As always we have been keeping a close eye on the progress of our young site. Ahwooga just turned 7 months old and is continuing to pick up speed and momentum. In previous posts to this blog I have shared things that our team has done to improve the site. As always, I want to [...]
This is a quick follow up post about the changes made to the registration and check out to the site. We are seeing a substantial increase in our checkout conversion rates for both new and return visitors. Simplifying and speeding up the registration/checkout process appears to be working. As always, I want to thank those of you who have [...]
Over the course of the last few weeks we have been studying and redesigning the check out process on the site. Through buyer feedback and traffic analysis we were able to identify areas where buyers were experiencing some difficulties. By allowing sellers to put their phone numbers in their banners and listings, buyers who may [...]
Ahwooga is quickly becoming the place. Our goal to build a sellers friendly place to list and purchase parts for “things that move you” is really taking shape. With the help of a lot of sellers combined with the power of search engines, visitors are engaging our site. Through out the day while monitoring our [...]
One of the cool features of the site that we keep posting about is Google Shopping. More than one customer we have asked, “What the heck is Google shopping? Google search results change depending on the search term you type in to a search. For a product search such as “87 Mustang GTX V-Fiber Body [...]
As of this morning, 95% of the products on the site are displaying inside of Google Shopping. I’m not going to run out and get a Google Tat just yet since I’m less than happy with what it took to redesign the process. What is very cool is the increased percent of products that now [...]
Before we launched Ahwooga.com, we knew we needed to first have parts for people to find so they could purchase items from our sellers. In order to make sales we needed items, in order to get people to list items we needed sales. We call this our Chicken-Egg Theory. It took some time for the [...]
Lemorris shows how using some html code can really spruce up your listing. He also goes into some details of creating a searchable title.
Just some quick site maintenance to take care of. With so many new sellers and sales on the site coming in quicker, I wanted to make sure everyone reviews the two videos below. After the sale Invoices
One of my personal favorite features on the site. Seller can add, subtract costs or modify shipping costs to help their buyers. Once an invoice has been edited, it can be re-sent to the buyer and they can check out through paypal. Cool stuff!!!!!!
Here are some lessons for sellers can do after they have made a sale.
Matt from Ponderosa Mustang called us and shared that he was going to Pensacola Mustang Show and wanted to know if he could pass out some Ahwooga shop towels to other vendors. Joe screen printed some up and UPSed them to Matt. Here is the video that Matt posted on Youtube. Thank you so much [...]
Here at Ahwooga HQ we can only track sales that are made through the system and we are very happy that we are approaching 200 sales in such a short amount of time. Yesterday, XtremeHids sent me a note that his customer who purchased a light set from him did the whole transaction over his [...]
Let me start this by stating we fully believe in multi channel sales efforts. With that in mind, here is our cost structure for listing a vehicle. Non-Member sellers – $1.00 for a 30 day listing. Member Level sellers – $0.00 for a 30 day listing as long as they don’t exceed the number of [...]
