Quick Sale Hints

August 12, 2008

Hello to our many new sellers! This once-tiny site is starting to feel like a real live marketplace with such a variety of merchandise (and increasing sales of said merchandise) fleshing out our category counts over the last couple weeks.

Of course, with an increasing number of great looking booths and items on Bonanzle, the challenge becomes how to get item views and sales for your particular booth?

To help sellers deal with this most vexing of problems, we recently added a collection of pages that describe some ideas on how to drive traffic to your booth. They live here:

http://www.bonanzle.com/site_help/booth_promotion

Not like you could miss them, since they're also prominently featured on the "My Bonanzle" page.

I know that as a seller it's nice to think that you can just sign up, post some items, and let the site take care of driving traffic to your items. To an extent, this is certainly possible -- Bonanzle's traffic has tripled in the last month, and there are more buyers than ever perusing the site in search of booths to love. But we're not yet eBay (thank God), so if you want to maximize exposure for your items, consider trying some of the ideas on the list. It was designed to provide simple ideas for driving traffic your way.

And keep all the great feedback coming! I hope to see some more Bonanzas get scheduled for later in August, I don't want to see Mark go into withdrawal. I think he's become wholly addicted to cheap Bonanza baseball cards.