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Review: DLGuard
Probably the most frustrating problem for an Internet marketer is to have put in hundreds of hours of research and preparation for a product – only to find out that after launch a large percentage of their profits were lost in stolen downloads.
A savvy hacker can go through your backdoor and grab the link and, like a shoplifter on the candy aisle at Wal- Mart, it’s gone. You could just accept that all businesses have losses due to theft and yours is no different.
But there are measures even a brick and mortar business owner takes to discourage this leak in profits. They have “eyes” and take steps to make it less likely that someone could get away with stolen goods.
Now there are ways to take security precautions with your precious ,download links. DownLoad Guard is just such a measure. DLGuard effectively protects your links – making it virtually impossible for expensive thefts to happen.
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Download thefts happen in one of several ways:
The thief shares his download link with friends. This happens all the time. Someone will buy a product and then proceed to give out the download link to his buddies (and strangers) either on a forum or by email.
DL Guard effectively prevents this by limiting download time and the
amount of downloads possible. You can set the time to 48 hours or even 2 hours and then the link goes dead.
You can also allow a maximum number of downloads. This allows the original purchaser to have maybe three tries at downloading your product before the link goes dead rather than an unlimited number.
In the event the original purchaser just couldn’t figure out the process and needs another chance to download, you can reset the time and amount manually. You can see the advantage here.
A second way links are stolen is by hackers just surfing for insecure download pages. If you just stick an unprotected download link on a thank you page, then any persistent hacker can discover these unsecure pages and click the link and save the file.
This isn’t even a remote possibility with DLGuard. In the event that a hacker finds your thank you/download page, DLGuard checks for successful payment before sending the person on to the secure download page. There’s no way that a hacker can get around that one unless they have access to the payment information.
If that was all DLGuard did, that would still be worth the investment, but creator Sam Stevens built in some other great features like a full service shopping cart that can be linked to PayPal or 2Checkout. So you can sell a single item or a multiple items through the integrated secure shopping cart.
There’s a way to manage your membership site, too. And if that’s not enough, the software provides a way to grab those emails and names and incorporate them into your autoresponder automatically by virtue of the fact that the customer purchased your product. No more double optins, ,which is a great help for list builders.
DLGuard and Sam Stephens overdeliver. Sam will help you install DL Guard, too. The customer support is the best in the business.
If you’re concerned with download page security, DLGuard is by far the best value for the money and if by some odd chance you don’t like DL Guard, ClickBank will cheerfully refund you up to 56 days.
You really have nothing to lose – except more pirated documents if you choose not to get this tool!
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How to Create Unique Images
Whether you have a website, a blog, or just want to make your MySpace profile look great, there are tools available to enhance your text or photos. In this way, you can add a more personal touch by making them unique and special.
This can be particularly important if you’re trying to brand yourself or your product through the use of an image. Here are some tools that can help make your site memorable and keep your visitors coming back:
Have you ever wished you could create a caricature of yourself or perhaps one of your friends? Some marketers even have cartoon characters representing their persona online. Well, now you can do it easily with this free, easy-to-use software.
Even a computer novice will be able to create funny caricatures or apply some warping effects in no time at all. You can view some funny examples in the gallery on their site. The program utilizes a simple, easy-to-grasp interface for quick operation.
Cartoonist lets you watch the results of each operation in real time so that you can undo any operation at any time or jump back to the original image if you aren’t happy with the results. Try using it with one of the images on your blog or Squidoo lens. Keep people laughing and they’ll keep coming back to see what you have to say.
For those who want to add the features of a more complete image-editing program, why not use the complete photo toolkit? Some of the more interesting features are a color correction tool, a makeup plug-in which adds some portrait enhancing capabilities, a lighting effect which can also add 3D effects and a straighten plug-in to straighten tilted photos.
Photo/Graphic Edges is a suite of 32 photographic effects that enable anyone to give images a unique, artistic look. It includes a stand-alone imaging application as well as a plug-in that works with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro and Corel Draw.
Their site includes a comprehensive gallery demonstrating the powerful effects each of the different options offers. You can download demo versions in both Windows and Macintosh to try out this versatile program. If you want to own it indefinitely, the cost is $179.00.
This is a simple website that offers Photoshop tutorials on different web effects that can be applied to faces or people. Each effect is demonstrated
through screen shots and step-by-step instructions.
Some of the interesting examples are, “How to add cartoon eyes to fruits or
other objects” and, “How to make regular pictures look like old pictures.” There are also some stranger effects like, “Creating buck teeth in a photograph” and “Changing the mouth in one photograph with that of another.” You can have a lot of fun with these effects if you want to interject some humor into your site, blog or profile.
If you want to give your pictures a unique, just-taken look, you’ll like Polaroize. This free to use site converts any photo to a Polaroid-like image.
All you need to do is browse your hard drive for the picture you want to use and upload it to the site. You can even resize it to your own specifications. The site then generates a picture that looks like it just came out of a Polaroid camera. Now you can save it to your hard drive and use it wherever you like.
If you want to give your text an extraspecial touch, take a look at Font Twister. This program contains more than 50 professional styles, which can be changed and enlarged to your own specifications.
Other text effects can be created with the random text effect generator. You can try it free for 30 days and then pay $39.00 to upgrade to the full version.
Web Graphics Creator is a combination of six different programs and can be purchased for $39.95. This very flexible program can create items like web page titles, e-cover titles, graphics for blogs and podcasts, eBay ads, images for ezines and much more. It has over 2,000 built-in objects and over 150 templates you can use. This exciting program offers a lot of possibilities for adding a unique touch to your web venture.
Working on the Internet can seem so impersonal, but it doesn’t take much to add a personality to your marketing campaigns. Try out some of these interesting tools to show some of your own individuality.