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Non-Tech : USAB - USABancShares.com -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (1317)	6/13/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: usab_long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2419

I have sent the following suggestions to USAB, please post your comments on such suggestions and any other suggestions related to CDenergy.com ================================ 1.) In cdenergy.com , the left-hand site of screen, please add the CD length for Sunday and Saturday also. 2.) add more CD sessions per day when time is righ. Without the traffic data of CDenergy I could not make good judgement on WHEN is the good time. You can consider to give three sessions first (A) 12:00 Noon (B) 4:00PM (C) 9:00PM cutoff time. Please pay more attention on this "how may sessions per day" issue when you start put ad out. Without balance number of session per day and traffic, you could end up lost traffic. Consider this: (A) some people come to Cdenergy on Friday, but CD length on Friday is 36 months, he/she only wants 30 months CD, so he/she has to wait for 6 days to bid. -- this is the problem. (B) Once he/she know the cut-off time is 12:00 (noon) time, a lot of people would not come to Cdenergy.com until near cut-off time --- This is a problem again. 3.) In cdenergy.com, When I click USABanc.com, you may want to consider to open a new page with new URL (currently, no new page is open, same URL is over-written for DELL ad, but for AMZN add, a new page is opened.) NOTE: I do not insist this approach, however if you decide not to open a new page please put the following information on the left-hand site of cdenergy.com : A.) CDenergy logo (if there is a one) --- so when user travel to other hyperlink, so he/she can come back to CDenergy homepage right away by clinking such Cdenergy logo. B.) USABanc.com logon --- same reason as for CDenergy. C .) the open bid (10% for example) and the current bid (you did this already, just need to add text indicate that is the current bid) D.) The final bid of the LAST session -- user may just come in afternoon and just want to see what is the close of last session. E.) length of current CD for bidding --- 48 month for example. F.) time left for bidding G.) "here is my bid" and "submit" box. The idea here is that when user travel the hyperlink he/she will still be able to bid without need to come back to Cdenergy.com home page. 4.) When I click "registered user", there is a login window come out. You should integrate such login prompt in www.Cdenergy.com home page just under "registered user", so when a user go to cdenergy.com he/she will able to type in username/login without wait/looking for such popup window! 5.) In the left hand site of cdenergy.com, there is the current final bid (8.200% for example), please indicate that 8.2 is the current bid, else when user see it first time he/she do not know what is it! 6.) In the left-hand site of cdenergy.com, please change: "Monday: 12 Month Tuesday: 18 Month Wednesday: 6 Month Thursday: 30 Month Friday: 36 Month" to more readable format, such as: "Monday: 12 Month Tuesday: 18 Month Wednesday: 6 Month Thursday: 30 Month Friday: 36 Month Saturday: xx Month Sunday: yy Month" 7.) Cut-off time of CD auction -- If you still only maintain one CD auction session per day, please consider change the cut off time to 4:00PM (New York time). 8.) Static data --- Please provide historic and real time on line data. Such as how may user are currently login, CD rate of past, etc. User must be informed about this type of information. 9.) In right hand site of cdenergy.com there are open space, please try to use such space. It is very expensive real estate, it must be used and not to be wasted. 10.) Consider how are you going to market this CD auction to none-USA person who is not live in USA. Think very serious about this market, please. 11.) "winner notification" should be done automatically and should be sent out to: (A) ALL winners --- let them know they have won (B) ALL losers --- let them know they did not win so try again (C) ALL people --- who have login such session but did not bid, just ask them to come back to bit again. 12.) Such notice is not done automatically. Such notice should be sent out RIGHT AFTER the end of such session. Since users are waiting for the result -- Internet Users are not as same as B&M users. 12.) New user register procedure: (A) both e-mail address and password need to be verified. Enter two times for example, or send to his/her e-mail address to request the new user to check (confirm) before he/she can bid. or some other reasonable ways. 13.) Such winner notification should has a confirmation ID, and when a user winner must be able to go to a URL to enter such confirmation id and when he/she enter such ID all information related to such session should be pop up (such as date/final rate/length of CD, etc) he/she only need to enter his/her person inform. Once such user enters such information, he/she should get an other ID. User can just write a check with this new confirmation ID and send it to you to purchase CD. I would like you team to brain storming how this purchase be done easily in user point of view. 14.) In www.Cdenergy.com, please change from (A) "Remember, bid increments must be no more than a tenth of a percent -- that is 0.01%" (B) to " Remember, bid increments must be no more than 0.01%" 15.) Please move up "the time left this auction" and related time box, Since when I an in Cdenergy.com homepage I do not see such information without scroll my screen. 16.) Please update www.cdenergy.org and www.cdenergy.net to point to this new page. 17.) At the bottom and right hand site of www.cdenergy.com page, there is a "FDIC" sign, please move such information up to TOP/left position for example. People need to know this is FDIC insured CD. 18.) Please provide an official "INVETOR RELATIONS" page. Please see netbank.com and sites.netscape.net Since USAB has not provided such information so I am doing that, but it is not an official one. 19.) Please consider put 100 bill (Mr. Franklin face's side) as Cdenergy.com background. 20.) In the left-hand side of cdenergy.com , please consider to add a scroll BAR so when more information is added in left-hand side, user can use such scroll bar to see it.