Category: eCommerce

Digital Product Photography

Photo Sale and Marketing Tips

Digital Product Photography

You know your way around a camera and photo editing software, but does the idea of starting your own web store seem overwhelming? Photo sale businesses can be both lucrative and emotionally rewarding, but too many promising photographers give up before they ever get started. You don’t need thousands of dollars to invest in custom websites and complex tools; all you need is the right systems in place before you…

software marketing

Your First Software Sale and Beyond

software marketing

‘You’re ready to make your first software sale, but are you planning for all the rest to come? It’s easy to become fixated on your first sale, but the systems you put in place before you collect your first payment have the potential to affect your business for quite some time. Before you get caught up in the excitement of launching your career, make sure you’re taking time to plan…

Shopping Cart For Downloads

Building Your Pay-to-Download Empire

Shopping Cart For Downloads

Are you ready to start earning money and building brand recognition? You’ve got the talent to create and the drive to succeed; all you need now are the right tools to help you launch your pay-to-download business. Whether you’re an author of eBooks, the director and star of a web video series or anything in between, it’s easier than you might believe to get started. No matter the size of…

selling pictures online

Sell Photo Images, No Microstock Site Required

selling pictures online

Do you want to keep more of your earnings, build a true brand for your work and sell photo files to buyers around the world? You don’t need a microstock site to make those dreams a reality. In fact, the major clearinghouse sites can make those goals more difficult to achieve. Why settle for being a single contributor in a sea of stock image providers, when you could be the…

Selling Digital Files

Benefits of Selling Pictures Yourself

Selling Digital Files

Do you wonder about the benefits of selling pictures in your own web store, versus the microstock image clearinghouse sites? If you’re like many photographers, it can seem as if the convenience offered by managed sales offsets the added revenue from independent sales. While it’s true that breaking even, let alone reaching profitability, can be more difficult when you over-invest in your online business, this doesn’t have to be the…

Documents

Where to Host Your eBooks for Sale

Documents

Are you ready to take charge of your career? As an author new to self-publishing, deciding where and how to post your eBooks for sale can almost rival the writing and editing process in difficulty. There are so many choices and so many systems; how do you know which one is going to be the best fit for you? While the staggering number of options at your disposal can be…

Selling Crafts

Why Digital Download Management is Important

Selling Crafts

Do you know how to properly position your digital download products for sale? If you’re like most new merchants, you know that there are a plethora of sales options. So many, in fact, it’s easy to become utterly overwhelmed by the number of choices. Rather than investing all of your time into simply trying to figure out the best way to proceed, take advantage of systems which allow you full…

pay to download

Simplifying Your Subscription Downloads System

pay to download

What’s holding you back from realizing your goals of online sales success? Are the perceived expenses, difficulty and logistical challenges keeping you from launching your subscription downloads business? While it’s true that subscription-based systems do operate a bit differently than single-purchase sales, it’s actually not as expensive or as complicated as you may believe. The trick lies in choosing the right tools and services; ones which are tailored to the…