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Atricle Dump - Increase Profits With Affiliate & Distribution Channels For Your Digital Goods
It happens over and over in businesses every day.Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to reward them for performance as individual contributors. After all, the compensation system limits reward options, so why not just promote them?In small businesses, the owner is getting overwhelmed with all that needs to be done. They think that hiring a manager is the solution to give them a little more balance. The hunt begins!Unless you get the RIGHT person for the position, both cases have the potential for disastrous results!You can save yourself and others a great deal of stress and angst if you take the time to be mindful enough to make an intentional decision.Here are 10 questions to consider BEFORE you select your new manager.How will they fit into the environment?
Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/
Lulu is just a darling. Sell not just digital goods throughout their growing network, you can also create and sell your own books and manuals in print! They have many options to choose from and you only pay fees if an item sells (they range depending on product type). This is one of those services that just gets better and better.
SwiftCD.com - http://www.swiftcd.com/
Allows you to create and sell CDs on demand for your products. Prices vary depending on the options you choose, but overall inexpensive.
BuyCreative.com - http://www.buycreative.com
- Offers you a place to buy and sell a variety of multimedia products including illustrations, photography, audio, 3D models, software, plug-ins, and more. While it is free to join and become a vendor, they keep 50% commissions. While this may seem like a lot, you have to put it into perspective - they bring the traffic, handle the sales and deliver the goods to the customer. Another important point is this: 50% of a $29.95 sale is $14.97 and 50% of nothing
Promotional products are given away primarily to create and sustain interest in a company’s products and services. They can be the products itself or, and this happens more frequently than usual, specially made products that are imprinted with the company’s name and manufactured exclusively to serve as giveaways.Since promotional products are usually purchased wholesale, even the smallest mistake can land you with thousands of useless giveaways. Thus, before pushing through with the production of your promotional products, make sure first that you’ve considered all the important factors that can affect it.Tip #1 KNOW WHAT CUSTOMERS ARE LOOKING FOR FROM YOUR WHOLESALE PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTSAccording to a survey made by the PPA, customers deem the following factors significant when receiving promotional products:Usefulness (98.3%) – You
There IS more to life than Clickbank!
Unlike Clickbank, a lot of these services are either free, or cost very little to get started with. Don't get me wrong - I've enjoyed Clickbank for many years both as a merchant and an affiliate. It's a great service, but there are other options which are equal and often better. The point is that you don't have to limit yourself to just one and while many of them may seem like they support only software, they actually allow ebooks, templates, and other kinds of digital goods.
So here's my reviews of channels you can use to sell your digital goods to reach a wider audience, gain more affiliates and of course - boost those sales, or not!
PayDotCom.com - http://paydotcom.com/
Similar to Clickbank, PayDotCom offers some impressive features. You can sign up for a free account which lets you sell one products for free, or upgrade for just $29.00 and submit as many products as you want - for life. There is no pre-approval process, handles both digital and tangible goods, gives you instant payments to your Paypal or Stormpay account, plus much more. This service has made the top of my list and I'm sure you'll hear the same thing from many other people as it grows in popularity.
RegSoft.com - http://www.regsoft.com
Another great network offering a huge affiliate network, multiple payment services, and great management options. Your customers can order online through credit card, or offline by fax, phone or mail. If that isn't sweet enough, they'll even let you put your products on CD with just a few clicks. It costs $9.95 to set up an account and they take commissions of $3 to 8.9% of sales. You couldn't ask for a better deal.
RegNow.com - http://www.regnow.com/
Excellent service which has been around as long as I remember and is one of the largest distribution channels on the web with a proven record. With their massive long-running successful affiliate network, great management tools & payment options, this is definitely one site you'll want to check out. There is a sign-up fee of $19.95 and they keep commissions of 6.9% + $1.00 per sale.
Payloadz.com - http://www.payloadz.com/
This popular service offers lots of great features through an easy-to-use control panel, connected to your Paypal account by which you receive payments. Secure & automated file downloading, eBay auction support, Adwords conversion tracking, and more. The affiliate program is their greatest weakness as it is not accessible enough from their website, and products can't easily be searched, with only the top-selling products appearing to be listed. Basically, you'll be getting 98% of your affiliate recruitments through your own website efforts. While this is a great service for managing sales of digital goods, it in itself will not provide the built-in exposure that other networks do.
Plimus.com - http://www.plimus.com/
Similar Regsoft, this is a smaller network but free to get started. They take a commission of anywhere from $0.75 up to 4.5% of sales.
MediaPal - http://www.mediapal.com/
Allows you to sell any kind of digital media including audio files, charging a $0.40 fee on every sale and a delivery fee of $0.01 per megabyte based on the file size, and 10% of the retail price. You can sell products from your website or CD. I joined them a while back, but never bothered doing anything with them because I found their control panel to be clumsy at the time their support for some products was limited. They seem to have come a long way since then, so you might want to give them a try.
Other distribution channels you might want to try that don't offer affiliate program management, but part of a network are listed below:
Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/
Lulu is just a darling. Sell not just digital goods throughout their growing network, you can also create and sell your own books and manuals in print! They have many options to choose from and you only pay fees if an item sells (they range depending on product type). This is one of those services that just gets better and better.
SwiftCD.com - http://www.swiftcd.com/
Allows you to create and sell CDs on demand for your products. Prices vary depending on the options you choose, but overall inexpensive.
BuyCreative.com - http://www.buycreative.com
- Offers you a place to buy and sell a variety of multimedia products including illustrations, photography, audio, 3D models, software, plug-ins, and more. While it is free to join and become a vendor, they keep 50% commissions. While this may seem like a lot, you have to put it into perspective - they bring the traffic, handle the sales and deliver the goods to the customer. Another important point is this: 50% of a $29.95 sale is $14.97 and 50% of nothing
More and more, business today considers communication a valued tool. Technology has brought us email and the ability to communicate instantly with others from around the world. Good skills can help your business career.Most importantly you want your message, no matter in what form it is delivered, to be concise and clear. Don’t flower your message with pretty words or long descriptions. Be exact. For instance, don’t use, “The Smith Company order needs to be shipped.” Instead, “The Smith Company order must be shipped by 8 a.m. on Monday.” The first example leaves the shipping time open to interpretation, the second is clear as to when the order should go out. Always make sure your meaning is clear. Ask for feedback from the receiver of the message to be sure that they understand. Miscommunication can cost your company thousands of dollars, or more! Do n
So here's my reviews of channels you can use to sell your digital goods to reach a wider audience, gain more affiliates and of course - boost those sales, or not!
PayDotCom.com - http://paydotcom.com/
Similar to Clickbank, PayDotCom offers some impressive features. You can sign up for a free account which lets you sell one products for free, or upgrade for just $29.00 and submit as many products as you want - for life. There is no pre-approval process, handles both digital and tangible goods, gives you instant payments to your Paypal or Stormpay account, plus much more. This service has made the top of my list and I'm sure you'll hear the same thing from many other people as it grows in popularity.
RegSoft.com - http://www.regsoft.com
Another great network offering a huge affiliate network, multiple payment services, and great management options. Your customers can order online through credit card, or offline by fax, phone or mail. If that isn't sweet enough, they'll even let you put your products on CD with just a few clicks. It costs $9.95 to set up an account and they take commissions of $3 to 8.9% of sales. You couldn't ask for a better deal.
RegNow.com - http://www.regnow.com/
Excellent service which has been around as long as I remember and is one of the largest distribution channels on the web with a proven record. With their massive long-running successful affiliate network, great management tools & payment options, this is definitely one site you'll want to check out. There is a sign-up fee of $19.95 and they keep commissions of 6.9% + $1.00 per sale.
Payloadz.com - http://www.payloadz.com/
This popular service offers lots of great features through an easy-to-use control panel, connected to your Paypal account by which you receive payments. Secure & automated file downloading, eBay auction support, Adwords conversion tracking, and more. The affiliate program is their greatest weakness as it is not accessible enough from their website, and products can't easily be searched, with only the top-selling products appearing to be listed. Basically, you'll be getting 98% of your affiliate recruitments through your own website efforts. While this is a great service for managing sales of digital goods, it in itself will not provide the built-in exposure that other networks do.
Plimus.com - http://www.plimus.com/
Similar Regsoft, this is a smaller network but free to get started. They take a commission of anywhere from $0.75 up to 4.5% of sales.
MediaPal - http://www.mediapal.com/
Allows you to sell any kind of digital media including audio files, charging a $0.40 fee on every sale and a delivery fee of $0.01 per megabyte based on the file size, and 10% of the retail price. You can sell products from your website or CD. I joined them a while back, but never bothered doing anything with them because I found their control panel to be clumsy at the time their support for some products was limited. They seem to have come a long way since then, so you might want to give them a try.
Other distribution channels you might want to try that don't offer affiliate program management, but part of a network are listed below:
Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/
Lulu is just a darling. Sell not just digital goods throughout their growing network, you can also create and sell your own books and manuals in print! They have many options to choose from and you only pay fees if an item sells (they range depending on product type). This is one of those services that just gets better and better.
SwiftCD.com - http://www.swiftcd.com/
Allows you to create and sell CDs on demand for your products. Prices vary depending on the options you choose, but overall inexpensive.
BuyCreative.com - http://www.buycreative.com
- Offers you a place to buy and sell a variety of multimedia products including illustrations, photography, audio, 3D models, software, plug-ins, and more. While it is free to join and become a vendor, they keep 50% commissions. While this may seem like a lot, you have to put it into perspective - they bring the traffic, handle the sales and deliver the goods to the customer. Another important point is this: 50% of a $29.95 sale is $14.97 and 50% of nothing
Many people are choosing telecommuting as an option to bring in an income while being at home. Whatever the reasons that we choose to work at home, the one thing we all have in common is the problem of locating legitimate jobs online. We often come online with the idea that finding a job online will be easy.Unfortunately it’s not usually that easy. What you will often run into are the scams for working at home. Why is that though? We often find the job search websites and plug in two common keywords. These two keywords are often the reason many of us give up on finding a legitimate job because all that pulls up are the scams.The keywords I’m speaking of are:•Work at home •Work from home--> With the keywords “work at home,” you’re almost 100% guaranteed to pull up scams or business opportunities, and not the legitimate jobs. No
RegNow.com - http://www.regnow.com/
Excellent service which has been around as long as I remember and is one of the largest distribution channels on the web with a proven record. With their massive long-running successful affiliate network, great management tools & payment options, this is definitely one site you'll want to check out. There is a sign-up fee of $19.95 and they keep commissions of 6.9% + $1.00 per sale.
Payloadz.com - http://www.payloadz.com/
This popular service offers lots of great features through an easy-to-use control panel, connected to your Paypal account by which you receive payments. Secure & automated file downloading, eBay auction support, Adwords conversion tracking, and more. The affiliate program is their greatest weakness as it is not accessible enough from their website, and products can't easily be searched, with only the top-selling products appearing to be listed. Basically, you'll be getting 98% of your affiliate recruitments through your own website efforts. While this is a great service for managing sales of digital goods, it in itself will not provide the built-in exposure that other networks do.
Plimus.com - http://www.plimus.com/
Similar Regsoft, this is a smaller network but free to get started. They take a commission of anywhere from $0.75 up to 4.5% of sales.
MediaPal - http://www.mediapal.com/
Allows you to sell any kind of digital media including audio files, charging a $0.40 fee on every sale and a delivery fee of $0.01 per megabyte based on the file size, and 10% of the retail price. You can sell products from your website or CD. I joined them a while back, but never bothered doing anything with them because I found their control panel to be clumsy at the time their support for some products was limited. They seem to have come a long way since then, so you might want to give them a try.
Other distribution channels you might want to try that don't offer affiliate program management, but part of a network are listed below:
Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/
Lulu is just a darling. Sell not just digital goods throughout their growing network, you can also create and sell your own books and manuals in print! They have many options to choose from and you only pay fees if an item sells (they range depending on product type). This is one of those services that just gets better and better.
SwiftCD.com - http://www.swiftcd.com/
Allows you to create and sell CDs on demand for your products. Prices vary depending on the options you choose, but overall inexpensive.
BuyCreative.com - http://www.buycreative.com
- Offers you a place to buy and sell a variety of multimedia products including illustrations, photography, audio, 3D models, software, plug-ins, and more. While it is free to join and become a vendor, they keep 50% commissions. While this may seem like a lot, you have to put it into perspective - they bring the traffic, handle the sales and deliver the goods to the customer. Another important point is this: 50% of a $29.95 sale is $14.97 and 50% of nothing
How many of you made as much money as you wanted to last year? Don't be shy; raise your hands. Hmm, I don't see too many hands out there. What would you say is the cause of this gap between your goals and your earnings?While you could certainly name the economy or inadequate marketing as the culprit, I'd like to suggest a third alternative. It may be the constraints of the billable hours model that keep you from your financial goals.Let's face it, there are only so many hours you can actually bill to clients. For example, the national average for consultants is 22 billable hours per week. You can only raise your rates so high and still find enough customers. And if you spend more time on marketing, that's less time you have available to bill.But there's a way out of this trap. No matter what type of business you're in, you can use intellec
Plimus.com - http://www.plimus.com/
Similar Regsoft, this is a smaller network but free to get started. They take a commission of anywhere from $0.75 up to 4.5% of sales.
MediaPal - http://www.mediapal.com/
Allows you to sell any kind of digital media including audio files, charging a $0.40 fee on every sale and a delivery fee of $0.01 per megabyte based on the file size, and 10% of the retail price. You can sell products from your website or CD. I joined them a while back, but never bothered doing anything with them because I found their control panel to be clumsy at the time their support for some products was limited. They seem to have come a long way since then, so you might want to give them a try.
Other distribution channels you might want to try that don't offer affiliate program management, but part of a network are listed below:
Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/
Lulu is just a darling. Sell not just digital goods throughout their growing network, you can also create and sell your own books and manuals in print! They have many options to choose from and you only pay fees if an item sells (they range depending on product type). This is one of those services that just gets better and better.
SwiftCD.com - http://www.swiftcd.com/
Allows you to create and sell CDs on demand for your products. Prices vary depending on the options you choose, but overall inexpensive.
BuyCreative.com - http://www.buycreative.com
- Offers you a place to buy and sell a variety of multimedia products including illustrations, photography, audio, 3D models, software, plug-ins, and more. While it is free to join and become a vendor, they keep 50% commissions. While this may seem like a lot, you have to put it into perspective - they bring the traffic, handle the sales and deliver the goods to the customer. Another important point is this: 50% of a $29.95 sale is $14.97 and 50% of nothing
There are over 12 million holiday/vacation rental owners worldwide, and they all have to advertise their property somewhere. If you have a website related to travel, holidays, property, or similar, you may be missing out on a real money spinner.There are a number of Holiday Rentals Affiliate Programs available to join, but which ones do you choose.The best advice I can give you is to put yourself in the shoes of your customers, and ask yourself. If I was a customer, would I be interested in this product or service. There is no point having a website on cars and trying to promote a holiday rentals affiliate program. Some of your customers may well be interested in the program, but the majority will not be.You also need to choose a program that pays a good rate of commission. There is no point dedicating yourself to promoting an affiliate pr
Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/
Lulu is just a darling. Sell not just digital goods throughout their growing network, you can also create and sell your own books and manuals in print! They have many options to choose from and you only pay fees if an item sells (they range depending on product type). This is one of those services that just gets better and better.
SwiftCD.com - http://www.swiftcd.com/
Allows you to create and sell CDs on demand for your products. Prices vary depending on the options you choose, but overall inexpensive.
BuyCreative.com - http://www.buycreative.com
- Offers you a place to buy and sell a variety of multimedia products including illustrations, photography, audio, 3D models, software, plug-ins, and more. While it is free to join and become a vendor, they keep 50% commissions. While this may seem like a lot, you have to put it into perspective - they bring the traffic, handle the sales and deliver the goods to the customer. Another important point is this: 50% of a $29.95 sale is $14.97 and 50% of nothing is $0.00 - so why be picky?
Emetrix.com - http://www.emetrix.com
- Similar to Payloadz.com, they offer free accounts and take a 15% commission per sale. While they do support affiliate programs, it is only through a selection of 3rd parties you must choose from (Shareasale, Clixgalore, MyAffiliateProgram, AffiliateShop, and Commission Junction) and then add to your control panel. Fine if you are a member of these affiliate services, but if not, you should know that they cost money - ranging from under $100 to over $3000.
Qwerks.com - http://www.qwerks.com/
- Probably not worth mentioning, but maybe you'll have better luck with it. I personally didn't see a single sale come through this service for the full year I was testing it. In all fairness though, that was a couple years ago, so they might have more traffic in their network by now.
Even more digital goods distribution networks to look into (which I didn't have time to review and may or may not offer affiliate options) include:
BitPass - http://www.bitpass.com/
eSellerate - http://www.plimus.com/
Leah Merchant - http://www.leahmerchant.com/
TradeBit - http://www.tradebit.com/
PaypalDownloads - http://www.paypaldownloads.com/
Before I forget, here's a tip: Instead of putting all the payment options on one page, creating new pages for each service's unique order link. This will benefit you and maintain good standing with your affiliates.
Good luck with your sales!
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