• Weebly – offer a free website building service
• WordPress – have a similar platform which is free
• Shopify – offers multiple website options for selling online

But if you’re selling your own products, you’ll want a specialised eCommerce platform to handle all the necessary file transfers and product delivery mechanisms.  You’ll also need to collect payments from customers in a secure way. If that’s you, there’s definitely a large choice of platforms which can help you.

If you’re an affiliate marketer you’ll be looking for a platform to help promote your website or landing page (to build your email list). If that’s you skip to the bottom of this article.

Best Platform To Sell Digital Products – Payhip

Payhip makes it easy to sell digital products like ebooks, software, music and other downloads. You can create an online store very quickly. Then upload your digital files and connect with PayPal or Stripe to accept payments.

Customers can easily purchase products from your store and you will receive payments instantly. Payhip also has an affiliate program, offer coupons, pay-what-you-want pricing, email updates, and other useful features.

Payhip is free forever and all features are included. There are no setup fees or other hidden costs. They offer a simple pricing structure with 3 plans available: Free, Plus ($29/month), and Pro ($99/month). The free plan has a 5% transaction fee, while the Plus plan has a 2% transaction fee and the Pro plan has no transaction fee. So obviously if your selling in bulk, it makes sense to use the Plus or Pro plans, as it will save you overall.

Best Platform To Sell Digital Products – Podia

Podia is another popular platform for selling courses and digital products, and hosting communities. It’s free to start and has all the tools you’ll need. It’s user friendly interface makes it easy to create a website and manage digital products and payments.

It also has beautiful, professional design templates and tools to make a website that perfectly matches your brand. You can even book one-on-one sessions, run webinars, and sell workshops all through your Podia site.

Connect with Stripe or PayPal payment gateways to easily process payments. Whether you’re selling educational courses, music, videos, or software, Podia can help. What’s best is that it’s free to start!

Podia’s pricing plans:

• Free,
• Mover,
• Shaker, and
• Earthquaker.

The Free plan has an 8% transaction fee. The Mover, Shaker, and Earthquaker plans cost $39, $89, and $199 monthly, respectively. They and include a full website, unlimited downloads, and coaching, and various levels of access to courses and webinars, with no transaction fees. Pay yearly to save 17%.

So again if you’re going to be selling a lot of digital products on the site, it makes more sense to choose one of the paid plans.

Selling Digital Products For Affiliates

If you’re an affiliate, you don’t really need such a platform because the vendor (product owner) deals with the cashflow, product delivery and customer service side of things. Affiliates can simply use their links on a website to sell their products. When a product is sold (through your affiliate link), you get paid, simples!

Affiliates will usually have a single strategy they might use which might be one or more of the following:

• A website they own, or a free blogging platform (Blogger.com, Hubpages.com etc.)
• A video creation platform (YouTube, TikTok).
• An advertising platform (Google Adwords, YouTube, Facebook etc.)
• Email list – an email list of subscribers who they sell their products to (through their affiliate links)

Since selling digital products for affiliates only requires a link, you don’t need to invest in digital products platforms like the ones mentioned above. However, you do need a platform to attract traffic. For affiliates the “platform” they need is the driving “engine” of their business. It is a marketing platform. Marketing platforms help affiliates drive traffic. Even if you have your own digital store (and products), no-one will find it without marketing. 

A marketing platform is used for the purposes of bringing qualified visitors to a website or landing page, in large numbers. So what’s the best platform to sell digital products? 

Best Platform To Sell Digital Products (For Affiliates)

For affiliates selling digital products, and for those with their own digital products, my opinion is that selling with video is far more effective than through other advertising. A single text advert carries only a small amount of information. Whereas a video carries a lot more. Videos help you more easily connect to your audience and convey your marketing message. Since a huge portion of communication is non verbal and carried by body language, video makes sense for marketing purposes in building trust and connecting with potential customers.

Since digital products are often less tangible than their physical counterparts, it makes sense that you’ll need more communication with a customer to make the sale. Studies show that most people don’t buy from a website on their first visit. It takes 6-8 touch points before more people buy from a website. That’s why email marketing is another tool to sell digital products which deserves a mention. With email marketing, you collect subscribers information and follow up with them via email messages.

The best platform to run video advertising is either YouTube or Facebook. Both platforms allow a very targeted advertisement and to use video. Send traffic from these platforms to your landing page to capture email addresses and follow up with email marketing.

A great platform to help you build your email list is Convertri.com. Convertri offers the fastest landing pages and user friendly platform to help you cross test landing pages and funnel builders.

If you’re looking for products to sell, checkout this article on the most profitable digital products you can sell as an affiliate.

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