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digital downloads most easily he says hi
Scott can you offer any suggestions
about the best ways to sell ebooks I'm
interested in building a site to sell
ebooks and downloads to a particular
niche I've seen a few sites that offer
online shops for physical products but I
want one that allows me to upload the
artwork image and description of the
book take payment and then deliver the
download of the e-book automatically
your ideas would be very welcome thank
you click millionaire Ben it's a great
question Ben and I think you're onto
something big there there's a big
opportunity in digital downloads as a
sales mechanism we've all grown up of
course with buying physical goods at the
grocery or you know at the shoe store
but digital downloads allow anybody to
distribute information very
cost-effectively and with a very high
profit margin so digital downloads are
about files such as documents or
PowerPoint slide presentations or maybe
even media like music and mp3 files or
even videos these days of course the
most common is the one that you're
talking about Ben which is ebooks this
is a gold mine for information marketers
because it basically means that you can
write a small document or a large
document for that matter formatted as a
PDF file and sell it online eliminating
all the traditional costs of middlemen
for distribution physical shipping and
all the problems with postage and
inventory and all that stuff
digital information is a great way to
make money online so to answer your
question what are some ways to sell
digital downloads most easily well I
would look at a couple different
services and let me tell you about the
ones that I like the best the basic most
cheap approach is simply to use PayPal
you can install PayPal buttons on your
website that will allow you to process
payments basically for free PayPal
charges a small fee as a percentage of
each transaction but there's no set-up
cost and by setting up a merchant
account for free at PayPal you can get
the HTML you
need to install pay buttons on your
website that allow people to buy things
then if someone comes to your website
and they buy your ebook or your mp3 or
whatever it is you're selling and this
works for physical goods too by the way
you receive the email that says you've
received money in your PayPal account
and then you can just simply write an
email to that person and drag and drop
the file that you want to send them into
the email and mail it to them now of
course that's very manual and sort of
old-school and if you're going to run a
real business doing this you want a
solution that scales meaning that it
grows effectively and cost-effectively
so that you can automatically deliver
those files instead so that's where you
could start just for simple testing and
it would be free you could have it set
up in a day or two without any problem
even without a technical background and
at no cost but if you're ready to do
this more for real then I'd think about
a couple services like payloads or a
junkie.com now payloads that's payload
with Z on the end comm palos comm is a
service that I've used extensively over
the years and it meets all three of the
requirements that I look for when I'm
looking at a download service those
include automatic payment processing so
that you don't have to get involved each
time someone wants to give you money
you want that to go as smoothly as
possible they will also automatically
deliver the file that you're out want to
give to the person who's purchased you
want they want to get their purchases as
quickly as possible so again ideally
you're not in the middle doing a manual
fulfillment process and then you also
want to have a redownload window the
person should be able to return to the
site and download the file again in case
they lost it or they they put it on
their iPhone instead of their laptop or
something like that and that's a nice
feature to offer as a bonus to ebook
purchasers so I look at payloads comm as
one recommendation they offer in
addition to those three basic important
features they also offer a shopping
basket so people can buy multiple
products at once not all download
services offer that so that's important
if for example the paypal solution I
suggested earlier that's not a basket
solution you buy things one at a time
but payloads calm or a junkie.com which
I'll talk about more in a second you can
bundle multiple things together now the
problem with payloads is that they only
offer a digital file so you can't mix
say an e-book with a pair of shoes or
something else physical that you were
selling so you need to be a
a digitally focused vendor which is what
you're talking about then so that could
be a good solution for you we've had a
little problem with customer service and
with the payload system going up and
down now and then I have to say they're
a little unpredictable and their
customer service is not great
but they're very affordable they start
at just 15 dollars a month and 5% per
transaction so if you want to scale this
really does work and I do recommend it
they also have an affiliate program so
that if you want to sell your ebook but
also have other people sell it for you
on a commission basis you can run an
affiliate program quite easily using the
payloads that comm system now eat junk
is another provider a junkie II
junkie.com are also a good provider in
the space and I have to say they've come
a long way in the last few years I
didn't used to be a big fan of theirs
and I've not used them as much but I was
on their site again researching this
answer to click Miller Ben's question
and he asked about this so I looked at
he junkie again and they have a shopping
cart now also I don't think they used to
have that so that's definitely an
upgrade people can buy more than one
thing at a time from you they do both
files and real good so not just mp3s and
and PDFs but you could also mix with
real goods if you want to sell a bundle
of things so that's a nice feature and
they started just five dollars a month
now the $5 month deal is only if you're
going to be selling physical goods not
digital if you want to be selling the
digital downloads it looks like
currently that starts at about 18
dollars a month and of course you should
check these sites for updated pricing
information and features too because
this space is moving quickly now a
couple other alternatives I want to
offer you are to have your own shopping
cart you can of course have your own
shopping cart that sells digital goods
as well lots of the fancier shopping
carts do this so I would look at any
shopping cart that you're already
considering for a more traditional
business to see if they also offer
digital downloads as an additional
capability for example if you visit
internet millionaire domain scam that's
my domain registrar we sell a cart there
that's licensed from GoDaddy for $9.99 a
month called quick shopping cart and I
that's what I use for Scott Fox shop at
the Scott Fox shop calm you'll find a
lot of my PDFs and digital downloads and
those are administrated and they do all
the things that I suggested you need in
terms of automatic payment processing
automated delivery of the file a
download
window and bundling with other products
that's just $9.99 a month at internet
millionaire domain scam so that's an
overview of the current players in the
system I'd also point out shop late comm
sh o p ly dot-com shopping.com is a
newcomer on the scene very easy to use I
haven't used it myself yet but the
testing of it looks really good very
easy to install Shopping Cart buttons
and they promise that they're adding
digital downloads very soon so by the
time you see this may they may already
be into that business as well so that's
when I check out as well
and I'm hoping for more what do you use
is what I'd like to know I have not
found a perfect solution for digital
downloads and yet this is a great space
that's very important to online
entrepreneurs these days so if there's a
suggestion that you have that I've
missed please comment and let me know
what you think is the best digital
delivery solution these days for
entrepreneurs like you in the rest of my
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