The Northern Virginia Technology Council and Bisnow on Business partner together to publish a terrific weekly email newsletter that includes interviews with Washington’s top entrepreneurs. Well, I was lucky enough to be included this week, and I thought I would share. You can visit Bisnow.com to read the interview. I want to thank Mark Bisnow and Tania Anderson for asking me to participate.
Category: Entrepreneurship
buySAFE has had some very nice press lately. One of my favorite blogs is Brian Smith’s ComparisonEngines.com, and he recently did a nice piece at ComparisonEngines.com on buySAFE and how important trust is to comparison shopping search. Since founding buySAFE, I have believed that buySAFE is a perfect compliment to merchant ratings in the search process because reducing the friction of uncertainty inevitably leads to better conversion metrics, and therefore, more profits for the search firms and merchants. It is nice to see a few smart folks agree.
Also, buySAFE recently had an opportunity to live up to its brand promise (Know who to trust….Guaranteed) when one of eBay’s top rated sellers went out of business. buySAFE was able to quickly step up to the plate and financially protect GlacierBayDVD’s buyers after thousands had been left holding the bag. Rob Hof of Business Week was apparently one of the unfortunate shoppers, and he covered the experience in his blog. Thankfully, buySAFE was able to help him out as well.
We launched a new version of buySAFE Shopping this week, and so far, so good. In recent weeks, the mainstream media has done a fairly nice job of covering buySAFE’s new risk-free, comparison shopping site including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, and Consumer Reports. Obviously, we are pleased.
The new site is designed to provide consumers with the safest shopping experience available anywhere on the Internet. How do we do this? buySAFE uses surety bonds to guarantee the transactions of Bonded Sellers up to $25,000 for each transaction. That’s right…If the transaction is Bonded (and on buySAFE Shopping, EVERY item is Bonded), you have nothing to worry about!
Great deals and no risk. Good stuff. I am excited to start all of my Christmas shopping at buySAFE Shopping this year!
Hi everyone. This is my first blog post. I hope to provide you with interesting commentary and news over time, and obviously, I will welcome your feedback as I develop my own style and blogging skills. As always, I will be candid with my observations. Finally, if you have interesting content or ideas that you would like me to cover, simply let me know, and I will try to cover the subject at some point in the near future.
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Steve