You also get to customize the design of the web store so it looks like an integral part of your own blog. And like Amazon Affiliate program, Microsoft pays a commission for every sale made through the web store.
To set up your own Microsoft online shop, sign up at buyoriginalms.com and select the software titles that you want to display on your store. They’ll provide you a custom URL something like http://yourname.buyoriginalms.com that you can place in an an IFRAME and your website is ready to accept orders from visitors.
The site is up and running though not as user friendly as you would expect it to be. This may however become an alternate revenue stream for bloggers especially those who blog in the software domain.
There’s another interesting component - Microsoft specifies an an MRP (maximum price) for every software title while individual partners are free sell at any price that is lower than the MRP (by cutting their own profits). Now as a blogger, you get to pick software titles from different Microsoft partners so your web store will always offer the best price.
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