Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Take advantage of the most powerful Point-of-Sale Store systems in the world and be a part of the Market Place that puts your business in front of the line as a leading retail merchant.

Store operators,  stop accepting systems that just do the basics.  Be better than basic, when your systems and your technology are antiquated  your store is broken, fix it.   

When shopping on Google, why not have your inventory found with the big boys?   FREE and only possible with Bravo.

Ask one of the most successful Store Operators – Dave Munsee at Liberty Pawn and Gold.

Bravo is the only system that enables your store to auction, make-an-offer, and sell all of your inventory with no additional effort.

Bravo One Ecommerce platform is the only way to run your store and sell on the Internet profitably.

Kmart, eBay, Maxpawn, Sam’s Club  - YES YOU CAN COMPETE!   *See Google results below

Bravo submits your inventory into Google everyday – Bravo’s Marketplace attracts 2500 new shoppers every day.

Take a minute and just take a look at Bravo.

We make running stores fun again.

Or give a call toll free:  888.407.6287




Search Results on Google – try yourself           ASUS R503U-RH21





Take advantage of the most powerful Point-of-Sale Store systems in the world and be a part of the Market Place that puts your business in front of the line as a leading retail merchant.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

BRAVO GOES HARDCORE

Seth visited Las Vegas last weekend and tried out Bravo!



to Steve   Bravo Rocks   Seth Gold

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Your Business needs you to see this !



Bravo Bits

Aren’t you just board that your current system is lagging with the important analysis of where you are today and where you are going.  With Bravo and Microsoft Business Intelligence  wait no more.

I have included an example of what you can see right off the Bravo Main Page.  An instant shot of the performance of every store – Week To Day Comparison and consolidation.   A fresh new look each day.  This is only possible with the computing resources of Cloud services – Bravo - Microsoft. 

Security of your Data is the primary concern of our company.  No one in the industry has taken this more seriously than Bravo.  As an example here is our Data Center – one of three in the world.  The SuperNap click here

Aren’t you sick of your servers constantly needing rebooting, the interruption and downtime,  and no one to help you.   This is a fact and you all are operating at a high level of risk.  The level of complication, the high risk of owning and servicing servers in your store has finally come to an end with Bravo.  Now you can depend and concentrate on your business and customers.

No one in the software industry is more committed to your business success and knows your business better than Bravo.  We are heavily invested and here to stay.

Next week we will nearing completion on our latest new product.  Inventory Promotion.  How about being able to run a quick aged inventory – then immediately re-price and re-label your inventory items.  That’s not all.  With Bravo in the same instant, all of the items you have selected will have been re-priced and promoted on the Web Ecommerce site www.maxpawn.com.  These items then are updated to Google and Bing so that the whole world can see your promoted and newly re-priced items. With Bravo this enables you to price items on the web at one price and in your store at a different tier.  Yes, dual channel pricing.

Now you have resources the big boys don’t even have.  Be better than everyone else.  Give us a call for a demonstration.  888.407.6287



Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Internet Ecommerce and Your Store

Bravo Team is the most experienced in running small stores with eCommerce. Our prior development partnership with EBay which elevated our selling ranking to number 1 on Ebay's platform in One week uncovered what was possible. We were the very first published case study by EBay. Our team also includes a deep knowledge of Lending online.

Kelley's former experience includes leading a large technical team for the worlds largest Payday / Lead generation software company. These hands on experiences is why we believe there needs to be a strategy for all small businesses to address this competitive attack. Everyone needs to take notice.

The Internet is going to have an impact on Pawn and Sales, today and in the future. I believe it is accelerating. And this discussion validates the symptoms of what is ahead. In the Go Go days of late 90's most of us believed it was going to happen. Because it did not happen immediately most don't believe it today. IT IS HAPPENING.

When I was operating SuperPawn, we discovered the Internet Effect when we were partners with EBay (2001) co-developing code for stores to directly integrate into EBay's business model. Our partnership blew up, but that was all I needed to understand how important all of your stores are to EBay. EBay is the market place, a great place to learn how to sell, but very expensive, and difficult to make a profit. Outside EBay's fees which I believe are reasonable, the time and cost that is invested in each item transaction is very, very expensive if it is not a fully integrated process within your core operating system.

There is a learning curve to successfully sell on the Internet. Here are some suggestions. Over describe your item and you will have fewer returns and disgruntled customers. When you have the most demanding customer, let them win. Get over it. On the Internet in the next minute your on to another transaction. I believe selling on the Internet makes you a better store operator. If you are making customers happy on the Internet and delivering the same happiness to your stores customers, you are going to win.

Internet Pawn. Here is all you have to do. Compete. Do something about it. 

Number 1 - put up a website to protect your local market. 
Number 2 and its free, sign up on all 5 FREE Pawnshop Finder Services - here is ours: http://www.maxpawn.com/Stores
Number 3 - at least setup Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and Pinterest, Yelp, etc.

Anyone who would like to discuss our solutions or what challenges you have today please give us a call.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Bravo SKU creates more opportunities for store operators


How to make some extra profit – Get Bravo SKU

Bravo Pawn SKU  stock keeping units.

Many operators benefit by splitting up tools for example into buckets to piece out individual items for sale.  It creates a shopping experience that many operators believe in.  The profits are generous and customers love it.  With Bravo it’s simple and custom so you get to operate the business the way you want to not the way other systems require you to.

Bravo is introducing the newest and most complete SKU inventory process.  Why is Bravo different?

·         SKU setup for Company level – creates universal SKU for multiple store operators. 
·         Optional printed Price Labels & SKU pricing card.
·         SKU Image – Bravo includes Image capture to easily identify the SKU bucket.
·         Transfer SKU between stores
·         1000 custom SKU positions – you choose what you want!
·         Cycle Count Physical Inventory is a snap.
·         Easy Setup

Bravo Pawn SKU is included as a part of the basic package at no extra charge.

Call us or sign up for one on one demonstration.

888.407.6287

Friday, October 19, 2012

BRAVO TO THE RESCUE

Bravo Bits Bravo to the rescue !

A year ago I sat down with the CEO of a Fortune 1000 company and he laid out a vision of an Single Operating Platform for all of his financial services in a dozen countries.  He said, “That’s what I want”.  It was one of those moments that I wanted to jump out of my seat and say, “ooh, ooh we have that”, however our Internationalized product was in Beta, and we were weeks away from deployment in Mexico.  We are happy J to say that Mexico is firing on all cylinders, and so is Sweden for this client J J.  Multiple currencies, tax, regulation, and language.  We are feeling pretty good since this CEO had been waiting years for a product like ours and we were able to fully deploy at 24 locations after 4 ½ months and delivered on time.

Retail News 
Best Buy announced that they will be matching Amazons prices.  Do you think eCommerce is a real threat to Brick & Mortar? Bravo to the rescue.
 
We  just launched Auction for Bravo.  Our users now have the power to easily launch one or more items into 4 different auction formats in 3 clicks.  We include an Inventory analytic tool to scrub and identify slow moving items.   The power of our off site computing for small business with our ONE commerce strategy is unfolding and getting more and more exciting each day.  Our users are seeing acceleration gains on a daily basis.  Below I have included a testimonial from Dave Munsee one of our early adopters.

Bravo Recycle Process  Bravo’s integrated proprietary Jewelry recycle process is showing between 3-5% net profit gains for our users.  The complete life cycle from acquisition at the counter to the check received from the refiner is measured and reported.

New Pricing   - We will be announcing new pricing offerings next week.  One that I am very excited about is targeted for new start up “Buy & Sell” starting at $49.00.   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
We currently have 152 stores on our Maxpawn Network.  Our traffic continues to rise weekly, this week by 12%.  We are averaging over 1000 new shoppers each day, and have over 2100 registered active users.
 
We are also excited to announce that BUYA.COM coming soon -- simply buying with booya.   Our eCommerce objective was to open a common marketplace for small merchants. A place for everyone see and shop. This week we were successful at obtaining BUYA to meet our strategic objective.  Stay tuned for our release.

NEW FEATURES

Lots of everyday stuff improving each day, but here are a few.

·         SKU for pre-owned merchandise.  Selecting items to price and put into a bucket.   For multiple store operators in Bravo you will able to transfer from Store to Store.
·         Physical Inventory – Cycle Count.  Bravo created a light weight app that simply loads on any PC with a scanner your off with a robust live inventory audit.
·         Optimizing –  Bravo is faster: our engineers rock!  Average round trip transaction from Las Vegas to Sweden is 2.75 seconds.
·         New CRM view for Customers.  New update for Product Analytics.  New update for Employee ranking –KPI
·         Our fastest growing product line – Bravo Business Intelligence – Grande and Premier.

 I have included some screen shots and please take a look at our Auctions and do some bidding.
1.       Bravo Auction App
2.       Bravo Auction Manager – one view for your complete Auction management.
3.       MaxPawn Auction Item
4.       Buyer Rating Guide for Bravo Merchants.  Know who you are selling to.



*One Commerce Strategy – Ecommerce and Store Commerce as ONE.

Testimonial October 2, 2012
Steve-
A customer comes in and wants a particular movie or game. We check our inventory but don’t have it.  So instead of letting Mr. or Mrs. Customer walk out empty handed we check MaxPawn, find it, and order it.  Moral of the story is........ customers ALWAYS come here first.  We have purchased IPhone, games and movies from our fellow MaxPawn users.
You may want to pass that little ditty along.
Dave Munsee

Check out this redirect   Click here and then look at Liberty Pawn and see how they are utilizing local advertising.














Monday, September 10, 2012

Get to know your business better with Bravo Physical Inventory


Bravo PI – Physical Inventory Module


Beta Available – 9/6/2012                                                                                                
$399.00


While all other Point of Sale systems require you to spend up to $2000.00 for a scanner,  Bravo introduces its Cloud Based Application – Bravo PI Click Once, that instantly down loads to any LapTop or Tablet.  Use your existing USB Hand Held Scanner and you are in business.   

Imagine you can finally perform a professional Audit specifically designed for your business needs.  No complicated download or upload sessions.  Bravo PI is a Live Audit.

Multiple Store Owners – can see Audit Sessions in place at each location and perform the Audit with unlimited number of staff members at the same time. 

Each Store License includes unlimted number of Bravo PI computer activations per store.  Bravo PI is Wireless Network Ready.

Its so simple fast…. Can you image performing audits without the pain?


  • ·         Instant Random Audit Sets
  • ·         Instant Customized Audit Sets
  • ·         Quick Audit – 10 items or more
  • ·         All Store Audit – Loans - Inventory
  • ·         Easy to Reconcile – Shortages
  • ·         Easy to fix duplicates

Now you can know exactly what you have and where your inventory is with Bravo all the time.










Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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


                                         

Saturday, August 4, 2012

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 BackupsWe 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 ServerWPF- 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, 3rd 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



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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.