{"id":976,"date":"2016-02-11T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T04:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2016-02-11T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T04:16:49","slug":"planned-updates-and-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/planned-updates-and-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Updates and Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Odd Shoe Finder we&#8217;re always trying to\u00a0improve our members&#8217; experience, and to make our website as functional, efficient and useful as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback from our members directly led to the complete overhaul of our site in November 2014. Now, three months later, we&#8217;re still trying to improve &#8211; and are happy to hear your opinions on anything we do.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come up with a few changes we can implement, budget permitting.\u00a0Depending on our members&#8217; response, it may be\u00a0better to just spend money on advertising the site in order to\u00a0increase our user base. You can let us know.<br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- 2016 improvements post --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5212447425591278\" data-ad-slot=\"4884995143\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong>Proposed Changes in 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<h5><em><strong>&#8220;make an offer&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>At the time of listing shoes, the seller will be asked whether they will entertain\u00a0offers below the\u00a0&#8220;Buy Now&#8221; price. The seller can stipulate for example that\u00a0all offers below a certain amount are automatically rejected, and\/or that offers between a certain price\u00a0will be considered, and\/or that offers above a certain price will automatically be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>A buyer, upon seeing shoes that he\/she is interested in, can then &#8220;make an offer&#8221; for less than the listed price.<\/p>\n<p>We think that this function would increase the likelihood of a sale.<\/p>\n<h6>featured listings<\/h6>\n<p>Buyers will be able to pay a small fee (Foundation members excluded) to have their listings appear in a Featured Listing section on the front page, and\/or in bold and at the top of search result requests.<\/p>\n<h6>classifieds<\/h6>\n<p>A free classifieds section could be added to the website where members could advertise what shoes they were looking for (although this facility currently exists in the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.oddshoefinder.com\/forum\" target=\"_blank\">forum<\/a>, but\u00a0is not widely used).<\/p>\n<p>The classifieds section could also be expanded to allow the listings of almost any (non-shoe) product. This would hopefully drive more people to the site, expanding the user base, and making it easier to find buyers, and the right shoes.<\/p>\n<h6>Mobile Friendly \/ Mobile App<\/h6>\n<p>Although probably the most expensive update, it&#8217;s also something we will need to do eventually. We&#8217;d like to make the lay-out of our site much more user friendly for smartphone and tablet users.<\/p>\n<p>Would you use a\u00a0mobile application if we developed one?<\/p>\n<p>Please fell free to give us your thoughts on these or make any other suggestions by comment below &#8211; or by participating in our <a href=\"http:\/\/search.oddshoefinder.com\/forum\" target=\"_blank\">forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Odd Shoe Finder we&#8217;re always trying to\u00a0improve our members&#8217; experience, and to make our website as functional, efficient and useful as possible. Feedback from our members directly led to the complete overhaul of our site in November 2014. Now, three months later, we&#8217;re still trying to improve &#8211; and are happy to hear your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/planned-updates-and-improvements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planned Updates and Improvements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddshoefinder.com\/oddshoesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}