How to securely deliver digital products to customers?

MWatson

10 years ago

You can use amazon S3. That's what a lot of members here use.

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AlexCN 10 years ago

There are plenty of ways...

Membership sites, via email with links to private youtube videos, as a WSO here at the Warrior Forum, and even really complex solutions - scripts with all of the 'content lockdown' bells and whistles so that NO ONE outside of your customers will be able to access those pages...

It just comes down to how you want to do it, your budget and you tolerance for messing with different technologies.

Keep in mind - even if you lock down your pages like Fort Knox, that still doesn't mean your content can't be stolen...

Save yourself the hassle. If you are just starting out, go with a super-simple solution:

Have your customers access your content via a Password Protected Wordpress page - done. End of story.

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- Steve B 10 years ago
  
  There are also a grundle of online services like e-junkie that are very easy to initially set up, use, and scale, all for a very reasonable price. You even get an integrated shopping cart in case you sell multiple items. E-junkie also has it's own marketplace where you can potentially sell your items that are listed with the e-junkie service.
  
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Esteban Gomez

10 years ago

I personally don't sell digital products but this is how Pat Flynn does it and he is an expert.

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zimzalabim

10 years ago

Have a look at DLGuard. Yes, it costs. But it's an excellent way to protect your download pages and deliver your product. Very flexible too. Direct link: DLGuard - Download page protector, create expiring download links

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Rudy Stebih

10 years ago

There is a FREE Wordpress plugin that will help you sell & securely distribute your digital downloads that I am currently looking at myself. It's called:

Easy Digital Downloads

There are a boat load of addons & integration features that make the distribution & sales of your digital assets easy. Which is why I am currently looking at it.

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Toby Makins

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Rudy Stebih

There is a FREE Wordpress plugin that will help you sell & securely distribute your digital downloads that I am currently looking at myself. It's called:

Easy Digital Downloads

There are a boat load of addons & integration features that make the distribution & sales of your digital assets easy. Which is why I am currently looking at it.

I use Easy Digital Downloads, and it's excellent. I've had to purchase a couple of addons to get it working exactly how I want, but for most things it's fine straight out of the box.

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kencalhn

10 years ago

it's critical to have IP-tracking/expiring download links so people don't share the link online.

DLGuard is great; as is password-sentry.com

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BillyBee

10 years ago

These are all great suggestions, thank you.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

There's very little value in protecting the download page without also protecting the product itself.

Most theft occurs after people upload your product to content-sharing, file-sharing, blackhat and torrent sites. Protecting the download page of a ClickBank product doesn't prevent anyone from buying it and uploading it to all those places (and then getting a refund!).

One way to discourage that (and it will probably prevent 99% of it) is to use something like e-Junkie's PDF-stamping device as part of your product's delivery method. e-Junkie is set up to work with ClickBank, in this regard. This can be very successful.

Don't let people tell you that "people who steal your product were never going to be paying customers anyway" - that's just "head in the sand" nonsense.

Unfortunately, the world is full of people who, when they want a particular product, will scour the web first looking for an illicit free download, and buy it only if they can't find one. Not protecting the product itself can cost you a lot of real sales for real money.

I don't suggest that you should go as far as using a .exe-file to protect it (because that will also stop a lot of people from buying it!), but in my opinion, it makes little sense not to use something like e-Junkie's PDF stamper. (There are also alternatives, based on exactly the same idea).

It's true that you can't get 100% security that way, but that isn't a reason to ignore the 99% security you probably can get!

Again, it obviously helps to protect the download page, somehow, but it's of very limited value if you don't also protect the product itself!

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BillyBee

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Most theft occurs after people upload your product to content-sharing, file-sharing, blackhat and torrent sites. Protecting the download page of a ClickBank product doesn't prevent anyone from buying it and uploading it to all those places (and then getting a refund!).

Great insights, Alexa, thanks. I've noticed everything you're saying about the torrent sites!! Very discouraging and I'm looking to reduce that for sure even though I'm not sure how many people use them.

You say there are alternatives to e-Junkie's PDF stamper. Do you know what any of those are? I will do a search if you don't know them offhand. Thanks again.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by BillyBee

You say there are alternatives to e-Junkie's PDF stamper. Do you know what any of those are? I will do a search if you don't know them offhand. Thanks again.

Sorry, I can't remember. I've seen at least one advertised, though, with one of those "long sales pages", for about $17/$19 or something, but can't remember, now.

(Possibly on ClickBank? That might have been where/how I saw it, but not sure.)

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razorz18 10 years ago

Originally Posted by kencalhn

it's critical to have IP-tracking/expiring download links so people don't share the link online.

DLGuard is great; as is password-sentry.com

Can you explain bit bout IP-tracking/expiring downloads. How to do it?

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LuckyIMer

10 years ago

A download section visible to your customers only and protected by password is good approach.

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maverickk3

10 years ago

Originally Posted by BillyBee

My product package has 2 ebooks, a 60-minute audio mp3 and a series of five short videos.

Can you tell me the best way to deliver these products securely to my customers so that the general public can't access them?

Thanks for your help.

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maz1207

10 years ago

Use membership plugins such as Wishlist, InstaMember, S2Member, etc. Though, your ebook is still shareable by your members unless you use something like Viral Boomerang "LOCK DOWN". I don't know how to make it works with Wordpress but if you are using HTML based website then i think this will be a useful tool.

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sbucciarel

Banned 10 years ago

I do with Wish List Member for products that are larger, like video or audio. I do it with DLGuard for smaller products.

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jemacb

10 years ago

DL Guard is a great and very secure solution.

There are other solutions as mentioned above but I have used DL Guard and it satisfies my security concerns.

Link: DLGuard - Download page protector, create expiring download links (not an affiliate link)

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AidenTingley

10 years ago

At the moment I just send all my customers to a website with the download link, not much security however, my products are under $10 ...

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vishwa

10 years ago

Why not use a shopping cart like opencart, magento etc which offer digital products also. You can also limit the downloads in days or in attempts.

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Infonet

10 years ago

Originally Posted by BillyBee

My product package has 2 ebooks, a 60-minute audio mp3 and a series of five short videos.

Can you tell me the best way to deliver these products securely to my customers so that the general public can't access them?

Thanks for your help.

Here's another tip: For all your download pages, make sure you set them so they are not indexed by Google. That way someone can't do a search for "(yourproductname) download page", etc.

To do this, add the following code inside the <head> tags of the download page:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

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weeklyes

10 years ago

Anytime someone gets their hand on a digital product they can email it all over creation or put it up on file sharing sites.

It's like patching igloos in the Sahara desert. Nothing really works long-term.

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Simon Walker

10 years ago

You are not using any e-commerce platform? As they provide option to sell downloadable products and let users download after paying for it.

For other cases you can send a temporary link to your customers that expires after sometime but this make customer go mad when they loose these file somehow in future as there will be no way to retrieve this online,

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zimzalabim

10 years ago

Razor 18: With dlguard (and presumably other similar products) you can set a time limit for the buyer to download their purchase or set a maximum number of download attempts before the download link "expires".

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blueonblue

10 years ago

I ,myself am looking into this option also. Is sending the customer a link to drop box or similar sites a good idea? That way only your customers know where the download material is, or is it simply better to go with ejunkie.com?

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RidwanM

10 years ago

I personally feel that Gumroad is the best option

It allows you to sell to your customers directly, they don't get taken off of your website. It works by triggering a modal which is has the best design of any cart system by far, they make the payment by filling in literally the bare minimum of like 2-3 form fields and then get taken to your product.

Fast and easy to setup, pricing is really good too.

The only issue is that they don't have an affiliate program and if that is essential I would go with ejunkie or jvzoo in that case.

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