It always comes down to serving the people with they’re the eyes on the page

abatch and the people posting ads must serve the person viewing and ultimately purchasing items and services on the site.

To many people, when it comes down to it, the success of a sports team, pro, college or high school, is butts in the seats. Butts in the seat, not just at the ball park but at the local sports bar or at a friend’s house eating and drinking his beer. It’s a measure of regional, town or school spirit and business. It means money for everything from gas to hot dogs, housing, beer and by extension, taxes. For mostly good and some bad, money makes the world go round, it’s how we put food on the table, shod our children’s feet, pay for roads, teachers, and reward hard work and good services. It also creates self-worth, not just in monetary terms but also in relationships and personal skills built.

For abatch, our winning or butts in the seat, has to be the eyes on the pages. The cycle of people in and out, returning to, talking about, and buying things listed on abatch. Of course those eyes need to buy, but to do that abatch and the people posting ads need to work together to make abatch easy on the eyes and brain. A natural process for the person viewing items that brings them in and encourages them to return. This cycle results in eyes on the page, our butts in the seats … our winning.

Coffee and service with a smile, members posting ads must serve the end customer

abatch and the people posting ads must serve the end customer, the person viewing and ultimately buying items and services on the site. And to help us do this we’re going to be asking the people that use abatch their opinion of how to design pages, searches, email forms, calls to action and how member service areas should be presented. What’s easiest for them and if it can’t be done explain why it can’t be done or why “we” can’t do it and remembering always that in the end, we serve the end customer, the person with his or her eyes on the page.