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E-junkie Website and Blog No Longer a Blast From The Past

Posted: 9/16/2015 2 comments
Let's face it, the E-junkie website looked like an artifact from the Wayback Machine. It was awesome in 2005, not so much in 2015. So we finally did something about it! We've relaunched with a slick, responsive interface and adopted a new attitude that supports you, our community of sellers.

 We have also moved the Ejunkie.info blog over to Ejunkie.com so all of our online business building resources can be seen in one place. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to see our latest tips, tutorials, news and infographics as soon as they go live.

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Direct Credit Card Checkout Option with E-junkie

Posted: 9/03/2015
A large number of E-junkie users setup E-junkie with a single payment option, PayPal. PayPal is a common payment processor for people all over the world. But E-junkie does provide options for our merchants to use a direct credit card checkout option.

A direct credit card checkout option is great, not just for your non-PayPal using buyers, but also for those with a PayPal account. E-junkie has four options, three which are still connected to PayPal

PayPal Pro
PayPal Pro is a extra paid service that PayPal provides

PayPal Advanced
Like PayPal Pro, there is a fee for using PayPal Advanced, although that cost is lower.

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Use the Power of Instagram to Reach Your Ideal Customer

Posted: 8/31/2015 1 comments
Guest blog post by Jonathan Chan of Foundr Magazine.

Finding a way to reach your target market is tricky for many small businesses. In today’s cluttered online climate there are millions of things out there constantly vying for your potential customer’s attention. It’s difficult to cut through the noise and find your target market.

That’s why you should consider Instagram. It is much more than just a picture-sharing social network, as we’ve proven at Foundr Magazine. With over 300 thousand followers, the majority of our conversions come from Instagram.

It’s also an incredibly viable and direct way to reach your target market, whatever your business is.
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Finding Your Perfect Fit Business Mentor

Posted: 8/28/2015 1 comments
When you are starting your business, having a mentor can be incredibly helpful. Let’s quickly go over what a business mentor is. A business mentor is someone who has been where you are at (getting a new business started) and they are willing to counsel you.
You may be asking yourself, “do I really need a business mentor?” We cannot say what you do or don't need, but many successful business owners have had one when they were starting out.
So how do you find a business mentor? What should you look for in one?

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How to Add Your E-junkie Button Code to Your WordPress Website

Posted: 8/26/2015
If you are building your website from scratch, and you know HTML code, then you should be fine to add the basic HTML code we provide to your website.

If you are adding our code to a site like WordPress, than you may need a hand with how to do so. Many web-building programs/sites like WordPress use what is known as “What You See, Is What Your Get” or WYSISYG editing. Which allows you to see how your page looks as you add elements to it.


Let's start with adding E-junkie code to a Free WordPress Blog page which is a page on their site. WordPress' blog page cannot handle custom plugins or javascript. So what you will want to do within E-junkie is get the non-javascript code. 
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Business 101: How To Advertise Your Products On Facebook

Posted: 8/24/2015
Guest blog post by Keran Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of a social media management agency, LYFE Marketing.

If you have products to sell there is one thing you cannot get enough of: low-cost exposure to your target audience. Luckily, Facebook has over 968 million daily active users and is still one of the best places to advertise a product and acquire new customers. In fact, e-commerce brands advertising on Facebook typically see a 152% return on investment. Facebook’s advertising platform contains a number of key features that make it worthwhile for any e-commerce brand.


If you sell products, and want to start advertising on Facebook like a social media marketing company, here is a guide on how to best advertise your products on Facebook...
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Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing

Posted: 8/21/2015
When I studied archeology I came across information about a stone tablet written in cuneiform. The text was lamenting the way the world is getting worse, and one of the things mentioned that showed that the “end of the world was fast approaching” is that everyone wants to write a book. Well the world has not end in the past 4800 years, but everyone still wants to write a book, or in the case of the world today, release an album, make a film and so forth.

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How to Add Your First Product

Posted: 8/20/2015
So you've taken the plunge and started your E-junkie account. That's step one in having a successful e-commerce shop. Step two is adding your first product. In this post we'll talk you through how to do that. 







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Pros and Cons of Crowdfunding

Posted: 8/14/2015
In the past couple of weeks we have talked about the pros and cons of gaining money for your growing business with loans and investors. The final fundraising method we are going to cover is also the newest one.
Crowdfunding has become huge in recent years, helping raise money for films, TVs shows, records, books, games and more. And there are many sites that you can use including IndieGoGo, Patreon and KickStarter.
But what are the advantages of going this route?

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Getting Started with E-junkie

Posted: 8/11/2015
Let’s get back to basics this week with our tips and tricks series. If you are looking to sell your products online, setting up your own website to sell your products is a viable option. E-junkie provides you with code to place within your own website that will allow you to have a shopping cart. Our system is customizable and favored by DIY-ers. We also have a helpful support crew to help you out if you get tripped up. Here’s how you take the first steps to setting up your E-junkie account.

The first step is to go to our login page and sign-up for an account using the fields on the right...
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Pros and Cons of Getting Angel Investors

Posted: 8/07/2015
Last week, we posted about business loans, this week we are going to continue and talk about Investors.
Investors, sometimes call angel investors, business angels or angel funders, are affluent people or groups which provide an influx of capital in your business because they believe in it (or believe in its ability to make money). If you watch TV, the show Shark Tank is about business owners trying to get an angel investor to help take their business to the next level.
First, you need to have a business plan, so get one ready.
But do you think you want/need an angel investor? Let’s look at the pros of going down that road…

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Tips & Tricks: The E-junkie Marketplace

Posted: 8/05/2015
When you set up a e-commerce shop, having a secondary place to sell your product is helpful. Even if you self-publish through Amazon's CreateSpace and sell on Amazon, getting a few copies of your book to sell at your local coffee shop may be something you want to do.

With E-junkie not only can you sell your digital products on your won website, you can also choose to use E-junkie's Marketplace to sell your products.

The first thing you will need to do is get your products setup. Once you have your product setup, you can add it to the E-junkie Marketplace.

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Website Speed is Vital

Posted: 8/03/2015
Running a website can be difficult. There are metrics that must be tracked and plugins to tweak. For a small business, understanding how to improve conversions could make or break your bottom line. 

Site speed has always been an important factor in increasing conversions. Recently, Google has started to factor site speed into their ranking algorithm, a decision that strongly favors light responsive sites over slower sites with long load times. Utilizing a CDN, removing Flash plugins and hosting your site on a virtual private cloud can give you excellent results in terms of speed and help you scale your resources rapidly if your site needs to grow. Testing your site to ensure it is loading quickly and giving your users a great experience will help you improve both conversions and your Google search ranking!

The infographic after the jump (made by SingleHop) delivers insight into how important website speed is and gives you some resources to test and optimize your site’s speed.

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Pros and Cons of Business Loans

Posted: 7/30/2015
If you are lucky enough to already have money to start your own business, that is amazing! But chances are that is not how it is going to go. Over the next few weeks we will go over the different options to get your shop going, or to keep your business afloat. This week we will kick this series by talking about business loans.
A business loan is a chance to get the capital you need for your business from a bank or other financial institute. But is it the best option for your business?
First, let’s look at some of the advantages of getting a business loan...
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How To Use The E-junkie Transaction Log

Posted: 7/28/2015

When you’re selling products, you need a way to track your sales. When you have a brick and mortar shop, this is often done with a Point of Sale (P.O.S.) system or if you are computer adverse, by hand. With E-junkie, we provide a transaction log that users can access at any time. And the E-junkie Transaction Log is easy to access.

From the Seller Admin page, the option is going to be in the lower right corner...
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Double E-Commerce Revenue By Tweaking Your Promotional Emails

Posted: 7/27/2015
Every marketer who is running an e-commerce business should already know the power of email marketing. But without the correct strategies you might be losing out on a lot of subscribers AND revenue. The best aspect about email marketing is that a single promotional mail can bring in lots of conversions – but only if it is done right! Many marketers are still use the age old method of getting subscribers through a shabby looking Sign Up form and then sending them newsletters hoping to get lucky with some sales.


This is one of the biggest mistakes! The main disadvantage of this method is that often the subscribers get mails of unrelated offers which results in unsubscribes and/or low conversions and sales. This article walks thru 7 tweaks to improve your email marketing technique.
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Online Shopping Cart Abandonment And What You Can Do About It

Posted: 7/23/2015
When you sell products online the one thing you will always have is online shopping cart abandonment. According to research the average over the last ten years is about 68%, and looking closer to 75% for research done in the first half of this year.

So what causes online shopping cart abandonment? What can you do to limit the number of buyers who abandon their carts?

In the last 10 years, online shopping cart abandonment has gone up but so have the number of people shopping online. There were far fewer people online ten years ago, the number of people willing to purchase online has increased dramatically and the number of businesses with an online presence has gone up as well.
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Tips & Tricks: How To Sell a File Over 2 GB

Posted: 7/22/2015
Even with the remote hosting option we mentioned last week, you may hit some trouble if the file you are selling is over the 2 GB limit we provide for remote files. But fear not! There is a work around. 

Our remote file size option being limited to 2 GB is a hard technical limit that is imposed by our web server architecture. That limit is derived from the maximum value that can be represented by a 32-bit signed integer, which is 2,147,483,647 bytes, which is 2.147 GB.

Some people have asked us, and maybe you are asking it too, “why don't we just upgrade the web server to allow larger files?”
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Selling Your E-Commerce Business? Determine Your Business Valuation.

Posted: 7/20/2015

Guest blog post by Elizabeth Brown-Shook of Digital Exits. 


So you have a business that you have nurtured and grown but now you've decided it's time to move on and sell it. But how do you know how much it is really worth? 

Your goal is to get the most for the time you've put into your business but how can you put a dollar value on your e-commerce business? These four questions should help you become clear about what your business' value is, how you can possibly grow that value and how to proceed with selling it...
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Business 101: Hiring Your First Employee

Posted: 7/16/2015
When you start up a business you likely are starting it up all by your lonesome. You just have to manage yourself and your small shop. But if you are successful, eventually you will need to hire someone to help you out. It can be hard to determine when that point is.
Here are a few questions you should ask yourself to help you decide if you need to start hiring...

Is your business getting in the way of the rest of your life?

If you just don't have time to party as much as you'd like, you don't need to hire anyone. If you haven't seen your friends in six months and you aren't ever getting a full night of sleep, you might need to hire someone. If you are working fourteen or fifteen hours, seven days a week, maybe you need to consider getting help.

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