DISQUS

David Risley: Experiment: Merging a Store With a Blog

  • Curtis Penner · 9 months ago
    I'd like to offer some feedback on E-Junkie. While the $5 monthly fee is nice, it certainly leaves something (a lot) to be desired compared to 1ShoppingCart. Having used both, I'd say if you can afford 1ShoppingCart, go with it.

    E-Junkie is limited to selling only. If you want to offer a free download to help drive sales you can't do it with EJ. It doesn't allow you to track clicks on links. Although if you buy the Ninja Link-Cloaker plugin, I guess you'd get the same info...not sure.

    1ShoppingCart provides excellent technical service, in my opinion. E-Junkie has probably the crappiest forum I've ever seen for a commercial enterprise. I sell very little of my e-book (something I'm trying to remedy). That's the only reason I'm staying with E-Junkie.

    I work for a company in the fitness industry that wants to get into online selling and the first website I showed them was WordPress.com. The second was Marketer's Choice (1ShoppingCart).
  • Andy Loverock · 3 months ago
    You raise some helpful points. It would be interesting to know your thoughts about business development strategies for anyone who is managing a large catalog.
  • John · 3 months ago
    Actually, I've been considering doing the same thing but have no experience with shopping carts. Curtis, I appreciate you feedback and help. I'll definitely check out 1ShoppingCart when I'm ready to proceed.