Articles from February 2007

SmartDD

If you sell digital products online, I have a product that you are going to love. I sell a lot of products online, and I use clickbank for some, but I also use the Paypal encryption method. Unfortunately, Paypal does not send out an email to the customer, so if they don’t click through, they don’t get the download page. This results in an email wondering when the heck you are going to send them their product. After all, we promise “instant delivery” right! I have had this happen as a customer too, and it really gets on your nerves because quite honestly you want the product right now, not in a few hours. So, I started researching software to fix this problem. I didn’t want to spend $200 a month for fancy shopping cart software when I didn’t need to. I also didn’t want to pay a transaction fee everytime I sold a product, and I didn’t want monthly fees. It almost seemed impossible to find what I wanted, then I got an email about SmartDD. Smart Digital Delivery has been a lifesaver for me. It works with any product, you can send people to a webpage, or a direct download. You can also host the download file on your server that is not accessible via a link to prevent theft. I have been really impressed with this package, and I am in the process of switching all my products over. One of the neat features is the instant button creator – no more logging into Paypal to recreate the button everytime I change prices! As you can tell, this is a product I truly believe in and use. Take a look at their website and see for yourself. You will be suprised by the price too! Visit the SmartDD Website.

Affiliate Tips

The primary reason I created the free training resource was to provide tips and techniques to you at no charge. Yes, you may have already known about some of them, heck maybe all of them. But, if you learn one little thing and it doesn’t cost you a nickel to learn it, I call that a great value! When I first started out in Affiliate Marketing, I was stumbling around trying different things, and I still do from time to time. I think many people try to skip all the stumbling blocks and go straight to retirement. Sadly, they usually go broke trying and then give up forever. It is important to remember that as you build your affiliate business, you will have failures along with successes. This is one of the reasons I like to provide ideas and techniques that are either free or just a few dollars. If you’re not willing to take the time to at least give something a shot, even when it does not cost you much in terms of time or money, then you definately will not be in this business long. So, take the time, try a few techniques, and then give them time to work – not hours or days – but weeks!