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Easy Online 3D Box Creator

Chance — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:22:44 +0000

I stumbled upon a handy 3D-Box Maker this morning that I’m sure lots of people could use-

You basically upload three images- side, top, front, and the box maker will perform the transform effects and mesh them into one 3D box image for you. Pretty handy, especially if you are not familiar with the Photoshop 3D rendering tools or don’t want to spend $50 for specialized software to make one or two boxes.

Of course, once you create your first product box cover you can always set it up for automatic delivery and sell it for free with Secure Delivery :)

(That’s right, a shameless plug!)

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Interesting Digital Product Statistics from Secure Delivery

Chance — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:53:59 +0000

In the comments on this post Will of Internet Marketing Fool proposed that we share some stats from Secure Delivery as a promotional tool. I’ll have to ask the lawyers about giving sales figures and the like before I am comfortable doing that, but I would like to share some aggregate statistics from Secure Delivery along with some interesting observations I have made.

Secure Delivery Stats

I put this section first for two reasons- First, I am proud of Secure Delivery and want to toot my own horn :) Second, this gives you an idea of my sample base for the rest of the conclusions in this post.

Users: 250+ (paid and free accounts)
Products: 500+ products
Transactions: 3200+ Transactions
Payment Stats: 90% Paypal, 8% ClickBank, 1% PayDotCom.
Average Product Size: 15.4MB
Smallest Product Size: 43k
Largest Product Size: 1.2GB

Notes: These stats are from cursory examinations of the database tables for the Secure Delivery app. As such, a small number of the user accounts are development test accounts (maybe 10?). Likewise with the products- probably 25 are test products using various processors. If I had to guess, probably 300 of the transactions are for testing too. 1% or so of the transactions don’t use a publicly available payment processor like PayPal or ClickBank- they are for internal testing using processors like 2CheckOut and eBay that we are working on.

The Interesting Observations:

eBooks generate more sales in the first week than other download types.

Programs / scripts / utilities generate the most sales over the life of a product.

Collections of information (recipe books, information databases, etc) and how-to ebooks produce better long term sales than marketing ebooks.

Marketing ebooks generally produce 90% of their sales in the first week and then fall off the face of the earth.

There are a lot more Marketing ebooks than there are other types (probably 3:1).

Images, graphic packs, etc. sell surprisingly well with consistent sales numbers.

Conversational type sites (blogs, forums, etc) produce better and more consistent sales over time than pure sales pages.

Here is an example of what I call a conversational pitch. Here is an example of what I call a pure sales page. Note that in the interest of fairness neither of products sold on these pages are processed by Secure Delivery.

Warrior Special Offers (WSO) produce pretty good sales for about 3 days, then die.

The Disclaimer:

I am no analytics expert, so your results may vary. These observations are provided purely for the insight and entertainment of my blog readers because I thought they would be interesting from an academic perspective. These observations were made from looking at server logs and database tables. This was an attempt to share what I find to be accurate based on my personal observations. There is no chance in hell of me sharing any specific numbers, user information, or database tables from Secure Delivery with anyone, so forget that :)

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HP Blog Printing is Cool

Chance — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:28:02 +0000

I’ve mentioned in the past how I like to print out blog posts I like and read them ~~on the john~~ away from my computer desk, so I thought I would do my part and make my blog more “printable” without wasted paper and misaligned layouts.

I installed the HP Blog Printing plug in, and you can find the print button at the bottom of the column to the right. It’s a cool little deal that lets you create a easy to print PDF of current and previous posts for printing. There are pre-made plugins available for MovableType, Blogger, and Wordpress as well as a developer tool kit to make your own custom solution.

It works great, so check it out and maybe think about installing it on your blog too- some people don’t like to stare at a screen more than they have to, and giving your users an easy-to-use, high quality print option is easy as 1,2,3.

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