Feature Update 02-28-09

Feature Update 1

For clients that want to, or are being required to charge sales tax on their digital products we have added the functionality for you to set who is to be charged sales tax (in state orders or out of state orders) as well as the tax rate to be paid (in percentage format).

This new feature, if you choose to use it, will extend to Marketplace Sales, Custom Shop Sales. Reports are also affected by this upgrade and will now show a separate column for the sales tax charged (so that you don’t have to back the tax out of the sale for reporting purposes).

This upgrade can be found inside of the Payment Processing area of the Client Management Control Panel.

Feature Update 2

We have added 6 new “Buy Now” buttons to choose from. The new buttons can be found inside the Custom Shop Area of the Client Management Control Panel. We have also created instructions so that you can make your own “Buy Now” buttons

In Closing

For now that is it. We’ll update you as we add more features to our service. If you have a request for 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.

Selling Digital Music

How does selling digital music through Digital Content Center differ from other service providers like iTunes or Amazon?

First know that we totally respect the foundation that the large providers have created, but we believe our model is better. Here’s why…

The Artist Controls the Money

We believe that the artist should receive all of the profits from their labor. Face it, if you do the work you don’t want give 40%-60% of the money to someone else for just delivering your music.

Our model charges a reasonable monthly fee for using our service as the delivery vehicle. We don’t take any royalties.

Note – If you are using a management company and they are performing services for you, then by all means pay them for the services that you are receiving.

Customer Service

Have you ever tried contacting a large service provider and talk to a human? Yea right!

We sometimes get busy and our phones may go to voice mail but during normal business hours the chances of reaching a human on the first ring is about 95%, and we can usually resolve whatever you are calling about right on the spot.

Linking from Your Website

There really is no difference in how you get site visitors to us to sell and deliver your music. Basically they give you a buy button link to put on your site, we also give you a buy button to put on your site. They have a searchable service that sells the music right from their site, we also have a searchable service that sells music from our site. They allow you to provide a sample, we allow you to provide a sample.

Other than the obvious, they have more traffic than we do, there is not much difference here.

Face it, unless you are a super artist and are on their main page you won’t be found on their service. Your sales rely on traffic from your website, MySpace page, Facebook page, Blog or whatever you are using to promote you.

Flexible Features

Most of the large providers have one service, sell and deliver music, and that’s great but the one size fits all concept is just not reality.

Our service not only allows you to sell and deliver your music but you can delivery content privately and you can accept content from other people. So instead of the one way street offered by the “other guys” now you can communicate in both directions.

Another notable…If you have a feature that you think will benefit you and the other subscribers to our service, tell us. We are truly interested in how we can help you be successful. We can’t promise that we’ll program it as soon as we get done talking with you, but we will talk about your idea at our weekly meetings, and if it is a good fit, then we’ll write the code.

The Bottom Line

Or course we are not as large and far reaching as the mega providers, but we offer reasonable pricing for a truly feature rich service, we don’t keep money that doesn’t belong to us, we are great at customer service, and we link just like the other guys do.

Give us a try and you’ll see the difference.

If you have a question about our service, or digital content delivery, go to http://www.digitalcontentcenter.com/contact-support.php and submit a question. It may be used on this blog.

Thank You for reading, and stay tuned.

Digital Content Strategy

What is the best strategy for selling digital content in this economy?

Here are the top three ideas that we suggest to clients:

Strategy 1 – Offer free standard content and upsell the premium content. This can be accomplished by allowing website visitors to download standard files that you are willing to give away for free. If the visitor likes what they see, they may take the leap to buy the premium content. Offering something for free also shows that you are willing to allow them to try it before they buy it.

Strategy 2 – Don’t make your site visitors wait for purchased content. If they have the itch to buy, scratch it for them with immediate gratification and allow them to download it immediately after purchase.

Strategy 3 – Think about offering personalized content to site visitors. Of course your content has to be something that can be personalized, but it is a nice option to offer in addition to the content you are selling to the masses.

Digital Content Center has the ability to help you with all three of these suggestions and most importantly we don’t charge you extra for it.

If you have a question about our service, or digital content delivery, go to http://www.digitalcontentcenter.com/contact-support.php and submit a question. It may be used on this blog.

Thank You for reading, and stay tuned.