One of the main goals we had designing the site is to keep the rules as simple as possible. For all of you that have been to a swap meet to buy a item can appreciate the simplicity.
Thanks and have fun.
January, 2010:
Back to the Long Beach Swap Meet…this time for the Bikes
Team Ahwooga headed out to the Long Beach swap meet again. This time it was a Bike show and swap and wow, what a reception.
We talked to what had to be thousands of people and gave out shop towels and keychains but more than any of that we had some serious fun!
Enjoy the video and if you get a chance to take in the Long beach Swap meets…do it…You will see us there again.
-Lemorris
We’ve been testing our bulk-upload listing tool
I spent the day trying to not fall asleep after our most recent Long Beach road trip and working on our bulk-upload listing tool. For those of you that have your data available in a spreadsheet format and can give us access to your images, we are now able to bulk-upload items. This is great news!!!!!!!!!! (Applause Sign turns on).
Most of the other marketplace sites allow you to download your current inventory in some type of spreadsheet format (txt, csv, our anything that will open in Excel).
Right now this is an admin function so we would do it for you. If you are interested in us bulk-uploading your items, you would need to send us your spreadsheet and images. You can also give us temporary ftp access to your image folder and we can down load them from there.
If you have any questions, as always feel free to get a hold of us.
Ahwooga.com now has a HubGarage wall sticker
This is a very exciting marketing program for our site. First off we are big fans of the site HubGarage.com. So we got a hold of the staff and worked out a sponsorship program. The part of the program we like the best is the wall sticker.
When you join Hub Garage, one of the first things you get to do is sticker up your personal wall and everyone does it a bit different. Now when someone goes to sticker their wall, they can add an Ahwooga sticker!!! Hub Garage has over 47,000 garage members and as all sites do, a ton of lurkers that are all cars folks.
If you are a member of the site, look for our wall sticker and add the Ahwooga Garage as a friend.
New storefront changes are in place
Our new storefront changes went into effect today. These changes give the storefronts left hand navigation throughout the categories. It also now allows each store to have a banner up to 800 pixels wide.
The only categories that display within your storefront are categories you have active listings in to reduce clutter.
These changes make each store feel more like an individual store.
How To Register For The Ahwooga Site
The registration process for Buyers and Sellers is identical with one exception.
Selling members can enter a valid credit card to pay for their membership costs.
Buyers do not have any costs to use the site and payment for products is done during the checkout process.
Buyers do not have any costs to use the site and payment for products is done during the checkout process.
IMPORTANT
After you click register a verification code will be sent to you via email.
If you do not see the verification code email from Ahwooga.com in your inbox, check your spam box.
Shop towels and Swap meets
Some of you might think we are just web geeks, after this video you’ll see we are just good old geeks. We screen printed a whole bunch of shop towels as our business cards and drove 500 miles to Long Beach California to give them out to some of the nicest car guys we ever met.
Life doesn’t get much better than this.
Some customers have been asking,,,
If we had people who could help them list there items on Ahwooga.com. We have done some asking around and have found a few people who would be willing to help. This is not a free service, but I’m sure they would be very reasonable.
As long as you have a site that could be copied and pasted from, this work is not that hard. The staff here has also been able to get our new customers up and running with artwork for their stores and first couple listings done.
If you do need some help, please free free to e-mail direct at don@ahwooga.com
A big shout out to Ecology Auto Parts
This weekend we went to Long Beach for a huge swap meet to promote the Ahwooga.com site. Being a new vendor, we were given a spot in an area that didn’t seem to have the best traffic flow. This was no fault of the swap meet staff, it’s just the place was packed. To make a long story short, the main sponsor of the show Ecology Auto parts let us use some of their spot to be right at the main entrance of the show. We were blow away by the kindness of there staff. What a great group of guys and I wanted again to tell them thanks.
Ecology Auto Parts You guys rock!!!!
The Ahwooga Help Center is almost complete
The staff here at Ahwooga HQ understands that we will have customers uploading items around the clock. We wanted to make sure that if there were any questions about using the site, they could be answered through our new help center. The way it is set up, you will have text, image and video tutorials. The center defaults to videos, but you can expand the lesson by choosing “View lesson in text form”.
If you want to hide the text based lesson, just chose “Hide Text”
If you are preparing a listing and you have a question and need the help center, just click on the link as show below to open the learning in a new window. You can then review the lesson with out leaving your listing.
Here is a short video reviewing the help center.
Back from our first off-site promotion for Ahwooga.com
Joe and Don spent the first two days of the new year promoting the site at a local event just south of Tucson. This was the first year of the car show so it was a little slow, but we did get to speak to some very nice folks about the site. We also were able to make some final adjustments to our new indoor vendor booth. The Ahwooga swap meet bike also made it’s first showing to the public. Next weekend we will get to test the outdoor booth for it’s first time in Long Beach California.
Launch day on Friday went well and the site had new traffic records set and a additional 400 parts were loaded up bringing our total to over 1600 listings. Thank you to everyone, this is very exciting.
