Offering digital products as a part of your business is a great option whether or not your business is completely online. You can set up your product online in the same way as you would a physical product and offer an instant download option for customers to receive what they’ve purchased.

Digital products can include:

• books
• audio
• video
• photography
• artwork
• tutorials
• recipes
• etc.

Securing Your Digital Downloads is critical to your business. We hope that nothing malicious happens to our work, but it does happen.

There are ways to protect yourself, and your customer, when you sell digital products.

The biggest thing to avoid is storing your download or content on a page within your site with a “hidden” url. This method is an easy target for hackers who want to find and steal content. Use a protected method that is secure and encrypted to deliver content to your customers. Here are 5 Ways to Securely Deliver Digital Products:

1 // Shopify Digital Downloads offers a way to sell your digital products when you use Shopify. With this app your customers get a direct download after checkout and an emailed link and product updates are automatically forwarded to customers. Check out Shopify Digital Downloads

2 // SendOwl offers a way for you to sell your digital products online. You have the ability to connect SendOwl to Shopify or use it independently. SendOwl offers PDF protection and the ability to offer coupons and invite affiliates. Check out SendOwl

3 // ShootProof offers a way to display and sell your photography online. Your customers can view, share, purchase and download images based on your settings. Check out ShootProof

4 // Digital Product Delivery offers a digital publishing platform for selling and securely delivering your digital content. Check out Digital Product Delivery

5 // FetchApp offers you the ability to sell and deliver your digital downloadable content. FetchApp integrates with Shopify, WordPress, PayPal, etc. Check out FetchApp

These options will help you sell your digital products with confidence. Take some time to explore these options and which will work best for your business.

Tell me in the comments below if you’ve been selling digital products and how you’ve been delivering them.