successORnot.com

I started the main products page 5 days ago. It’s finally done, even though I haven’t installed the JV manager yet. Took about 2 hours to complete (on top of the time I already put into it) because I set up 2 payment buttons, made the dual order pages, uploaded all the zipfiles, created the necessary scripts, plus made dual thank you pages.

This site is coming along, although not quite as fast as I’d like. I am creating this website all by myself, and not using any outside help (or my staff), to be able to show you (roughly) how long it takes to create a site like this one (you just have to add up the times I listed from each post!). Your time spent may be more or less, depending on how well you can use the tools and resources you have available at your disposal! Plus, it all depends on what type of site you are producing. This website has a bunch of things that you probably won’t need (like dual order & thank you pages) and some other items that might not be useful to what you are producing.

So since I now have the main products page finished that is being offered on this site, the one that will hopefully net $1000 in sales for me to reach my goal, please take a minute to check it out! (& maybe order it???) main product

When you set something up like the dual order pages that I have, it’s necessary (most of the time) to have dual thank you pages. I suppose you could get away with just one (maybe), but I prefer to set things up individually.  That way there is no confusion for the customer as to exactly what they are getting.

Depending on how many products you are selling, or, actually, how many different zip files you have for those products, will depend on how long it takes you set up your thank you page / download page.

For my small product offering thank you page (which is the download page), it took about 20 minutes, including the time to set up the scripts for the downloads.  Thats for both pages too, as I used the first page as a template for the second!

Even if you are using an IPN system to protect your digital products, you should also employ other safeguards as well.  Protecting your download & thank you page folders is as easy as password protecting them through your cpanel at your webhost.

If thats too difficult, or to inconvenient because of having to access it for the items inside (like when others order your products & have to download them & you can’t figure out how to write the proper codes inside of a script for them to be able to access it), or any one of a number of other reasons that make it unrealistic to actually password protect them, at a minimum, here’s an easy solution:  just place a blank index.html file inside those folders.  You don’t even need any words at all within it.  What this will do, is if someone types in via their browser bar the url to the folders where you don’t really want people snooping in, it simply displays a blank page.  They can’t see anything that is inside these folders.  Perhaps they will think its an error of some kind & just leave.

You’ve got time and money spent into making your website and all the contents within, so be sure to take the time to protect everything as well.  It’s not real hard protecting your download & thank you page folders, but it is a necessary step to insure your work is not for nothing.