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Amazon is recognized as one of the most secure and reliable Ecommerce companies online and you can easily acquire their tools to set up your own branded storefront.

Setting up a WebStore through Amazon gives you access to all the technology that backs Amazon.com. It takes only a few minutes to set up your account, choose a design, and start selling. Along with the Amazon reputation, you also gain their secure checkout system and expert marketing features. There is no expensive software to buy. You won’t need the services of an expensive IT department or Web Designer. Everything necessary to operate your business can be accessed through your web browser or, if you prefer, you can download a desktop application for adding inventory information.

The Amazon WebStore Design user-friendly software makes handling inventory a simple process and the promotional tools allow professional marketing campaigns without hiring an agency. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is built in and simple to use. You can easily optimize landing pages to increase conversions and audit reports are available to ensure you always know where to focus your efforts to get more traffic.

Providing online sales security is of primary importance in today’s culture and your access to Amazon’s A2Z Guarantee will provide your customers with confidence in the safety of their personal information, while also giving you excellent fraud protection. If customers already have an Amazon account, they can use it to buy products from your store. If they do not have an existing Amazon account, they can easily create one while processing their order without ever leaving your site.

As your business grows, you can upgrade your account to take full advantage of Amazon’s generous partnership features. Amazon WebStore Design templates allow you to control the look and feel of your business. Seller Central simplifies the processes of adding product information, making updates, tracking orders and keeping your store running smoothly.

Once you have an Amazon Webstore ECommerce account, you can add additional storefronts without any increase in your monthly fee. If you use Amazon’s Associate’s program to sell their products through your stores, you can even get a referral fee to offset your expenses.

Amazon offers three pricing packages that are very affordable. Allowing them to handle product storage, shipping, and customer service will net you a lower monthly fee. If you want to use your existing domain, warehousing solution and shipping arrangements, your Amazon monthly fee will be higher. Either way, set up is free, there is no long-term contract required, and you will have the advantage of Amazon’s expertise.

DLGuard digital sales software has been helping web entrepreneurs sell on-line for several years. This DLGuard review focuses on using it to establish an ebook business where it is critical that the sales and distribution of ebook files are kept secure from misuse.

I had heard, over the past years, of independent webmasters using DLGuard to provide shopping cart & checkout pages on their websites. But it was only recently that I discovered its specialty is managing selling digital products. After writing some ebooks and looking to start my fledgling ebook business I installed DLGuard on my own web server.

The products scripts provide default checkout web pages which I direct hyper-links to from existing web pages. After initializing the inventory of PDF files (the ebooks) and configuring payment details (for dealing with Paypal/Clickbank/etc) the software is ready to handle sales.

After a customer’s payment is verified the product emails them a unique download link for the ebook. This all happens without my intervention. The best part is that the link is secured from misuse (being shared) by being time limited and also capped at a maximum usage limit. These configuration settings will halt your ebooks from being mass-downloaded once a link is publicly shared.

In terms of starting an ebook business, publishing PDFs is completely automated by the tool leaving you time to market your website. This is the main setback to this approach as your sales volumes are dictated by your website traffic volumes – using an online sales service that have huge international volumes may well result in more sales.

As entry level sales applications go, DLGuard is a fully functional product that automates a huge amount of work. If you have the technical coding skills to customize its default checkout web pages then it is possible to rapidly have your business operational. The key factor though, is that it secures your ebook download links from being shared which will safeguard you from a lot of missed sales.