CLICK ON MAXPAWN
After 2 years of dedicated development, a vision back in 1998 has finally become reality – Maxpawn.com. Mike Wishart, Kelly York and myself have dreamed for years, saw our opportunity converge December 29, 2008 and dedicated the last 2 years to make this a reality. Many of you have asked me why after selling Superpawn for a zillion bucks and recognized for technology, do you want to put yourself through this challenge? ANSWER is simple – to create a better opportunity for Small businesses and Pawn Brokers
We packed every secret, proven business practice, and the power of today's computing resources into Bravo Store Systems Then we attached a completely integrated distribution channel – Maxpawn.com to every store and connected our users inventory directly into the web. Thursday we turned on Mr Pawn of Boulder City, Nevada. Friday we turned on my brothers store Max-Pawn of Las Vegas, Nevada. From these 2 stores, we have 4237 items for sale today . By the end of next of week we will have our 7 additional companies and 45,000 items for sale. Items for-sale on Google, in the stores, and on Maxpawn, all at the same time. We expect 5 million items for sale by year end.
No other system exists. As each item is sold from the store, sold on Maxpawn, priced from pawn, new merchandise added from vendors, the systems from Bravo does all of the heavy lifting in keeping track of the details in your store and online,so you can take care of the customers. Kick back and watch your merchandise fly off the shelf during your store hours and when your store is closed.
As a pawnbroker myself, selling and handling $600,000,000.00 dollars of merchandise during my tenure at SuperPawn, I can now tell you now why I am so excited today.
In the last few years operating Superpawn I discovered through PRIMA, our former legacy technology, how this idea became the most astonishing business model I have every come across.
We were selling between 1200 – 3000 items per day on the web from our stores.
Most of the items were being sold through the very first API developed with EBay – read this article.
During this period of online sales, we figured out that it was costing us more to sell on EBay than we were profiting in the majority of transactions.
We discovered that integrating online and in-store processes through technology we could create the most efficient selling operation. Your Store – BRAVO – Maxpawn ----------AS ONE.
BIG SURPRISE – read carefully
As pawnbrokers we all have been committed in driving regular main stream folks into our stores. Its extremely expensive and nearly impossible to drive new customers. We as pawnbrokers haven’t scratched the surface even with the help of “Pawn Stars”. Also, more people are shopping on the web and mobile, so this is a delema for all brick and mortar operators.
The secret salsa of Bravo and Maxpawn is 30% of the online sales driven from Maxpawn are “In Store Pickup”. Of those that pick up merchandise from your store – 90% are new, never been a pawnshop customers. We never saw new customers like this before! This is the difference when Pawnbrokers design a system. We know the Pawn facts.
This makes double sense. First, people continue to be reluctant in purchasing used merchadise from any online seller. Now they can shop online, find the item in your store, try it out, and then take it home. Second, there are customers that love to shop pawnshops everyday, and there are many people that are afraid to go in, but are hugely curious. Now they can shop everyday and in their privacy, we sort the merchandise specifically by your store and most recent merchandise. Customers can see new stuff everyday, and they do!
Obviously with Bravo and Maxpawn, your store is seen around the globe. Now you have the Web resources that Wal-Mart has to level the playing field.
Find out how easy it is to change to Bravo. We have developed a new self service conversion process that is the simplest ever, so don’t fret, we want this to go smooth as you do.
Thanks to all of our early adopters that drove this product development. Thanks to everyone else that has read and commented on our progress.
You are all great people in a great business.
If you have any question please feel free to contact me.
Steve Mack
