Features Comparison

You're going to need to find a secure hosting service to serve your product form. There's bad hosting, there's good hosting and there's great hosting. All depends on your budget and priorities.

To secure your data and transactions you'll need to obtain an SSL certificate for your website with one of the trusted sellers.

Online sellers have to pay a fee for the services that pass transaction data around the internet to either authorzie or deny a deal. There's a bunch of these services available for you to choose from, according to your specific needs.

In order to control the number of sites your product is valid for, as well as what happens after a purchased license expires - you're going to need to handle software licensing. This capability usually comes with a price tag on it.

Your customers are the ones writing the check (or making the $ transaction, in your case), and one way they measure the quality of the product you are selling is the support you provide for it. You'll need a way for your customers to communicate with you, and for you to manage that communication in an efficient manner.

Who are the people who chose to use and maybe purchase your product, out of all products in the world? If you don’t know that how will you be able to get more of them onboard?

After you collect all of that data about the people who use your product you want to organize it in a smart manner so it is actually usable, rather than just piles upon piles of raw data reports. Segmenting your users according to their profiles is vital if you ever want to use it.

So after you know your users and have their related data segmented elegantly - you need to know how are they using your product, especially if we’re talking about a digital product. There are many tools to help you learn that so make it a habit to regularly consult at least one.

Having data is awesome, but what do you do with it? Enter marketing. When you have all of your user-base data figured out and segmented by profiles and by the actions they take - it’s time to put that into use and start marketing to them in order to increase your sales. But wait, there’s one thing that’s even better than marketing, and that’s automated marketing. Simply stated it’s marketing so smart it is done automatically, without you having to lift a finger. Now that’s scaling!

With all of these processes in place you’ll naturally want to perform improvements and tests in order to optimize them, to make sure they are performing at their best for you and for your product sales.

Let us not forget that Time = Money. The time you spend researching, choosing & setting up all of the different services is valuable and expensive. There are a gazillion other good things you could be doing instead, so you should probably be trying to use that resource wisely.