I am so excited, SideSale, one of my personal projects has finally come to life!

My partnership in MailTank keeps me busy, but I just had to take an hour tonight to put SideSale to work here on my blog. Sort of kick the tires, eat my own dog food, → insert web 2.0 speak here - you get the point.

Anyway, SideSale is a service designed to help website publishers, bloggers or just about anyone producing content sell things on their sites.

SideSale is not an affiliate e-commerce service that provides products to sell. It does one thing, it inserts a “sale” into web sites using a single line of code, very similar to how Google Adsense works. The products or services sold are up to the site owner - whatever they want to sell is up to them.

SideSale supports Paypal for payment processing, though once the doors are open I will probably add Google Checkout.

When I said SideSale does only one thing, well that is not 100% accurate. There is a roadmap that includes a few surprise twists on the traditional e-commerce system. The first is already evident in the pricing structure for this service - SideSale will have a simple per month flat price - say goodbye to commission-based pricing.

Anyway, you should see I am selling a used MacBook Pro using SideSale right now, so act fast I only have one for sale! In the next couple weeks I will be adding a few more products.

Let me know what you think or if you run into any problems with my site because of SideSale.

For those curious, SideSale is hosted using Amazon EC2 and S3, with Google Gmail for Domains providing email service.

If you are interested in trying out SideSale, leave a comment or drop me a line at lon@sidesale.com.

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