Got a guided meditation download that you want to sell online? Here's how.

How to sell a guided meditation download

Do you have a guided meditation download that you want to sell on your website? If so, then you are going to REALLY like this article because I’m about to save you a whole heap of time and money.
Selling digital downloads is a LOT easier to do than you might think, and quite cheap too...if you know what you are doing.

I’ve spoken to plenty of people who are keen to sell a guided meditation download from their website, and unfortunately many of them say things like:

“I just don’t know how”, or
“It’s too complicated” or
“I have to get in touch with my web designer and talk to him about it...”

There’s really no need for all this fuss and bother! The fact is, these days it costs almost nothing to start selling digital downloads, and it’s very quick and easy to set up.

How quick and easy? All right then, let’s get right into the “how to” of it all.

How to sell downloads on your website

Let’s start with a brief overview of how to sell your guided meditation download from your own website.

1. Create a guided meditation and turn it into an mp3 file.

2. Open a Paypal account if you don’t already have one. For many of you, this is a no-brainer. Paypal is probably the most popular way to transfer funds over the internet, and is essential if you want to sell anything online these days.

3. Sign up to a digital download service like DPD (more on this in a minute).

4. Copy and paste a little bit of code to your website to create an “Add to Cart” button that your customers can click on.

You do not need to pay a web developer to build a digital download facility for you, and you do not need to buy or install any software.

How do digital download services work?

Digital download services make things so easy. I’ll describe how it works with DPD because I use DPD myself on this website.

You start by uploading your guided meditation mp3 to DPD, and they store it on a secure server. When a customer clicks on the “Add to Cart” button on your website, DPD handles the transaction and ensures that you receive payment in your Paypal account. Once the payment is received, DPD sends the customer an email that contains a link to their download.

Basically, DPD makes sure you get paid, before delivering your guided meditation to your customer for you. It’s all automatic.

The great thing about this system is that the download link expires after a few days. This means that your mp3 file is nice and secure. Even if one of your customers was a bit naughty and tried to share their guided meditation download link with lots of other people on the internet, the download is soon disabled and cannot be accessed again without your permission. DPD even lets you define how long the download remains active, and you can even set a limit on the number of download attempts that each customer is allowed.

Who offers the best digital download service?

I’ve spent countless hours reviewing and exploring (and using) various digital download services. Here are three of the best:

DPD (Digital Product Delivery) is famous for being extremely user friendly and for being one of the cheapest digital download services around. They offer one month free to new users.

Ease of use 9/10 Pricing 9/10 Reliability 10/10 Customer service 10/10

Payloadz also offer a reliable download service and very cheap start up prices. At the time of writing you can start selling for free. Unfortunately, as soon as you sell more than $50 of downloads your monthly fee starts to increase incrementally. The more you sell, the more you pay. Their system is fair but in the long run you may end up paying less with DPD.

Ease of use 7/10 Pricing 8/10 Reliability 9/10 Customer service 6/10

E-Junkie is a popular digital download service, but may be a tad complicated for some first time users. E-Junkie also only allows quite limited storage space so if you have more than one guided meditation download to sell, then chances are you’ll need to upgrade your account (and monthly fee) soon after you sign up. In their favour, E-Junkie do offer the first month free. They also have a very funky looking pop up shopping cart that many people find appealing.

Ease of use 6/10 Pricing 7/10 Reliability 10/10 Customer service 8/10

The verdict?
In my opinion DPD is the best service for people who want to sell guided meditation/hypnosis downloads from their own website. Their service is extremely user friendly and very cost effective, being the only service that offers a fixed monthly pricing structure. Chances are, unless you have a lot of products to sell, you’ll never pay more than $5 per month.

If you are looking for a low cost, no hassles way to get started selling your guided meditation download, then I highly recommend DPD. I use them myself on this very website.

Why you should sell digital downloads

There are three major reasons why selling your guided meditation as a download is preferable to selling it as a CD.

1. Every year the number of people who choose to buy digital downloads increases, and the number of people who buy CD’s declines. In just the last year alone, music download sales have increased by 29 percent, and now account for 33 percent of all music tracks purchased in the U.S. In fact, it is expected that digital downloads will outsell CD sales by 2011-2012. Yes, things really have changed that much already!

2. Digital downloads are much better for the environment. Think about all the transport vehicles that are required to deliver a CD, not to mention the plastics that go into the production of CD’s. Digital downloads are a much cleaner, greener way to deliver your guided meditation to your customer.

3. Digital downloads are much cheaper to create. You don’t have to spend nearly as much on graphic design costs, and CD duplication costs are eliminated altogether.

Of course, there will still be a market for CD sales for some time to come, but they are definitely on the decline. It’s no wonder really, given that it is so easy to buy and sell digital downloads these days.

A final tip for selling your download online

Whenever possible make sure you add a short audio sample of your guided meditation to your website so that your visitors can preview it before they buy. People are far more likely to buy your guided meditation download if they can actually hear what it sounds like first!

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