[Hidden-tech] selling digital media files online

[Marcia Yudkin]

Hi Stacy,

Here are some easy-to-use digital download services that I researched for my "Launch Your Information Empire" course:

FastSpring http://www.fastspring.com
Scubbly http://www.scubbly.com
Kagi http://www.kagi.com/

These services are extremely easy for both you and the customer.  You upload your digital product, input the price and other info about it, then they give you a BUY button.  When someone buys, the service delivers their purchase to them instantly.  

You get paid once or twice a month, and they deduct their service fee from your earnings.  You do not owe them any monthly fee, you do not require your own merchant account, and therefore they are great for startups with an unpredictable level of sales.  

Good luck,
Marcia Yudkin
Goshen
http://www.yudkin.com/informationempire.htm

--- On Tue, 5/15/12, Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net>
Subject: [Hidden-tech] selling digital media files online
To: "hidden-discuss" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 5:05 PM

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    What services do you advise looking at for selling digital files
    PDFs, Excel & Word documents, zip files (not e-books). 

    

    I'm considering a straight Paypal

      solution or some extension
      for Joomla. I'm looking for the easiest most reliable solution
    since I am only going to sell a handful of documents/files for now
    (so I don't need a full $30/month shopping cart) and I am not an
    ultra-savvy web designer - just someone who has learned Joomla,
    Wordpress as needed (www.swampdancer.com). As Swampdancer Resources
    I do not currently subscribe to a shopping cart like Shopify or 
    Volusion (http://store.BucklandMassHistory.org), which I DO run for
    the historical society. Google Cart integration looks too
    complicated for me to code into Joomla right now.

    

    Thanks.

    

    Stacy Kontrabecki

  


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