DLGuard Review | Download Sales Management For Automating An Ebook Business 0
In this DLGuard review I provide an insight into utilizing this shopping cart/sales software for putting the administration of an ebook business on auto-pilot. While the software is not limited to use with ebooks (it handles any media type that may be downloaded) this has become one of the popular trending uses for it.
Toward the end of 2006 I had been writing ebooks and researching ways of selling them online. Going with a large online site does have the potential for more traffic/sales but I’d have missed out on capturing customer emails for building mailing lists which become invaluable as you build an inventory of ebooks to cross-sell to previous happy customers.
After reading some positive DLGuard reviews I installed it to a single server. With any ebook business the initial set up can prove to be the most time consuming part. As such the DLGuard scripts took a day to install, configure my ebook inventory and add links to the products shopping cart pages.
Out of the box it integrates with Paypal, PayDotCom and several other payment processors but it is the download automation that provides the most power to web-masters. After a sale is confirmed the application automatically emails the customer with a unique & secure download link to their ebook.
For anyone selling ebooks protecting the links is a key way to stop the PDFs being mass-downloaded without payment. DLGuard allows you to configure both the link’s validity period and the max download attempts permitted. This will catch the huge bulk of hackers stealing your products. Some genuine customers may get caught out by the time restriction but the tracking/reporting in DLGuard shows you if they genuinely failed to complete a download with the link.
In terms of entry level sales tools DLGuard is a fully-functional shopping cart that is as good as larger enterprise tools. In terms of starting your own ebook business, if your site gets enough traffic then this is a perfect tool to use for selling/reselling ebooks which has enough sales & distribution automation to ensure your attention is only needed for handling refunds.