How Offer Your eBooks for Sale the Quick & Easy Way

There are many ways to sell your information products. When you're publishing your first ebook it can be overwhelming trying to decide which way to go. Do you want to just accept a payment through PayPal then email the file to the customer? Can you afford the $100/month solution you've heard recommended? Is there a way to make the cart you're already using for other sales work for your ebook? I remember my head spinning at the options when I first got started.

After a lot of research and trial and error, I don’t recommend the strung together solutions where you hack a traditional shopping cart to make it work for downloads. You’ll spend more time trying to get it to work and dealing with frustrated customers when they don’t get their downloads or can’t figure out where to download their product. Instead choose a cart that is designed for downloads and you’ll be able to sleep better at night knowing that your customers are reliably receiving their purchases.

The solutions I mention below range from free to $100/month. So even if you’re just getting started with a limited budget, one of these will work for you. They are generally copy & paste type code buttons. You login, setup your product by giving the name, description, image, price, etc, and then when you save your product information the service will give you a snippet of HTML code that you then copy & paste into your website. This can be used on plain HTML sites, Wordpress sites, any site that you can access your coding or add HTML snippets will work.

Payloadz -- Quick and easy to use, the files are securely stored on their server and it’s free for under $100/month in sales. After that it's a % of your product sales and some other fees. Pricing and features vary depending on your account level.

e-Junkie -- Starts at $5 per month, no limits, no other fees. No % fees. Easy setup, files are stored securely on their server, and download links for customers are encrypted. Inventory control is also available (so you can limit a special product to 100 downloads). It works with PayPal, Google Checkout or Authorize.net.

YouPublish -- Be sure to check out the video overview at this site. It's a recently launched service that's got great people behind it. You get 50% of sales prices on your files here (think of it as an affiliate promoting your products for you).

WAHM Cart -- $30/month. Includes your cart/checkout plus newsletters and autoresponders.

1ShoppingCart (and all the variations) -- $99/month for the version with the cart, downloads, autoresponders, and newsletters. This one is the gold standard for internet marketers and many of them offer their own privately branded versions of 1SC.

There are many other options such a Zen Cart with a special downloadable products setup using attributes, osCommerce with some special modules added on, or PayPal or Mal's E-Commerce with LinkLok. These all take more technical skill to setup and operate smoothly.

With the 5 shopping cart solutions above you can be up and running in an hour or less (it took me just a few minutes to setup with eJunkie) and your entire payment to download process is automated, giving your customer instant gratification and giving you more time to write your next ebook.

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Michelle Shaeffer has been a work at home mom for more than 10 years and loves to share the tips and strategies she's learned to help other home based business owners balance, manage, and market their businesses.

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