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Street
Bidder has a new application that will finally solve the problems of service
companies who want to market their services to the public. One big problem
local businesses face is making flyers. They are costly and drain
business finances. Street Bidder’s new application is less expensive and
more effective than flyers. Lower costs and becoming more effective is every
business’s goal. If you want to learn more about this exciting application keep
reading below.
Street Bidder has an application for iPad and Android devices that
help you advertise your services to potential customers by the click of a
few buttons. Street Bidder’s app allows you to send beautiful personalized postcards
to the customers of your choice. Like most businesses you want to showcase your
services but hate spending a lot of money on flyers, tarpaulins and posters
just to advertise. Not only do these things cost money they also take time.
Year after year you have employees passing out flyers, pasting posters on
walls, putting up tarpaulins. This not only wastes valuable time, you could also
have neighborhoods complaining about scattered flyers in their streets. It is
illegal in the US to put flyers in mailboxes. That’s where Street Bidder steps
in and changes the way you do business. The Street Bidder app lets you take
pictures and save the addresses of the home you may service in the future.
After capturing the neighborhoods you plan to “bid” on, you simply choose the
customizable template that will produce a beautiful postcard that is customized
with your pricing and a picture of the customer’s home. The Street Bidder app
sends a postcard that the customer will remember because their home is on it
and the pricing is specific to them. You will have a higher chance of call
backs with this personalized mailer not to mention, lots of extra time. The
Street Bidder app helps you send a better product and stores your data forever.
That means the next time you want to market to a target area all you need to do
is click a few buttons and you are done. The Street Bidder app sends direct
mail that is more affordable, professional and customized than any other option
out there. With Street Bidder you are saving money and time.
Street Bidder has two types
of plans. The first one is the Free Plan which lets you sends Street
Bidder postcards as low as $.79 each. The data is stored temporarily
though in the servers for 90 days. There is the Platinum Plan though which
lets send postcards as low as $.47 each. You have a monthly charge of $65
but your data is stored in their services FOREVER.
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"Street Bidder is an app’ for the little guy.
Direct mail is a super expensive option for a lot of small businesses.
So how can these guys get new customers? How can they get their
phone to ring? Until now the only option was to drive around shoving flyers
into peoples mailboxes. Its time consuming and unprofessional ....not to
mention that your flyers are jammed in to the mailbox with 10 other flyers.
Street Bidder solves this problem. It allows users to send laser
focused, highly personalized postcards to prospects with no minimums. You can
literally send one card or 10,000.
There are a few different phases to Street Bidder.
There are a few different phases to Street Bidder.
Phase 1: "Capture New StreetBids"
Phase 2: "Mail real postcards to your
StreetBids"
Phase 3: "Field The Calls" Once you
have downloaded the app’ and have registered a new account you are ready to
"Capture New StreetBids". So at this point the user will drive around
to all of those subdivisions where he used to put flyers except now he has
Street Bidder.
He simply uses the app to take a picture of a home
from the street, enter the address, and enter a price for their service. That’s
it. He has just captured one new StreetBid. Over the rest of the day,
this guy can capture hundreds of these things. The good news is this;
Once you capture a StreetBid.. you have it forever. Now he is ready for
phase 2. Now this user will send Street Bidder postcards to all of those
houses he just captured. He simply selects the ones he wants to send a
card to, picks a template, and BOOM! Every one of those homeowners will
receive a full color, high gloss, double-sided postcard in about a week.
But the kicker is this; each postcard has a picture of the persons home
on the front and a real price on the back!
Street Bidder is the ultimate solution to sending
laser focused, highly personalized direct mail to your future customers.
Imagine sending 1,000 of these cards to that exclusive subdivision in
your town that doesn't allow flyers. Street Bidder takes seconds to use
and costs pennies to send.
"Street Bidder is an app’ for the little guy.
Direct mail is a super expensive option for a lot of small businesses.
So how can these guys get new customers? How can they get their
phone to ring? Until now the only option was to drive around shoving flyers
into peoples mailboxes. Its time consuming and unprofessional ....not to
mention that your flyers are jammed in to the mailbox with 10 other flyers.
Street Bidder solves this problem. It allows users to send laser
focused, highly personalized postcards to prospects with no minimums. You can
literally send one card or 10,000.
Interview with Josh, creator of "Street Bidder"...
So what
does a window cleaner do to come up with an idea like ‘Street Bidder?’
I was frustrated with traditional advertising and
marketing methods.
When did the whole idea occur to you? When was that
Epiphany?
My company sends out a lot
of postcards and we get a low but consistent response rate. We also have a very
unique bid sheet where we put a picture of each residential bid's home on the
front with a mobile printer in our sales guys truck… Street Bidder merges these
two ideas. It came to me last August during our summer slow down.
How did
you find the time to make ‘Street Bidder’ happen?
Well, thank God I have an amazing business partner who
has stepped up and taken over our window cleaning business while I dove head
first into this venture. Also, since we are in Michigan, that we run
seasonally, we have very little window cleaning work from Dec-Feb.
How much time have you spent so far on ‘Street Bidder?’
Street Bidder has morphed
into something much bigger and harder than I originally thought it would be.
lol I thought at first…"Oh yeah, no problem, I'll knock this out in a
couple months….. Yeah right! This has been all day every day for 9
straight months now.
How did
you come up with the initial workings & ideas?
Street Bidder started as hand drawn sketches on blank
sheets of paper. Lots of scribbles and lots of do-overs.
Did you hire a programmer to put all this together?
I hired a developer to
write all the code for the app’ and a graphic designer to help with the
wireframes (nerd
term for screen design).
I suppose that your return will be much higher than the normal 1 or 2%
response of normal mailed flyers?
We always got a consistent .75% to 1% return
on our traditional postcards. Street Bidder cards
are WAY more personalized and more targeted than "normal" direct
mail.
To read the full interview... go here.
To read the full interview... go here.
