Yes that is right. You can now log into Bonanzle using your facebook or google signin.. How much better can it get.
The change was announced by Alex, Bonanzle's newest member, yesterday ( June 29, 2010)
Two reasons for adding the feature: speed and ease
You can read about it on Bonanzle's blog
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Bonanzle is Introducing Alex!
Yeah, I know,, slightly behind here. Alex Berg has already been at Bonanzle for about a week and I am just now blogging about it.
Alex first "official" day was June 21, 2010. His job is "the product guy" helping the site stay on target in the strategy, design, and usability area.
Alex will be testing out new designs, layouts and other creative ways to better merchandise the Bonanzle seller's amazing products. Making the already totally cool site even cooler!
Read more about Alex at the official Bonanzle blog!
Alex first "official" day was June 21, 2010. His job is "the product guy" helping the site stay on target in the strategy, design, and usability area.
Alex will be testing out new designs, layouts and other creative ways to better merchandise the Bonanzle seller's amazing products. Making the already totally cool site even cooler!
Read more about Alex at the official Bonanzle blog!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR SELLERS | eBay Announcement Page
IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR SELLERS eBay Announcement Page
Attention sellers! These summer seller updates, originally announced on April 27, are now live or coming soon:
•New item condition values are now available in many categories. If you haven’t already, start using them now before it’s required on July 27.
•New bulk editing functionality in the eBay listing flow to edit, list, and relist up to 200 listings at a time in a familiar spreadsheet format—including item condition—will be available to all sellers later this month.
•New Microsoft Excel plug-in available now to edit up to 5,000 listings at once.
•File Exchange enhancements available now to update listings with multiple variations and parts compatibility information.
•Rewards for sharing your pictures. Now get 5 free Subtitle credits when one of your product photos is selected for the eBay catalog. If you’ve opted out before, opt back in.
•More secure member-to-member communication. Email communication between buyers and sellers is now more secure than ever with anonymous email addresses in My Messages.
•Get more control over email payment reminders to buyers. Available now.
•Categories and Item Specifics changes now live. Find out if your categories are impacted.
Attention sellers! These summer seller updates, originally announced on April 27, are now live or coming soon:
•New item condition values are now available in many categories. If you haven’t already, start using them now before it’s required on July 27.
•New bulk editing functionality in the eBay listing flow to edit, list, and relist up to 200 listings at a time in a familiar spreadsheet format—including item condition—will be available to all sellers later this month.
•New Microsoft Excel plug-in available now to edit up to 5,000 listings at once.
•File Exchange enhancements available now to update listings with multiple variations and parts compatibility information.
•Rewards for sharing your pictures. Now get 5 free Subtitle credits when one of your product photos is selected for the eBay catalog. If you’ve opted out before, opt back in.
•More secure member-to-member communication. Email communication between buyers and sellers is now more secure than ever with anonymous email addresses in My Messages.
•Get more control over email payment reminders to buyers. Available now.
•Categories and Item Specifics changes now live. Find out if your categories are impacted.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
BonanzleUP 2010 Exploding Forward Plans
Live! August 7th, 2010 at the Four Points Sheraton in Kansas City, MO. We have a fantastic line up of events and speakers, including none other than the baby's daddy himself Bill Harding with our keynote and headliner - Mr. John "ColderICE" Lawson.
Sponsors are lining up and so are participants.
You do not want to miss this event. So register now! Registration fee is $25.00 on a pre-sale basis. After July 7th, the price goes up to $35.00.
Things to do in Kansas City, have extra fun while attending the event.
We have secured a room rate of $70.00 per night at the Four Points by Sheraton for our attendees.
And they have extended the rate from 3 days before till 3 days after the event! Book your rooms now, reserved rooms are limited.
We will be posting a complete schedule of events soon. So check back often and bookmark this page. And there will also be a live link to book your hotel at the fantastic rate we have secured.
Bonanzle currently has over 250,000 registered users. If you are a service provider to eCommerce sellers, we are definitely looking for sponsors for the event, so drop us a line at
judy@bonanzleboardroom.com or visit our sponsor page.
Don't miss the opportunity to become a sponsor!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Bonanzle gives a new look to the "My Bonanzle" home page
In the wee hours of the morning, June 16. 2010, the "My bonanzle" home pages got a face lift.
No sedatives were needed. The results turned out quite well.
system announcements can now be seen on the sidebar.
There is a User notification section, Sell section complete with links to "Selling tools" and a "Shopping" section with all those cool shopping tools such as saved searches.
The left navigation was not neglected in the facelift. Icons better define each link for those that are more "picture" oriented than words.
the "Sell" section has all the "fast facts" detailed for easy viewing..
You can read the "official" post about it.
So checkout what's new on your "My Bonanzle" page. I think you will like it... Way to go Bill!
No sedatives were needed. The results turned out quite well.
system announcements can now be seen on the sidebar.
There is a User notification section, Sell section complete with links to "Selling tools" and a "Shopping" section with all those cool shopping tools such as saved searches.
The left navigation was not neglected in the facelift. Icons better define each link for those that are more "picture" oriented than words.
the "Sell" section has all the "fast facts" detailed for easy viewing..
You can read the "official" post about it.
So checkout what's new on your "My Bonanzle" page. I think you will like it... Way to go Bill!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Bonanzle Boardroom podcast June 3, 2010 Episode 9
An entire week has passed since the Bonanzle Boardroom podcast June 3, 2010. And I thought it was time to perhaps remind everyone of some of the invaluable information covered in the podcast.
First the changelist..
Bill has been incredibly busy. not only expanding the Bonanzle team but coding more features plus cleaning up bugs in the current system.
Phaedra Stockstill of Bonanzle Boardroom and attheboutique covered the "inside" scoop concerning what is the next big thing on Bonanzle.
Here are Bills comments.
Q:ith all the recent exciting news - Funding, Board of Directors, New Hires - What is the bottom line, What does it mean to the average Joe/Jane seller on Bonanzle?
A:The bottom line is that this is going to enable us to create an environment that allows our sellers to be more successful.
To understand what our future holds, I think it helps to understand what our strategy has been to date, and why that needs to adapt. So far, Bonanzle has succeeded beyond anyone's expectations because we have obsessed over creating the easiest (and most well priced) way to post "everything but the ordinary." Sellers get excited about this, and they tell their friends, and in less than two years we have three million items for sale. And the more merchandise we have, the more juice we get from Google. That has been the basic equation for Bonanzle's success so far.
But it isn't a perfect solution. Many Google visitors have never heard of the site before, and so they convert into sales at a relatively low rate. And if they don't come back, there isn't residual value there. The same principles apply to advertising -- you can buy a visitor, but once they arrive, if they've never heard of the site and can't immediately see how it's different from other sites, there is a relatively low probability that they will buy or that they return.
The offshoot of this is that we have a lot of sellers who make a fair number of sales per month, but we don't have many sellers who can quit other marketplaces and sustain themselves wholly on Bonanzle at this point. We want to change that, so that people can earn enough on Bonanzle alone to sustain their business.
In essence, we believe that the key to taking Bonanzle to the next level lies in earning repeat buyers who visit Bonanzle before search engines or other marketplaces. And the key to that lies in differentiating our buying experience from what a buyer can find elsewhere. For a buyer, it isn't enough just to be "easy," because lots of marketplaces have "easy" buying processes. For buyers, we need to create an experience that is fun, interactive, and catered to their specific tastes.
Frankly, building this experience, and building it right, is going to be one of the hardest projects we've undertaken so far. Which is why we've decided to grow our full time development team from one person (me) to five people. It is going to take a usability tests, creativity, and a lot of horsepower to build something that differentiates itself to buyers from the first click. And, critically, we need to enhance this buying experience while we continue to provide the best marketplace selling experience -- we can't sacrifice a great selling experience for a great buying one. We need both.
That is our goal. Our bottom line objective we're working toward is to make Bonanzle a viable place for the average Joe or Jill to run a hearty, sustainable business by giving buyers an experience they can't find anywhere else."
The next big thing covered was the Google organic algorithm change, referred to as the "Mayday" change.
It isn't as scary as the Bonanzle sellers or any seller imagines actually. The change is actually a good thing. Judy Oglesby of the Bonanzle Boardroom and bluepennyladyaddressed the changes:
Google has been launching changes for the past two years.. AS many as 350 to 400 changes per year. They will continue to make changes. Just a fact of life.
[Quote from Bill] There were a couple changes Google made to its search algorithm last year that sent Bonanzle traffic down quite a bit, but even in those cases, it always came back around. Google's ultimate mission is to show a searcher the most relevant page possible, and if sellers are creating relevant items (i.e., lots of details, good pictures, good prices) they're putting themselves in the best possible position to be highly ranked.
The recent algorithm change is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, for Bonanzle sellers it can be a very good thing. So look at it as a "can do" This change is about quality links rather than quantity of links.
First , Bonanzle has lots of quality inbound links. Especially recently with the Bootstrap award, $1 Million dollar Angel funding, all the news releasese, press, blogs, tweets as well as interviews with Bill.. All are linking back to the Bonanzle site.
Long tail search queries are going to reduce the garbage being served up in results. The long tail search queries are going to do good things for the Bonanzle sellers right off the bat. Lazy older sites that have not done anything to keep their sites relevant are going to drop off the search results. And bringing the long tail queries into play will clean up search results nicely.
Sites with tons of links on their pages that are totally irrelevant to the site content will also negatively impact those sites rankings. Relevant links are good. It is about quality not quantity now.
Google analyticals enables a seller to "Know" precisely what keywords are being used in search queries to locate their items. That is what impacts the long tail search queries. Keywords in content rich descriptions and title lines are their friend.
If you know what keywords searchers are using then those terms can be included in title lines as well as description fields.
If you don't have Google analyticals, then studying the organic search results will help. Those listings that appear ahead of your listing must be studied so you can determine what consistent thread is running through them in terms of keywords. Same thing we have always done.
Blogs, website pages with inbound quality links all help drive the ranking up. So rather than linking to a listing page, link back to a category in your booth. And then keep that category populated so a searcher doesn't come to the booth and find no items listed. And clicks back out quickly increasing the bounce rate. Keep listing pages clean so they load quickly.Slow loading pages are often penalized... Hence Bill has spent a great deal of time making the Bonanzle site clean and tweaking the page load times.
The Canonical URL's are important. Bill just implemented those recently so google knows what to index when there are multiple URL's such as our booth URL"s have two renditions.
This is not panic time.. OR the sky is falling, This is happy dance time! Bonanzle sellers have a better chance of being seen.. Newer site, fresher well laid out dynamic content with relevant quality links inbound...
Don't forget to drop by the first sponsor of the BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forword booth,,Bubblefast
Plus there was tons of other information covered. So if you missed it live, then by all means drop by talkshoe and listen to the podcast. It is well worth the time..
First the changelist..
Bill has been incredibly busy. not only expanding the Bonanzle team but coding more features plus cleaning up bugs in the current system.
Phaedra Stockstill of Bonanzle Boardroom and attheboutique covered the "inside" scoop concerning what is the next big thing on Bonanzle.
Here are Bills comments.
Q:ith all the recent exciting news - Funding, Board of Directors, New Hires - What is the bottom line, What does it mean to the average Joe/Jane seller on Bonanzle?
A:The bottom line is that this is going to enable us to create an environment that allows our sellers to be more successful.
To understand what our future holds, I think it helps to understand what our strategy has been to date, and why that needs to adapt. So far, Bonanzle has succeeded beyond anyone's expectations because we have obsessed over creating the easiest (and most well priced) way to post "everything but the ordinary." Sellers get excited about this, and they tell their friends, and in less than two years we have three million items for sale. And the more merchandise we have, the more juice we get from Google. That has been the basic equation for Bonanzle's success so far.
But it isn't a perfect solution. Many Google visitors have never heard of the site before, and so they convert into sales at a relatively low rate. And if they don't come back, there isn't residual value there. The same principles apply to advertising -- you can buy a visitor, but once they arrive, if they've never heard of the site and can't immediately see how it's different from other sites, there is a relatively low probability that they will buy or that they return.
The offshoot of this is that we have a lot of sellers who make a fair number of sales per month, but we don't have many sellers who can quit other marketplaces and sustain themselves wholly on Bonanzle at this point. We want to change that, so that people can earn enough on Bonanzle alone to sustain their business.
In essence, we believe that the key to taking Bonanzle to the next level lies in earning repeat buyers who visit Bonanzle before search engines or other marketplaces. And the key to that lies in differentiating our buying experience from what a buyer can find elsewhere. For a buyer, it isn't enough just to be "easy," because lots of marketplaces have "easy" buying processes. For buyers, we need to create an experience that is fun, interactive, and catered to their specific tastes.
Frankly, building this experience, and building it right, is going to be one of the hardest projects we've undertaken so far. Which is why we've decided to grow our full time development team from one person (me) to five people. It is going to take a usability tests, creativity, and a lot of horsepower to build something that differentiates itself to buyers from the first click. And, critically, we need to enhance this buying experience while we continue to provide the best marketplace selling experience -- we can't sacrifice a great selling experience for a great buying one. We need both.
That is our goal. Our bottom line objective we're working toward is to make Bonanzle a viable place for the average Joe or Jill to run a hearty, sustainable business by giving buyers an experience they can't find anywhere else."
The next big thing covered was the Google organic algorithm change, referred to as the "Mayday" change.
It isn't as scary as the Bonanzle sellers or any seller imagines actually. The change is actually a good thing. Judy Oglesby of the Bonanzle Boardroom and bluepennyladyaddressed the changes:
Google has been launching changes for the past two years.. AS many as 350 to 400 changes per year. They will continue to make changes. Just a fact of life.
[Quote from Bill] There were a couple changes Google made to its search algorithm last year that sent Bonanzle traffic down quite a bit, but even in those cases, it always came back around. Google's ultimate mission is to show a searcher the most relevant page possible, and if sellers are creating relevant items (i.e., lots of details, good pictures, good prices) they're putting themselves in the best possible position to be highly ranked.
The recent algorithm change is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, for Bonanzle sellers it can be a very good thing. So look at it as a "can do" This change is about quality links rather than quantity of links.
First , Bonanzle has lots of quality inbound links. Especially recently with the Bootstrap award, $1 Million dollar Angel funding, all the news releasese, press, blogs, tweets as well as interviews with Bill.. All are linking back to the Bonanzle site.
Long tail search queries are going to reduce the garbage being served up in results. The long tail search queries are going to do good things for the Bonanzle sellers right off the bat. Lazy older sites that have not done anything to keep their sites relevant are going to drop off the search results. And bringing the long tail queries into play will clean up search results nicely.
Sites with tons of links on their pages that are totally irrelevant to the site content will also negatively impact those sites rankings. Relevant links are good. It is about quality not quantity now.
Google analyticals enables a seller to "Know" precisely what keywords are being used in search queries to locate their items. That is what impacts the long tail search queries. Keywords in content rich descriptions and title lines are their friend.
If you know what keywords searchers are using then those terms can be included in title lines as well as description fields.
If you don't have Google analyticals, then studying the organic search results will help. Those listings that appear ahead of your listing must be studied so you can determine what consistent thread is running through them in terms of keywords. Same thing we have always done.
Blogs, website pages with inbound quality links all help drive the ranking up. So rather than linking to a listing page, link back to a category in your booth. And then keep that category populated so a searcher doesn't come to the booth and find no items listed. And clicks back out quickly increasing the bounce rate. Keep listing pages clean so they load quickly.Slow loading pages are often penalized... Hence Bill has spent a great deal of time making the Bonanzle site clean and tweaking the page load times.
The Canonical URL's are important. Bill just implemented those recently so google knows what to index when there are multiple URL's such as our booth URL"s have two renditions.
This is not panic time.. OR the sky is falling, This is happy dance time! Bonanzle sellers have a better chance of being seen.. Newer site, fresher well laid out dynamic content with relevant quality links inbound...
Don't forget to drop by the first sponsor of the BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forword booth,,Bubblefast
Plus there was tons of other information covered. So if you missed it live, then by all means drop by talkshoe and listen to the podcast. It is well worth the time..
Friday, May 21, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Bonanzle Wins Seattle's Best BootStrap company Award
Yes that is right.. Bonanzle won! Seattles Best BootStrap Company Award tonight! Tonight being May 19, 2010!
The event has been recorded and archived at Seattle's 2.0... The Recording is now available. If you do not want to listen to the entire event, just pull the scroller over to 1:50 timeframe. Bill and Mark are on at around 1:52 or so.
Bill made an "Official response" to the Bonanzle Community. In his ever sincere and forward thinking manner, he thanked the community for their support. And he is right,, this changes Bonanzle.. Bonanzle is no longer biggest of small eCommerce sites. But Bonanzle is the smallest of the biggest eCommerce sites. Move over ,,, Bonanzle is coming through!
This is so exciting!
The event has been recorded and archived at Seattle's 2.0... The Recording is now available. If you do not want to listen to the entire event, just pull the scroller over to 1:50 timeframe. Bill and Mark are on at around 1:52 or so.
Bill made an "Official response" to the Bonanzle Community. In his ever sincere and forward thinking manner, he thanked the community for their support. And he is right,, this changes Bonanzle.. Bonanzle is no longer biggest of small eCommerce sites. But Bonanzle is the smallest of the biggest eCommerce sites. Move over ,,, Bonanzle is coming through!
This is so exciting!
Bonanzle B-Mail includes Body of Message
For those who have patiently (or impatiently) waited, well the wait paid off. This week Bill Harding, CEO of Bonanzle, changed the Bonanzle email notifications. Previously, only a notice of "you have email" was sent out. So the seller had to log into their Bonanzle account and click open the email message just to determine if it was something that required immediate attention.
But now the Bonanzle B-Mail notification includes the full body of the email message in the notification so the recipient can easily see if the email needs immediate attention.
How cool is that!
But now the Bonanzle B-Mail notification includes the full body of the email message in the notification so the recipient can easily see if the email needs immediate attention.
How cool is that!
Friday, May 07, 2010
Ina Steiner Interviews Bonanzle's Bill Harding CEO and Founder
Thursday, May 6, 2010 Ina Steiner of Auctionbytes interviewed Bonanzle own Bill Harding CEO and founder.
You can read about the Interview as well as listen to the podcast interview too!
It is well worth listening too! You will get a really good feel of Bill's vision for Bonanzle and the community.
You can read about the Interview as well as listen to the podcast interview too!
It is well worth listening too! You will get a really good feel of Bill's vision for Bonanzle and the community.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Bonanzle Boardroom Podcast May 6, 2010
The first Thursday is already here! And another jammed pack podcast this Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7 PM CST is scheduled. This one you really don't want to miss..
We will be covering the exciting BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forward event planned August 7, 2010 in Kansas City, Mo at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel.
The Bonanzle sellers are encouraged to call in with some of the topics they would like to see covered at the event. Although, most of the event is already outlined, we really want to know what "you" the Bonanzle community would like to learn about too.
So join us May 6, 2010 at 7 pm CST at Talkshoe
We will be covering the exciting BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forward event planned August 7, 2010 in Kansas City, Mo at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel.
The Bonanzle sellers are encouraged to call in with some of the topics they would like to see covered at the event. Although, most of the event is already outlined, we really want to know what "you" the Bonanzle community would like to learn about too.
So join us May 6, 2010 at 7 pm CST at Talkshoe
Monday, May 03, 2010
BonanzleUp 2010 Exploding Forward August 7, 2010 Announced
We did it... Phaedra and I have FINALLY got the date, time and facility nailed down for the next BonanzleUP event.
BonanzleUp 2010-Exploding Forward is scheduled for Saturday, August 7, 2010, 8-5 in Kansas City, MO at the beautiful Four Points Sheraton. An all day event jammed packed full of timely information you can use Now!
You can register at the Bonanzle Boardroom Early bird registration fee is $25.00. After July 7, 2010, the fee increases to $35.00.. Seating is limited so grap your seat now.
Bill Harding, the founder of Bonanzle, will be there.. Up front and center to speak to the Bonanzle Community.
Our very own "Tomwayne1" will be speaking to the seller community. And who knows who else may appear..
John Lawson of "colderice" will be speaking at the BonanzleUp 2010 event. And that is a total wow!
So register now! Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn how to "Explode forward' your Bonanzle business!
BonanzleUp 2010-Exploding Forward is scheduled for Saturday, August 7, 2010, 8-5 in Kansas City, MO at the beautiful Four Points Sheraton. An all day event jammed packed full of timely information you can use Now!
You can register at the Bonanzle Boardroom Early bird registration fee is $25.00. After July 7, 2010, the fee increases to $35.00.. Seating is limited so grap your seat now.
Bill Harding, the founder of Bonanzle, will be there.. Up front and center to speak to the Bonanzle Community.
Our very own "Tomwayne1" will be speaking to the seller community. And who knows who else may appear..
John Lawson of "colderice" will be speaking at the BonanzleUp 2010 event. And that is a total wow!
So register now! Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn how to "Explode forward' your Bonanzle business!
Friday, April 30, 2010
No Auctions at Bonanzle
Auctionbytes again today announced yet another interview with Bill Harding, the founder of Bonanzle
Auctions are a different beast entirely and a different model than Bonanzle. Bonanzle is just a super platform for online sellers wanting a eCommerce website. Bonanzle handles all the nitty gritty details of secure payment cart, site maintenance as well as the Google shopping feeds. Not to mention handling all site issues and tech support. Freeing up a seller to focus on what they really need to, their business.
See the article here
Auctions are a different beast entirely and a different model than Bonanzle. Bonanzle is just a super platform for online sellers wanting a eCommerce website. Bonanzle handles all the nitty gritty details of secure payment cart, site maintenance as well as the Google shopping feeds. Not to mention handling all site issues and tech support. Freeing up a seller to focus on what they really need to, their business.
See the article here
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Bonanzle Raises 1 Million so they can Grow
Auctionbytes news today released an article concerning Bonanzle raising $1 million dollars to Grow the Bonanzle marketplace
Bill Harding,Bonanzle Baby daddy posted about the event on the Bonanzle Blog
You go Bonanzle!
Bill Harding,Bonanzle Baby daddy posted about the event on the Bonanzle Blog
You go Bonanzle!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
WebSellers Circle ECMTA Summit Wrap up Report
Yesterday it was my, Judy Oglesby, bluepennylady, distinct pleasure to be part of a conference call with Phaedra Stockstill of attheboutique, hosted by Cindy Shebley of WebSellers Circle.
The topic was our take on the ECMTA Summit in Las Vegas April 2010.
If you missed the free call live, don't worry, it is available here at the WebSellers Circle
It was a really fun time and good to reflect back on the things Phaedra and I brought back from the ECMTA conference.
The topic was our take on the ECMTA Summit in Las Vegas April 2010.
If you missed the free call live, don't worry, it is available here at the WebSellers Circle
It was a really fun time and good to reflect back on the things Phaedra and I brought back from the ECMTA conference.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
BonanzleUp Event in the Planning Stages
Phaedra Stockstill of attheboutique and JudyOglesby bluepennylady have been handed the task of planning the next BonanzleUp meetup event! Wow is all I can say.
We want to know where you, the Bonanzle community would like to see the event at. What section of the US. It just makes good sense to host the event in a part of the country where sellers want to come (or go)
So cast your vote.
Surveymonkey
We want to know where you, the Bonanzle community would like to see the event at. What section of the US. It just makes good sense to host the event in a part of the country where sellers want to come (or go)
So cast your vote.
Surveymonkey
Bonanzle is Growing
Today, April 20, 2010 Auctionbytes released an article concerning the Bonanzle site's growth in the past 2 years.
Bonanzle is approaching their two year old birthday in June. And the base is growing at an unbelievable pace. Bill Harding the founder and developer of the Bonanzle site is one of four employees. The site expects to employee more developers and designers in the future
Mark Dorsey, the Bonanzle Chief Raconteur, commented on the uniqueness of the site and items one would find at Bonanzle.
Take a minute to read the entire story
Pretty exciting stuff!
Bonanzle is approaching their two year old birthday in June. And the base is growing at an unbelievable pace. Bill Harding the founder and developer of the Bonanzle site is one of four employees. The site expects to employee more developers and designers in the future
Mark Dorsey, the Bonanzle Chief Raconteur, commented on the uniqueness of the site and items one would find at Bonanzle.
Take a minute to read the entire story
Pretty exciting stuff!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
ECMTA Las Vegas Conference April 13-15, 2010
The week has literally flown by! I can't believe it is already Thursday. Ever single day the intentions to sit down to post some of the events have been there, but the time has just escaped.
Phaedra and I bluepennylady met for the very first time on Monday night. Most people did not know that Phaedra and I have worked together on multiple projects including the Bonanzle Boardroom and podcast ...And we got to meet, very first time Monday night ! Very exciting for both of us.
Tuesday our agenda was full with meet-ups with other Bonanzle sellers. Wow, what an experience.
We had lunch with Bonanzle's own baby daddy Bill Harding
. that was totally fun and very enlightening.
So let me embrass Bill to death. I found Bill to be extremely gracious. Not that I expected to find him any other way. Very well spoken and considerate. He is a gentleman. You know,the kind of man that waits for ladies to walk through the door, holds the door open, offers to carry your laptop bag....that kind of man. Which in today's society isn't something you see everyday.
He doesn't miss anything. Even the most random comment. If something pricks his interest, you can see the wheels turning immediately.
I can also say definitively that Bill is constantly looking for ways to improve the Bonanzle site, For sellers and buyers alike. IT isn't just lip service like some people (or sites), it is a true and sincere desire to give the sellers tools/features/functions/exposure they need to succeed while providing the very best buying experience for the buyers.
I was impressed (like that matters :)
More info to come later. After I unwind it from my brain..
Phaedra and I bluepennylady met for the very first time on Monday night. Most people did not know that Phaedra and I have worked together on multiple projects including the Bonanzle Boardroom and podcast ...And we got to meet, very first time Monday night ! Very exciting for both of us.
Tuesday our agenda was full with meet-ups with other Bonanzle sellers. Wow, what an experience.
We had lunch with Bonanzle's own baby daddy Bill Harding
. that was totally fun and very enlightening.
So let me embrass Bill to death. I found Bill to be extremely gracious. Not that I expected to find him any other way. Very well spoken and considerate. He is a gentleman. You know,the kind of man that waits for ladies to walk through the door, holds the door open, offers to carry your laptop bag....that kind of man. Which in today's society isn't something you see everyday.
He doesn't miss anything. Even the most random comment. If something pricks his interest, you can see the wheels turning immediately.
I can also say definitively that Bill is constantly looking for ways to improve the Bonanzle site, For sellers and buyers alike. IT isn't just lip service like some people (or sites), it is a true and sincere desire to give the sellers tools/features/functions/exposure they need to succeed while providing the very best buying experience for the buyers.
I was impressed (like that matters :)
More info to come later. After I unwind it from my brain..
Monday, April 05, 2010
eBay 50% off Insertion Fee for Giving Works Auction listings
eBay announced today a 50% off insertion fee on regular style auction listings when the seller donates a percentage of the selling price to their favorite non-profit organization.
Donate as little as 10% of the selling price
The 50% off insertion fee offer runs from April 6, 2010 to April 11, 2010.
Donate as little as 10% of the selling price
The 50% off insertion fee offer runs from April 6, 2010 to April 11, 2010.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Bonanzle Boardroom Episode 7 April 1. 2010
Last night, Thursday, April 1, 2010 was Episode 7 of the Bonanzle Boardroom podcast.
Elizabeth Van Pelt, Anightowl, the newest member of the Bonanzle team joined the podcast. Elizabeth talked about her new responsibilities at the Bonanzle site. Approving and Improving the Item traits for sellers, monitoring payments, and dealing with help file comments as well as category images.
Elizabeth told us that the "job" has been far from part-time. She was a bit taken back by all the bells, whistles, and buttons that she sees on her monitor as one of the Bonanzle team. Thanks for joining us Elizabeth!
MKDesigners
won the Burning Bonanzle question this month. She asked what the top 10 questions since the last podcast in March and how improvements are monitored.
Ever quick to answer, Mark gave us some insight via email. Below is his response.
The process is to search the vote for improvement page, future feature file at support and also requests at each of our email accounts. Bill and I review this as time permits, at the very least once a month.
A couple that come to mind:
Sales Tax integration
Downloadable sales reports
More payment options
The Changelist is long since the last podcast. Here are the highlights covered.
P: 3/11/10
Setup monitoring of sellers with high percentages of negative feedback to be put on probation and/or removed from site.
J: 3/14/10 User profiles now have better preview text in google
And deleted old email YEAH!
P: 3/18/10
Updated offer emails to provide specific details about transactions, link to email other party, etc. Love it! You can now see exactly what sold, the amounts, offer total etc.
P: 3/22/10
Updated offer filter to allow offers to be filtered on the characteristics that buyers and sellers actually use.
Updated offers show page to update aesthetic for the 2010's.
. Now you can use some more interesting filters, such as by payment type. On left are now quick links to offers by title of item sold. Much easier to find what you are looking for.
Fixed description text when posting booths to Facebook. = Now instead of the old post that showed the meta description for your booth itself, it now shows first bit of item description.
J: 3/23/10
Added more advanced detection mechanisms to catch previously suspended sellers signing up.
Added detection of unusual transaction patterns to analyze for potential fraud
http://www.examiner.com/x-27854-Bonanzle-Examiner~y2010m3d15-Bonanzle-marketplace-implements-seller-monitoring?cid=examiner-email
P: 3/28/10
Fixed Craigslist exporter for select Windows users with which it wasn't working.
Again there were lots of good questions and comments. If you missed the podcast or could not log in (the technology gremlins were on the run Thursday) you can still here the podcast.
Talkshoe
Elizabeth Van Pelt, Anightowl, the newest member of the Bonanzle team joined the podcast. Elizabeth talked about her new responsibilities at the Bonanzle site. Approving and Improving the Item traits for sellers, monitoring payments, and dealing with help file comments as well as category images.
Elizabeth told us that the "job" has been far from part-time. She was a bit taken back by all the bells, whistles, and buttons that she sees on her monitor as one of the Bonanzle team. Thanks for joining us Elizabeth!
MKDesigners
won the Burning Bonanzle question this month. She asked what the top 10 questions since the last podcast in March and how improvements are monitored.
Ever quick to answer, Mark gave us some insight via email. Below is his response.
The process is to search the vote for improvement page, future feature file at support and also requests at each of our email accounts. Bill and I review this as time permits, at the very least once a month.
A couple that come to mind:
Sales Tax integration
Downloadable sales reports
More payment options
The Changelist is long since the last podcast. Here are the highlights covered.
P: 3/11/10
Setup monitoring of sellers with high percentages of negative feedback to be put on probation and/or removed from site.
J: 3/14/10 User profiles now have better preview text in google
And deleted old email YEAH!
P: 3/18/10
Updated offer emails to provide specific details about transactions, link to email other party, etc. Love it! You can now see exactly what sold, the amounts, offer total etc.
P: 3/22/10
Updated offer filter to allow offers to be filtered on the characteristics that buyers and sellers actually use.
Updated offers show page to update aesthetic for the 2010's.
. Now you can use some more interesting filters, such as by payment type. On left are now quick links to offers by title of item sold. Much easier to find what you are looking for.
Fixed description text when posting booths to Facebook. = Now instead of the old post that showed the meta description for your booth itself, it now shows first bit of item description.
J: 3/23/10
Added more advanced detection mechanisms to catch previously suspended sellers signing up.
Added detection of unusual transaction patterns to analyze for potential fraud
http://www.examiner.com/x-27854-Bonanzle-Examiner~y2010m3d15-Bonanzle-marketplace-implements-seller-monitoring?cid=examiner-email
P: 3/28/10
Fixed Craigslist exporter for select Windows users with which it wasn't working.
Again there were lots of good questions and comments. If you missed the podcast or could not log in (the technology gremlins were on the run Thursday) you can still here the podcast.
Talkshoe
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