Oooh! I think this is going to be of great interest to many of you… If I said that:
- you could sell your crafty goodness straight from your blog or website without the bother (and maintenance) of having to set up an online shop, or having to list your products on another site would you be interested?
- Would it help if it was quick and easy to set up and you could also sell your crafty items from anywhere within your blog/site (such as individual posts, side bars, and links to page from within your site…heck yeah!
- Lastly would it be handy if you didn’t have to pay a percentage on each sale you make, instead you pay a low monthly fee for unlimited sales? All sounds pretty good for me!
Well E-junkie enables you to do all of the above and more. E-junkie provides working copy-paste shopping buttons for you to sell your digital items (i.e pdf patterns, images, tutorials, music, etc.) and tangible items (i.e. and and all of your craft items). E-junkie’s shopping cart system work “inside” your blog/website rather than opening in a pop-up window (which is great because because your customers don’t have to leave your site to purchase your products. For digital items, E-junkie automates the digital delivery of your items (so you don’t have to do the ’sending’). For tangible items, E-junkie handles the shipping, packaging, tax calculation, and inventory management. The shopping cart supports PayPal, Google Checkout, and Authorize. Net.
You can paste buttons like these onto your site/blog and hey presto you can sell your stuff! To see a demo look here.
Here are some more features of E-junkie (here is the full feature list):
- To help you increase your sales, E-junkie offers feature like ‘discount management (which is handy for the holiday season) and affialiate magament. E-junkie also offer you the option to list your items in Google Product Search.
- You can also keep a behind the scene track on visitor behavior because E-junkie is fully integrated with Google Analytics. This way you can gauge the success of your marketing, or you simply study visitor behaviour to improve your sales.
- Even though E-junkie simplifies the selling process, you can still completely customize “thank you” emails and pages.
- Unlike other shopping mall style sites, E-junkie does not charge a percentage on each sale. There is just a low flat monthly fee based on product catalog, and there is no limited to the amount or number of transactions
Here are some Crafty folks who are already using the services of E-junkie on their sites/blogs (here is the client list):
- Montissori by Hand - Patterns (pdf & hard copy)
- Mocimochi Land - Patterns (pdf)
- ShabbyMissJen Designs -scarpping kits and bits
- N.Design Studio - web & image design
- Felted Handbag Workshop - guess!
- How To Look Good - e-books (I have one of these and they’re excellent)
- This is the list of all the crafty folk selling with E-junkie.
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Does this all sound good, do you want to start selling your crafty goodness this afternoon/evening? Cool! We’ve wangled another super duper exclusive discount for CraftBoom! readers. With our promo code you can use E-junkie on your site/blog absolutely FREE for 3 months!!:
- Just type in the the Promo code: CRAFTBOOM when you register for E-junkie and you’re good to go! This code has no time limit. Happy selling!
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Hey, there’s just no stopping you! What a star. This sounds truly excellent Lisa. x
Hey, thanks for the link!
I am very happy with E-junkie. They charge by total storage used, not by volume of sales, so my overhead stays the same. I was using another service, but they charged by volume and it got really pricy on those months I released a new pattern and sales temporarily ballooned.
Easy to code, easy to use, easy to get reports, easy to reactivate expired downloads for customers who get confused. And best of all, it saves an email list by product so you can send corrections to your customers if you should (egads!) find errata! THAT’s a big help.
This sounds really great. I am going to have to check this out. I have used Paypal buttons before to sell my jewelry, but this sounds even easier. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful insights!
Wow! Thanks for the link, I’m definately going to have to try that one… once I get off this computer and make some stuff to sell…
You know, I have to confess, it’s taken me a while to come to this blog often, I so love your other blog that I felt like a traitor… but I now have to say, I love this one too! I’ll be regularly visiting both now.
I have just spent 2.5 hours trying to sort out a listing on E-junkie and I am about to go to bed having failed! I will put it down to a long day at work but what I was trying to do I did not manage it. The options available seemed very long winded and there is not a way of previewing what you have done so that IT idiots like me can see what they have selected. I have signed up using the promo code so thanks Lisa for arranging that and I am not giving up yet. All I want is picture, brief description, price and Buy it Now. Will get some beauty sleep and have another go tomorrow.