What's The Best Way To Deliver A Digital Product?

I like Clickbank and paypal. I don't personally waste time and energy on people looking to steal - as there will alway be a few and I'd rather spend time on gaining more traffic etc.

Dlguard and amember are membership type scripts and they just help you to organize your downloads. But my guess besides that you need a payment proccesor. Then it comes to clickbank,paypal and others.
You need to combine both to get transaction and security.

James, I'm weighing up the pros and cons of the various services as well, and will be following the thread with interested. Thanks!
Kerry

Hi James,

Great question!

A little known feature of DLGuard comes into it's own when you're selling software:

DLGuard has a Query feature, designed for use by whoever is writing your software for you. Basically it allows your software to "validate".

When your customer first logs in, your software asks for your customer's name and email address, saves it in it's own database, and then sends this info to DLGuard's Query feature.

DLGuard will tell you whether that customer is a registered customer and hasn't been refunded.

Your software can then deside whether to allow the customer access or not.


Ease of transaction:

DLGuard will offer you the most smooth transaction out of any delivery system I've seen in action.

Most require the user to enter extra information about themselves (names, emails), or after the sale they're required to login to members area just to download a file.

Not with DLGuard: DLGuard is built to offer as smooth a transaction as possible, and basically be invisible.

The customer uses a DLGuard sales link to buy, they're sent to the payment processor to pay, they're sent straight back to a page that displays their secure download links.

No extra steps, no hoops to jump through.



Another thing worth mentioning: DLGuard uses full HTML templates for you to customise your download pages. This means you can make the pages look however you wish.

Most (all, that I know of) download management systems only allow you to customise the header and footer of the page.


DLGuard is built for ease of use AND for flexability.


Let me know if you'd like me to clarify anything - I'm happy to help!

cheers
Sam

I think IM's should not waste time on this.
I suggest keep changing download link once in a month is a good idea.

let me know your thought on this...

A common mis-conception is that protecting your products takes MORE time than NOT protecting them.

I guess it isn't completely a mis-conception, as it's true with some solutions.

But take DLGuard for example - it's much FASTER to launch a secure product, than it is to launch an unsecure product.

Need to make changes to an existing product? It takes only seconds.


So even if you're not interested in security at all, then you're still better off using a good quality download management system.

A good download management system will SAVE you time - not take more of it up.


So if you'd rather ignore product theft and spend your time on promoting your business (and a number of people have pointed out), why not implement DLGuard and have EVEN MORE time to promote your business?

Download management isn't just about security - it's also about streamlining your day to day activities.

It frees up time, it doesn't take it away.

cheers
Sam

Clickbank is just a payment processor - pretty much every payment system will require you to set up your own delivery system.


I have clients offering all of these.

Myself, I use DLGuard to deliver ebooks, software, customer registration, and membership areas.

A lot of people use DLGuard for audio and video as well (especially musicians).

cheers
Sam

I have to say that since we've been using DLGuard, I think it's been almost 3 years now Sam, that we have NOT had a single problem with security for the electronic downloads!

We used some "other" services before but they ALL fell short of DLGuard!

Like Big Mike, do pass go, do not SPEND $200, just get DLGuard...NOW!!!

chuck

I was just going to start a thread asking others whether they thought e-junkie was a good service to use when selling 'pay to paypal' type products.

I just set up a page with a paypal 'buy now' button on it to sell an ebook download and bought from myself to make sure it worked.

IT DIDN'T - The payment confirmation email I got from Paypal didn't mention the download link and I wasn't redirected to the download page after payment. I had specified that in the button setup instructions, but it didn't work. I tried to edit the button to generate new code for the page on Paypal, but there was nothing to edit - I made the correct choices based on what I want the page to do. So I have an email into them to see what the heck is going on and I've taken the page down so no one gets screwed over. Even the website name and contact email was wrong on my receipt - it was from a site I was playing around with a few years ago and I couldn't even find a place to change that in my account.

Okay - now that I've vented - I just bought the WSO 'Cash In with CPA Offers Now' and it was delivered to me seamlessly through ejunkie.

Has anyone had any problems with ejunkie as far as delivery, etc., or is there a better alternative out there?

Any suggestions would be appreciated - I'm having a 'bad tech day', even have to reinstall my Adobe because of some crazy error before I can read my new WSO and make a billion dollars this afternoon!!

If you want to offer your product for affiliates to sell, you have to look at a whole different set of systems. At least, I don't think DLGuard (which seems to be what the whole thread is about now) will let you run an affiliate program.

If you're sure you will be the only one selling your product then that's not a concern, but otherwise you need to dig a bit deeper before making a decision.

DLgaurd and E-junkie. Hands down. Totally secure.

If you have the money DLguard is the way to go, you could also use payloadz,
not alot of people talking about this, but It works for me.

I think I need to say this, no matter what you use to protect your download links, Dlguard - great product, digital dispatch - great prodict, white knight protector, great product, affpaypro great product
BUT............

Once your customer has that download - You have no control over what they do with it afterwards unless you have used other encryption methods like Ioncube or Zend for a script or other licencing methods for other types of products.

People steal - case closed.

Make your products viral and it won't matter if someone has a free copy, others will buy from the theif and put coffers into your pocket.

Definitely 100% go with DL Guard... It's the easiest to setup new secure product downloads and you can use it for as many products as you want.

I have DLGurad on a URL of it's own and host all my products there. Its extremely easy to use once you get the hang of it.

Mike Hill

Whatever scripts you buy ONLY PROTECTS your download links or stop password sharing.

Once the product is out to your buyer means, you are not in control of how he passes it.

You need seperate integrated system into your audio and video files (like license key and management) to stop them being passed to others.

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IS DLGuard easy to set up? or would u need coding expertise?

Thanks.

Guess I'm doing things the 'hard way', but I use JVManager1 and PayPal. Seems to be working pretty good. Had a few issues with JVM1, but it is a bit less costly than DLguard.

I can sell single products, packages, do membership sites, offer coupons, etc. with JVM1, so I'm pretty happy with it. And yes, all products are protected downloads.

You wouldn't believe me if I told you, but after installing and beginning to use JVM1, I have seen an increase in membership and product sales. Before, I was doing the whole 'change the log in info and download links monthly' by hand, and I honestly believe that was costing me sales as ppl were, most likely, gaining access to my products/membership for free.

Having said that, DLguard can function with more payment processors than JVM1 can. And, DLguard is less costly than JVM2 (Fantasos) also. Something to ponder I suppose

I think any way you slice it, you must protect your download links anyway you can. Preferably with a script such as DLguard or JVM1/2. You'll definitely see the difference once you do.


Tracy

I like Clickbank and paypal, but i ont stick to one.

I bought DLG yesterday. Been meaning to for a while. Glad I did. Installed easily enough although GoDaddy made me jump through a few extra hoops to get there. Read the manuals and woot ... simple enough. *Disclaimer* I do understand technology so I had the advantage of knowing what I was attempting. But still, this tool rocks - and from what I can see it has more than enough features to not only integrate with the payment processors of choice, but the autoresponders of choice AND the various delivery mechanisms out there. Finally I was impressed with the fact it comes with 2 licenses - you can install the app on 2 separate websites... so it's like getting it for half price! I'm a fan...

I am with John Hillage

Why worry unless you have a massive influx of people accessing your download page.
This once happened too me when some scum bag listed the download page for one of my old PLR sites on a forum.

So I did a redirect on the download url through an affiliate link to PLR site ... I actually made a couple of sales.

John

Clickbank,paydotcom and paypal are good enough I reckon. Seem to work OK

Pretty well explained Steve! I love that! thanks a lot

Paul