DLGuard Review: Automating An Ebook Business Using Download Sales Tools
DLGuard has been helping budding web entrepreneurs to set up their own shopping carts on their websites for years. While the software can be used to distribute-via-download any digital media this DLGuard review focuses on its use in automating an ebook business.
Three years ago I was writing ebooks and wanted to find a way to securely sell them online from my own server. The reason for wishing to use my own server was to maintain control of the marketing of the ebooks and control over the customer data. The majority of DLGuard reviews were positive so it was the first product I tried.
The DLGuard scripts have all the standard checkout web pages and business logic you’d see in enterprise products. This includes promotional coupon support, single/multiple item baskets and the ability to deal with Paypal, Clickbank and several others for processing a payment.
DLGuard comes into its own after the sale by automating the response emails to customers along with the download link to their ebook. This is a powerful feature, in ebook business terms, as it means the customer can browse, purchase and download the ebooks without you, the author, needing to intervene at any point (intervention takes up too much of your time).
The security of the download link is crucial to stopping your ebooks being downloaded maliciously. DLGuard protects the links through capping the number of download attempts permitted and setting a validity period of the link. This curtails the huge bulk of link sharing (as testified by the numerous forum users using the software).
For web-masters seeking a customizable shopping cart that easily integrates in with their website and automates the majority of download sales activities then DLGuard would be hard to beat. The presence of a loyal support forum of users has also meant the product’s upgrades and improvements have grown dynamically to cater for the real world requirements of those web-masters using it constantly.
