Last week I wrote a little blurb about how I went out of my usual routine and finally took the plunge and bought a website. Yes, call it a crazy moment - but all in all an awesome moment. I’m not really sure how indepth I should go into the whole “who I bought the site from” and all that good stuff - but I have to say THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT THE LEAST STRESSFUL THING EVER!. The person I bought it from was totally awesome, totally upfront, and I have to say really supportive if I had any questions about the site/product. So far - so good!

The site I bought plays into the whole “I like to design sites” sort of deal - and the site looks like fun, so I thought - why not. This also takes me into the world of Ebooks. Never, ever, done an ebook before. So I’m hoping that this will give me the opportunity to spread my wings a little on the Internet and try something different - and spread out my online income.

Now with the site, I had a bit of a dilemma - with the Ebook I needed a way to sell it. One of those digital product download sites. I was thinking maybe I could use PayPal… but I wasn’t sure how that would work, and honestly I wasn’t looking for a lot of hours of work trying to sort it all out. LUCKILY the person I had bought the site from recommended to me to try out Digital Product Delivery. (You may or may not have seen reviews here and here - they offer great feedback on the site… and I won’t go repeating what they said here - read them!).

So I have my handy ebook and I’m wondering if the Digital Product Delivery would be easy to use. I’m all for no-headache technology and software I went to the site and registered. That took me no time at all… you are given 4 choices:

If you look to the right… you’ll see what I always love (when trying something out)… FREE - you can test the Digital Product Delivery for free. You can one product to sell digitally - and you have to have a payment processor already set up… like paypal, paydotcom, etc, because they don’t do the money… you need to get it set up. This wasn’t a problem - I have PayPal, easy-peasy.

As a designer - I have to say it’s not every day I see a site that is this easy to read. I just have to say that

Once I selected “free” I was sent through to the next page which was the form - username, password, email, the usual things you’d do to sign up for an account. Activation was smooth and I was ready to rumble in minutes. Which is so nice, because I hate having to wait to be verified.

Once I accessed my account… um… I was a little worried as to where to start. But the site is well laid out, and they offer:

Start with our Quick-Start Guide to learn how to rapidly create new protected downloads, or watch one of our tutorial videos to see how easy it is to use Secure Delivery.

… the quick start guide saved my butt! Once I got into the site - it was pretty easy to set up - the system takes you step by step - what to call the product, upload the product, and get links to sell the product and I loved that they had so many options - text version, graphic versions (good selection) to fit your site.

I was pleased with myself when I managed to get through it unscathed and happy because I managed to do it all within about 15 minutes. YAAAAA!

So if you’re like me and want to do some ebook selling or any digital product downloads (digital scrapbooking, etc) this would be an super easy way to do it. Also (as an affiilate marketer) this got me pretty happy too… is that they offer affiliate tools - so you can definitely help out the income stream by promoting this product.

Plenty of documentation (which I have yet to really use), help and support guides are available and you can stay up to date with what’s happening on their blog. Which wouldn’t be bad - if you promote it - you can keep your promotions up to date.

So, I’ve got the links on my new site and I’m hoping that this goes well - I’ve been able to track clicks through Google Analytics with Digital Product Delivery - which is super handy and look at the stats on their end as well. I’m hoping once I start marketing the site a bit more I’ll be able to see the numbers a bit higher than they are right now…LOL. So I’m into something new - trying something a little different with this new site I bought and trying out a new payment/delivery system. I’m pretty darn stoked by the new venture.

*fingers crossed*

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