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Making Great eBook Covers on a Budget

One of the biggest things you can do to improve sales and give a professional appearance to your information products is have a great cover / product photo for your downloadable product. In the case of ebooks or PDFs, this means you need a cover you can use on your website, on your product in DPD to be shown in the cart and customer portal, and when marketing your product. In this post we'll go over some options for creating covers and show you a simple workflow to create your own. You have several options for creating ebook covers: 1. Pay a design professional to create one for you. If you're not a professional graphic designer then this will by far generate the best result. However, many ebook authors are bootstrapping with little to no budget, and designers can cost anywhere from $50-500 for professional cover design, putting it outside...

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Tutorial: Setting up a Single Product Sales Site with a PayPal Standalone Product

Some vendors prefer have a single product website with a simple "Buy Now!" instant checkout button. DPD allows for the creation of Standalone Products to suit this need. Standalone products are commonly found on "Pinch Pages" and for products that use affiliate systems such as ClickBank. DPD Standalone Products: Function exactly like PayPal "Buy Now!" buttons for the customer- instant checkout without a cart Automatically deliver the customers product after purchase Allow for integration with PayPal and 2CheckOut processors Allow for integration with ClickBank and PayDotCom affiliate systems Do not have coupon codes or multi-item checkout For multi-item websites we strongly recommend you create Storefront Products for use with the DPD Storefront multi-item cart checkout system. Important Note: DPD Standalone Product buttons completely replace all other checkout buttons on the page. You must not have standard PayPal or ClickBank generated buy buttons on the page. If a customer begins checkout...

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