BRAVO MOBILE

    

                    Bravo Road Map

The funnest part of Bravo’s platform, The Cloud, The Web, The Services, is that we have the ability to leverage so many functions and inventions of others like  APPLE and ANDROID,  We are excited to announce The MOBILE application for Bravo.

Bravo will support 5 forms of customer communications.

1.       Print notices

2.       Email - enabled

3.       Text – coming soon

4.       Website – enabled www.Maxpawn.com  see find my loan – click here

5.       Mobile – coming soon

Without spilling all of the beans of our application.  Customer Communications, Coupon Deployment, and Payments.

Now you will have a rich link to your customers deploying afforable measurable marketing products to your customers from one easy screen.

We will offer this application for Apple and Android mobile products.

If you have any questions please contact us for a one on one live demonstration.    888.407.6287

                                         

BRAVO COST

Fellow Business Operator,

 

I know what you do every day, what it takes, and know that with a REAL System assisting you each day will be a whole lot better with BRAVO.

Many of you have asked if the cost of Bravo is more than the others.  The answer is unequivocally NO.  Nothing is more powerful and more affordable than Bravo no matter how you measure it.

First,  Bravo features are unsurpassed and 10 years ahead of our closest competitor.

Bravo Store Systems has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership.  Our cost saving features make you money and is exclusive to Bravo Technologies. 

No Servers – No Backups – We do it all.  Save your money and headaches in keeping your servers running in your stores.  They are expensive and becoming obsolete each day.  Enjoy the multi-million dollar software and services with Bravo for a fraction of the price starting at $149.00 per month.

In-store network NO more.  All you need is Router.   Many of you have invested in Novell, Citrix and other expensive infrastructure to hook all of your stores into your store server.  With Bravo Technology thin client architecture, you can create a secure store environment with unlimited number of workstations easily.  All you need is a Router and Switch for as low as $150.00.  Plug it in or Wireless (Yes Bravo runs on a wireless network)

Bravo will help you earn an extra $5.00 - $15.00 for every transaction you perform in your store.

Best Technology – We took no short cuts.  We know that your business needs mission critical systems.  Your system has to be reliable.  We choose enterprise class Microsoft technologies – Microsoft SQL Server – WPF- Windows Presentation Foundation – Microsoft Visual Studio - .NET Microsoft.

Best & most secure Collocation Facility – Switch Communication – SuperNap – click here.

Best of class - IBM Hardware.

THE CLOUD – it’s here, it’s the future.  A scalable solution built on Microsoft AZURE.   Our ability to integrate is unsurpassed.  Hardware, Peripherals, 3^rd Party Applications, and Custom solutions are all what we do every day.

Check Out our Store Network   -  click here

Call us or sign up for a free One on One Demonstration – 30 minutes – click here

Who is the smartest Pawnbroker in the World?

The pawnbroker that uses Bravo.

If you had information at your fingertips like this what would you do?  Apple IPhone 4 – A1349.

In this example we contend that pawnbrokers with the intelligence, instant Google, EBay, and Bing Search, will lend with more confidence, sell faster, check and test the merchandise and in the end make your more money.

Stop living with the systems that don’t bring value to your business.  Bravo brings home more profit with every click.

Pawn Broker Intelligence

20% defect rate

Sells in 20 days

Average default rate is 22%

Average Margin is 37.79%

Broken Condition sold for - $249.99

Call us for a free demonstration

1-888-407-6287

Ship for Free? - Why or Why not !

Shipping Fee - To be Free or not to be Free.

1.  If you can make money on shipping you are achieving online selling miracle. 
2.  If you can break even you are way ahead of the pack.
3.  If you lose or give away free shipping, this is a common cost (investment) of doing business.  The most preferred.   Why would you want to lose (invest) money when you ship something?

FIRST - In Retail there is a cost of acquiring merchandise – called FOB – freight on board.  The shipping costs that are passed on to the retail merchant when the vendor ships merchandise to the store location, or in the case of the big merchants, the cost of a distribution center, break down, and redistribution.  Wal-Mart is famous for having the most efficient re-distribution of merchandise, and this alone differentiated itself from K-mart and killed them.  The same case study of Staples and Office Depot, Staples wins.  Moving stuff is very important part of the cost of doing business.

One of the big advantages of Pawnshops and such, is customers bring the stuff to the store.  FREE –  FOB.  Big competitive advantage.  Think of the effort and cost to bring items to your store location.   Its  huge.  Its free.

SECOND – Big question?, why give it away for free and lose (invest) money.   Amazon?  No one does it better and they are the one to study and figure out why they do what they do.  

When analyzing online business, the cost of acquiring customers comes into the equation.  Between $20 – $50 per customer.  How do you get a return on this customer acquisition investment?  You have to sell repeatedly to the same customer in order to get a return on your investment.  Maxpawn provides customers for FREE.  Our Bravo stores have a unique and lucrative opportunity. This is why Amazon gives free shipping for items over $25.00 and repeat customers.  You need velocity and repeat business.

If you sell online, the strategy behind this effort has a big payback.  Shipping is not a cost but an investment.  Here is why.

PAYBACK – Online customers are very loyal and shop more frequently.  Fact is, people have more time to shop online than shop at stores, and this trend has not slowed down.  If your customer service delivery is good, people will shop your store every day.

The first dip into the water with many online customers is Media.   If you make them happy , they will come back.  Bravo’s key advantage is full use of the Estimator.

1.       Specific identification

2.       Meta Data – Quality Assessment

In this business there is nothing better than really knowing what your inventory is to sell it fast with the highest profit potential in your store and online.

Conclusion

I believe that pawnshops and such have the merchant advantage.  But, there is so much room to grow the business.  We just need to figure out how to get you more merchandise.

At the end of the day, week, and next few years this effort will enhance your store performance, you will be a formidable online selling machine  with hundreds or thousands of loyal online customers.

Your store inventory variety will expand, turn over will accelerate, your loan base will grow in numbers and dollars.

Have a lot more fun :)  Its fun to sell online.

The HOWS and WHYS of Ecommerce and the Web

The HOW to be successful selling on the Web.  What can you learn? There is more to gain that just selling stuff on the web.   Is it different than selling from your store front? 

I believe that learning how to sell on the web successfully will determine your business success in the future.  Get ready to tune up your business operation skills.

My experience selling used merchandise started when I was 9 years old working at my dad’s shop.  1500 square feet store with 6 show cases in a building over 100 years old.

In 2003 Our Company was the largest seller on the Internet with EBay selling through 50 stores with one system.

I learned to sell new merchandise as well over the years.  Ordering from vendors, receiving the partially filled orders, waiting for the back ordered goods and finally closing out the PO – ‘purchase order’ and paying the bill as negotiated.

We never had enough used goods, so we were always looking for bulk bargains on merchandise so that our prices were cheaper than the competition.  I learned that selling used merchandise was easier than new merchandise. I learned over time that it was easier in many other ways as well.  Because there was so much competition between big boys and our purchasing power was so limited, our only defense was to call our new merchandise used.  It worked.

Until we figured out how to grow our loan portfolios to fill the demand for our goods for of our retail, we needed to buy new stuff.   At one point we had 2 buyers looking for deals on  new and used merchandise.  We were purchasing millions of dollars a year to fill our stores.  It was hard work.  We added a warehouse, splitting, palletizing and shipping.  And expensive.  Every item that we bought new that we finally got to the store to sell had $5.00 - $15.00 distribution cost.  It took us 2 years to figure out that cost.

Were we making money?  Probably not.  I knew that it was very small at the time.   But the traffic it drew and the Brand that I was building, I felt at the time it was worth the time, effort, and cost.  Building a business is not always profitable at the beginning.  It takes time and investment to figure it out.

“ THE GIFT – THE CUSTOMER”  -- a customer coming into your business is “An Investment not a Expense”

Then came the Internet in 1997 and I finally figured this out. 

Factoid - In 2003 our Company was the largest seller on the Internet with EBay and Superpawn.com, selling through 50 stores through one common system, Bravo’s previous version PRIMA.  The only system available today, Bravo now adds the power of the Cloud to its exclusive Dynamic Ecommerce.  We sold 3000 items in our first 5 days.

The whole world was going to change with the Internet.  And it has.  But it continues to change and its 15 years later.  The one thing I learned about online shoppers.  They shopped first and purchased later.  Hmm, the same as in the store?  Was this a wakeup call on the Internet or have I been neglecting my store customers all of these years.

The most important lesson that I learned selling merchandise on the Internet was I had a lot to learn selling correctly through my stores.

Customers are Gifts.

Everyone knows that customer service is important.  Every customer that walks into your store is a gift.  But you’re paying for the gift.  The Gift could have wandered into your store for a million reasons.  Do you know why?  It could be your location, yellow pages, your signage, advertising, word of mouth, and If you are a pawnbroker, it may be the person had no other choice.   But it’s important to figure out the ‘why’ they came in.  The reasons your customers come into your store will continually change.  And if your spending additional money outside your rent (location, location) and word of mouth,  every dollar you are spending is an investment, not a expense.  It’s all up to you whether turn that investment into a profit.

There is a big difference treating the visit as an investment rather than a expense.  What you do with that customer (the gift) in your store is the all-important question you should be asking yourself every day as long as you are in business.

If you think of the customer visit as an expense, if the customer buys or not, you end up treating this visit as a one-time event.

If you treat the gift as an investment, every moment you are with the customer,  everything the customer experiences, your store appearance and smell,  your employees image and approach, your merchandise presentation and price, ‘the detailed experience’, will amount to a final determination of whether your investment will pay off.

1.      Will the customer come back?
2.      Will the customer tell a friend? 

That’s it.  That’s the goal.  That’s all you have to do.

So now you think I am crazy because the score is all about the purchase.   Well it is.  But even if they purchase it’s not over.  Will they come back, will they tell a friend.  One more visit by the same customer and you have reduced the cost of acquiring that customer by 50% and so on.  No one closes 100%, if you are exceptional it’s probably 30%.   However, if you give up and most do, you have walked away from your investment.  How many times a day do you walk away from your investment?

Remember, customers don’t come back to look, they come to buy.

The first impression is the most important.  Did you deliver?  Did you say  No?  Did the customer get a good impression?  Will the customer come back?  Will the customer tell a friend?   

Question?  Am I talking about what happens in your store or on the web?

Second most important lesson learned.  If you are delivering on the web and give the same experience to your store customers, you are a winner and a competitive business, in today’s market place.  The Web buying experience has set the new standard in retail.

The future is here!  Nearly everyone shops on the web before they buy.  Our vision for our Bravo users is that when an item is shopped using your mobile phone, the shoppers choice will be.  $100.00 to purchase and ship to my house with free shipping, or $90.00 to go pick it up 1.2 miles from where you are.  Online or Nearby will be the common way to shop. 

Bravo feeds every item into the shopping engine network,  so that you fit into the web shopping purchase equation. 

How does everyone give away free shipping?   Simple answer.  It’s cheaper to sell an item by giving away the shipping than selling it on your store shelf.  Many of you see the shipping process as a profit center or cost recovery, but in the world of selling on the Internet, the winners offer free shipping.  You got to figure out your full cost to sell.

Huge Advantage.  What I also learned about shipping was the cost to get it in my store.  When you purchase merchandise from a vendor, you pay shipping costs to your store.  When you buy used merchandise over the counter the customer pays the freight. J  Huge advantage.

Another Advantage.   The key advantage in owning your store and having a thriving business without the Internet is that every dollar that you make selling on the Internet drops to your bottom line.  Bravo empowers your existing store to become a competitive battleship on the Internet.  Free shipping, Best Prices, no one can resist your products.  Now just get your piece of the online pie.

Online customers are loyal and they shop more frequently.   Most shoppers test the waters.  They buy something that costs very little and they come back.  They shop every day.  People shop online shop more than they ever shopped before.  The cost of gas goes up and it becomes harder and harder to afford to shop around and people love to shop with a business they have gotten a good deal from and merchandise they expect.  Your online customer are more loyal than the customers walking into your store today.  I believe the reason for this is time that customers have, and the cost to drive to your store.  On the web this goes away and everyone selling on the web is working to make even easier and faster.

If you can make a buck and sell an item online you have a repeat customer.  Don’t turn down offers if there is any way possible.  Each customer that Maxpawn brings you is a fifty dollar investment in your ability in making this customer yours.  We currently are getting a thousand customers a day looking at your store.  Don’t let them walk.

We want you to be successful with Bravo.  We have created Bravo with the ability to provide you customers and a selling platform that is 80% less expensive than what how you can sell on EBay.  This is a huge opportunity, it’s an exclusive opportunity for our Bravo users, and its easy. 

Go build your online business.

This is the first part of the HOW selling on the Internet will make your business prosper.

If you are a Pawnbroker, the lessons learned translate straight into your Loan Portfolio.  Stay tuned for my next article.

The Monkey and his Master

Steven Mack • Here is a family story - 1964.

Pawnshop laurels - Mack Family - 4 generations of pawnbrokers. 


I had heard this story when I was 6 years old – 1964. My dad Ron was 5 years into his pawnshop with my mom Judy. The two of them started Cameo Jewelry and Loan with $1,800.00 in a 1800 square foot store next to the Silver Dollar casino in downtown Reno. They went to Laundromats to purchase Men’s suits and various clothing that were left by unpaid cleaning charges. Had a limit on how much they could loan out each day. It was a day to day roller coaster for many years.

My dad was a frustrated scholastic. Wanting to be anything but a 3rd generation pawnbroker, he had achieved two graduate degrees, one in Law and one in Accounting while running his pawn business. When he finally completed the correspondence legal studies from La Salle Law School in Chicago, Illinois, his job offers did not measure up to the income his little pawnshop was providing his family.

Reno pawnshop’s had a unique opportunity than most pawnshops around the country. Tourism and Gambling was the backbone of downtown, and tourist loved to shop. They loved the journey into the many pawnshops in downtown Reno. Retail was where the opportunity of success was discovered.

This is a little back ground about my dad and this story is about a customer wandering in with a furry companion on day. A pet monkey.

My dad loved the zoo. He grew up in Oakland, California. As a kid he would go over to the other side and visit the San Francisco Zoo. When our family was young we would visit the Zoo and we would have to make the visit to the monkeys at every visit. I remember my dad, jumping up and down on his bed, acting out his monkey routine. It was gut busting funny!

This desperate customer had this monkey and my dad wanted it. A deal was struck - $600.00. My dad had brought home a Terrier one day that he had purchased in his store and was our beloved pet for years. Bringing home a monkey to the family, the excitement, the companionship, the illusion was a dream come true. My dad and his monkey a little more than hour together before all hell broke loose. Feeding him and wondering how my mom would react, the mood changed quickly when the monkey cocked his head from left to right looking for his missing master.

As my dad still tells the story, “the monkey went Ape Shit”. My dad’s tiny store was long and skinny with rafters on both sides. The monkey began urinating and defecating everywhere. For a few minutes my dad thought he could calm down his new companion, but plan B was the only option. He locked up his store, left the monkey, and started running through the casino’s in downtown Reno.

After running through the Silver Dollar, Horseshoe, Harrah’s and finally Harold’s Club, there was the man leaned over the crap table down $200 of the money my dad had given him. My dad convinced the man to give him back the remaining money he had left on the rim of the crap table, forget about the $200, and comeback for the monkey. They both whisked back to the store for the reunion of master and monkey. My dad was so relieved.

It took a month to clean the store and we don’t have to get into the detail of this effort, but the story lives on, is priceless, and still to this day, we love to hear “the story of the monkey”.

I had read a story of a similar tale from a pawnbroker in Georgia and never thought it was possible to happen twice, but I have found pawnbrokers love to take home pets. Zoo lovers, I guess. 

From a fellow Pawn Broker - written April 12, 2012

Steve

I read with interest your story about your father buying a monkey

We had a similar story.

About the same time, around early 1960's I was about 6 or 7 when my father brought home a monkey he had traded for a guitar.

At the time, we had four kids all under 15 living at home.  We thought it was great!  We fed that thing everything you can imagine; leftover dinner, cereal, salad, candy and of course bananas.  As you know, when monkeys eat, they must dispose of that food after it digests.  And that monkey disposed of that food all over the basement.........much to my mother's dismay.  She told my father....in no uncertain terms.....it was the monkey or her.  Well, the next day when all us kids woke up, the monkey was gone.  We never did find out what happened to it.  Knowing my dad, he sold it at a profit.

Take care

Lou Tansky

President

Uncle Ben's Pawn Shop

Ohio Pawnbrokers Association

2600 St. Clair Ave,

Cleveland, OH 44114

216-325-5626

Bravo Estimator - Product Evaluation

Bravo Estimator:  Spell Checker  - How do you spell Hewlett Packard – HP

When you put in an item into Bravo it checks the spelling of the item.  For HP there have been over 40 ways it has been spelt.  Each time it is brought into the system the data from the item is incorrect.  Miss matched.  Reported incorrectly.  Miss evaluated.  Each new item that is entered into Bravo is validated.  Each new entry is critical.  It requires accuracy, full and complete model entry, and a great image.  Once you enter an item, your authorship is forever registered.  If you update – challenge an item, your authorship is registered. 

We have been using this for 12 years.  Its Wiki.  the contribution are from our users.  Its accuracy is dependent on you.  Each time you transact with Bravo it gets smarter.

Many have asked, where do these values come from?  They come from you and over time and subscription to Bravo, the data becomes more relevant.  We need at least 200 stores for the data to become dependable.  In Product Value if you see transactions greater than 200 you should take a good look.  Check Nintendo Wii – game console.

Some of our users want to take the short cut and use a generic entry.  We do not allow these on Maxpawn.com and the data from these generic models is worthless.  Do not depend on any of the data that are Generic. 

What is the difference between Ruger 10/22 and the 30 other 10/22 models like 10/22-DSP.  The values vary from one to another up to $300.00.  check out Ruger website.   The popularity of each model is dramatic as well.  The pricing, lending, buying, and selling of merchandise can double your profits on this one model.

Bravo can be a resource of more than a record keeper for you.  If you invest the time to be more specific about the items you take in specifically, each transaction can earn you up to $10.00 more on average on every transaction.  Average stores does between 200 -500 transactions per month.   Pricing merchandise based on cost is one method.  Pricing merchandise based on what it is worth is another.  Don’t be fooled by what you pay.

What to do about Bravo values that are incorrect.  Challenge them and update.  The Best Price in Bravo is the value found through your research that is the lowest price found – retail.  We use this as a bench mark of value.  When you apply the Meta Data Quality rating it adjusts for the item being used.  Using a bench mark value method subscribes to the theory that our customers are price conscious and that our price should be less than what they can purchase the same item in the same condition from a traditional retailer.  The varying quality of the item should be taken into account as well and this is accomplished with the our quality rating system – meta data.

Bravo cloud technology gives you the powerful resources of a Computer Data Center - IBM.  Join Bravo and enjoy The Estimator.  One of the many new features Bravo has.

New Girl in Town -- Bravo-Sweden

Bravo was designed and introduced to pawnbrokers for all 50 States at the NPA show in June 2011.  Since that short time Bravo’s clients have stretched its reach to Mexico and in the next few weeks in Sweden and through out Europe.

We have nearly signed up every Pawnbroker looking at systems from the Dixie Pawn Convention. 

Many businesses ask me,  “can you handle what is needed in Alabama, California, Florida, Texas and so on?”   The answer is yes and then some.  Our technology is based on Cloud Internet services.  The best technology in the industry partnered with IBM and Microsoft.   This robust, dependable, and flexible environment enables our team  to say yes to our customers needs for what they want.  Fast!   There is no better way to run your business today.

Are you still driving the same car you purchased 20 years ago, so why are your running your business with the same old system?  You didn’t wait for your car to break down.  There are better ways to get from point A to point B.  Find out why so many Pawnbrokers are switching to Bravo.  Find out why Fortune 1000 company, one of big 4 Pawn Brokering Public companies have intrusted Bravo for their business?

We may not have the biggest Sales force, but we do have the best product, and for many years to come.

Steve Mack

Call   888.407.6287  for a quick live demonstration and we want to listen to what you need.

Bravo – Sweden

Bravo - America - Mexico - Sweden

Why is eCommerce important to Pawn ?

Why is eCommerce important to Pawn? 

I think there are many reasons, so I will only hit a few in the article.

1.       First answer is retail.  The more customers that you put in front of your merchandise the more you get$ and the faster you sell it.  Half of your effort in the pawn business is selling stuff and If you haven’t noticed every retailer in the world  is moving their entire inventory to the web.

2.       How do you sell on the web?  There are a lot of test scenarios.  The easiest test is to put stuff on EBay.  It’s not a slam dunk.  It’s a lot of work to figure out.  But when you see how fast and effective it can be, you will understand why it continues to grow every year.

3.       Second answer is your Loan Business.  If you can figure out a faster and more profitable method of selling, you are apt to start lending more.  It is our pawnbroker nature.   If you can figure out how to lend more with the same default rate, why not?  Here is your path to loan portfolio growth, without adding a single customer.   A 150k loan portfolio increase of 20% is 30k @ average APR of 120% = $36,000.00 per year more.  What is yours?

4.       Marketing and Brand building.  Nothing is more effective than customers seeing your name and the frequency on the web.   Bravo does all of this for you for free.

5.       How do I get started?  Start selling the small stuff and get your feet wet.  Build your customer base.  How often do your current walk-in customers come into your store to shop?  On Maxpawn.com 20% of our customers will visit your store every day to shop.  Web customers are loyal.  Average sale on Maxpawn.com currently is $105.00.

6.       They love pawnshops, they love to shop, they want to see every day what is in your shop.  From their home or office.

7.       A big surprise selling on the web is – FUNJ.  Yes it’s fun when you get an offer online and the eventual deal when the funds hit your account. J

Below is an example of an item reaching relevance and position on Google.  Bravo submits thousands of items from your store each day.

Back from Dixie Pawn Convention.

Sons Grow Up!

Oh what fun it is to see a son with his father at a pawn convention.  Proud father and his bug eyed kid.  It brought back so many memories.  My mom and dad took me to the JCK jewelry show in New York.  There was no NPA or any convention for pawn back then, but seeing the trade is fascinating and anyone that has not been has to give it a whirl.  There is a new generation of pawnbrokers beginning.

Kathy and her team from the Dixie Pawnbrokers Association did an amazing job.  Congratulations.  The Southern Pawnbrokers are a real tight group.  Everyone knows each other and there is a real sense of camaraderie in the air.

Our take away of the last 2 days is there is change in the air.  New stores are opening and competition from the big 3 public's are shaving market share from the independents.  Business the last year was good.  Diamonds were being bid bought and sold.  Pawn is good!

What is fun for me after growing and running Superpawn’s 50 stores (sold to Cash America – 2004) was learning from the Industry leaders that sell services and goods to the Pawn Industry.   Thanks to Steve Wexler, Michael, and Tony for your advice and help to Cynthia, Michele and myself.

We were saved by AT&T – wireless hotspot device. 

We got to the show to find out the Internet connectivity was going to be upgraded next month.  It was so bad that we were ready to pack up.  I had seen this device at Costco when shopping with my wife and thought maybe there is a store nearby.  There was a store closing in ½ hour and off went Cynthia and Michele.  They came back with a black device half the size of an Apple phone.  We logged in boom done.  A great deal for $120.00 and $50 a month and can be used anywhere a cell phone works.

We set up Bravo from scratch in 15 minutes.  Ticket, label, and receipt printers, along with scanners tested beeping and printing.  The web application is so easy compared to servers, connections, and old setup. 

We validated our technologies ease of installation at this show.  Going to a trade show and seeing your product work, and the way Bravo requires, the simplicity and the minimal effort is what you would have expected.  I was so proud that we have the technology that works like everyone would expect.

What happens when the Internet goes down?  Our competitors common fear tactic.  What happens when your server goes down? This has been a 20-year problem with servers that has never gone away.  The answer to both questions is you can’t conduct business.  The next question is, how often?   The server goes down more frequently than the Internet.  And if you plug in an extra Internet service provider for your store, like the AT@T hotspot you nearly guarantee yourself uninterrupted service.  Bravo services have never been interrupted.

Our competitors didn’t even set up a store demo because of the expense, time and technical support required to setup their systems.   Setting up Bravo is as easy an Apple App on your phone.  You get the benefit of a Million dollar data center for each of your stores and powerful software that gets your store operating the way you want.  This is the beauty of Cloud Computing.  Its already 5 years since Cloud computing has been introduced and where most of services are being delivered today.  Bravo is 100% Cloud.

Freedom

I asked a pawnbroker that has been looking for a software solution for the last 10 years why he decided on switching to Bravo.  “Freedom”  “I don’t want a system that limits me in how I want to operate my store”.  “Bravo is Freedom”  “Thanks for finally bringing a new and complete product to our Industry”.

That made the convention for me.

Steve Mack

Social Media and your Store - Where is your Facebook, Twitter, Blog,........

Facebook, Twitter, and Your Store

Bravo's integration with Social Media is a complete solution.  The social marketing package comes with Bravo's eCommerce Suite.  Social Media today is the most important and cost effective marketing for your business.  Bravo makes it easy to understand and use, with practically no effort.

Every item from your store has your Social Accounts attached.  Your company website is also linked so that all of the attention gets re-directed to your store.  Share with your customers, email, and leverage the viral social network with Bravo !  

  

   Stop doing all of the heavy lifting yourself!         Your systems need to do more today!

Bravo systems gives you everything you are used to, moves your business forward with information to help your employees make wise choices, places your business in the middle of eCommerce profitably, and now positions your company in the Social Network.

Be Bravo...

www.bravorevolution.com

www.maxpawn.com

Maxpawn.com delivers

Well, we soft launched the site last week with our “add to cart” eCommerce.  We will turn on our remaining stores over the next 2 weeks and will have 40,000 items available.  The following day we were certified with GOOGLE.  Within 2 days we had our first sale -  click here and the following day this item – click here was sold.

Case 1 – Skis goggles from a store in Las Vegas – sold at 8.18 p.m. (store was closed) to a person in Virginia.  Paid full price – Customer got a great deal  – found the item shopping on Google.  Maxpawn.com shopping channel integration with Google, the item became relevant, easy to find, available, and paid with the integrated payment system PayPal.  Michael Mack’s store utilizing Bravo Store Systems identified the sale from the Dash Board of Bravo – Web Fulfillment Task button.  2 clicks in Bravo item scanned, Done.  The system kicks out the eCommerce shipping form with shipping label – money in the bank – and customer is informed the item is on its way with tracking number.

Case 2 – Logitech Home Audio – sitting on the shelf in the store for the last 3 months a customer calls the store to inquire.  The following day the Bravo Dash Board – Web fulfillment button lights up at 10:34 a.m.  A man from Washington State makes the purchase.  Click Click – verify item – Done – Money in the bank – auto email to the customer the item is on the way.

Mikes comment – Mike is one of the most experienced EBay sellers in America said out loud.  This is so cool!  That says a lot from a person who sells between 5 – 15 items a day through various web channels.  See Mikes Store – Click here .  Mike has the largest Louis Vuitton Hand Bag selection on the web.

What is also revealing about this sale is Ski Goggles in Las Vegas, are you kidding.  First why would you buy them to resell?  Second, who would walk in his store and ask, do you have ski goggles.   With Bravo and Maxpawn.com there is always someone.  This was a $70.00 sale!  This did not require posting to a website.  This was completely automated and did not require an extra minute of effort to put for sale into the web.

WHATS NEXT

Bravo turns on “ Make an Offer”.  Pawnshop site with “make an offer”, the merchandise is going to start flying off the shelf.  Check out www.Maxpawn.com and witness the vision of Bravo Store Systems take hold.