The digital download sale application DLGuard has been helping web-masters for the past seven years to sell digital media from their own domain. This DLGuard review showcases the product’s usefulness for automating an ebook business in order to build your own customer base.
In 2006 I was writing ebooks and looking for a way to sell them from my own website. Doing this enables me build up my customer data at the moment of sale, as opposed to using large ebook sales sites that capture customer data for their own mailing lists.
I had read some positive DLGuard reviews for web-masters selling software from their domains so gave it a try. In simple terms, it is a set of scripts that integrate into your site with forms for the checkout process. The scripts handle processing a shopping cart, promo coupons and communicating with payment processors to finalize the sale.
It is after payment is verified where DLGuard really automates your ebook business. It emails the customer details of the unique download link for their ebook purchase. The key to protecting your intellectual property is reducing the chance of the link being shared and misused (others downloading the book). The software puts a limit on the number of attempted downloads that can be made with the link, along with setting how long the link stays valid for.
Aside from the initial setting up of your inventory (ebook/pdf file locations, meta-data regarding the books) the application runs on auto-pilot processing sales and downloads and only requires manual intervention for refund requests.
As an entry level digital sales tool DLGuard is a great way to integrate sales into your site and its specialized functionality for tracking sales/customers means that as your inventory of ebooks builds up you can create your own promotional campaigns/mailing lists to cross-sell previous customers with your new publications.
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