Another innovative way of using the membership principle. This model employs download pages that are restricted to suitably qualified members/customers.

If you are delivering downloadable products to your customers, then up to now you’ve had the choice of using:

• third party services (such as e-junkie)
• third party download management software
• your own unprotected download links

Each of the above may be appropriate under certain circumstances, but third party services will cost you an ongoing monthly fee, while the software option can be tricky to set up and time consuming to maintain. Your own unprotected download links are very simple to set up, but they can cost you a lot of lost income because of digital theft.

If you have the right membership software – like WishList Member – you can add protected pages to your site and embed the download links in those. It is also possible to place time limits on the download links to prevent page address sharing.