People are right to say that releasing products online is the best way to make a satisfying income online. But there are precautions you should take to avoid letting money slip right through your fingers. Anyone can do a simple “site:yoursite.com” search on Google to find some vital site information, including some you don’t want to become public, such as the download pages for your products. John Racine got burned that way on one of his early products. It was placed on a black hat forum by a crook, where it was available for free. This is a serious business problem. It is just... [...]

Theft of the intellectual property in downloadable products is a major problem for product creators. When products show up on Black hat forums, that guarantees sales will be lost. John Racine is releasing The Membership Manifesto today to deal with this problem. In it, he reveals little known strategies that make sure your paid content stays secure. He includes several tactics that cost less than $15 to implement. Maybe you have tried things like uploading your PDFs, videos and mp3’s to your website or even YouTube. But these techniques are far from secure. Often, a simple URL search on... [...]