this, we can use 2Co  just link Paypal to accept any amount of payment without  creating millions of products in 2Co a/c with various price combinations.

Whenever someone want to send you any amount or cold beer  and ask your paypal email! Send them to your Website with the form for payment like this http://[token]payment
This is a form with 2Co with variable price,  and it works like a charm.
Not a single client of mine have ever complained that they did not like the above mentioned payment form, whenever they asked me for my Paypal email for any amount or extra bonus for my work, I simply send them to this form and tell them that they can pay from their Paypal account using this form #61514;
(You can view the source code of this form and use as template for your own account, do not forget to replace my account particulars with yours)

2. The second big disadvantage of 2Checkout is that they have $49 sign up fee whereas Paypal is free to sign up. Some time it is difficult for new comers to spend money when they have not earned any money online.

In this case you my go for www.Plimus.com This is free to join, accept Paypal , and very flexible to set in your website.

But their fees are very high as compared to Paypal and 2Co. But as I did, go for 2Co, but if at start you could not, go for plimus, earn some bucks and then move to 2Co when you have money for sign up.

B. Affiliate Marketing:

You cannot sign up with clickbank, your affiliate marketing is doomed! This is what I used to think. But this not truth!

You can still make big bucks as an affiliate even if you cannot sign up with clickbank. Here are few affiliate networks which accept affiliates almost from every country and I have used them, they are reputed and reliable guys.

1. Cj.com
2. ShareASale.com
3. LinkShare.com
4. Google Adsense and Affiliate Links
5. Amazon Associate program

Also many product owners have individual affiliate programs for their products hosted and managed by them, they may accept your country so consider to sign up with them also.For example for Hosting, I have promoted Hostgator as an affiliate, it is affiliate program independently hosted by them and they pay me at time. You should check site and affiliate programs for individual products in your Niche and great chance is
that you will be allowed to sign up.

So if you cannot sign up with clickbank, so what? Should you stop affiliate marketing, not at all, use above networks as an alternative to make Moolah Online. Do not let these big SMALL problems discourage you
and stop you to prove yourself and your skills online. Again I am here to share my experiences and lessons
I learned in Internet Marketing doing business from a 3rd world country.

If you face any problem related to this issue please post in this thread, we will try to find the solution / alternative to that.

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