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Abandoned cart recovery with Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads

Over the last few months, we’ve been using Recapture to recover abandoned carts on our own Easy Digital Downloads-powered stores. We switched to Recapture due to their tight integration with EDD and several unique, compelling features. The results have been quite positive, so we can now recommend them as the top solution for abandoned cart recovery for any Easy Digital Downloads store.

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8 tips for rocking a holiday sale on your digital product store

The holidays always account for a big chunk of yearly eCommerce revenue, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made this a unique year. In this week’s edition of The EDDit – our final post for the year – we highlight 8 up-to-date tips for making your holiday sale a success.

3 examples of high-impact digital product descriptions
3 examples of high-impact digital product descriptions

Effectively marketing your digital products is an art form, and writing product descriptions is a crucial component – especially since digital products are not tangible like physical products. In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we showcase a few high-impact examples to illustrate some different strategies you can use with your own digital product descriptions.

WP Tasty and the journey from food blogging to selling software
WP Tasty and the journey from food blogging to selling software

Often, quality products are born from situations where creative people need to find solutions to their own problems. In this edition of our customer showcase series The EDDge, we feature the team behind WP Tasty and talk about how one experiment with monetizing a food blog led to a fully-fledged software business.

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5 tips from the digital product experts

Selling digital products can involve a lot of experimentation and guesswork, but fortunately, there’s useful wisdom to be gained from those who have been doing it for a while! In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we’ve put together a brief list of tips from the digital product experts to give you some guidance, inspiration, and ideas that you can apply to your own digital product business.

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5 quick and easy ways to freshen up your digital product brand

If you want your digital product brand to stay relevant and at the top of the customer’s mind, it’s good to shake things up sometimes! In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we look at 5 quick and easy ways to freshen up your digital product brand.

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Providing a personalized experience on your digital store

Personalization can take the customer’s shopping experience from standard to standout! In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we discuss some of the different ways you can provide a personalized experience on your digital store, so you can cultivate a satisfied and loyal customer base that is excited to keep coming back for more.

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Do the math: Calculating and comparing the performance of your digital products

When it comes to running a digital product store, metrics provide crucial bits of data that inform all of your most important decisions, from what kind of new products to make, to where to allocate your time and resources. In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we talk about how to calculate and compare the performance of your digital products, so you can better identify what to prioritize.

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EU VAT for Easy Digital Downloads: What you need to know

If you use Easy Digital Downloads to sell digital products to consumers in the European Union (EU), you need to register with the EU and collect EU VAT…even if your business isn’t located in the EU. In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we explain how EU VAT works, and how to go about collecting it!

4 last-minute tips for running a successful promotion over the holidays
4 last-minute tips for running a successful sale promotion over the holidays

If you run a digital business, November and December can account for as much as 20-30% of your yearly revenue. But, what helps to bring in that sweet holiday cash? In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we dig into 4 last-minute tips for running a successful sale promotion over the holidays.

How to choose a business model for your digital product store
How to choose a business model for your digital product store

Deciding on a business model is an important step in the process of setting up your digital product store. In this week’s edition of The EDDit, we break down the different digital product business models and talk about how to choose the right one for your store.

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