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Saturday, April 01, 2006
Making iZania Market a Success |
April 3, 2006 Hello iZania Market Sellers, I want to take the time to thank you for your pioneering spirit as we work together to grow this business model. We really appreciate the efforts you have contributed to our progress so far.
Since opening iZania Market: - More than 1,000 people have been added to our subscriber list.
- We have received 28,000 unique visitors to our combined sites at iZania & iZania Market.
- Our average weekly visits have doubled to more than 2000 per week.
- We are receiving 5.6 pageviews per visit, more than 10,000 pageviews per week.
If you are one of those sellers who listed one item that didn't sell, and you haven't been back -- check out our progress now. We are working hard for you to attract more buyers to iZania Market. We talk often about the “chicken and the egg” – which comes first, sellers or buyers. It is a mutually supportive environment that ultimately emerges. Both require nurturing and development.
We are asking you to keep the faith and continue listing your items. We are seeing more activity each month. As a seller, you know that it is persistence that ultimately rewards the successful sales person. There are no shortcuts to success; just lessons learned to help us get better at what we do. Here are some things we are doing to help your success and ours: - We post all listings to base.Google.com. Google Base is a place where you can post all types of content and have it show up on Google.
- We submit “Buy Now” listings to Froogle.com – Where shoppers use the power of Google to find your products. This is Google’s shopping search engine.
- We submit all listings to bidhopper.com . BidHopper.com is a Free listing and search engine service for the dynamic pricing community. If it's for sale, it's listed here! Our Mission & Goal is a simple one: To bring Buyers and Sellers together.
- We submit all listings to Bidfind.com. BidFind's online search services have been helping buyers and sellers come together for 10 years. Listings include auctions, barter, collectibles, escrow, exchanges, price comparisons, stores, shipping, software vendors, trading, wanted, etc.
- We rotate Home Page Featured items at iZania Market in our weekly newsletter. This is a new effort to promote listings directly to our 4600 subscribers. This is like having 4600 shoppers walk into your virtual store.
- We run Internet ads for iZania Market. Our visitor rates continue to increase every month.
- We send out press releases monthly, and always promote iZania Market.
- All basic listings are FREE ALWAYS! We also reduced the price of some of our features to make it less costly to participate during our growth.
iZania Market Stores – Why should you consider an iZania Market Store? - You can feature all your items all in one place without being interrupted by other listings.
- It is easy to list items in both places -- your store and the auction site -- at no additional cost.
- Each store owner receives a unique URL that you can use to advertise at other locations. You can include this unique URL in your marketing and send buyers directly to your iZania Market Store without interference from other listings.
- We feature iZania Market Stores on the iZania Market Home Page and Category pages. This increases the visibility of iZania Market Stores. You Store will be featured on a rotational basis at the Home Page and all Category Searches.
Is there anyone doing more to help with your success? We will continue our efforts to help you with your online sales. We are occasionally asked if we are the “Black eBay.” For those of you who also sell and shop at eBay, you know we have a long way to go. However, what we offer uniquely, is increased exposure to a targeted community of African American online shoppers, as well as other shoppers looking for the unique items that you sell. This is your virtual community; this is your target audience; and they are also shopping for the same bargains as everyone else. The key to our mutual success is the continued growth of our visitor base. Please share the news with your friends and colleagues. Let others know about iZania Market at other websites and online communities that you visit. Forward this message to other sellers and shoppers. You are a valuable and critical element in the iZania vision to acclerate the growth of the Virtual Black Community. Thank you again for joining us in our effort to build a strong and prosperous online community. Sincerely,  Roger Madison, CEO iZania |
