Bonanzle nominated for Best Boot-straped Startup in Seattle!

Bonanzle has been nominated for Seattle 2.o awards in the category of Best Booth strapped start up! This is great exposure for a marketplace like no other. Here is a link to vote!
http://www.seattle20.com/awards/vote.aspx

Bonanzle Profile: Ruby's Beauty

My focus of starskincare is about great skin and looking good. Another booth on Bonanzle that I have found to be wonderfully eclectic is Ruby's Beauty. There you will find all sorts of Victoria Secret's beauty products, make up, fragrance & perfume, Tarte cosmetics, urban decay, and many other great beauty deals. Ruby's Beauty is having a Bonanza on April 11th at 12 pm. Sorry but you will have to wait for my next post for explanation of what a bonanza is. If your familiar with Gilt or Rue la la....its a similar style online limited time sale. Someone will surely grab up the Mor from Ruby's!

What can you find on Bonanzle?

Bonanzle has so many different types of items. One of my goals is to focus on the high end merchandise that is so special and unique to me. Since it is a marketplace there are all kinds of items from new cosmetics and anti aging treatments, hand made artisan jewlery, designer bags, home furnishings, rugs. Since my experience comes from high end retail such as Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Barney's New york, Henri Bendel among others...I look for value in items are meticulous in details. Special products that you would give to someone who you could give to someone who you want to impress!

One of the first booth's I discovered on Bonanzle was Wildflowerdesigns. - handcrafted beautiful artisan jewlery. These pieces look like high end pieces you might find in a Parisian flea market or in a new york city boutique for hundreds of dollars. They are hand made and spectacular! Believe it or not these sell for under $75...and that is without a Bonanza! (to be discussed in the future)

Have you heard of Bonanzle?

We are now in an era when the online world changes as fast as one can blink. The current landscape of online companies that matter most for e-commerce marketplaces are dominated by only a handful that have well known recognition by most. The two well known by most are ebay and Amazon.

As the owner of many businesses in the past, the thing I realized now is that social equity is the most important element for online business. Word of mouth means much more than it did in the past. This lead me to look for an online marketplace and/or community. My results: STARskincare's new home at Bonanzle!

Bonanzle is a place that is right where it should be for now. It is catching on faster and faster because of its social element! The main purpose is commerce-but the merchants are what make it a great growing site. There is plenty of common sense and nothing done on a cookie cutter corporate approach. It has enough structure yet latitude to be innovative and creative! I believe in the future of Bonanzle enough to have made it my primary vehicle of growth for STARskincare!
Bonanzle's motto "Find anything but the ordinary" - Fantastic!