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How To Get Users to Agree to Terms of Service

by Mr Anderson
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Hello Warrior Forum! I'm a long time lurker and first time poster on this site. I've been researching IM and other online revenue techniques for several months now. When the new year rolled around, I decided it was finally time to start putting some ideas into action.

I'm a high school teacher and my first website is in the education niche. The idea is that veteran teachers submit their original lesson plans to me and I market and sell the plans to new teachers. I keep a piece of the profit off of each sell and and send the rest back to the creator of the lesson plan.

I've been putting together my website using Wordpress for the last few months and for a guy with no tech background, I've been happy with how well things have been coming together. There really are a lot of great tutorials out there! However, I've come up against two problems that I'm not sure exactly how to solve. I need to -

1) Somehow get my partners Paypal information so I can send them their payments every month.

2) Have my partners agree to a "Terms of Use" contract that verifies the content that they are submitting is original.

I have a couple ideas on how to attack these problems, but I'd like to get the Warrior Forum's advice. I'm sure these questions seem embarrassingly basic to some of you, but like I said, I'm a complete newbie! Do you guys have any suggestions for plugins/services that would help solve my issues?
#agree #service #terms #users
  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fang
    You can add a checkbox that links to your ToS page.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Do what everyone else does. Make it so: No agree, no play. Simple.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Mr Anderson View Post

    The idea is that veteran teachers submit their original lesson plans to me and I market and sell the plans to new teachers. I keep a piece of the profit off of each sell and and send the rest back to the creator of the lesson plan.
    Welcome to the Warrior Forum.

    This sounds like a very suitable and promising niche for you?

    Originally Posted by Mr Anderson View Post

    1) Somehow get my partners Paypal information so I can send them their payments every month.
    Why is this a problem? I'm really asking why it's any more complicated than saying to them, after you've approached them and they're submitting their lesson-plans to you "By the way, is this email address also your PayPal address"? (What have I missed, here? :confused: ).

    Originally Posted by Mr Anderson View Post

    2) Have my partners agree to a "Terms of Use" contract that verifies the content that they are submitting is original.
    For this one, I think you may need a lawyer to make suitable amendments to the framework of something like the "standard academic publishing agreement" wording, for you? Some expense involved, doubtless, but maybe not horrendously so, and perhaps only a one-off outlay? You'd be ill-advised, I think, to try to draft your own business's current/future "terms of use" without some formal legal input? Especially with the potential for any "copyright disputes"?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Anderson
    Thanks Andy Fang, Travlinguy, and especially Alexa Smith! I guess I'm making this harder than it needs to be. Since this is maybe not a typical IM site I'm just trying to work out how the process is actually going to look.

    I appreciate you guys responding so fast!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    This is simpler than you think.

    Step 1: Create a form to receive the lesson plans from teachers. You can create a free form easily at JotForm · Form Builder. On the form, ask them for name, contact email, paypal email and whatever else you need. Jotform also allows visitors to upload documents.

    Step 2: Embed the form on a WordPress page using the "HTML" editor (not the visual editor). Call this page "Submit Lesson Plan" or something.

    Step 3: To actually sell the lesson plans to the public, specify the original submitter as a "partner" for the plan. You can use a service like www.zaxaa.com to do this with the "Profit Sharing/Partnership" setting. This automates the payment to everyone at checkout so you can focus on your business and not issuing payment. You get paid, the original lesson plan owner gets paid, the customer gets their lesson plan and you can still run an affiliate program on top of this.

    Step 4: Embed the "buy button" that Zaxaa creates in your WP based store so visitors can buy it. Done.

    Hope that helps and good luck! Teachers are awesome.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Anderson
    Thank you Jesus Perez! What an awesome response! JotForm Form Builder looks just like what I need! It had never occurred to me to look into a profit sharing mechanism. That is going to make my life so much easier!

    It looks like the $10 I spent on joining this forum have already paid off! You guys rock!
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