Online Sales, Community Marketing, And Coffee Tips
Hello, Quirks!
Pleased to meet the lot of you! My name’s Matt, and I’m the first wave of Quirky.com’s newly invigorated sales push.
I’ve been brought in to the illustrious Quirky team to lead our direct sales efforts from our online store. In short, I’m here to bring more people into the site, and to encourage those more people to buy more things. In shorter, I’m here to turn your hard-earned influence into checks in your mailbox!
A few of the things I’ll be looking at in the near future are improving the site’s presence in organic search (SEO, for those in the know), managing paid search and other direct marketing campaigns, and tirelessly working on tweaking the Quirky.com store into the sleekest ecommerce engine it can be.
I’ll be getting into all of this in more detail on later posts. But there’s one thing I’d like to get into as soon as possible with all of you:
We want your help!
I’ve been really inspired by the strength of the Quirky community in getting out the word about this site. This includes, but is not limited to, the enthusiasm that you have all shown for Quirky’s Social Sales Links. We really want to expand that program, as well as make some more like it, so you Quirks can control your own sales destiny as much as possible.
We’ve been kicking some ideas around over here, but I was wondering what’s floating around out there! Great ideas are the Quirky community’s stock in trade, right? Any great ideas for marketing projects out there that the community can participate in? What would you want to do to earn more money while promoting your Quirky products?
My ears are always open to any suggestions you have for community marketing projects, as well as any other ideas you’d care to kick around involving the Quirky community cashing in through the site.
Take care, Quirks! Looking forward to hearing your suggestions and working together to make Quirky.com the greatest success of the information age.
-Matt
P.S. One piece of unsolicited advice for all you out there. When you start a new job, never, ever be the first person to use the brand new drip coffee maker in your office. If you must, certainly don’t let your new boss taste it. The first pot in a new machine always tastes like the elephant house at the zoo smells, and you will never live it down.
Many of my friends have gone to the site with my original link, but never registered at that time. They would simply go to Quirky days or weeks later without using the link, then register and order.