The key advantages to selling digital goods online is that
in most cases there are unlimited copies of your digital good available and
that automated delivery of the digital good, instantly after payment, can take
place. No effort to ship the item each time you make a sale and no waiting for the
product to be shipped is necessary.
Keep reading for tips on setting up a product for
auto-delivery and a free resource that is available to make this a simple,
hassle free process for you.
Examples of digital products or digital goods that can be
setup for automatic delivery are:
Software, e-Books, music, movies, digital art, manuals,
articles, certificates, forms, files, and anything else that can be downloaded.
Simply placing a link on your web site where a customer can
download your product is not a viable solution. It is not secure and can be
easily shared with others which will quickly result in a decrease in profits. Even
password protecting the page and sending an email to your customer with the
password is not a great solution because this process is slow and cumbersome
and the password can be easily shared as well. Automatically attaching the file
to an email after payment is also not the best idea because some email software
has limitations to file sizes that can be attached and a lot of email programs
will simply strip off attachments that could be potentially harmful to the
computer. Some people do not feel comfortable with email attachments either
because of the mass amount of viruses that are spread in that fashion. There is
a better, more secure, more convenient way to deliver the digital product to
your customer. You can create a script, or utilize a service that already
exists that interacts with your payment software (in most cases PayPal or
Google Checkout) to provide a secure link to your customer immediately after
payment.
When creating a script to handle this or using a 3rd
party service to handle the process for you, the following features are
important:
- the ability to offer your digital goods for sale
from anywhere on the Internet including your web page, eBay, Google or from an
email
- the automatic download process should work when
accepting payments through the major payment providers; PayPal and Google
Checkout
- secure file storage
- secure unique link automatically created for your
customer after payment is made
- the secure link having a life span that make sense
to the situation; i.e. the link should expire after x amount of downloads or
after x number of hours or days
This should be all the information that you need to assist
you in getting your digital products to your customers in a timely fashion.
Remember, once your digital delivery method is in place; let the customer know
because that will certainly be a great selling feature. In fact, it is
something people have come to expect when buying digital products.
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