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Dawdle at Affiliate Summit Social Media

Sachin Agarwal, co-founder of Dawdle, will be at Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008 to talk about how affiliate marketers can use social networking technology and techniques to increase their revenues and engage with their users.

Dawdle has long been a big fan of using social media to make it easier for us to have conversations with our users and for our users to chat with each other.  You can find us on Twitter, StumbleUpon, Facebook, MySpace, and a number of gaming forums, such as CheapAssGamer. 

You can learn more about our affiliate programs at the Dawdle Affiliate Program page and sign up with our Google Affiliate Network program here.

Finally! New Search and Updated Interface

It was promised for a while, but we just released new functionality to Dawdle!  Here's a quick bullet point rundown of all the things we've done:

• Totally new search.  We've replaced our old indexer, SWISH-E, with a more robust one called Sphinx.  We've eliminated the "in stock" screening that slowed people down and have replaced it with more intelligent sorting of search results.
• We've added price information to search results.  We heard you loud and clear - it doesn't help to have UPCs in search results; you want to know what the games, systems, and accessories will cost.  We've made that change and now show prices in our search results.
• New UI - a darker hue of blue makes it easier on the eyes and the elimination of the gray login/navigation bar should make it easier to jump around the site as needed.  We've also made changes to MyDawdle, the login process, and the checkout process that should make the site a bit more intuitive.
• Renamed "Get It Now" and "Sell It Now" headers on the front page.  We now use plain English - on the left side, you can see Buy New and Used Video Games and on the right side, you can see Sell New and Used Video Games.  Of course, you can still buy and sell accessories and systems, but it's hard to fit all that in.  :)
• Made many, many fixes for Internet Explorer 6.  IE6 users now can see the same site as our Firefox, IE7, and Safari users. 

Let us know if you have any issues or suggestions in the comments.  We want to make Dawdle the best site it can be for all gamers and game stores across the country.

Dawdle is Hiring!

Credit: fwaggle on Flickr

We're looking for a Salesperson/Relationship Manager to contact independent retailers across the country to get their inventory up on Dawdle ASAP!  We're gearing up for the holiday season, and with AAA new titles few and far between this winter, now's a great time for people to try out some older games. 

You can work from home, but you must be professional, accountable, and damn good at selling over the phone.  These stores across the country are great people, but may not want to try new things because they've been burned in the past.  Your job will be to show them just how easy and safe Dawdle is, demonstrate that it's risk-free, and prove that we handle everything so that they can still sell to their walk-in traffic while increasing revenue by selling in a dedicated and trusted platform online.

Salesperson/Relationship Manager position at Dawdle.com (Startuply)

Dawdle Presentation at SocialDevCampChicago

Actually Useful Trust Metrics 2008 08 09

View SlideShare presentation (tags: marketplace trust dawdle SDCC)

Sachin Agarwal, Dawdle's co-founder and CEO, gave a presentation on trust metrics in online communities and marketplaces at SocialDevCampChicago today.

To view the presentation on the SlideShare site, click here.  (Note: some language is adult.)

Hey affiliates: Dawdle now available on PopShops!

Dawdle is excited to announce that you can now promote our products with a handy new tool called PopShops (http://www.popshops.com/dawdle-com-affiliate-program) - voted "Best Affiliate Tool 2007" on ABestWeb!

Use PopShops to search across our entire product catalog and pick the products that you want to promote on your site. You can build storefronts, multi-page shops, and widgets. Pop them into your website, or plug them into platforms like WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad. You can even use PopShops to create SEO-friendly content for your site. Best of all: PopShops requires no programming knowledge whatsoever, and the service is free!

You can learn more about our affiliate program on the Dawdle affiliate page.  You can sign up for our affiliate program on the ShareASale Dawdle affiliate page.

Meet us at SDDC this Saturday!

Dawdle will be out in force at SocialDevCampChicago this Saturday, August 9!  We're a sponsor and Sachin Agarwal, our lead suit, will be leading a session on trust metrics in communities.  (Seriously, it'll be really interesting and informative.  Hopefully funny, too.)

It's free and will be at the cool-ass McCormick Tribune Student Center building thing on the IIT campus - you should really come, if not for the free beer afterwards.  Learn more and sign up!