We opened up the Ahwooga Warehouse with forums, articles and a gallery

The warehouse was something we wanted to create from the beginning. We wanted a place where people could share information and have a place to visit and relax. Our goal is also to create a place where people can can do research on vintage vehicles. this will be in phase two of the warehouse.

This will also give our sellers a unique way to promote their items if they decide to take advantage of this tool.
Currently we have;
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Event Calendar

I am looking forward to seeing what this project looks like in a year.

Today we announced free classifieds for services, car shows and wanted ads.

So starting today, Services, Car shows and Wanted Ads are free to all registered members. We are looking forward to unique type of listings within our market place. Since we started Ahwooga, we have always wanted it to be more than a marketplace site.

Our current membership level users will also be able to add in services they offer and have those listings show up inside of their stores along with their other product listings. This will allow visitors to the site to have a better understanding of the types of businesses on the site.

I have always visualized the sites search for motorcycle gas tanks (for example) to included restoring, painting, dent removal and new and used tanks.

I think the staff will be happy when we see users of the site building a community for enthusiasts. Next week we are launching a new segment of the site call the Ahwooga Warehouse. The warehouse will add a new level of sharing for our audience.

I have not done a good job keeping up on my blog.

Ahwooga is almost 7 months old and cruising right along. There has been a few bumps in the road though. I was reading through the earlier posts and they seem so long ago. Today we will go over 93,000 live listings and we are are looking at going over 100,000 by the first week of August. In the big picture, this is still a small number of items when you look at the industries we cover but it is still exciting to me.

Currently what is making me the happiest is, our sales conversion rate for sellers in increasing. We spent a bunch of time working on the checkout process to smooth it out. This was difficult since we know the site so well, we always knew what to expect next.  

How Google Shopping Benefits Ahwooga.com Sellers

In this video we explain the integration between our Ahwooga Sellers and their products in Google Shopping. This way people who start their search for Automotive or Motorcycle parts can find items listed on Ahwooga.com

Our first month is under our belt.

The good news is, we beat all of our projections in January. The bad news, well there is not any bad news. I can say we are getting excited for the site to really explode traffic wise. We have customers that are starting to link their listings to other sites that is helping.

We tested our bulk uploading tool and announced it is ready. Now it's a matter of someone sending us their lists and images for a real run. This will help the site grow in listings quickly. Another site we were watching closely had 10000 listings in 90 days, I think we can do better. 

Ahwooga.com is over 3000 listings and growing

So far the site is moving along much faster than projected. We even had our first sale completed through the site flawlessly. We Help Center should be completed this week and is looking good. We signed a sponsor ship with Hub Garage (A site we love). The staff is going back to Long Beach this weekend for the motorcycle swap meet to pass out more ahwooga shop towels.

Sleep is for the weak, or at least that what I keep telling myself.

This weekend we are going to a swap meet in Long Beach

Getting out there and shaking hands and introducing ourselves is one of the ways e want to promote the site. So Sunday there is a big swap meet in Long Beach California. Joe and I were wondering what would make a good give away we could  put our logo on. The decision was made that shop towels would be something everybody could use and they were inexpensive. So with the help of a nice gentleman here in town who has a screen printing shop, manually printed up 400 shop towels.

I will update you on how the show went.

Happy New Year - Day one of Ahwooga

OK, it's official. Ahwooga.com is live. We just missed having 1500 listings to end the old year :).  This morning Joe and I are going to try out our new show booth at a local show being help at one of the casinos in town. I'll post some photos later today.