It’s Free
What’s better than free? You can use VirtaPay to test out new ideas, or as a
launch pad for your new digital product. It’s a great place to learn how to profit
with digital products because it’s free. You could use the ideas in this Guide to
create a digital product that earns you $1,000 per week, but still, it’s free.
It’s Easy to Get Started
1. Create a VirtaPay account.
2. Log in to your account.
3. Click the Sell tab in the menu and begin selling.
It Works
VirtaPay users are looking for high-quality, original digital goods. If you can give
them what they want, your products will be launched to the top of our rankings
and this could help you to leverage your good standing to build a steady stream
of income to your bank account.
It’s High Traffic
Your products could be seen by over 100,000 users—and those are just the users
participating in the early growth and development of our service. With the
launch of our affiliate program, we expect to have possibly millions of VirtaPay
users by the end of 2012—and, in anticipation of this, we have built our service
to handle this level of growth.
What’s Allowed and What’s Not
Sellers on VirtaPay are expected to follow certain rules. These rules are
presented in more detail within our Prohibited Items List.
Here’s a brief summary of what you can sell on VirtaPay, and what you cannot
sell. After that, we’ll give you some examples to help make it more clear.
Allowed Items
✔ At this time, all items sold on VirtaPay must be digital items.
✔ All items must be original or otherwise properly licensed, non-infringing
content.
✔ Purchased items must be instantly digitally-delivered to Buyers via a
“Delivery” page created and hosted by the Seller.
Prohibited Items
✗ Any physically-delivered (non-digital) product or service.
✗ Anything illegal or potentially illegal.
✗ Anything that is not your original creation or which you do not hold the
legal rights to sell or distribute.
NOTICE
The list above is not a complete list. Before selling on VirtaPay please read our
full Prohibited Items List, which is contained within our Terms of Service.
Upon joining VirtaPay, you agreed to abide by the Terms of Service. If you sell
prohibited items, your account may be terminated without further warning.
Examples
Here are a few examples of digital items that you can or cannot sell on
VirtaPay, along with explanations as to why that is the case.
MP3: GOOD
Let’s say you made an MP3 recording of yourself, presenting music that
was your own original creation.
This is allowed. Why? Because by default, you hold the legal rights to
your own digital creations.
MP3: BAD
An MP3 audio recording of a song by a popular band.
This is not allowed. Why? Because the music doesn’t belong to you. You
do not have the legal rights to sell or distribute this music.
eBOOK: GOOD
An eBook created by you about a subject you have studied and
understand.
This is allowed. Why? Because you hold the legal rights to the material
you create, as long as you don’t infringe on the rights of others within your
content.
eBOOK: BAD (probably)
An eBook you bought on the Internet.
This is probably not allowed. Why? Unless you specifically received
resell rights or private label rights from the eBook owner, you cannot
legally sell or distribute the eBook.
Buyers have the ability to flag items as inappropriate. If enough buyers do this,
the item will be automatically disabled. Sellers who repeatedly post
inappropriate items will have their ability to sell revoked and may even have
their VirtaPay account terminated.
Winning the Ratings Game
If you want your product climb to the top of the listings—if you want the very
best chance of earning money with your products—you must offer something
that is original and useful to your buyers.
Buyers are encouraged to rate items after they purchase. The rating is done using
a 5-star scale. The highest rated items climb to the top of the listings, and get
noticed by more and more users. If you sell items which don’t provide value to
the buyer, they will be rated low and possibly locked (if inappropriate).
It’s actually not as difficult as it may sound to get your items to climb to the top of
the ratings. Here are a couple of tips:
✔ Log into VirtaPay and click the Buy menu link. Look at the items in the
Established Items section. Buy a few of the top items. As you do, study the
sales page and delivery page for each item. Think about why each item has
climbed to the top. What value do they provide the buyers?
✔ Don’t make the same mistake made by many other sellers: Using an
affiliate link as your delivery page.
Why doesn’t this work?
Because VirtaPay users make a payment from their VirtaPay balance
to get to that delivery page! If they get there only to find out it’s
another sales page, they won’t be happy. They will rate your item
poorly, or even flag it (as they should). Look at it from your buyer’s
point of view, they expect to receive value on the delivery page!
Listing an affiliate link as your delivery page is an abuse of the
VirtaPay service. It does not deliver any value. It is a good way to get
your account terminated.
If you are interested in promoting affiliate links using VirtaPay, it can be done...
but, there is a right way, and a wrong way. We just covered the wrong way.
In the next section, we’ll cover how you can use VirtaPay to profit the right
way using affiliate links and more.
