{"id":7198,"date":"2023-05-26T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekshop.rs\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2024-05-29T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:19:09","slug":"how-we-lost-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/kako-smo-ispusili-na-konkursu\/","title":{"rendered":"How we struck out in the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slu\u0161aj ovo, zanimljiva je pri\u010da (bar nama), mo\u017eda \u0107e vama biti jadno, ne znam&#8230; Bilo je neko glasanje jo\u0161 u januaru, za niz nekih kategorija u E-commercu, izme\u0111u ostalog za <strong>best SMALL ONLINE STORE<\/strong> in Serbia. We entered because it cost us nothing and we had nothing to lose, and surely we're the right fit: we focused on quality, not quantity, barely have about 20 products, put a lot of effort into the site and offer 5-star customer support. Surely that's perfect for that competition category, right??<\/p>\n<p><strong>I said, it costs us nothing, right?! Well, it did cost us \u2014 just not money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know that feeling when you enter a competition just for fun, then keep checking the results? You tell your friends you don't expect anything, but the refresh button says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7205\" src=\"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/iscekivanje.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/iscekivanje.gif 500w, https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/iscekivanje-300x252.gif 300w, https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/iscekivanje-150x126.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Call to vote<\/h3>\n<p>We shared it on social media in <span class=\"ml-rte-link-wrapper\" data-redactor-span=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/new.geekshop.rs\/posts\/pfbid02tz9vUt54s2Co7WMd2pJofcYkJt1MDCW5EnCWdLV2PtXaLfGt15KNeih79X7MJoDl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnew.geekshop.rs%2Fposts%2Fpfbid026SzVqiRWk9MUqwc1L7VoybFkC8e5xpXjpkaedKMSJLjJ82eVx6b2HEfHPW3YgHLFl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"725\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Na mejl nismo hteli smarati ljude, jer je mejl ipak svetinja i &#8220;ne\u0107emo da smaramo na\u0161e cenjene kupce nekim tamo nebitnim stvarima&#8221;. Odziv je bio dobar, znamo da smo dobili dosta glasova, ali sad i \u017eiri treba odlu\u010diti jesmo li dostojni da odnesemo slavnu titulu.<\/p>\n<p>After all, we'd recently launched and improved a new website. Surely it's at least somewhat more functional than the average shop. Maybe even a little interesting. Not every shop has kilometer-long product pages, so surely someone will notice the effort.<\/p>\n<h3>But no such luck<\/h3>\n<p>Another online shop won, one with about a zillion products in its range. And that is not all. They also have 7 (yes, seven) offline stores. None of this would matter if they hadn't won in the category for <strong>SMALL<\/strong> online store&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7206\" src=\"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/confused.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/confused.gif 300w, https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/confused-150x112.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dobro, mo\u017eda se \u017eiriju zavukla gre\u0161ka. Da vidimo ko je jo\u0161 osvojio neku nagradu.. \u0160ta?! My favorite courier&#8221; titulu je odneo D Express?! Pa oni jedva imaju 2.0 rejting na guglu, kome su oni jo\u0161 omiljeni?! Sa njima nam po\u0161iljke kasnile kao plata za vreme inflacije, Pre par godina smo i to re\u0161ili kad smo pre\u0161li na Post Express. Sad sti\u017eu na vreme u 98% slu\u010dajeva.<\/p>\n<p>Da vidimo ko je u \u017diriju?? Kakva je ovo ecommerce asocijacija?? Aha, glavni \u017eiri je direktorka blica, asocijacija u saradnji sa nema\u010dkim bla bla bla, va\u017ei&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our team's reaction deserved a headline of its own: SHOCKING RESULTS, UNEXPECTED TWIST, DRAMATIC FINISH (PHOTO, VIDEO).<\/p>\n<h3>Others did recognize our quality, though<\/h3>\n<p>Still, our teammate \u017divan had a surprise for us: he'd quietly entered us in another competition, where our work received recognition. That certainly gave the team a lift.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/kMg7wEuvy9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> that delighted some of our followers, so be sure to see the honor we received.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnew.geekshop.rs%2Fvideos%2F844762959919042%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=476&amp;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"591\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Update<\/h3>\n<p>Later we got an email from that association inviting us to collaborate, offering services and whatnot. We just pasted the link to the Pakistani, thanked them and said we were already working with a more credible ecommerce association.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7207\" src=\"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mic-drop.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mic-drop.gif 480w, https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mic-drop-300x170.gif 300w, https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mic-drop-150x85.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, that is it. It seemed funny at the time, and it would be a shame not to share this little story with our dear customers and followers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slu\u0161aj ovo, zanimljiva je pri\u010da (bar nama), mo\u017eda \u0107e vama biti jadno, ne znam&#8230; Bilo je neko glasanje jo\u0161 u januaru, za niz nekih kategorija u E-commercu, izme\u0111u ostalog za najbolji SMALL&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"zion_builder_status":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.geekshop.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}