One of the most popular choices for affiliate programs is e-junkie. It’s feature-rich, user friendly, and economical. There are plenty of other options out there, but for the purposes of this post, we’ll stick to e-junkie.
E-junkie provides you copy-paste buy now buttons and shopping cart to let you sell digital and tangible products. We take care of interfacing with the payment processor you want and we also do secure and automatic delivery for your digital products.
With E-junkie you can centrally manage your products from our admin panel while selling your products on multiple places (your website, your blog, MySpace, Craigslist, eBay etc.) at the same time.
For as little as $5.00 a month you can upload your multi-media books to e-junkie’s server to start creating some passive income. E-junkie does NOT take a share of your profits. It’s a flat fee and you don’t have to worry about how many sales you have because they don’t charge for additional bandwidth.
There are a lot of great features that will help you protect your work – like an expiration on the download link to prevent theft and sharing. Say goodbye to sharing copies of your hard work.
They even give you the ability to send out free expirable download links to anyone you want – friends, reviewers, or as a bonus for another product. If you really want to beef up ‘security’ your PDF’s will be stamped with the name, email address and a unique transaction ID. You can then identify the leaky pipe if you happen to find your product on the net.
Lesson 1: Selling a multi-media book
First, you’ll need to sign up for an account. Click that little fire bug at the top to get started.
Second, because e-junkie isn’t a payment processor, you’re going to need to use something like PayPal.
Third, start a 7 day free trial.
Setting up shop
Once you’re logged in, you’ll need to click ADD PRODUCT from the Seller Admin. There are a lot of options here but I’m going to walk you through this step-by-step.
Add the product name, a price and choose your currency. The product name will actually be seen by the customer, so be sure it’s indicative of what you’re selling and not just an internal code.
The default screen is shown above. You can uncheck “let buyers edit quantity in cart” since we’re setting up a file download.
On the right, you can edit the email subject and message if you wish. You may want to indicate in the subject that it’s their purchase to bring their attention to the fact that they really do need to open the email so they can download the file before it expires.
If you click on more options, you’ll be able to add some security to your file.
You can change the number of download attempts and include a time limit on when the link will expire. In general, I would remove the time restriction – everyone’s busy. But reduce the number of download attempts to 2 or 3. The idea here is that you want to give enough ability to download again if something went wrong, or to add to a secondary computer the customer uses.
This screen is again optional. If you have additional products, they’ll be listed in the bottom section. Choosing them will allow you to cross-promote your products. This is also a super good time to create a dynamic thank you page that will help you upsell your product by adding things like a consulting session to the package.
Hit submit and you’re almost done. The next screen brings you to where you can upload your file.
Click on the UPLOAD button to upload your file. You’ll notice you have two types of code: one is for “add to cart” and the other is for “buy now buttons”. You’ll want to head over to the buy now button tab to grab the code. You can use that code to create “buy now” buttons on your own site.
And that’s it. That’s all there is to selling your digital product online. Super easy.
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