01-05-2007, 05:04 PM
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Wagglepop 2007 and Beyond
January 2007
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As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, we enter not only a new year but a new chapter in the history of our community and endeavor. 2007 will bring many changes, but the most important dynamic that the new year brings is one of ongoing vision; the ability to analyze where we have been and see clearly where we are going. To date, we have shown clearly that there is extremely good acceptance of Wagglepop and the Wagglepop "values and beliefs" as the foundation that we are built upon. Our challenge for 2007 is simply one of scale. If we can build a site with 10,037 members and 154,841 listings over one year with minimal marketing and a limited target area (the US, the UK, Canada), what can we do with accelerated marketing, additional and improved features and functionalities, and a worldwide expansion?
To us, the answer is clear. We are just getting started, and the best, as the saying goes, is yet to be.
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"We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage."
- Wayne Huizenga
For about a dozen years, eBay has virtually monopolized the online auction arena. For the majority of that time they've done it in the ways that all large companies are built, by offering a timely or unique product at a good value, but somewhere along the way the "good value" part got lost, and in in doing so also lost was the sense for many users of community and trust.
Where there are unhappy customers, there is an opportunity, and that's an opportunity we intend to seize over the coming year and beyond.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
  - Thomas Edison
Building Wagglepop into a worldwide alternative will not come from simply our ideas about how an online auction site should be built for the 21st century alone. Wagglepop is being built and will continue to be built the way all successful companies are, through hard work, dedication, and perseverance.
The world is full of talented failures, and those who blame everything and everyone for their failures or shortcomings. But find someone who is willing to work as hard as needed, who puts ideas and thoughts into action, and you'll find a success in the making.
We will not be able to outspend our main competition, but we will certainly outwork them by doing all of the things that need doing and understanding that our single greatest resource is the voice of our customers.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  - Mark Twain
To cost of participation as a seller under SmartSell Pro is an incredibly value-packed $9.95. But there is a greater force at work with each passing day for those that are participating and those who would; the hope of building something together that will stand the test of time.
It's always easier to stick with the status-quo, to say if it has not been done before it will never be, to say trying is fruitless.
Don't believe it. Every great endeavor throughout history came with the same baggage. To start something, to be David to the Goliath, to persevere when times are tough, to have faith and patience and vision when you know your path is the right one; those are the things that make greatness and lead to our greatest successes.
Never be afraid to try, and never listen to the cynics, who know the price of everything yet the value of nothing.
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Recognize opportunity.
Do the work.
Believe.
That's it. That's the philosophical formula we'll use as a company and community to accomplish we clearly see as our goals both today and tomorrow. Together, if we can recognize opportunities and seize them, are willing to do the work no matter how long or hard, and work with clear vision and patience with belief in our common goals, we are sure to succeed.
The world is full of people who have achieved great things simply by daring to.
Those who achieve great and unexpected things leave that legacy forever, while the critics who said it could not be done are resigned to the trash can of history.
Let's make 2007 the year we changed everything.
For those who cannot read the wonderful informative January 2007 newletter
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Oh no... not again... here it comes...Â
Wagglepop 2007 and Beyond
January 2007
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As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, we enter not only a new year but a new chapter in the history of our community and endeavor. 2007 will bring many changes, but the most important dynamic that the new year brings is one of ongoing vision; the ability to analyze where we have been and see clearly where we are going. To date, we have shown clearly that there is extremely good acceptance of Wagglepop and the Wagglepop "values and beliefs" as the foundation that we are built upon. Our challenge for 2007 is simply one of scale. If we can build a site with 10,037 members and 154,841 listings over one year with minimal marketing and a limited target area (the US, the UK, Canada), what can we do with accelerated marketing, additional and improved features and functionalities, and a worldwide expansion?
To us, the answer is clear. We are just getting started, and the best, as the saying goes, is yet to be.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage."
- Wayne Huizenga
For about a dozen years, eBay has virtually monopolized the online auction arena. For the majority of that time they've done it in the ways that all large companies are built, by offering a timely or unique product at a good value, but somewhere along the way the "good value" part got lost, and in in doing so also lost was the sense for many users of community and trust.
Where there are unhappy customers, there is an opportunity, and that's an opportunity we intend to seize over the coming year and beyond.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
  - Thomas Edison
Building Wagglepop into a worldwide alternative will not come from simply our ideas about how an online auction site should be built for the 21st century alone. Wagglepop is being built and will continue to be built the way all successful companies are, through hard work, dedication, and perseverance.
The world is full of talented failures, and those who blame everything and everyone for their failures or shortcomings. But find someone who is willing to work as hard as needed, who puts ideas and thoughts into action, and you'll find a success in the making.
We will not be able to outspend our main competition, but we will certainly outwork them by doing all of the things that need doing and understanding that our single greatest resource is the voice of our customers.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  - Mark Twain
To cost of participation as a seller under SmartSell Pro is an incredibly value-packed $9.95. But there is a greater force at work with each passing day for those that are participating and those who would; the hope of building something together that will stand the test of time.
It's always easier to stick with the status-quo, to say if it has not been done before it will never be, to say trying is fruitless.
Don't believe it. Every great endeavor throughout history came with the same baggage. To start something, to be David to the Goliath, to persevere when times are tough, to have faith and patience and vision when you know your path is the right one; those are the things that make greatness and lead to our greatest successes.
Never be afraid to try, and never listen to the cynics, who know the price of everything yet the value of nothing.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Recognize opportunity.
Do the work.
Believe.
That's it. That's the philosophical formula we'll use as a company and community to accomplish we clearly see as our goals both today and tomorrow. Together, if we can recognize opportunities and seize them, are willing to do the work no matter how long or hard, and work with clear vision and patience with belief in our common goals, we are sure to succeed.
The world is full of people who have achieved great things simply by daring to.
Those who achieve great and unexpected things leave that legacy forever, while the critics who said it could not be done are resigned to the trash can of history.
Let's make 2007 the year we changed everything.
For those who cannot read the wonderful informative January 2007 newletter
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Oh no... not again... here it comes...Â