McBidzers our new press release sent out this morning is available in our Newsroom now: http://www.eworldwire.com/pressrelease/19148. 

On a side note the nationally syndicated TV show “The Economic Report” http://www.theeconomicreport.com/index.php broadcast on CNN and MSNBC, called me yesterday about an upcoming show they have scheduled about internet companies. I didn’t get to talk to the producer the call went to my voicemail so we will see where this goes once I call them back.

Looking through past issues of Inc. magazine I realized most of what business owners learn is through experience. Most of the articles you find in any entrepreneur magazine are going to be 95% junk period, useless information. I have been and still am a proliferate reader of news magazines, books, and a cable news junkie, can’t get enough of it. I like to be informed and make the best decisions possible with the information I have at the time.

Building the brand of McBidz started two years ago and continues every day as the word spreads from the thousands of our McBidzers who joined McBidz when it was just an everyday auction site. Now that McBidz has morphed into an internet destination with every possible task you would want to do on the internet whether business or personal what has changed..well “scope”. Now we don’t look at McBidz as simply an auction destination, but an endless space of opportunity for our McBidzers. Why go to say an ebay, myspace, or youtube when you can be a part of a social group accomplishing everything in one place? Of course you don’t this is why McBidz was rebuilt from the ground up.

This is particularly why the rollout plan is so important and why we continue to tweak it weekly to garner the attention McBidz needs to reach its full potential. The problematic part is distinguishing the chaff from what will give us the best (ROI) return on investment. What you won’t see again is radio and TV ads we used during the first McBidz rollout while they attracted enough attention the burn rate was huge. What to expect from the launching of the new McBidz will be unconventional and possibly controversial. Building the brand of McBidz will be fun either way and we look forward to sharing it with you in the coming months with pictures and breaking news announcements. By the way expect several more press releases before McBidz will be launched including one this Tuesday; this will be more for fun than actual breaking news, but hey that’s what McBidz is about!

One of our McBidzers who invest with online trading giant Scottrade contacted me this morning about them featuring our breaking news this past week. While we aren’t publicly traded yet they had our news featured on their site for several days now http://research.scottrade.com/public/markets/news/news.asp?searchtxt=mcbidz&section=headlines&searchtype=0&filter

McBidz subsidiary continues to move forward making great progress during the last week. Ted Campbell from the South Carolina Department of Commerce has taken interest in our company and is working with us to provide substantial support for building the foundation for Mobile Charging, Inc.

In addition we have agreements with two manufacturers working on “fast charging” units to provide our franchisees once we have an operating model and are ready to proceed. Once again the launch of Mobile Charging, Inc. (www.mobilecharging.com) will center on the progress and availability of Electric Vehicles (EV) coming into production in the USA. Mobile Charging will position itself to launch our brand nationally once we feel the climate is right. The Mobile Charging site will be ready before McBidz is launched to the public within the next several months.

We have added a Newsroom for Journalist link to our blog today and will have a link on the footer contact page as well to make it easier for the media to reach us. We usually networked our press release ourselves in the past, but by having an online newsroom they get catalogued on the internet and make it easier for the media to find us.  Press release issued today 11-05-08 http://www.eworldwire.com/pressrelease/19115 .

As we start to ramp up for the launching of the McBidz site we are starting our search for the perfect mascot “Chuckster” representative. Since the McBidz blog is getting close to 4,300 hits a week this was the obvious first place to start our search. Pay is great, fun, and you get to be a part of the next great tech company. Please use the contact form to inquire within.

Our team leader followed up with me from India after reading the updated blog post last Monday and should be back around November 10th; we are going to finalize the McBidz site soon thereafter. We will be discussing the rollout plan and the launch date once we run a couple more test on McBidz and transfer the site to its dedicated server.

After talking to several “VC” venture capitalist and other parties we may be looking at franchising the mobile charging subsidiary starting late 09/early 2010. While our partners are working with us to construct a “fast charger” for (EV) electric vehicles we will be filing the necessary paper work to start franchising on a national basis once we have a working model. We will have a banner ad on the business section of the McBidz site which will link out to the www.mobilecharging.com website with more information.

The Team leader for McBidz based out of Virginia has been out for the last couple weeks getting married in India so you might have noticed little progress on the McBidz site. He has been with McBidz since the beginning, for more than two years so he plays quite a big part in development.  There is only minor tweaking at this stage anyway so no big deal. We can wrap up the little bit that needs to be corrected in a matter of hours when he returns. Of course the big work needed to progress to launch is getting the advertising in place and setting up the rollout plan. Mobile charging continues to progress as well, but that will be more of an information site for the future plans and developments of our new company.

Recently I have had questions regarding why don’t we just launch McBidz so our users can get back using the site now. While the main site is basically finished our subsidiary site www.Mobilecharging.com is currently under construction and our advertising isn’t in place as of yet. Our mascot “Chuckster” hasn’t been completed as well as finding a suitable representative to fill the mascot’s role.

I look at the rollout of McBidz as even more important than the hundreds of hours of programming and testing which have been completed to this date. Why have a supersite where only a couple thousand people know of its existence? For the benefit of our current McBidzers we want the site to be noticed by millions if possible before the first day of launch. There are several ways we are going about fulfilling this goal which heavily involves the buildup for the opening day launch. As mentioned before this will involve the timing of advertising (ground level) in both NY, LA, and our home state of SC.

While the new site Mobilecharging is taking up some of our time the main focus is still McBidz and getting the site up and advertised for you as quickly as we can get everything completed in an orderly fashion.

All of the work performed on the McBidz websites will now be done here in the USA. Previously we have outsourced our graphics work for the new McBidz to India, but the work was not precise and I didn’t have the control I was looking for to get it finished on time when it should be. To this extent McBidz has brought onboard a local programming /graphics company to do out Photoshop work design for both the McBidz main website and Mobile Charging. While most of the design work is finished now we will no doubt be using our new team of graphics support with the expansion of the Mobile Charging site.

Several corrections to the outlines were made this week to the Auto mall & Real Estate sections of McBidz as well as ongoing development on the Mobile Charging site we are working to get up and running.