Widgetize your recommendations...

Here's the latest addition to our box of tricks. Now you can widgetize your recommendations and publish the widget to your blog, facebook, etc.

Here's an example ...

Explore Your Self

Every now and then we ask ourselves who we are and what makes us unique. For many people it is the things that they care about, things that they aspire for, things that they look up to etc. that are a proxy for their individualism.

Notice the folks with the over the shoulder cotton pouches with the cool iMac walking around with nary a care. They listen to the coolest music, proudly wear the frayed pair of jeans, dye their hair purple making all of these the expression of their individualism and also faith in what they believe is aspirational in this world.

So also the pin-striped executive who drives a off-road vehicle over the weekend. Each in their own way express what they believe in and in doing so become individuals rather than a collective.

In essence what we do, the things that we own or aspire to own, define us.

Now websites like Oblinq, make it possible for you to share your aspirations with others. You can put them on your blogs and social networks, publish to your friends, share the coolest deals that you found on the web real time, in essence having your personal community of people sharing the ecosystem of best ideas and recommendations.

So the next time you find the coolest gadgets, the best vacation deal, you can add it to your personal site at the click of a button. Surely there no faster way of getting word around to your friends and they will love you for it...

OblinQ partners with Bravisa

We are excited to announce our partnership with Bravisa.

Bravisa offers a powerful new service in Social retailing. They bring to you unique products direct from suppliers worldwide, you get to set the pricing on them and sell them with your creative marketing efforts. Since there are no large retailers involved in the middle, you get a higher payout on sales.

With the OblinQ/Bravisa partnership, users can begin by choosing products from Bravisa's direct supplier list and then bringing them into their OblinQ personal store with just a click. There after other value-added features offered by OblinQ come into play. Users can add other complementary products from through out the Internet and effectively cross-sell, get promotional videos from YouTube featured on their store, or benefit from social commenting at their store to get customer discussion going.

If you are a new OblinQ user and looking to fill up your store with interesting products, Bravisa is a great place to start.

See example OblinQ store featuring Bravisa products:
http://www.oblinq.com/Sweetdeals

Get more information about Bravisa at
http://www.bravisa.com

YouTube Videos on OblinQ!

Videos are all the new rage. Thanks to YouTube, everyone can be a broadcaster. But have you given it thought that you can actually use your home videos to endorse products you have showcased on your OblinQ store. That is the best possible recommendation any body can give and it is also very helpful to the other users because they benefit from your experiences.

With OblinQ now you can add Videos! We have extended the simplicity of OblinQ "One Click" technology to let you add any video from YouTube to your store.

If you are just having fun, this is a great way to showcase videos you like.
If you are trying to build your brand, you can put together your own home created video promotions, product use examples such as kitchen gadgets, DIY videos, or kids playing with toy videos and put them on your OblinQ store.

So while you YouTube Broadcast channel is forming, you also get your OblinQ store branding going on at the same time.

Please give this a try and let us know what you think.

Rahul

Take your store to your blog!

We realized that the blogger in you is working hard to make your Blog or MySpace/Facebook account the destination site for your friends to network and share.

So what better way to tell your friends about your OblinQ store, other than having the store on your blog itself!.

That's right. Now you can take your store with you!

A new menu in your OblinQ account called "BlogIt!" has every thing setup for you take your store to your blog.

See an example right along side this blog. Isn't it cool?

Have fun.

OblinQ Coupon matching for your store

The response to our alpha release has been great. We are excited that people are finding OblinQ useful. We will continue to build more personalization features such as user-configurable store style.

In the meantime we are happy to announce our newest feature - Coupon Matching.

Our network merchants regularly provide us with valuable money saving coupons. We will post this coupons to your store as applicable. Infact, OblinQ will automatically associate the coupon with the product from that merchant showcased in your store.

Look for "View Promotional Offers" link in your store next to the products. Another great way for your customers to save money. And all of this at no cost or setup work for you.

We soon plan to also introduce RSS feeds of your store so you can take your store with you and put it on your MySpace or any other widget hosting site.

As always, suggestions and feedback is most welcome.

Thanks

Introducing OblinQ

OblinQ is a simple quick way to create your own personal online store. The difference is that you don't really expend your time & energy stocking and shipping items. But instead you simply put together a list of useful, cool, interesting products and services from anywhere in the world.

In other words, OblinQ is for the "expert" in us who, from time to time,
gets asked advice:

... where do you buy your clothes from?
... I like your shoes. Where do you get em?
... have you read any good book lately?
... What's a good PC or laptop to buy?
... What do I need to setup home network with streaming video?
... Back to school shopping ideas.

You get the point! With OblinQ, you can start recommending smartly and professionally. Even earn commissions on some of the product recommendations.

You have had an email account, even a blog and now you can start your own personal store. Just as easily!

We are excited to launch OblinQ. It's still an Alpha version. So while we tinker with the code and the colors, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions.

Stay tuned with this blog for future updates.

Thank You
Rahul Pandhe CEO
OblinQ.Com - Make your own store!