One of the things that is most important to me in deciding to sell ebooks is to do well with my affiliate program. I would like to sell more than one, and I’d like to make it easy for my affiliates to know about my products.

Now, being with Clickbank, it may seem as though I’m limited in that way, and you could say that I am. After all, anyone can sell a product through Clickbank as an affiliate if they know how to make the links. But I’m hoping affiliates will want to keep in contact so that if future products of mine are of interest to them, they can sell them as well.

Enter EasyClickMate.

Going through this software will have advantages both for me and any affiliates selling my products through the links it generates. It makes it less clear what the affiliate links are, as they don’t look like standard Clickbank links, even if they aren’t cloaked.

It also allows you to run multiple products on Clickbank through a single account, rather than having to register multiple ones. There’s a decision to make here… just have one account with multiple products, knowing that only one of your pages will be listed in the Marketplace, or register for multiple accounts, paying the fee each time. The first account is $49, but you can request secondary accounts for $29.95, by noting the request when you go for product approval.

EasyClickMate also allows you to subscribe your affiliates who sign up through the software to a newsletter hosted through a service such as AWeber or GetResponse. Communication with affiliates has always been one of the weak points of Clickbank. This allows you to limit that problem.

EasyClickMate is also compatible with DLGuard. Since I now have plans for a few other ebooks, I do think this will be worth the investment. The two products  should work together nicely to help me grow my ebook business well.

Probably the hardest part right now, in all honesty, is spending the money. With my husband laid off, it’s quite a chunk to be spending on my business. I do see it as an investment, however, and worth the expense. A bit painful, and if things don’t sell well a definite impact on the funds we have available right now, but I think I can deal with that.

I’ve been doing a lot of research in the little bit of spare time I’ve had these past few days. I’m behind the schedule I had set for myself of launching by Monday, but I have what I consider a good reason.

Two kids. Both sick with fevers in the 102-103.5 degrees F range. Sometimes you have to take a step back and just be a mom.

It’s frustrating to have to slow down, though, especially since I’m trying to get this launched quickly for a very good reason. My husband was laid off from his job a few weeks ago. So this launch really matters to our family. It’d be nice to make up for that lost income.

I want to have my downloads protected, even though I know once the product is downloaded it’s easy for people to share the files. I just like to use what protections I can that won’t make the experience unpleasant for my customers.

Right now I’m pretty sure that I will be choosing DLGuard. It’s between that and Easy Download Protector. Both look to be excellent products, but when I check them out, I see a lot more comments about DLGuard by people not associated with it. But I’ve seen from a few trusted sources that I could pretty much be happy with either one. That’s good to know.

The one tossup for me right now is deciding to actually make the purchase. While I’ve been planning this ebook for some time, I didn’t anticipate having to launch it on a tight budget. Spending over $100 for either of these solutions is just a little painful right now. But I also see them as an investment, something to protect my sales.

It’s an interesting thought process to be going through… protect my sales right from the start, while increasing my cost to launch, or take a chance on losing a few downloads to scammers and buy the software once I’m earning some money.