boxedup seasonal tips - helping to ensure you get all the things you really want!
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and all that jazz! So we thought that we’d better give a few last-minute tips about how to get the most out of boxedup.com during this festive period.
A lot of those carefully compiled boxedup lists of the things that you want to get, from anywhere on the web, are now swinging into action as gift lists, and we hope you get all the things that you’ve been yearning for! So if you need to let people know about the existence of your list then make sure that you send them a boxedup friend invite, and they can then go through it and reserve the thing that they want to get you (we don’t want you getting two of those things that you’ve always wanted, and only your friends can reserve things on your lists!).
And if you’ve been slacking a bit with your boxedup lists then freshen them up and share them out to avoid disappointment. It’s not too late - last minute shopping is a habit of many, and they’ll only thank you if you can lay out on a plate what it is that you’d love to get (and they won’t waste any money on getting you something that will find its way straight into a cupboard or onto ebay!).
Now, we know that the whole element of surprise is really important to a lot of people, and if you’re one of them we’ve recently built a feature into the boxedup lists that you’ll like. In Settings (the link is at the top of the page on the right, when you’re logged in), you’ll find a section called ‘Surprises’ - just check that box and then when somebody reserves something on your list you won’t see the ‘reserved’ message appear (but people visiting your lists will be able to see what has and hasn’t been reserved). OK, so it won’t be a total surprise, but it maintains some of the suspense!
So we hope you have a great festive season, and that you get all those things you really want!
And it just remains to say thanks for using boxedup - we hope you’ve been enjoying it! We’re always working hard to make it better, so if you have any feedback then we’d love to hear it. Please either send it through the help & info form or by emailing us at feedback@boxedup.com.
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Noah | December 14, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
Hey guys, love your site, and have been recommending it to everyone.
That being said, you really need to emphasize the “reserve” action MUCH more than you do already. It’s a critical aspect of the end-user experience that is muddled within other links like “add comment”. My sister came onto the site and had no idea how to buy something for me off of it, and she blogs with Blogger and is certainly not a computer luddite or anything.
I’ve put an audit diagram here:
http://screencast.com/t/CvPA5xYQjg
Chris | December 14, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Hey Noah
Thanks for your comment (and the jing - we love jing!), and for spreading the boxedup word! Glad you’re enjoying the site.
Fair point as far as ‘reserve’ is concerned - we’ve made a change to give it more emphasis, and so that it doesn’t look like a regular link. It’ll go live shortly.
Thanks again for the feedback!
Chris
boxedup.com