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Re: Garage Dollar

RichardF — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:22:30 -0000

Hey Mark

Love this idea. You need an iphone app or at least an iphone optimised website with a googlemaps link.

Also maybe you should think about a searchable listing on the site (and charge a buck more for it!)

I notice that you have the facebook "like" widget - are you able to tell who visited the site through that?

cheers

Richard

Re: Garage Dollar

Mark Essel — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:16:05 -0000

thanks Jared, appreciate the feedback. We're working out the best update methods now (map with clickable icons)

Re: Garage Dollar

Jared McKiernan — Sat, 08 May 2010 01:54:54 -0000

How might you get people who are into garage sale hopping to sign up for the service? It seems like most are older and less likely to be web-fluent, but if a group in your area is signed up it would certainly be valuable to post your garage sale on Garage Dollar. Perhaps frequent garage-sellers would be interested in telling their local market about the product and signing people up, much like a band signs up fans for their mailing list at a show?

I think this is a really interesting idea as the tool is simple and useful to non-tech people. Tech people always forget about how non-tech types use the web, media, and tech products; generally the two groups seem to use tech in such disparate ways that the "two types of people" might as well not even be using the same product.

I just messed around with some cursory Google searches looking for a site where garage sale aficionados can converse, share tips, best areas for an intense garage-shopping road trip etc. and I wasn't able to find any such site within several different queries; maybe i just don't know the insider terms to find the hot garage-shopper blog/forum community, but my intuition is that it just doesn't really exist in a centralized locale; if it does, getting them on board would possibly get this tool a solid user base in a hurry.

Cool idea Mark, and I love how basic the UI is: perfect for what I assume to be the primary Garage Sale Junkies: retired people and families with tons of kids. at least this is what my limited experience from the couple garage sales we had when I was younger.

Excited to see where you guys go next from here.

Re: Garage Dollar

Mark Essel — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:43:26 -0000

Thanks Dave.

It's our first step into location awareness. Tyler did a fantastic job
on this one. The idea hit me while out walking and answering drivers
questions about local garage sales.

Re: Garage Dollar

Dave Pinsen — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:38:19 -0000

I like it. It's the 21st century upgrade of stapling signs on telephone poles.

Re: Intelligent Media Manager

Mark Essel — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:14:01 -0000

Agree that more interested visitors will yield greater revenue.

But David this is a tool that will increase the click through rate of existing visitors by targeting their interests with timely, and relevant ads.

Re: Intelligent Media Manager

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Re: Intelligent Media Manager

Terence Reilly — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:03:35 -0000

I am using the code in a Wordpress Blog. Found a great place to put it so the bar looks right, because the initial links display vertically. When I click on a link an amazon webpage opens up, but it can hardly be seen without mad scrolling. I am not envisioning a place on my blog where both the vertical link piece and the amazon webpage will look right. Perhaps each link should open up into a separate tab/window?

Re: Intelligent Media Manager

Mark Essel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:49:14 -0000

Thanks for the feedback, please feel free to try it out. We're working on the challenging social aspect of adoption now. The lead tech Tyler is implementing a default list of popular twitter users so you can see suggested ads for them, and then can opt in to get your own. Hopefully this will entice browser participation. More tools to come!

Re: Intelligent Media Manager

Imobiliare Satu Mare — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:30:11 -0000

interesting, thank you