Indoor Market June 27th
By · CommentsDo you have something to sell, but no venue to sell it?
On June 27th from 9AM – 3PM Join us rain or shine, for an Indoor Market at the Chesley Community Centre. This large event, hosted by BoogiBoard Free Classifieds will coincide with the annual Chesley Kinsmen Car Show and the seasonal Grand Opening of the Chesley Centennial Pool. We are anticipating a large turnout to this event and will be advertising it through several local media options.
Tables for Vendors are only $15 each and entrance to the event will be by donation at the door. Proceeds from the market will be donated to a local recreation or conomic/community based project.
To reserve your 8 ft table for only $15.00 please call Katrina at the Municipality of Arran-Elderslie at 519-363-3039 or the organizers at BoogiBoard.com Tables will be booked on a first come, first serve basis.
Remember, June 27th 9a.m. to 3 p.m. Chesley Community Centre, Chesley, Ontario
How to get your stuff ready for sale
By · CommentsHow to get your stuff ready for sale on BoogiBoard Free Classifieds.
So you spent a few hours cleaning out the garage or storage space and the pile of stuff is ready to be liberated…now what. Here are some steps you can take that will help you to prepare your stuff for sale and get more salable value from it.
1. Sort it out. If things are missing parts, like wheels or other key components, then you should fix it, recycle it or throw it away. Smaller items can be sorted into bins and more fragile things should wrapped to be protected from getting damaged. Labeling your stuff and even pricing it (if you have a lot of items) helps to ready it for sale.
2. Clean it up. Baking soda and little warm water is an effective cleaner, it’s gentle and it works on almost anything. Use specialized oil soap for cleaning wood products.
3. Fix it up. If you are selling a used bicycle or other vehicle make sure it is lubricated and adjusted so it is running smoothly (No one wants to test drive a squeaky, crooked vehicle!). For any furniture items make sure all parts are fitting as they should and glue or adjust loose parts as needed. A fresh coat of primer and paint can breathe new life into older items.
4. Choose your method of sale. Before giving away a percentage of your sale to an auction website or newsprint advertiser why not try to sell it online for free? You can post a photo of your item, include your own description, add a link to direct your ad to a different web page and share your ad with your friends on Facebook or Twitter.
These are the first steps in preparing your stuff for sale, stay tuned to the Boogiblog for more valuable tips on how to sell your stuff on the BoogiBoard Free Classifieds.
Press Release
By · CommentsLocal Entrepreneurs Provide a Valuable Resource for Local Residents across Grey-Bruce Counties.
BoogiBoard.com, a local online community of Buyers and Sellers, provides resources for local area residents to connect, advertise and exchange items of value through a feature-rich, free community classifieds.
South Western Ontario, September 21, 2009 – As record numbers of local residents are facing minimal employment opportunities and the crunch of an economic crisis, those who are entrepreneurial minded are leaving traditional employment and establishing their own small businesses. With a reduced family income, as is currently common in many Grey-Bruce households, the demand for alternative resources and support is increasing. In an effort to provide an asset to the general public within the community and also accommodate small businesses with a tool to help them succeed in a competitive environment, David Winn of Gallery Cards, and Jason Eke of the E-Marketing Agency founded an online website called BoogiBoard.com.
A simple idea, conceived by the two entrepreneurs, has quickly grown into the premiere website: BoogiBoard.com. The founders, two very creative and competitive business owners knew the intrinsic value of marketing, networking and promotion, and realized a gap in the existing services offered in the community.
After several months of planning and researching, the two had come up with an outline that would become their marketing plan. In early September, the website www.BoogiBoard.com went live and online, with it’s official launch not scheduled until October, 2009. By the end of their second week of operation in September, the Grey-Bruce Free Community Classifieds had grown to more than sixty-five registered sellers, with well over 100 free classified Ads, and had already reached over 1440 website visitors, the online structure for the partner’s classifieds website was well underway.
The purpose was to create a simple site where both, local residents and business owners can network, advertise their goods or services, and develop reputations and relationships. To take full advantage of the site’s features, once registered, members can complete a Seller Profile, link back to their own website, post events, services and items for sale complete with photos, location maps and even stream video virtual tours. Whether visitors are registered and logged-in, or not, they leave comments for Sellers on Ad pages. Or, make a private email connection, right through the BoogiBoard operating system. Both Winn and Eke hope BoogiBoard.com will evolve and support communities across Ontario.
“We’re two very creative and competitively minded people, we wanted to be able to promote and sell online, expanding on the social and community aspects of online classifieds sites, and be a part of innovative new marketplace,” says Winn. Eke adds “We wanted to provide a crisp, attractive online marketplace. I personally wanted to provide a site that was easy to navigate that would be freely available to our community. I also wanted to be able to promote my business to the community at large, and I didn’t want to spend a fortune doing all of this, I think that BoogiBoard offers this.”
After only a couple days of having his classified Ad running on BoogiBoard, Woodlot Management Business owner, Lee Thurston says of his free listing, “I can’t believe how many responses I have had in not even 24 hours, great stuff.”
The low cost of using the site is one of the primary objectives for BoogiBoard.com, because both Winn, and Eke want to provide a community resource and not limit the features available to members no matter how small their budget. Winn says, “I found that other online classified sites had some of the features that I liked, but were priced to high for something as simple as including a link back to my own website.”
The success of the classifieds will come from the contribution of its users by adding a free classified Ad and then sharing their Ads with their friends through social media like Facebook. BoogiBoard founders have built in a simple interface to allow this to happen with a single click. As time goes on, registered users will develop their Seller Profiles, develop their online reputation, promote their goods or services, get to know each other better, share and spread the word, and create a valuable local resource.
About BoogiBoard.com
Founded in 2009 by David Winn and Jason Eke, BoogiBoard.com is a growing free classifieds community for local Grey-Bruce area residents and business owners. BoogiBoard.com provides area residents, and business owners with a free, feature-packed platform for advertising within a geo-targeted marketplace.
BoogiBoard Free Community Classifieds
By · CommentsFree Community Classifieds. Use BoogiBoard free classifieds to buy & sell locally in Ontario. Categories include buy & sell, vehicles for sale, real estate for sale, pets for sale, employment, services, and community listings.
Why Surf the free, web-based community classifieds?
Well, put simply, the times are changing. In the past, print media was King when it came to low-cost media and advertising opportunities. Whether you wanted to sell or buy something the news-printed local classifieds were often the only option for most households. Then, along came the internet.
Over the past few years, printed media has been in decline, and in serious trouble. Early figures released by the Newspaper Association of America showed that the decline of newspapers is rapid, when total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950, the year they started tracking annual revenue.
Really, it’s no wonder. When you put together and look at the whole formula behind print-media: convenience is not a part of the equation, and then there is also the associated higher costs.
Recently, according to The Wall Street Journal (Newsstand Sales of Magazines Shrink 11%; February 10, 2009) newsstand sales of magazines plunged in the second half of 2008, the worst drop in decades. Adding fuel to the news that print media is in real trouble. This terminal illness and lingering death of print media; newspapers, magazines and books ; can be a lesson to all business. It’s a lesson about coping with change.
New markets and new media have fundamentally altered the industry – and if anyone thinks it’s the economic downturn that’s driving media companies to the wall, they’re missing valuable pointers to their own business survival.
Times are changing, and you don’t need to be a tech geek to use your home computer to look up local businesses and events in your area, or to post your own free classifieds.
BoogiBoard founders recognized this as an opportunity to provide our local communities with a service that we all deserve and decided to move towards developing the next level of community classifieds.
Some of the features that you’ll find in BoogiBoard are:
- FREE CLASSIFIEDS! – compare this to the cost of print classifieds and their online counterparts and you’ll be amazed at the savings you get when you use BoogiBoard classifieds.
- Ad Editing – One of the most requested features, BoogiBoard classifieds customers can now edit and pause their own ads
- Featured Ad Option – For a small fee customers classifieds will be highlighted in yellow and listed at the top of the home page.
- Instant Image Uploading: customers can attached multiple images directly into the ad submission form.
- Seller Contact Form: Visitors to BoogiBoard can easily contact sellers right from the BoogiBoard web site.
- Report Bad Listings – Visitors can report spam or inappropriate ads on BoogiBoard to keep the site clean and safe, the way we all like it.
- Email and Print – BoogiBoard classified visitors can now easily print and/or email the classified ads, just by clicking a link!
- Embed Video – That’s right! It’s now easy for BoogiBoard customers to include videos in their classified ads. BoogiBoard supports YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, Vimeo or any site that provides “embed” code.
- RSS Feed – For the die-hard bargain hunters, visitors can subscribe to the BoogiBoard RSS feed from any feed reader and instantly see the latest classified ads posted in their area.
- Improved SEO – You don’t need to understand this, but what’s important is that we understand the importance of search engine optimization (SEO). That’s why we’ve baked in enhancements to help your classified Ads rank better in search engine results.
- Google Maps – BoogiBoard classified customers can see exactly where each ad listing is physically located.
- Social Media – Do you use FaceBook, Twitter, or another social media application? With BoogiBoard classifieds, you can share your Ads seamlessly on your profiles with a simple click.
Got something to sell? Why not give it a try today!
