DLGuard Review: Starting An Ebook Business Using Sales Management Software
This DLGuard review focuses on using this simple shopping cart software to administer an ebook business with little or no intervention. The application can sell any digital file type, but ebook publishing is one area where it has seen the biggest take up.
After writing ebooks in 2008 I was searching for shopping cart software to automate the sales and subsequent emails/downloads to customers. Using enterprise level tools wasn’t an option (financially) and I’d wanted a tool that specifically worked with Paypal, ClickBank, WorldPay and AlertPay. The DLGuard reviews from other webmasters were favorable so I got a copy.
Once installed on a web server (a 30 minute job) the application scripts provide shopping cart pages/logic with all the regular functionality you’d expect – promotional coupon support, multi-item sales, payment processing with Paypal & co. Customizing the pages to blend in with my site took 2 days though anyone with good coding skills would do it quicker.
After payments are processed, the checkout process auto-responds to the customer with an email containing their download link. DLGuard secures this download link by setting a limit to how long the link can be used and how many downloads can be tried. This is crucial to protecting your ebook business from link sharing and the resulting lost sales when the customers buddies all download your ebooks for free.
After the installation, configuration of page design and establishing your product inventory of ebooks there is little intervention needed with the product. The customer tracking and reporting shows you plenty of sales/download data and can help you with refund requests (especially if the same person continually makes refund requests – a sure sign they are stealing your books for redistribution).
If you want to avoid sales commissions to online sites and control the marketing and customer mailing lists for your ebooks then this is the ideal product for those wishing to start publishing ebooks.