This article is the first article of the series 3 Ways To Make 1000+ Dollars From Your Websites. The article series mainly focus on the process of making money from websites. Detail tips and tricks of making money will be presented in coming articles. The 3 ways of making money are, direct selling products and services, affiliate marketing, online ads. OK, let’s start the topic, selling products and services. The process of direct selling online is simple. Usually you are a vendor of certain products or services, then build a website to sell your products or services. After collecting money from your website, deliver your products or services to your customers. That’s the whole process of selling online. If you are not the original producer of the products or services you sell, you can also build websites to sell online. But we call this affiliate marketing, not direct selling. Affiliate marketing will be dicussed in the next article of this series. Selling real products is suitable for existing manufactors. For single person, selling virtual products are much more feasible and profitable. Virtual products include software products and electronic books (ebooks) with an obvious advantage of zero cost of dilivery. The range of selling services are wide. It is possible to sell any service online, as long as the service can be provided online. Online photo album service is a good example for selling service online. The online photo album service provider makes money by selling accounts with which users can upload and use the online photo album. How to choose what products to sell is a critical question. Some related articles will dicuss this topic soon. In order to selling products and services online, you have to build a website to present and promopt the products and services you are selling. Registering domain names, buying web hosting service and building the websites are very simple tasks. The total cost for all above is less than $100 per year. For beginners, packages including domain names and web hosting service are good choice. Using these packages, you do not need to worry about any technical setup tasks. The price of packages is often less than the sum of registering domain names and buying web hosting service. My first website using a package of Lunapages.com was online in 10 minutes after paying the bill. Now a web hosting package with one domain name and unlimited storage space costs only $4.95 per month. That’s amazing! Collecting money and dilivery are the most important tasks in selling online. As for collecting money online, there are 2 kinds of options, Paypal and transaction service provider (TSP). Paypal is well known for its solid security in online transaction industry. It takes very low transaction fee from the money receiver in each successful transaction. Check and wire transfer are both supported. Most of other TSPs provide certain value-added service. They focus on individual industry and provide the value-added service which a vendor ih that individual industry needs. For example, RegNow which concentrates on shareware industry provides service of sending license information automatically. ClickBank which concentrates on virtual information products like electronic books provides a powerful affiliation platform. So these TSPs often take more transaction fee than Paypal. When users have paying options, they prefer Paypal. Because they do not need to worry about the abusement of their credit cards. Users accept other TSPs as well. Using Paypal as the primary money collector is my recommendation. Switching to other TSPs is not difficult.