Ryan Joins the Bonanza Team

Welcome is in order to the new kid on the block at Bonanza. Hey wasn't that the name of a rock group several years back. Boy did I date myself!

Ryan Hicks has joined the Bonanza team.  Ryan's speciality is "user experience" .. Smoothing out rough edges and making things work right for seller and buyer alike. Which in turn will bring in more sales.. Yes!

Ryan has worked at Skytap, social publishing at Wetpaint and jewelry retailing at Blue Nile. (I love Blue Nile jewelry)

Ryan and Alex are no strangers. They have worked together for over 10 years.

Read all the details at the Bonanza Blog

10 Cent eBay Auction Style Listing Sale Three Days!

Yes that is right eBay is having a 10¢ Auction style listing sale for three days.


August 31, 2010 to September 2, 2010. The seller must have a subscription plan and a DSR average of 4.5


Read all about the details here

Bonanza Handpicked lists and Facebook

Bonanza made a really super cool change to the Hand Picked list page..  A Facebook "Like" button.. oh yeah!  What a great thing.

When you "like" the hand picked list, your name and profile picture will appear. And it is posted to your Facebook page as well.  So all your followers can see what you like.

Read all about it here

eBay Shipping DSR Feedback Policy Change

Today Ina Steiner of Auctionbytes posted the "official" response from eBay concerning DSR ratings for Free Shipping items.

Currently as of today August 26, 2010, the policy applies to the US and Canada. eBay is looking to possibly roll the change out to other sites as well at a later date.

Sellers must match criteria.:

• A seller must offer a Free Shipping option on their item.
• A buyer must choose the free shipping option during payment.
• eBay must be able to verify the buyer didn't pay shipping costs by using verifiable payment methods and using eBay Checkout.

Read the entire blog post on AuctionBytes

BonanzleUP 2010 Opening with Phaedra Stockstill

Phaedra Stockstill of BonanzleBoardroom.com and attheboutique kicked off BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forward.

What fun!

Ebay Changing DSR Rating Stance for Free Shipping

Today Ina Steiner of AuctionBytes posted about an eBay buyer attempting to leave feedback for a seller who offered Free Shipping. According to the buyer, they were unable to leave any rating other than a 5 star for the "Shipping and Handling charge" DSR..

Read the entire article

Email Capture Changes at Bonanza

If you sign out at Bonanza, scroll to the bottom of any page, you will now see something totally different.  A little sign-up box for the Bonanza newsletter. 

Email is still one of the best ways to communicate with our buyers. And here's a chance for new incoming traffic to find out what is going on with Bonanzle.

Take a look at the new signup box.

Read all about it at the Bonanza Blog!

BonanzleUP August 7, 2010 Opening PowerPoint Presentation

Opening PowerPoint Presentation BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forward.  A big thank you to all our sponsors, attendees, the Bonanzle Team, Bill Harding, Bills' mom (Shelly) John Lawson, Phaedra Stockstill and everyone who helped.
A big thank you to my husband, Dale.. He even cleared his schedule and attended with me.

Bonanza New Facebook Promotion options..

Once again Alex released yet another new feature and integration at Bonanza

Here is how it looks in your "My Bonanza > Sell" page

Then the following Facebook window opens for you...

You can read about all the changes in detail at the Bonanzle Blog

Home Page A/B Bonanza Test Results are in!

Alex posted the test results from the A/B Home page testing at Bonanza

Results, in Alex's words, "Not super conclusive."

Bottom line, the new Home page format did not necessarily outperform the old home page version.

So what is their next step,,, Take the data from this test, backup and try something else. Which means another test in the near future.



Read the full test results on Bonanza's Blog

Bonanza updates the Site Search

Bonanza made an incredible change to the site search.. This is just too totally cool.  I happened to be online right after the change was made.  I noticed the left navigation was different and started immediately fiddling around with the new filtering.

The improvement really makes narrowing a search down very easy. 

Check out the blog here

They even posted a cool video about how to add Item Traits to listings

Bonanzle Boardroom Podcast August 4, 2010 Wednesday night

Yes you read the title correctly.


The BonanzleBoardroom podcast has been changed this month only to tomorrow night. August 4, 2010 Wednesday night. Same time.. 7 pm CST/8 pm EST


We had to change because of all the travel plans for BonanzleUP 2010..


Dan Shaprio is joining us tomorrow night.! You really don’t want to miss it. He will be front and center. Ready to talk to the community and answer questions.


http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=66030&cmd=tc


There is a ton of info to cover this month.


See you there!


Judy
bluepennylady

Get savvy about the cyber market | ajc.com

Get savvy about the cyber market ajc.com

Bonanzle makes it to the Atlanta Journal.. Cool!

Stores Subscribers, List Auction-style for 10¢–Any Start Price! | eBay Announcement Page

Stores Subscribers, List Auction-style for 10¢–Any Start Price! eBay Announcement Page

So get ready and list!

Bonanzle Changes Search Results Page

More changes are on the way.. Well are already being shown to "searchers' on Bonanzle

The old search results page was cluttered and often made it close to impossible to locate your favorite seller. Not to mention items that you might want. 

The page has been cleaned up as well as changing the way the search works to locate a favorite seller.

Is that cool or what...

Here is what the "old" page looked like

And the new page looks much cleaner..

And here is what happens when you search for a seller now! How totally cool.

You can read all about the great new change at the Bonanzle Blog

Bonanzle Launches Product Page A/B Testing

Today July 19, 2010 Alex of the Bonanzle team announced they have launched an official A/B test of the Product Page.

The product page is one of the most important pages a prospective buyer sees. The Product page is generally the landing page from incoming search results. A buyer is searching for an item, clicks open the listing and bingo. on the product page.
As Alex promised, he is launching testing to help increase the conversion rate... Meaning more sales to the Bonanzle seller.


Here is the old product page

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 And here is the B version (new version)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Half of the incoming traffic will see the old page ANd 50% of the incoming traffic will see the new page.


YOu can read the details on the Bonanzle blog

The Results are In!

Yes the results are in!  From the Bonanzle first seller survey.. Alex just released an overview of the results.

Number one is the diversity of product offered on Bonanzle. Items offered for sale come from all over the place, literally..

The top important features were multiple shopping carts, the item creation process, and ability to do bulk updates. Not far behind was the forum and community site.

Read all about it on the Bonanzle Blog

Bonanzle has a New kid on the Block

Blake Lucchesi joined the Bonanzle team July 13, 2010.  Not only a  new and friendly face but also with lots of goals, plans and ideas for Bonanzle.

"Blake says, "As a Front End Developer, my contribution to the community will be to improve and enhance the user experience on Bonanzle. I'm going to be implementing new design elements, features and some things you might not notice as well."

Read all about it on the Bonanzle Blog

BonanzleUP 2010-Exploding Forward Logo Winner

Yesterday, the logo design winner was announced at Bonanzle  .. Alilbirdy2 was the winner! Congratulations are in order.

Once again the Bonanzle community jumped in to applaud and share congratulations...Calling all Graphic Designers

Way to go!

Bonanzle Boardroom Podcast July 1, 2010

July's podcast promises to be packed ..

We have a special guest tonight. Andrea's Creation is joining us ... You don't want to miss this surprise.

We have a What's new to cover. My word alot has changed in the last 4 weeks.

Mark Dorsey has some things to share with the community, He won't be there "live" but we have the written interview to share..

Be sure to join us LIVE 7 pm CST July 1, 2010

Talkshoe