hey alliter Willis welcome back to the
channel in this video I'm going to share
my opinion on what the best digital
product selling platform is to start
selling your digital products online so
if you've been thinking about selling
things like ebooks guides templates
worksheets perhaps even printables then
this is props the best platform to start
using in my opinion once again so
without further delay the platform I am
referring to is called pay hip if you're
a beginner this is by far the platform I
would start with I have tried and
experience different platforms from ones
where you're paying a high monthly fee
versus ones where it's zero dollars but
first of all as a side note pay hip did
not sponsor me or to say anything uh
positive in a way about pay here they
did approach me once but I simply just
want to share my own honest opinion
about it so that you can make your own
decision at the end of this video in
terms of which platform to use but I'll
be contrasting this with another
platform that's very similar called
gumroad which is a very popular platform
as well and this is one that a lot of
creators start using with the two
Platforms in terms of payhip and gumroad
zero dollars to start using its platform
this includes all the tools such as the
being able to add as many products as
you want you get the reporting you get
an affiliate program integrated and a
host of other features as you can see
right here all right so zero dollars per
month but there is a five percent
transaction fee for every sale that you
make plus a fee when you're using PayPal
stripe so they charge their own fee on
their end I think it's about three
percent plus 30 cents per transaction
okay so look at that take note of that
five percent now we're gonna head over
to gumroad and here's a pricing page
starts at zero dollars right when you're
do and actually with gum Road it's tier
based so if you've made zero to I guess
999 dollars in sales then you'll be
paying a whopping nine percent in fees
plus 30 cents on each transaction okay
if you look down below this is the you
can see the difference and they don't
for some reason show pay hip in this
because it's quite competitive if we go
back here the more sales you make then
the you'll qualify to that next tier so
once you've made your thousands not sure
how to pronounce that we'll say that a
dollar okay then it reduces to seven
percent make ten thousand dollars five
percent so on and so forth as you can
see so they're incentivize you in that
way for sticking with gumroad and making
more sales through their platform let's
login to pay hip and I'll share some of
the tools that you can start using
inside your account alright so here we
are inside my demo account in the
dashboard and you'll see all your
products here you've got a kind of
summary on the right of the sales that
you've made the views on your page to
start adding your products you can click
on add new and I'll show you the types
of products that you can start selling
we've got a simple digital product let's
say you're selling a an ebook a guide
something that's one off where they pay
once and then they get access to your
download that's what you want to use if
it's a physical product go and start
using this one if you're selling a
course and this was added actually not
too long ago it's very useful if you're
selling online courses and I'll show you
what it looks like and how the for how
it's formatted if you're a coach or
consultant this may also be very handy a
coaching service where you can sell your
coaching your services right so this is
per hour and then it integrates with
things like meeting apps such as Zoom so
you can very well integrate it using
that that and I've got a separate video
if you want to learn how to do that with
pay here I'll link it in the description
box below alright so moving down we've
also got subscription billing this could
be a membership site or a bundle let's
say you want to bundle a digital product
and a course together you can also do
that using this but let's head back
we're going to take a look at one of my
existing demo products here click on
edit and this is assuming you've already
added a product and these are the fields
that you need to complete you need to
upload your digital product so in this
case I've got my PDF ebook you create a
title for it add a price and add things
like the cover image or images since you
can add up to nine items
and then you can add a description for
your product which is of course yeah
ideal right you want to make sure that
you expand on what the product is about
otherwise people don't know what you're
what they're purchasing and then there
are other options here we've got
Advanced options uh pulls up these
details like uh text you've got
a product is an ebook and then this
gives you things like if you have a
transaction in EU then digital product
EU that for ebooks can be applied at
reduced rates in some countries so
that's specific to the EU upload a
preview we've got limited number of
times this product can be sold
automatically subscribed to customers to
a mailing list so it integrates if you
go to the marketing page that will take
you to a page where you can integrate
some of the supported mailing lists all
right so you click on setup mailing list
you've got things like active campaign
aweber convertkit and a few others
however it does integrate with zapier
which is good news anyway so you can
integrate with thousands of other apps
so not to worry even if your email
marketing platform is not supported here
and then you can do things like generate
unique license keys if it's software
based so those are the details you
mandatory kind of details you need to
add and another great thing about payhip
is the ability to create your own online
store just like this one here so you've
got a little bit of a bio here you've
got your products listed so by default
it lists on your your paykib store
and then you can do things like or your
customers will say they can click it
they can learn more about it then click
on add to cart they can continue
shopping after that because it's already
added to the cart so go back to the shop
and then let's say they want to go back
and purchase this product as well
they click on add to cart that adds it
to the cart and after that they can
check out and away they go so after
they've made their purchase they they'll
get instant access to their purchases so
that's located in store so once you
click on launch your store Builder you
can design your store with you know your
own custom header image and your logo
sorry and a host of other things and
features so you've got the header so
individual sections like your store logo
navigation links header settings we've
also got if we go back collection you
can format your products the way you
want let's say the aspect ratio you want
uh let's say one by one or one one to
one is that where you say it 101 Square
so that the images are formatted that
way uh otherwise just use a 4x3 of or
two so you can completely customize it
in this way all right there are some
limitations of course because you are
hosting with pay here but it's not
something like WordPress where you can
easily customize things if you use
plugins and themes so there's that
limitation I would say there's blog
posts as well we've got domains so if
you want to use your own custom domain
name you can link it up rather than
using a default Pay Here URL which is
not good if you're trying to Brand your
business then you've got analytics so
just basically reporting and how many
sales you've made all that marketing as
well this is very useful if you want to
add things like coupon codes social
discounts so if you spread the word
about your products let customers
receive discounts when they share on
Facebook so this kind of creates this
kind of viral aspect I guess if they
want to share your product and be
incentivized is also affiliate program
integration
so you can actually sign up people to
promote your products and they'll earn a
commission and uh yeah so pay hip
handles everything right inside the
platform mailing list as well which I
shared earlier cross selling so you can
promote your product to customers when
they add an item to their car similar to
what Amazon does and Amazon does a
really fantastic job of this of course
I've made plenty of purchases and based
on cross-sells that they offered me and
you know when I buy let's say a piece of
camera equipment let's say a tripod it's
like oh yeah do you need these screws as
well to help you know you screw the
camera to the tripod and all that so
yeah I'm I'm pretty much a sucker for
those cross sales so it works if you
want to add a cross-sell feel free to do
that and you can create you can add the
different cross sales for let's say
someone purchases my mindfulness ebook
what's the cross sale do you want to
show you can select this one and this
one
and then offer a percentage discount
right there
all right moving on we've got referral
you say you can add incentivize your
customers to share your products with
their friends and supercharge your sales
upgrade so this is more like a I'd say a
one-time offer or an upsell if you want
to add that so add an upsell so all it
really does is you click well all you
need to do is click on one of the
products select one of the upsells let's
say if they click on this when customers
successfully have completed a purchase
of full mindfulness then it encourages a
customer to buy other items with a
special discount all right so there we
go and let's say
by purchasing this this one-time offer
you'll get 50 off and that's what it is
and then you've got Advanced options
right down bottom here moving on you've
got customers so in the customers tab
this is basically where you can manage
all your customers and subscribers
people can opt in to receive your latest
product updates and stuff like that
that's in subscribers so you can see a
list of subscribers there you've also
got email updates so you can contact
those subscribers with your latest
product announcements or what have you
and then sales reports you can view all
your sales reports by month one feature
that I want to highlight is it's online
and course integration so if you click
on add new you're able to add an online
course as I showed you earlier so here's
one that I created it's a demo course
I'll click on manage here and all you
need to do is add your sections or
modules or components and then
underneath those modules or components
you've got lessons so it works very
similar to platforms such as teachable
and thinkific so let's say this lesson
here you edit it and then you can choose
a format for this type of lesson let's
say you've got a video or is it text
base is a quiz is that a quiz you want
to do a survey an assignment for them to
do add your lessons there what you can
do is offer things like certificates
after someone completes your course you
can also manage your students here
you've got pricing and the tiers Pages
for your your course and this is
something I really like about pay hip
and the this great Edition that they
recently added compared to gumroad with
gumroad it does show that you can and
add a course or a tutorial based
products but the only difference is
let's go through this process so this is
a demo uh we'll click on demo and then
we'll just press anything just so we can
pass this I'll click on customize and
then you'll see that you can very well
you know add the details about your
course and stuff you can start selling
that but when you go to content this is
basically the download page or the down
or the thank you page and you have to
basically create this page where your
customers or students access your course
so there's no way to add things like
modules not from what I can see you can
add videos as you can see with this
option to embed your media so even
though it does say you can create a
online course inside gumroad and start
selling it in that way it doesn't give
you a nice format for your students to
start going and consuming through your
course online like pay hip so with
payhip it's all structured it's nicely
formatted so when your customers
actually look here so I'll click on
preview course as enrolled student
you'll see how nice this looks so once
once they log in and to view your course
they see the completion they can check
out their different lessons on the side
here yeah as you can see you can very
easily create your online course using
its online course Builder alright guys
and that's an overview of payhip and how
to start selling your digital products
online using its platform once again
it's my opinion and what I would
personally start with if I had no tools
no platforms at the beginning because we
all know we've got a small budget if
we're starting out so we don't want to
spend hundreds of dollars on all these
subscriptions and all these platforms so
feel free to decide which route you want
to take paint gumroad whatever is right
for you but I shared my opinion I shared
the kind of tools that are available to
use inside pay here now it's up to you
to to decide links will be in the
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