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PayPal, Digital Goods and Content Delivery: Three Crucial Factors to Sales Success

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Starting a business based upon online sales can be a lucrative and successful venture, but a selling digital goods on a large scale is dependent upon more than just a great product. In order to establish a thriving business with long-term earning potential, merchants must focus on providing not only a strong product, but also great customer service. How PayPal, Digital Goods and Content Delivery Affect Online Sales A high…

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Expand Your Ebook Empire: Sell MP3 Audio Book Downloads

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Once available through specialized retailers at high markups, audio books are far from a recent invention, though they’ve typically been the choice of a very small niche audience. With the advent of smartphones and high-capacity MP3 players, however, they’ve enjoyed a dramatic surge in popularity. Due to the wide availability of inexpensive audio editing programs, they’re no longer prohibitively expensive for the small business owner to produce. For the self-published…

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Sell Your Non-Fiction Manuscript as an Ebook Download

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Whether it’s advice for finding a traditional publisher or helpful hints about the self-publishing business, it can often seem that fiction authors are more frequently offered assistance on the Internet. Though fiction, especially genre fiction, is still exploding in popularity as ebook downloads due to the prevalence of tablets, dedicated ereader devices and smartphones, there’s a healthy market for non-fiction manuscripts. If you’re a non-fiction author researching the best methods…

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Converting Your Physical Product into a Pay Download

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Specializing in the sale of physical media goods can be a rewarding venture, but more often, meeting overhead expenses is an ongoing battle as physical media goods become less and less popular. For the majority of small business owners who sell their own music, novels, games, software programs, art, business document templates or any other media product, switching to a pay download model can mean the difference between success and…

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Become an Independent Developer and Sell Software Online

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The software market, once dominated by major corporations with the funding to distribute physical media through big box retail stores, has changed dramatically over the last decade. Widespread availability of high speed Internet access, along with advances in the way digital products are purchased and sold online, have made it easier than ever before for independent developers to sell software online as a viable method for building their own businesses….

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Affiliate Marketing, Clickbank and Online Sales

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Whether you’re an online merchant with products to sell or someone with an established web presence interested in monetizing your following, affiliate marketing is a phrase with which you should familiarize yourself. One of the more recognizable names in affiliate marketing, Clickbank, works even more effectively when it’s supplemented with other tools. If you’re looking for the best ways to earn money online, either through sale of your own products…

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Selling Music in an Increasingly Digital World

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Digital files as a format for selling music no longer make up a small share of the market. In the last decade, digital music sales have soared in popularity, while physical format sales continue to dwindle. For mainstream artists signed to major labels, this can present something of a challenge as the industry struggles to monetize digital files in a manner similar to physical sales from a historical standpoint. Independent…

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Moving Beyond PayPal: Instant Download Business Growth for Beginners

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If you’ve purchased a digital product in the last decade, you’ve almost certainly used PayPal to process your transaction. While this is one of the only brand names most customers see, aside from that of the merchant from whom they’re purchasing, it’s only part of the puzzle. There’s more to online sales than just PayPal; instant download businesses rely on a host of services this payment processing giant simply doesn’t…