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8 Top Reasons You Should Go For Digital Product Sales

Posted on February 7, 2018August 7, 2025 by Kallala

Now-a-days the Digital Products are highly popular for branding of businesses.

Wondering about, what are the digital products? Here you go,

The products which can be delivered virtually to a buyer is called digital product.

This includes products like eBooks, Infographics, photographs, videos, templates, web graphics and training materials are very easy to sale/distribute online using web or mobile apps.

However, the selling of physical products is tedious and time consuming being having complexities as involves inventory, shipping, warehouses etc.

Therefore, digital eCommerce has become one of the ever-increasing medium to build better connections and establish relationships with customers. Digital eCommerce maximizes your business sales by directly connecting with website visitors who also save their time.

“For starting entrepreneurs selling digital products is the way to go. Low cost, low risk, the sales process can be automates and it’s scalable”.

Tor Refsland, Time Management Chef

“Whereas a physical product might need weeks (or month) to be produced, it can take less than a day to create and set up a digital product for sale”.

Erika Kalmar, Online Biz Wiz.

“Digital is the most sustainable way to distribute information. The question really is about how much we can turn into digital”.

Laurence O’Bryan, the Book Promote

Let’s have a quick look at the latest eCommerce growth forecast of worldwide digital buyers and worldwide retail eCommerce sales from eMarketer.

(Source: eMarketer)

In this article, I am going to share the list of top digital products you can sell online to maximize your sales as well as to get connected with your target audience.

Top Digital Products to Sell Online

1. eBook

E-Book is the most popular and fastest growing digital product for both user and creator. It is one of the simplest processes to share any information in written text format;where you can educate and advice readers using your own content or you can curate content from different sources.

According to Statista, $15B revenue was generated from eBook on 2015 and there is a projection of 16% growth in annually till 2020 and the overall growth expected to be 93%.

(Source: Statista)

2. Videos

Video is another popular and effective digital product to deliver information to your target audiences over internet. It engages more users comparing the textual information.It may be of entertainment, motivational, educational or informative. If you have talents such as, speaking, singing, dancing and other then you can create your own video and upload these to make money online.

Almost 50% of internet users look for videos related to a product or service before visiting a store

thinkwithgoogle.com

Online shoppers who view demo videos are 1.81 x more likely to purchase than non-viewers

theblog.adobe.com

3. Images and Photograph

High resolution quality images have more demand now these days. Bloggers and webmasters are very keen to purchase quality images to use in their webpage and blogs. If you are a good photographer or designer, you can produce great images to market via your own website.

According to the report, global demand for digital photography market was valued at around USD 77.66 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach approximately USD 110.79 billion in 2021, growing at a CAGR of slightly above 6.1% between 2016 and 2021

(Source: globenewswire.com)

4. Infographic and Digital Arts

Latest trend being the Infographics/Digital Arts, which the graphic designer and digital artist can create unique and high quality digital product like logo, Infographic, icons and various arts to sell online to make money.

Infographic are the way to share information among the target audience and directly connect with them.

According to Statista, the revenue of graphic design services (NAICS 54143) in United States from 2008 to 2020 will reach approximately 9.26 billion U.S. dollars.

(Source: Statista)

5. Documents and Courses

Documents like blog, white paper, resume and proposal are the normal form of digital products to share information. You can become a guest bloggers to write for other website to earn money.

eLearning and providing courses online is the modern innovations of studying and its demand is rising day by day. You can share your online tutorial and documents for paid download and you can also online teaching.

In 2015 the eLearning market was worth some place around $165 billion. At a 5% expansion consistently, that puts us on track for a nearly $182 billion market in 2017 and hitting practically $240 billion by 2023.

(Source: elearningindustry.com)

6. Professional Service

As discussed earlier, in this eCommerce age people do lot of purchase services like the digital products. They don’t care about money they spend but they are very concerned about value for money. Professional services like graphic designing, web designing, copy writing, translating and many more are come under the digital service.

7. Add-ons

Besides the eBook, graphical images and videos, you can create and sell Add-ons, Plugins and themes as digital products. You can keep all these in your own website marketplace and get connected with your visitors.

Andolasoft has developed so many project management add-ons and CRM Plugins to make your project management and customer relationship management easy.These add-in and plugins has customization option to make your work smarter. Try our Marketplace now.

8. Web Applications

Web applications like SaaS (Software as a Service) are not the digital products directly but these are helpful for selling them. Through customized SaaS applications you can reach out to target audience to generate good amount revenue.

Users are paying us regularly to access our SaaS web application Orangescrum – Project Management Tool and Wakeupsales – CRM Tool. Try these now

Conclusion:

The demands of digital products are growing everyday, selling digital products to maximize the revenue and keep in touch with the real audiences. We at Andolasoft do always try to serve you better with our new digital products matching the evolving of the technology with time.

Latest, is our own digital shopping cart (JuggernautCart) with digital products to serve others in building their own shopping carts. JuggernautCart is easy to use and affordable shopping cart to boom your digital sales according to your need.

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Why CMS Is So Popular Among Webmasters?

Posted on November 21, 2014August 7, 2025 by Kallala

CMS (Content Management System) which came as blogging platform has evolved a lot and quickly won the heart of webmasters/entrepreneurs, and became the utmost choice for all types of websites, whether it would be basic content management site or massive ecommerce application one.

From the discovery of CMS, It begins a new battle between CMS and traditional website.

Today, I am going to share few points why it is so popular among website owners.

Less dependency on developer and easy maintenance:

Once you develop theme or application on CMS you don’t have to rely on upon your developer excessively.

You can easily maintain and update your content even if you have very little or no knowledge of front- end languages, scripting languages, database or designing software.

On the other side if you go for traditional website, then you have to fully depend on your developer even for smaller to small changes.

Saves Money and Time:

Most of CMS are Open Source. It simply means no need to pay a single penny for CMS installation on your domain.

As I said earlier that it is very easy to update content, publish page and lots of customization.

So it can be done by the webmaster himself without having any technical knowledge or without taking any help of developers.

In this manner, CMS helps to spare your expense as well as your time.

Search Engine friendly:

All modern CMS provide lots of plug-in which simplify your SEO task. However, custom website needs lots of attentions and work to make your application or website search engine friendly.

Provides Dynamic Platform:

Almost all CMS allow extensions like forum, poll, e-commerce application, blog management, video integration and lots more, which make the application dynamic.

However, if you go for dynamic HTML/CSS website require flash, animation and lots of Javascript code, which make your website slow and not so search engine friendly.

Huge Developer community and tutorial support:

One of the biggest concerns for many webmasters is that when they stuck they cannot take help developer’s community or tutorial guidelines.

So they don’t chose technology where it is hard to find proficient people on that technology. Whereas, all popular CMS provide community, which is quite large and it is extremely helpful to find experienced folks.

CMS also provide features like content scheduling and republishing, additional plugin that make your website compatible to any device, and third party integration; on the flip side you need lots of money and time to do the same on your traditional website.

If you think, CMS is an obvious champ, then again, you are wrong. Reasons, CMS itself as well as its plugins are open source, so they are highly vulnerable to all types of outside attackers.

It is strongly advisable to update your plugin and CMS version regularly and do the proper security testing for your application. Also after arrival of HTML5, traditional website design definitely took a big leap.

You can get free security testing report at no expense. At Andolasoft , we deliver customize and affordable wordpress support and development service.

No doubts the fight between CMS and Traditional website stays unending. Have something to add to this topic? Share it in the comments.

Organization Attribution Model: Complicated but Important to Understand

Posted on September 27, 2014August 7, 2025 by Kallala

Most of the time entrepreneurs get trapped, when they are looking for some insight queries about their organization, which help them to invest their money on proper channel to get maximum return. That time they take help of data analyst, and they help them to find solutions for some complex queries like:

Which are the most effective acquisition channels for investment ?
What people actually do before making purchases?
What prompts them to make purchases?

You will get all your answer if you select right Attribution Model.

Google defined attribution model is the rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions is assigned to touch points in conversion paths.

There are basically three types of Attribution:

Online to Offline Attribution Model: Try to understand the impact of online marketing campaign on offline marketing channel. Number of offline leads we generate because of our online marketing campaign.
Multi Device Attribution Model: Try to understand how different gadgets contribute to conversion and how much credit goes to distinct devices for a conversion. Let’s say a customer watch an ad on TV, then he makes search on mobile, later he reads reviews on his tab and finally purchase that product online by visiting the website directly through his laptop.

Multi Channel Attribution Model: Similarly try to understand how different channel contributes to conversion and how much credit goes to each channel for conversions. Let’s take below example.

There is another attribution model, which is more realistic one and this model is blending of over three attribution models. First two models are still unresolved puzzled for data scientists. However, you can use the last one to know the real forces or channels behind your revenues.

Now let’s find out which channels gives you better return. Let’s go and check data in your analytic report.

From the above report and pie-chart, you arrive at the conclusion that your most successful medium is direct one while minimum effective medium is SM and CPC medium respectfully. So you need give more focus on referral medium or organic medium than paid medium because it will give more conversion or revenue. Am I right?

Here, attribution model comes into picture. Before taking any decision, just I need to educate you that above multichannel attribution model is focused around last interaction model, mean last interaction or touch point before conversion gets 100% credit. This is the default one in Google Analytic; whereas some other models like: last Non-Direct Click, Last Adword Clicks, First interaction, Linear, Time decay, and position based attribution model are also available(For more you can see : https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1665189?hl=en&ref_topic=3205717)

Some organizations used different attribution model like first Interaction Model or linear model or something else. So if you see the above chart table by considering the different model, then you may reach some other conclusion. Chances are there if you go for first Interaction Model; you can see CPC medium is more profitable than direct medium because in this model the 100% credit goes to channel which introduces your product or service for the first time.

Therefore, it is important to understand attribution model and for this, you should have deep knowledge about your business, products, and the target market. Otherwise, it will lead you to wrong attribution model and which causes losing money. You can also compare your ROI/ROAS by comparing different attribution model which gives you clearer picture. For this, you can take help Comparison Tool and Multi Channel Funnel Report in Google Analytics.

I hope you find this topic useful. At Andolasoft we are still in a process to understand users behavior through different attribution model and I would also like to hear your thoughts regarding this in comment section.

How To Install Nagios Core on CentOS, Fedora, or RHEL Server

Posted on August 28, 2014August 7, 2025 by Kallala

Nagios® Core™ is the industry standard Open Source system and network monitoring application which enables organizations to identify, resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better. Nagios Core serves as one of the foundation blocks of Nagios XI – commercial monitoring solution.

It was originally designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other unices as well.

Steps to install :

STEP-1:

Install prerequisites packages

       #   yum  install  gd  gd-devel  httpd  php  gcc  glibc  glibc-common

STEP-2:

Disable selinux. open the file: /etc/selinux/config by issuing the following command

       # vi /etc/selinux/config

Then, type “disable” opposite to “SELINUX” e.g SELINUX= disable

STEP-3:

Create a user “nagios” and set password for it by typing the below commands.

       #   /usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
       #   passwd nagios

STEP-4:

Create a new group “nagios” for allowing external commands to be submitted through the web interface and add both the nagios user and the apache user to the group by following the below steps

       #    /usr/sbin/groupadd nagios
       #    /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagios nagios
       #    /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagios apache

STEP-5:

Create a directory “download “ and download nagios-core and plugins to it.

       #  mkdir download                  
       #  cd  download
       #  wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
       #  wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz

STEP-6:

Compile and Install nagios-core package by following below steps

Change directory to “download” folder

       #   cd ~/download

Untar the nagios-core tar bal

       #   tar xzf nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz

Change the directory to “nagios-3.4.4”

       # cd nagios-3.4.4

Configure the package and install

#  ./configure
#   make all
#   make install
#   make install-init
#   make install-commandmode
#   make install-config
#   make install-webconf

STEP-7:

Create a password to log in to the web interface by issuing the following command.

       # htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

STEP-8:

Start the service and set it on chkconfig to start at booting time.

       #  service nagios start
       #  chkconfig nagios on

STEP-9:

Compile and Install nagios-plugin package by following below steps.

Change directory to “download” folder

       # cd   ~/download

Untar nagios-plugin tar ball

       # tar xzf  nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz

Change the directory to “nagios-plugins-1.4.16”

       # cd  nagios-plugins-1.4.16

Configure the package and install.

       # ./configure
       # make
       # make install

STEP-10:

Start the apache service and enable it on boot by issuing following command.

       # service httpd start
       # chkconfig httpd on

STEP-11: Now, connect to your nagios server through browser by typing.

       # http://Your-Nagios-IP/nagios or  http://localhost/nagios

Then, enter login credentials.
Username: nagiosadmin & password you have chosen earlier

Features of NAGIOS Core

Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.)
Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks
Parallelized service checks
Ability to define network host hierarchy using “parent” hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
Automatic log file rotation
Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.

I hope you liked this topic, if you have any questions or comments please feel free to put under comments!

Comparison between ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET Web Forms

Posted on August 1, 2014August 7, 2025 by Kallala

When it comes to web development using Microsoft’s .NET framework, two popular approaches are ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) and ASP.NET Web Forms.

Both have their strengths and weaknesses, and the choice between them depends on the specific needs of your project.

In this blog post, we’ll compare ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms in terms of architecture, development style, flexibility, and other key factors to help you make an informed decision.

When developing web apps using Microsoft’s .NET framework, the two most popular approaches that developers employ are the ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Web Forms.

Both have their strengths and weaknesses; the choice between which one is best depends on the specific needs of the projects.

In this blog post we will compare the ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms in terms of architecture, development style, flexibility and other key factors to help to make the right decision.

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET Web Forms

Architecture:

MVC is a design pattern that separates an application into three components: Model, View, and Controller.

This separation of concerns provides a more organized and maintainable codebase.

Developers have fine-grained control over the HTML, enabling them to create SEO-friendly and responsive web applications.

Web Forms follow a more traditional event-driven model, where you design pages with server controls and handle events on the server.

The architecture is more tightly coupled, making it easier for beginners but less flexible for complex scenarios.

Development Style:

Promotes a test-driven development (TDD) approach, which is ideal for writing unit tests.

Developers have more control over the markup, making it easier to customize the HTML and CSS.

Offers a rapid application development (RAD) style, which is well-suited for small to medium-sized projects with quick turnarounds.

It provides a more event-centric programming model, making it easier for developers with a background in Windows Forms development.

Flexibility

Highly flexible and extensible, allowing developers to use third-party libraries and frameworks as needed.

It is a good choice for building RESTful APIs, and it can be used to create single-page applications (SPAs).

Less flexible when it comes to integrating third-party libraries and frameworks.

Best suited for traditional web applications with server controls and postbacks.

Learning Curve:

Has a steeper learning curve, especially for developers who are new to the MVC design pattern.

Requires a good understanding of web development concepts, making it a better choice for experienced developers.

Easier for beginners to grasp, particularly those with a background in Windows Forms development.

Offers a more visual and event-driven approach that can be more intuitive for some.

SEO and Performance:

Provides better control over HTML markup and URLs, making it easier to create SEO-friendly web applications.

Generally offers better performance, as it reduces the overhead associated with the ViewState in Web Forms.

SEO can be more challenging due to the nature of server controls and View State.

In some cases, it may result in slower performance, especially when handling complex forms.

Community and Support:

Has a strong and active community, with a plethora of resources, documentation, and third-party extensions available.

Regular updates and improvements have been made to the framework.

Although still supported, its popularity has waned compared to ASP.NET MVC.

The community and resources are not as vibrant as they once were.

Let’s compare and figure out:

Following are the advantages of ASP.NET MVC over Web Forms:

Absence of statefulness and ViewState makes the page lighter compared to WebForms
Shorter page life-cycle makes it easy to understand and less complex
Higher control over HTML, JavaScript(DOM elements) and CSS makes customization and accessibility easier
Higher control over HTML means compliance with evolving standards like Web2.0
Higher control over HTML also means developers find it easier in building Ajax applications, and adding more interactivity and responsiveness to existing applications
Modification takes less time to implement as there is separation between UI and business layers
Having option to accommodate more than one form in a single page is a clear advantage
TDD is easier to implement as it does not relies on event handlers which are only fired in web contexts, when a form is posted or a page is requested
MVC framework decouples the components and makes use of interfaces, which makes it easier to test individual components in isolation from the rest of the framework
It’s efficient for large application specially those follows agile methodologies for development
URLs tend to be much more SEO-friendly, if you design your controllers and actions properly

Following are the advantages of Web Forms over ASP.NET MVC:

Easy to learn for most of the developers regardless of their background in development
Higher number of active developers compared to ASP.NET MVC as the technology is relatively old
Since it uses controls, it is easier to inherit that means you can reuse controls made for other application
For developers increase in productivity is a definite plus
Developer with higher competence in HTML,DOM, and CSS is not mandatory as most of it is handled by controls
Easier to achieve data persistence between requests due to statefulness and ViewState
RAD(Rapid Application Development) with drag & drop controls means you do not need to code much
It is faster to implement validation on controls as they are generated automatically
Lots of third party component makes it easier to generate the HTML and JavaScript for the developer
Programmatic access to the UI elements makes it easier to implement SharePoint

The framework chosen should be based upon the requirements and resources of the company doing the development.

If you want to have a faster development cycle than Web Forms might be the best option.

If time, money, and energy to develop an application from the scratch is not a constraint then MVC could potentially be the better option.

Andolasoft has extensive experience with both frameworks and would be more than happy to help you to decide your development decisions.

Recommended Blog: Rails-Things you must know about TDD and BDD

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Why Refinery CMS is chosen to be best among all other Rails CMS?

Posted on June 13, 2014August 7, 2025 by Kallala

What is a CMS?

A content management system or CMS is a computer program that allows a user to publish, edit and modifying of the content through a editor. CMS often used for websites & blogs to avoid the hand coding and provide easy to use interface so that anybody can manage the content without depending on a programmer.

Here, I want to specify one of the popular Ruby on Rails CMS – RefineryCMS. There are some other CMS available in Ruby On Rails like BrowserCMS, LocomotiveCMS, Radiant CMS, etc…

RefineryCMS is an open source content management system written in Ruby on Rails with jQuery used as the JavaScript library. It is perfect for creating custom content manageable websites. If you need to quickly create an informational site that can be easily edited, consider using a content management system.

Key features of RefineryCMS are:

100% free and open source
Super simple and easy to use
Slick, clean user interface
Modular and extendable
Design flexibility
Multilingual

RefineryCMS is popular because of following reasons :

Built with Ruby on Rails
Refinery is the most user-friendly for a non-technical end-user
Installing RefineryCMS is very easy
Supports creating of custom engines
There are tons of engines, plugins and extensions available
Strong community for support
Easier to integrate into existing rails project or the other way round
Includes Devise as authentication
Has a pretty admin control panel

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