They’re now in your Documents tab — scroll down to learn about setting up a market, setting up accounting, and more. Every week we’re adding more!

What would you like to see?

We thrive on customer feedback — and we want to make managemymarket work better for everyone.

Check managemymarket.com on Monday. Because after all, the inside does matter, but the outside counts too, and we worked with a fantastic designer who is part of a Portland design company called Finn Media. We are really excited about our face lift, so come back and see it!

On the other hand, if you’re waiting to set up your market, thank you for waiting, and now you can go in and get crazy. If you’d like us to copy over anything from last year, like your legal agreement, let us know. Otherwise, it’s probably better to start from scratch.

• We’ve eliminated the vendor type by stall size “fee grid” that was so confining for managers. Instead it’s very free form and much more applicable for markets that charge mostly by the season rather than mostly by the day. It’s called “payment options” rather than payment plans.
• We added a section at the end called “statements” for vendors to check off to make sure they have read. It’s a bit more straightforward than yes/no, if you just want to make your vendors pause and say, yes, I have read the “no plastic bag” policy or something.
• You can now edit font styles in your legal agreements and messages to vendors!
• You can also change the order of your list items — so if you want vendors to answer questions in a certain way, you can just drag the questions around. Same goes for payment options.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 58 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

You should talk to me if you don’t yet have one. They are great — and they will free up some of your maintenance hours on your website, since the alternative is a bit more archaic — you’d have to go in and manually update your vendors as you approve them, add their company description, and change the order every time you approve a vendor in the middle of the alphabet!

But what if your customers need to contact one of your vendors after your last market day? If it’s past your last market day, then your vendor list is blank. There are two ways to fix this. One is to add a day to each of your market — maybe the last day in January — in market set up. The other is to talk to me and get the code for the off-season. This will have to be updated next year, though, so keep that in mind!

Today, it’s November. Your regular season has ended. You might be organizing a holiday market, but for the most part, you’re done. You look around your office space — at home or at work — and you see all the paper. 2011 was a big year — look at all that documentation! Paper applications, licenses, and attendance rosters — 2011 could fill an entire file cabinet.

You’ve been hearing about managemymarket for a few years now. Some of the markets you admire use it. And now you have just a tiny bit of down time, before registration opens again for 2012. But you’re not ready to make a commitment. After all, your market just ended!

What you’d really like is to get in, and play with managemymarket – really see what’s behind the login.

Now you can! Since managemymarket charges for approved vendors only, and you’re not going to even contemplate approving vendors for at least a couple months, you’re in luck!

Sign up, and see what all the fuss is about. Signing up now will lock in 2011 prices ($13/approved vendor/market/year — going up to $15/approved vendor/market/year as of January 1, 2012) and there’s no obligation, so if you (or your board) decides against it, we’ll just take you out of the database. Plain and simple.

What are you waiting for?

Here’s the story.

Did you even know that was an option?

Now it’s easier for you to find. Go to your Organization tab, and scroll down. The last link on the bottom is the link to your product search page. You can put this on your website — and that’s fairly easy to do. It’s called “wrapping it in an iFrame” (see example below, although you’ll want to have your orgID, not mine).

But wait! There’s more! Search for something that any of your approved vendors (in any of your markets) sells, and you won’t just see their next market date, you’ll see all following market dates.

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