Most people want to get traffic to their website so they can make money. And a common way to make money is by selling a product.
One problem people have is protecting their digital products from being stolen by online thieves.
When I first started selling my videos online I had a simple URL that I would e-mail to a customer after they paid. The URL looked something like:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/download_stuff/….
And anyone who knew the URL could download my products.
People Steal
Unfortunately some paying customers decided to distribute the URL to their friends and also post it on online forums. My download page was not protected.
Since then I’ve tried several different things and all of them have had problems. Either they weren’t secure enough or they were too secure and people have problems downloading what they purchased.
The last thing you want is to have a paying customer e-mail you and ask where there product is. It’s embarrassing and it’s happened to me several times.
I found DLGuard
I’ve posted several questions asking how to deal with this on the warrior forum and there were many recommendations for DLGuard.
So I finally decided to stop messing around with solutions that didn’t work and wasted my time. I bought DLGuard a few months ago and it works great!
I started using it to manage and protect one of my products just to make sure it worked and I now use it to protect everything I sell.
Price changes for my videos
This morning I changed the price of a couple products that I sell. In the past I was reluctant to make any price changes because it was a pain.
Before DLGuard I would have to login to PayPal and create a new “Buy Now” button and re-enter all of my product’s information (i.e. product name, shipping price, tax info, URL for the actual download, etc.) just so I could change a price.
When the “Buy Now” button was created PayPalwould give me a new URL to send customers to when they purchased. I had to take this URL and update my website with it. This way when people clicked on the “Buy” button they would be taken to the new URL with the new price.
DLGuard made it easy
Using DLGuard to change the price was easy. I simply logged in to my account, selected the product, and updated the price.
I did still have to go change the price of my website but that wasn’t very difficult.
The whole process took just a minute or two.
Other benefits of DLGuard
Some the other benefits of DLGuard are:
- Secure single product sales
- Built-in shopping cart
- Create Membership sites
- Expiring download links
- Limit download attempts
- Offer promotional coupons
- Calculates sales conversion rates automatically
- Template based for easy customisation
- Automatic mailing list sign-up
- Integrated with the major payment systems
But DLGuard isn’t for everyone
The biggest drawback to DLGuard is its price. Right now the price is $147 and that is too much money for a lot of people just starting out.
If you are just beginning your online journey and are trying to sell products it might be wise to first sell $100 worth of your products before you invest money in a tool like this.
However if you have some money to invest in your online business I highly recommend DLGuard.
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Under "People Steal" – You wrote…
"The last thing you want is to have a pain customer e-mail you and ask where there product is. It’s embarrassing and it’s happened to me several times"
I think you meant?
The last thing you want to do is have a "paying" customer email you…"
That was a bad typo on my part. (Sometimes my voice recognition software mixes up words.)
Thank for pointing that out.