Owner: Bravisa Team Blog URL:http://www.bravisa.com/blog Join Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:35:11 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Team blog of Bravisa, a provider of free personal online stores for people to make money. Site statistics:Click here
Bravisa introduces free virtual personal stores 2007-09-04 20:34:47 We’re excited to announce the rollout of Bravisa’s new beta site. We’ve made it fast and easy for you to earn significant money (20-40% of sale) with your free personal bStore. Many of you who want to make money by opening virtual
online stores
and selling products through your blogs and websites have had to live with substantial compromises: Competition from merchants, marginal financial benefits, lack of transparency in tracking earnings, upfront and ongoing fees, and/or a limited set of products. Our hope is to change all with the bStore - your free personal online store where you:
1) Have complete control over your store (products, earnings, customization, marketing tools, and more)
2) Can markup wholesale prices to set your own retail prices. 100% of your markup is credited to you and you can make retailer-size profit (20-40%) on every sale.
3) Have total visibility to and 100% tracking accuracy on all sales
4) Don’t face competition from Bravisa or other merchants
New easier seller registration and store setup 2007-06-11 20:16:25 You spoke, and we listened. The registration now has fewer fields to enter. All you need is to enter your email address, select a username & password for your login, and off you go. In summary, we removed entering your first name, last name, and selecting a password hint.
We have also removed the requirement to confirm your email address before you can start setting up your free bStore. You will be able to create an account, login immediately and start setting up your bStore(s).
Entering your name, confirming your email address are still a requirement for receiving the proceeds of your bStore sales. You will also be able to set up your password reset question from your account.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Your Bravisa Team Read more:setup
How to Set Up Your Store 2007-06-07 21:36:13 Bravisa makes it easy for you to make money by promoting products you like. You select products, set prices, and then promote your products in your free personal bStore
or on your blog. If you are not sure how to do this, hopefully this post will help.
(1) Pick Products
To find products you are excited about, either browse Products to Sell or search our products to find whatever interests you. As an admitted chocolate addict, I can’t resist searching for chocolate cake so I’ll type that in the search as shown below.
Select the product you would like to place in your bStore. If you do not yet have an account, you will be prompted to register so that you can add products to your store.
I’ll select the Chocolate Mint Bundt Cake since that makes my mouth water.
(2) Set Prices
Before you add a product to your bStore, you will need to set your price. You can do this by either 1. entering Your Markup (roughly how much profit you want to make with each sale)
Bravisa beta launch 2007-05-22 23:04:41 After a couple of years of intense, iterative planning and development we are excited to announce the beta launch of Bravisa. The goal of Bravisa is simple: to make it easy for anyone (bloggers, webmasters, entrepreneurs, etc.) to enjoy the benefits of a retailer without the burden of buying, stocking, shipping, or servicing products.
Background
Two and a half years ago a small group of people got together to take a fresh look at the online commerce world to tackle some of the challenges posed by existing business models. We concluded that in the traditional commerce world the only winners were large retailers and big name brand manufacturers. Bloggers, product enthusiasts, and other individuals who were driving commerce by influencing the purchasing decisions of consumers were not realizing financial benefits commensurate with their contribution. Small manufacturers making high quality products but with limited marketing resources were not experiencing much success with online com
E-commerce APIs 2007-05-15 16:41:06 Ah, another beautiful day in the bay area. It started out with the morning chill and clouds but that was bound to make way for the sun. I myself am not a sunchaser but I prefer warm to cold. As the sun shined brightly outside I spent the better part of yesterday and today going over Google Checkout’s integration guide. It is very detailed and nicely explained. I also love the way they’ve set up the sandbox environment.
Generally speaking I am very pleased at how nicely e-commerce
APIs have evolved. I’m not talking about creating mash-ups with slide.com or youtube videos on myspace. I’m referring to the UPS Online Tools API, USPS web connect, Paypal Website Pro, Google Checkout etc. These guys have gone to great lengths to provide a convenient to use framework for programmers.
On the shipping side UPS has my vote for best documentation. Having well defined error codes and examples takes them a long way. There are some quirks I don’t care much for, for inst
indexing improvements 2007-10-02 13:20:40 Greetings Store Owners!
This week we are happy to announce new faster indexing for your bStore. We are now able to pick up changes to your store and make it searchable within 1 hour. We have also tweaked the search to make it more relevant and accurate. Please let us know any comments or suggestions you may have.
Happy Selling!
PHP 5.2.4 and IIS 6.0 2007-10-01 20:27:07 Phew! One more day dealing with issues between open source software and windows. I love open source software, and Bravisa uses a whole lot of it. That said it is important to stay on top of windows specific requirements. While I’m grateful for PHP I can’t say much about why the config doesn’t work with virtual directories or with multiple websites when you use the windows installer. I spent some time double-checking the parameters and finally ended up using the zip file PHP distribution without the installer, and setting it up manually.
Still, Wordpress rocks!!!
new bStore manager gives easy access to store functions 2008-02-17 12:34:29 If you logged in on or after sunday feb 17th you have probably experienced the new look for the bStore Manager. If the interface looks a bit off refresh the page because your browser may be caching the old stylesheets.
We looked at all the things you need to do in the bStore, and put them [...] Read more:manager
Enhancements to Product Catalog 2008-01-04 12:43:28 As the product catalog is growing it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage which products have been added to a user’s bStores. To make life a little easier for our sellers we developed a new feature for Bravisa’s Product Catalog. This feature displays a green check mark on the top left-hand corner of the product [...] Read more:Enhancements
Multiple bStore product delete capability 2007-12-28 20:33:23 We are pleased to announce that you can now delete
multiple bStore products through your bStore manager page. To do so, simply check the checkbox in the bStore product tile you wish to remove and click on the “Remove” button located above the product tiles. This should make managing and tidying up your [...] Read more:Multiple
, capability
Dynamic computations with Google Checkout 2007-12-27 21:44:13 Hi,
As the new year draws close GoogleCheckout
seems to have established itself solidly in the website payment marketplace. We strive to be on the forefront of the latest developments in e-commerce and bring them to your bstores and shoppers. This latest update to your friendly neighborhood bStores site comes with Merchant calculations for Google [...] Read more:Dynamic
formatting options for product info 2007-12-10 14:14:05 Hi, You can now use basic html tags to edit the product content in your bStore. The allowed ones are - b, em, it, ul, nl, li.
As an example, look at the product review for this La Pavoni Espresso machine.
Tip # 8, 9, and 10 of 10 tips to attract traffic to your Bravisa bStore 2007-11-30 19:49:15 Tip# 8: Submit select products to comparison shopping engines
Comparison shopping engines are the starting point for a majority of online shoppers. You can submit your product data feed to sites such as ShopZilla, DealTime, Become, and Smarter. Be careful though as many of these sites have a CPC model and charge for every click. [...] Read more:traffic
Tip # 5, 6, and 7 of 10 tips to attract traffic to your Bravisa bStore 2007-11-01 17:15:23 More on tip# 5, 6, and 7 of 10 tips to attract traffic
to your Bravisa bStore
Tip# 5: List products on eBay
Millions of shoppers look for deals on eBay. Many bStore owners have been successful in selling their products on eBay. This requires a few manual steps and paying eBay’s listing fee but is quite [...]
Tip# 3 and 4 of 10 tips to attract traffic to your Bravisa bStore 2007-10-29 17:32:43 Here are a couple of tips to attract tons of targeted and well-qualified traffic
to your Bravisa bStore.
Tip# 3: Submit data feed to Google Base and have your products show up on Google Product Search
Google Product Search is one of the primary ways for people to look for products they are interested in buying. You [...]
10 tips to attract traffic to your Bravisa bStore 2007-10-25 19:35:38 Ramp up your earnings this holiday season by using these top 10 tips to attract traffic
to your Bravisa bStore
Send e-mails to people you know
Place bStore widgets on your blog and write about specific products
Submit data feed to Google Base and have your products show up on Google Product Search
Submit data feed to Microsoft Live [...]
Annoucing Bravisa OblinQ Integration Partnership Enabling Effective Social Commerce Monetization For Sellers 2008-05-13 16:25:32 A cool and creative way to promote your bStore products
We’re excited to announce Bravisa’s integration partnership with OblinQ. The Bravisa OblinQ partnership enables you to creatively market your bStore products on OblinQ. From your bStore manager page, click on the “Promote with partners” link. Then publish products from your bStore to OblinQ with [...] Read more:Social
, Sellers
New Forum for Customer Help and Support 2008-05-16 17:44:35 Have a question about Bravisa? Need to report a problem? Want to share an idea?
By far the best way to handle any of these is in a forum open to the entire community. That way all of us, shoppers, sellers, suppliers, partners and Bravisa employees can learn from each other [...] Read more:Forum
, Customer
, Support
, New Forum
Don’t Miss Out on Selling the Latest Products from Bravisa 2008-05-20 10:18:18 What do jewelery, pewter beer mugs, camping gear, eco friendly pillows and children’s motorized vehicles have in common? These are just a few of the latest products in the Bravisa catalog ready for you to sell.
With the new Bravisa RSS product feed you’ll never be left out from selling the latest products. We publish the [...] Read more:Products
Follow Bravisa Activities on Twitter 2008-05-21 14:07:21 Bravisa updates including important announcements about your bStore and new products for you to sell are now available through Twitter
. You can follow Bravisa tweets anytime.
What’s Twitter?
Here’s a definition from Wikipedia
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up
Sell Your Bravisa Products on Facebook With RadicalBuy 2008-05-27 13:15:33 We’re excited to announce our integration partnership with RadicalBuy. This will enable you to automatically promote your Bravisa products on Facebook
through the Radicalbuy app. Login or join Facebook and add the Radicalbuy application. From your bStore Manager page, click on the “Promote with Partners” link and then click on “Publish to RadicalBuy”. Your [...] Read more:Products
New Cool bstore Themes That Will Improve Conversion 2008-05-26 23:09:25 Thanks to the creative and tireless efforts of our designer, Shilpa, and stud engineer, Shalvin, we’ve launched several cool new themes for your bStore. The themes look trendy and were designed to appeal to online shoppers. Your current themes have been obsoleted and replaced with the corresponding new ones. To check out the new [...] Read more:Improve
, Conversion
GPS Products Now Available on Bravisa 2008-05-29 01:26:57 We’ve just added 200+ GPS
and PND products by Garmin, Magellan, Nokia, Motorola. Search for these under products and then add them to your store. Read more:Products
Bernard Lunn on “The Emerging Main Street Web” 2008-05-28 19:28:55 Late last month, Bernard
Lunn over at Read/WriteWeb wrote an insightful three piece blog on the transition of Web 2.0 to whatever is next. The term he settles on for the post-2.0 world is the Main Street
Web. Read his post about the Emerging Main Street
Web here.
The landscape he paints for [...]
Cool 3D Mouse for Dads and Grads 2008-06-02 14:49:51 This 3D mouse by Sandio Tech is a cool, ergonomically designed 5-button mouse that has 16 additional independently programmable buttons, including voice recognition. It allows 3D Internet lovers and PC gamers to free up their left hand and navigate 3D with ease. CAD software users can easily navigate x, y, z axes with this mouse.
Sell [...] Read more:Mouse
Promote Your Bravisa Products on Blogs and MySpace With Flogd 2008-06-03 14:23:31 We’re excited to announce Bravisa’s partnership with Flogd. This partnership enables you to automatically promote your bStore products on blogs, websites and social networks like MySpace
. Visit your bStore manager page and click on the “Promote
with Partners” link and then on the “Learn more and publish to Flogd” link. From this page, you can [...] Read more:Products
, Blogs
Wii, Xbox, Play Station and iPod Accessories 2008-06-23 20:31:35 Several of you have asked for them and now we’ve got ‘em. You’ll find a variety of accessories for Wii
, Xbox
, Play Station
, iPod
& iPhone Accessories
. They’re just the right eye candy for your store and tempting enough for you to buy them for yourself. Search and add these to your store.
Unique Clothing from Down Under 2008-06-19 15:06:54 We’re thrilled to introduce Australian rugged outdoor wear that is totally Ace! (Australian speak for Excellent!). Kakadu Traders Australia, based in Sydney, has been making unique and high quality clothing and accessories since 1972. Suggested retail prices range from $ 19 - $ 150, with excellent available mark up opportunities. Check out these amazing products [...] Read more:Clothing
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