Feature Updates 12-11-09

New Digital Download Shopping Cart

In addition to our One Click Direct Purchase Buy Buttons we now offer a complete ecommerce storefront with “Add to Cart” and “View Cart” buttons.

A fantastic feature no matter whether you are selling a single product or hundreds of products our digital download shopping cart makes it easy to sell downloads.

It doesn’t require any programming knowledge. All you have to do is copy and paste the button code to your website.

This feature can be found in the Client Management Control Panel under the Checkout Management Area.

MicroSite Builder Templates

Our MiscroSite Builder Templates are now completed. The templates are offered in three categories (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) and total 18. The templates are easy to modify, provide a great starting point for design and are ready for use.

This feature can be found in the Client Management Control Panel under the MicroSite Builder area.

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If you have any questions or comments, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred download delivery service.

Feature Updates 11-23-09

We’ve added some really serious features and upgrades. Enjoy and Happy Selling!

Upgraded Affiliate System

We have completely built out the Affiliate System.

As an Administrator you’ll be able to:

• Review and approve/not approve Affiliate applications
• Customize the look, feel and text elements
• Set commission levels
• Upload banners & buttons
• Manage all Affiliates including payouts

Your Affiliates will be able to:

• Sign up through the Affiliate Application Page
• Login to the Affiliate Login Area
• Copy and paste banners and buy buttons to their sales site(s)
• Review real time statistics
• Request payouts

This feature is available to all account types and setup can be found in the Client Control Panel under Affiliate Management.

MicroSite Builder

The new MicroSite Builder allows any client to create a one page, search engine friendly, website. The page is totally customizable and works similar to a social media page. Buy button and audio widgets can be used to allow visitors to purchase digital downloads and tangible products.

The system allows total control of everything and you can even use your own domain name.

Coming Soon – We are in the process of creating template themes that can be used for quick website creation. All you’ll have to do is choose a theme then input your text and images.

This feature is available to all account types and setup can be found in the Client Control Panel under MicroSite Builder.

Apply Coupon Codes to Single Products

The ability to add coupon code discount to a single item is now available.

This very popular feature allows you to run promotions on single products you sell.

This feature is available to all account types and setup can be found in the Client Control Panel under Coupons & Promotions.

Buy Button “Other Products Available” Feature Upgrade

As most of you know when a buyer clicks on a buy button from your website the custom shop page shows the primary product(s) that are associated with the buy button. Then a list of “Other Products Available from this Vendor” would immediately show beneath.

This new feature allows you to show only the features products for each buy button without the “Other Products Available from this Vendor” list of products.

When you are on the Buy Buttons & Audio Widgets page, choose the buy button that you want to use, then select a product or entire category of products and use the checkbox to either show or not show “Other Products Available from this Vendor”.

This feature is a great feature if you are trying to keep products separated.

Upgraded Custom Shop Terms of Service Text

Our Custom Shop set up page allows you to choose between a link or text to show your terms and conditions of your sales. Upon popular request we have created a new popup format for those clients that are using the Text Terms Type.

On the Custom Shop Page, buyers that click the link to view your terms will see a popup screen similar to our help system popup screens that allow them to view your terms.

Updated and Upgraded Help System

We have updated the help system with additional instructions on using the system. We also provided a new interface for easy reading.

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If you have any questions or comments, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred download delivery service.

Feature Updates 10-08-09

Feature 1 – Secure Delivery for eBay Digital Downloads

If you sell digital downloads on eBay you can now use the Digital Content Center system to securely deliver them automatically.

With our eBay integration you no longer have to send buyers separate emails and use a single download page, which can be passed around. Our system connects directly to your paypal account and when a transaction is processed our system sends the buyer a dedicated license key and link.

This feature is available to all account levels. Setup can be found in the client control panel under Checkout Management.

Feature 2 – Secure Delivery for Clickbank Transactions

If you use Clickbank to sell downloads you can now use Digital Content Center to securely deliver your digital products.

With our Clickbank integration the buyer automatically gets your download page, including a unique one use license key, after the transaction has been approved.

This feature is available to all account levels. Setup can be found in the client control panel under Checkout Management.

Feature 3 – Reset License Key Feature

This request has been widely requested and is now ready for use.

When a customer needs a license key reset all they have to do is request it online. By going to our contact page (http://www.digitalcontentcenter.com/contact-support.php) and using the Reset License Key link a customer can input his/her order number and the email that was used for the order and upon submission you will be contacted via email with a request. You can then approve or deny the request directly from the control panel. Upon approval the license key that was used for original purchase is re-activated for another single use and the customer will get an email notification. If denied the customer will also get an email.

This feature is available to all account levels and can be found in the client control panel under Control Panel Main.

Feature 4 – Add a Feature for $149.95

Need a feature added to your account? We now offer customization of your account for only $149.95 when you are on the $24.95 package.

Feature 5 – Express Setup

Express Setup Service is now available to clients that find that their hectic schedules don’t allow complete attention to their digital downloads business.

For new clients just choose the Express Setup option when signing up. For existing customers just give us a call and we’ll professionally setup your products, descriptions, images, etc…

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We’ll update you as we add more features to our service. If you have any questions or comments, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred digital download delivery service.

Feature Updates 09-28-09

Feature 1 – Track Resale Rights

If you are selling other peoples digital products you can now track the sale of each product by using the Resale Rights Reporting Feature.

When creating a new digital product just use the Resale Rights Tracking fields and the Artist, Songwriter and/or Publisher along with their royalty will be posted into the sales report.

This feature is available on all account packages.

Feature 2 – Customizable Backgrounds for Custom Shop, Confirmation and Download Pages

If you have wanted to customize any of the pages that are seen by your site visitors, now you can. When setting up the customer shop area you can now choose any color for your background or use your own image.

This feature is available on all account packages and is a great way to stand out from the competition.

Coming Soon

Soon we’ll be integrating with eBay and ClickBank. Stay Tuned for more information.

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Thanks for keeping up with our upgrades and new features. We’ll update you as we add more features to our service. If you have a feature that you would like to see, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred digital content delivery service.

Feature Updates 09-27-09

Feature 1 – Special Offers Upsell at Checkout

A great feature for up selling clients right before they checkout.

This feature allows you to define a primary product that the buyer must purchase and with that purchase they can get instant savings on other products that you define.

A noticeable “Special Offers” area will appear on the custom shop checkout page telling the buyer about special offers they qualify for.

This feature is a great way to create add-on sales and is available on our Professional Plan only.

Feature 2 – Return Visit Promotions

A great feature for getting repeat business.

This feature allows you to create a coupon code and associated text that is delivered to your buyer at the confirmation page and in the confirmation email and allows them to save money (a dollar amount or percentage) on their next purchase.

A deadline for coupon use can also be defined to create urgency.

This feature is available on our Business and Professional Plans only.

Feature 3 – Updated Look and Feel for Checkout, Confirmation and Download Pages

We have re-designed our Checkout, Confirmation and Download pages for ease of reading and printing. This new format takes into consideration all of the new features from above and helps provide a better buying experience for end users.

Coming Soon

More great features to help you sell your digital products are coming soon! Stay tuned.

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Thanks for keeping up with our upgrades and new features. We’ll update you as we add more features to our service. If you have a feature that you would like to see, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred digital content delivery service.

Feature Updates 09-22-09

Feature 1 – PDF Protection Suite Upgrade

We have upgraded our Digital Finger Printing Feature within the PDF Protection Suite by adding the buyers Address, City, State and Zip to the pdf document that is purchased.

With these new fields etched into each and every PDF that is sold we hope to deter file sharing and theft even more.

Feature 2 – Help with End Users Saving Files Correctly

If you have ever gotten a call or email from an end users telling you they did not save their files when downloading you are not alone. Most end users zip through checkout and then the view file without saving it. Then when they want to view it again they try to go back and download it and it won’t download because they have used up the license key with the first viewing, which is considered a download.

Hopefully those support calls/emails will stop or at least slow to a trickle. We have added a new “Please Read” stop sign on the confirmation page and the download page that explains how to download properly.

Other New Stuff

We have just launched our new Affiliate Program – Read about it here.

Coming Soon

A new Upsell Promotional System…Cool stuff…Stay Tuned!

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Thanks for keeping up with our upgrades and new features. We’ll update you as we add more features to our service. If you have a feature that you would like to see, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred digital content delivery service.

Digital Content Center Affiliate Program

After months of exhausting work and testing we proudly announce the launch of our new Affiliate Program.

Highlights of our Program

Our Goal

The digital content delivery industry is just starting to emerge with projections of phenomenal growth over the next 3-5 years. Our goal is to grow our market share by creating long-term professional business relationships with aggressive marketers. We plan to do this by providing top-notch support, fast and accurate payouts and traffic driving affiliate promotions so that our Affiliates can really make money.

Helping our Affiliates Drive Sales

We help affiliates drive sales with our promotional banners to help sweeten the deal for affiliate site visitors. Our promotional banners offer a call to action promotion code that is entered upon checkout for special savings that really helps drive sales.

Payouts

We opted to allow our affiliates to request payouts rather than set a pre-determined date for payouts. As this may be more work for us, it benefits our affiliates because they control when they get paid.

Payouts are 50% payout on activations as well as 20% recurring payout on renewals.

Tracking

We are the only company that we know of that has three ways ensuring you receive credit for your sales. First, we track by session variable to record the sale if a visitor signs up during their first or subsequent direct clicks from your site. Second, visitors are tracked by a cookie that is set for 2 years which means if someone came from your website to our site, having purchased nothing but came back a few months later to make a purchase, you would still get your commission. Third, the cookie and the URL both have encryption built in to prevent substituting the affiliate ID encoded into the URL.

We have developed a state-of-the-art system. Once you’re an affiliate simply log into the Affiliate Management Control Panel and you will be able to see all of your clickthroughs, activations, conversions, commissions due, commissions paid and any charge backs. You’ll even be able to download the reports into excel by date range.

Affiliate Support

As with all of our services we offer, support is fast and easy. Contact us by telephone, email or our Support Ticket System.

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If you have some time, check us out. If you have any questions, let us know. If you like what you see, please Join Our Program.

Thank you for reading and stay tuned.

Feature Updates 08-27-09

Feature 1 – Album Pricing is Now Available

If you are selling music and using our album feature, you can now offer a discount to customers if they purchase the whole album.

If a customer chooses only to buy a few tracks off of an album, they will pay the normal per track price that you set up. If they buy the entire album and you want to offer them a discount for the purchase of the entire album, they can purchase an entire album and get that discount.

The feature can be found inside of the Manage Audio Albums area within the Client Administration Control Panel.

Feature 2 – Deleting a Sample without Deleting an Entire Product

We have added a check box that will allow you to delete the sample without deleting the actual product. This new function can be found on the Edit Content page under the Sell Digital Content heading in the Client Management Control Panel.

All you have to do is check the box labeled, “Remove” and click the Edit Content button at the bottom of the page.

Other New Stuff

To help communicate with prospective and new clients, we have jumped into the social networking arena, full force.

Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates we post to our blog. It’s quite convenient.

Our Facebook page was designed to post feature updates and to show how our Buy Buttons can be configured on a Facebook page. Feel free to call or email if you have questions on how to post our buy buttons to your page.

Our page on MySpace was created to show prospective and new clients how to use our Buy Buttons on a MySpace page. Feel free to call or email if you have questions on how to post our buy buttons to your page.

Coming Soon

Next month we will start testing our new eBay App. If you or someone you know is currently selling digital content on eBay, let us know, we are looking for individuals or businesses that can help us test our system. A free account is provided.

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Thanks for keeping up with our upgrades and new features. We’ll update you as we add more features to our service. If you have a feature that you would like to see, let us know, we are always interested in hearing from our clients and making our service the best it can be.

Thanks for choosing Digital Content Center as your preferred digital content delivery Service.

PDF eBooks-How to Discourage File Sharing and Theft

If you are worried about your digital products being stolen or shared, you are not alone. It’s a common concern from anyone selling digital content.

Although no single service can provide total protection, we have developed a suite of features that will certainly put the kibosh on would be file sharers and thieves.

If you offer the most popular format of eBook, the PDF eBook, your future just got more profitable.
We have launched our PDF Protection Suite. It’s a set of features that discourages file sharing and theft. Our suite includes:

PDF Stamping – We stamp the name, phone number, and email address of the customer to each page of your ebook.

Password Protection – Each time your customer opens the ebook, they must enter their email address.

Print Disabling – Your customer will not be able to print your PDF ebook.

Content Copy Disabling – Your customer will not be able to copy and paste any of the content in your PDF ebook.

All the other features of the pdf document, such as annotating are still available for use.

We feel this protection suite really offers the best of both worlds. It doesn’t lock the file to a certain computer/device, and it discourages file sharing and theft.

If you are selling eBooks on our service you can utilize this set of features on any service plan we offer.

Also see our article about Digital eBook Freedom – Click Here.

If you have questions about how Digital Content Center can help you, give us a call, we’re always willing to help, even if you don’t buy from us.

Thank You for reading, and stay tuned.

Digital eBook Freedom, The Pitfalls of Copy Protection

Whether you are selling or buying eBooks there is one topic that will be on your mind.

Copy Protection.

Authors want to protect their eBooks from theft and file sharing, usually by locking the file to a certain computer as well as a host of other “control” features. Anyone that has ever written or created anything wants to protect the creation from theft. It’s only natural to want to protect current and future earnings.

Buyers want the freedom to read their eBooks on multiple devices and not have to hassle with multiple readers that may or may not be compatible with the desired viewing device.

Pitfalls of copy protection for sellers:

The cost of intense copy protection can be rather expensive especially when using a service or dedicated product such as a reader. Expense is not only measured in the cost to secure the eBook but also to provide support to buyers that are having issues.

Creation and management of multiple version of an eBook can be a huge issue. If you are using multiple services or software to protect your eBook, management of a single resource is always easier than managing multiples, especially the time and technical factor.

Decreased sales can be a big factor when considering copy protection. The loss of sales due to file sharing or theft can be offset by the additional sales from using a more flexible format.

Pitfalls of copy protection for buyers:

Being tied to a single device is frustrating and turns off potential buyers because not everyone uses one computer (or device). There is nothing worse than buying something and being told how it can be used.

Most eBooks that are copy protected use an eBook Reader (additional software that is needed to read the eBook). This additional software places technical barriers to reading the eBook including compatibility issues with the device the reader is being installed on, as well as having to manage multiple readers on multiple devices.

Interactivity with a copy protected book is non-existent. The ability to annotate, increase/decrease font size, zoom in/out on images is just not available on most of the readers that are being used. Also as time progresses, the integration of video will represent a huge challenge for any reader, or dedicated device.

Summing it up

Copy protection is a great idea for the seller, but for the buyer it makes the experience less flexible and more cumbersome, which can be a real turn-off. And remember if it is a turn-off for one person, it usually is a turn-off for others, thus decreasing your sales.

We advise any new author to think before you jump into a publishing solution, including ours. If you want your eBook to be successful you have to have the right mix of copy protection and user flexibility.

We suggest using the PDF format with our PDF Protection Suite. It has the best of both worlds. It offers great copy protection and a fantastic usability for the buyer.

If you have questions about how Digital Content Center can help you, give us a call, we’re always willing to help, even if you don’t buy from us.

Thank You for reading, and stay tuned.