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Getting Behind the bidStart Brand - bidStart Hires PR Firm lotus823

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Getting Behind the bidStart Brand - bidStart Hires PR Firm lotus823

Six months ago StampWants became bidStart - the Collectible Marketplace. This coincided with a major overhaul of our website which was based on the comments and suggestions we received from our members over the past five years. It also marked our expanded goal of not only providing the best marketplace for stamp collectors - but for all collectors.

In just the last couple of months Books & Comics, Postcards and Sports Cards now total over 250,000 active listings. With many other collectible categories picking up steam, and collectors from all areas discovering and enjoying bidStart we're on our way to being the number one website for collectibles online.

To help further develop our brand as bidStart - the Collectible Marketplace, we've hired the PR Firm lotus823. We're confident that lotus823 understands ours goals and will be able to use their experience and expertise in public relations to enhance our brand, and drive more collectors to our website.

In addition to lotus823, we'll also be expanding advertising and branding through online, print, television, trade shows and more. With the tremendous amount of time, effort and money we have been focusing on creating brand recognition and attracting new members to our website we believe the time is right to get behind the bidStart brand for both stamps and other collectibles in order to avoid confusion.

As you most likely already noticed over the past six months we've moved most of our website to the bidStart brand already, and removed the StampWants branding. All StampWants urls and links will continue to work indefinitely, but if you have not already we encourage you to start using the bidStart brand over the “StampWants” brand.

Stamps will remain our primary category, and this change serves to help the stamps category by ensuring that all of our advertising, branding and marketing always emphasizes our entire brand including stamps. In fact we'll be sending a press release on Monday focusing on stamps and a recent issue we've faced with a certain big company who is essentially under the false impression that philately is a crime!

To help market the bidStart brand we'll also be sending sellers customized postcards for their bidStart stores, as well as promotional items including buttons! We'll have more information on this soon. However, if you're a seller and have a show or event coming up soon - feel free to email Rich at rich@bidstart.com.

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