Have you seen my new site? I’ve had several web sites of my own since 2002 and have always taken the do-it-yourself approach. My main site is an embarrassment of riches if you’re looking for entertainment inside the Way Back Machine. But I started that before blogging caught on and little by little figured out what I was doing. First I’d build pages completely reliant on Microsoft’s Front Page, then I’d find myself tinkering in the html view of FrontPage to fix things, and now I only work in that view. I’m very proud of all I’ve learned over the past seven years.
Do you have seven years?
For all my work and all of my pride in it, I’d never imagine I’d say this, but my new site, the VintageMeld, only born onto the web in December 2008, is my favorite of all my sites. Ooh, that hurt to say!
The VintageMeld
I was lucky enough to become acquainted with Scott Pooler of iBusinessLogic some time last year through twitter and I was smart enough to listen to him preach the benefits of WordPress. At first I kind of shrugged him off. After all, I have a WordPress blog attached to my main movie site and the thing is pretty hideous (though I didn’t recognize that at the time) and time consuming to work on. Well, some time passed, Bonanzle was born as a selling venue and I became one of the early sellers on the site last Summer. Scott, besides being a crack web designer, is a voice in the e-commerce industry as well, and so he checked out Bonanzle pretty early himself. We both liked it…a lot!
Scott created an offering that he announced in the Bonanzle forums for a Bonanzle based web store. Though I’m pretty sure I was the first to sign on, I believe A Night Owl was the first to show off a brand new Bonanzle based webstore. Scott’s offering fit my budget, his design blew me away, his ability to listen and care about what input I had really impressed me.
Since I’m busy with a million and one things online, it took a little while for me to get together with Scott and complete my site, the VintageMeld, but it never failed, if too much time passed there was a good chance I’d see Scott’s face pop up on a Google chat…sometimes as early as 5 am! Once the VintageMeld was launched, Scott was very quick to respond to any requests I had for tinkering–and I had quite a few! Thank you, Scott Pooler of iBusinessLogic for being so patient with me.
Scott and iBusinessLogic are really pushing hard to create many more Bonanzle based websites in 2009. He has recently launched a new site of his own, Bonanzle Webstore Web Site Development, and is in the process of creating an amazing bargain for Bonanzle users.
Let me just say this–I’ve used WordPress since 2005 myself, but I never really used it right until Scott trained me (oh yeah, he does that too!). The design was something I could never do and it alone was worth every penny I paid to iBusinessLogic. The lessons in working the backend of WordPress have been invaluable–I relaunched this site, The Collectors Site, on the WordPress platform myself largely because Scott’s teachings created a comfort zone for me. Now The Collectors Site isn’t any VintageMeld, but this works for me.
Since WordPress is the platform for these sites/shops there are many further customizations iBusinessLogic can make for you. For instance, I believe my Bonanzle based webstore is unique in that the VintageMeld is also an eBay based webstore. Yes, that’s right, the VintageMeld displays both fixed price listings from Bonanzle as well as auction listings from eBay–all in one place!
If you’re a Bonanzle seller on a budget, I really can’t recommend Scott Pooler and iBusinessLogic highly enough. And with the new deals, well you really at least ought to do your business the service of exploring Scott’s new Bonanzle Webstore site. Don’t be afraid to ask questions either, you will be treated with respect and I found out personally that even the dumbest questions aren’t treated as dumb by iBusinessLogic.