EGAN Medical Opens Sales Booth at Bonanza

EGAN Medical to Develop Selling Profile at eBay Alternative

EGAN Medical has opened a sales booth at third party site Bonanza, EGAN's first venture involving third-party brokers and/or marketplaces since the company made the decision to discontinue selling on eBay due to treacherous (and criminal) behavior on behalf of eBay company PayPal and/or PayPal employees.

Bonanza is a relatively young, upstart third-party marketplace similar in some ways to eBay and Amazon. After careful consideration of a number of websites and third-party marketplaces, it was determined that Bonanza was primed and ready for the entry of a company like EGAN Medical into the marketplace.

EGAN will retain its primary brand identity by operating under the Bonanza username EganMedical. Many of the products EGAN plans to make available for purchase through it's Bonanza sales booth will be similar and/or the same as our featured on the EGAN Medical website. However, in much the same way that EGAN utilized eBay as a resource for selling odd items and other products that for whatever reason were deemed unsuitable to become permanent installations or long-term additions to the EGAN Medical product catalog. While the plan is to maintain some element of surprise for those customers who do check out the EGAN Medical Bonanza sales booth, one safe bet is that the product offerings will be fairly heavy on compression stockings and maternity care products such as the Mini Cradle, a back & belly support for women who are pregnant, and the younger, scaled-down cousin of the Prenatal Cradle and Best Cradle.

There are three primary components to a sale sales presence at Bonanza: 1) A selling profile; 2) A sales booth; and 3) The actual product pages themselves.

EGAN Medical's selling profile at Bonanza can be located here: http://www.bonanza.com/users/8869689/profile.

The practicality of the URLs for the sellers' respective sales booths appear to make more sense then do the URLs for the user profiles. For one thing, they contain the username of the Bonanza seller in addition to a directory for booths, Bonanza's rough equivalent to what eBay calls an "eBay Store". EGAN's booth is located at the following address: http://www.bonanza.com/booths/EganMedical.

Finally, there are the actual product pages. While EGAN has as of the time of this writing only created a single product page, the development of a robust presence within the burgeoning marketplace is in the works.

Not surprisingly, EGAN's first product addition to the company's new Bonanza sales booth falls within the category of maternity belts and supports, a challenging category under which to sell within third-party marketplaces due to the decision sellers must make to categorize their products in either the 'Medical/Mobility/Disability' category under the 'Braces and Supports' subcategory, or list the products under the 'Fashion/Attire' umbrella category, "Maternity" subcategory and typically "Other" third-level category. The first EGAN Medical 

The following images describe the Mini Cradle in just enough detail to give prospective buyers sufficient information to make a purchase decision without over-burdening them with details.

Above is an image of a pregnant women wearing a Mini Cradle maternity belt, produced by the makers of the patented Prenatal Cradle.

Finally, the two images directly above contain a brief product description, a list of features and a list of the medical conditions for which the product is indicated to help treat.

Maternity Belts and Birthdays

Maternity Belts and Birthdays

A Letter from EGAN Medical CEO Peter Egan

Every year on December 27 and 28, I spend considerable time replying to messages and thanking people. The reason is that my birthday is on the 26th. Literally several hundred people will leave birthday wishes on my timeline before the day is over.

This year, the first such wish came in around the 23rd of December. It was from Mr. Darrell Seeeing, co-owner of It's You Babe, LLC.

To all my friends unfamiliar with Mr. Seering, he and wife Christine are the owners of Its You Babe, LLC, maker of the world's finest Maternity Belts and Vulvar Varicosities Supports. the products were designed and patented by Mrs. Seering, the first of which inspired by a desire to help Darrell's sister be relieved of intense pain associated with her pregnancy.

The original product was the Prenatal Cradle, however the line quickly expanded to include such items as the Mini Cradle (maternity belt), Best Cradle (adjustable Prenatal Cradle), Hip Brace, V2 Supporter (for Vulvar Varicosities), Prenatal Cradle Plus V2 and Hip Brace Plus V2.

Much like my mother (Pamela Egan)'s articles were so innovative, topics she wrote about 7 and 8 years ago are still being plagiarized and republished by newspapers, famous media "doctors" and no-name bloggers alike; the It's You Babe line of #maternity products is the standard all other maternity belts, belly bands, pregnancy cradles, hip braces, trochanter belts and compressive undergarments for treating Vulvar Varicosities aspire to replicate. Many try, as of yet none have succeeded.

If you are pregnant, know someone who is pregnant, work for or operate an #OBGYN clinic or anyone else potentially interested in these products, the entire It's You Babe line can be purchased directly by consumers and physicians' offices alike right from the EGAN Medical website.

To become a fan of EGAN Medical and It's You Babe please visit http://www.facebook.com/eganmedical and http://Facebook.com/itsyoubabe, respectively.

EGAN Medical Meets It's You Babe --- In Person

EGAN Medical CEO Has Dinner With It's You Babe Founders at Dickie Brennan's in New Orleans

On Saturday, May 04, 2013, Peter Egan and Katherine Henderson of EGAN Medical had the honor and privilege of hosting Chris and Darrell Seering of It's You Babe, LLC for a dinner at Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse in downtown New Orleans.

And an honor it was indeed. In Peter's 31 years, he recanted the following day, he'd met very few individuals much less couples in possession of the combination of class, kindness, friendliness, intellect and wit.

Katherine and Peter couldn't help but discuss on the drive back to Long Beach their shared impression that they had a fair amount in common with the Seerings, and wouldn't be altogether shocked if they were to bear a striking resemblance to the Seerings 20 years from now, provided the good Lord helps keep the two of them together for that long.

If they (Katie and Peter) are lucky, they'll be in a position similar to Chris and Darrell 20 years from now (and not just from the standpoint of business).

They are a couple that are very much along the lines of what Peter and Katie aspire to become over time.

Peter was very clear that he really enjoyed the opportunity to chat with them for a few hours. There was so much to talk about on so many levels, some related to business, some not. 

From Left: Katherine Henderson, Chris Seering, Darrell Seering and Peter Egan

It was one of those meetings where although you're meeting someone for the first time, it feels like you've known them for years and are merely catching up. 

They were exactly as he (Peter) envisioned them, and he said afterward that could not have been any more impressed with the two of them, their intellect as individuals and as a couple, and the manner in which they present themselves.

After spending just a few short hours with these upstanding entrepreneurs, it is easy to see how they manage to produce the world's premiere maternity support, not to mention the world's premiere compression therapy garment indicated for vulvar varicosities (a product called the V2 Supporter).

The maternity support is known as the Prenatal Cradle, and there is also an adjustable version (linked to in previous paragraph) called the Best Cradle.
 
All-in-all, it was a pleasure and honor to have been given the opportunity to host such an admirable couple for a dinner at one of the city (and world's) finest dining establishments. Everyone in the EGAN Medical family was thrilled that Katie and Peter not only got to meet Mr. and Mrs. Seering, but take them to dinner in a city known for its cuisine. Even those who did not attend were excited for Peter and Katie.

After spending a few hours with them, Peter said he understood why his initial 'gut instinct' telling him to invest into the It's You Babe line of products was so powerful that he acted upon it with almost no data to support the decision. Obviously, it's worked out well so far, and should that change at any point it certainly won't be for lack of effort.

EGAN Medical Celebrates First-Ever Sale to Pakistan

EGAN Medical Celebrates First-Ever Mid-East Sale

Egan Medical is celebrating its first-ever sale to a customer outside of North America and Europe today. The sale involved the purchase of a Best Cradle (adjustable Prenatal Cradle) maternity support to a customer in of all places Pakistan.

While not listed on the list of ship-to countries, EGAN Medical has long held a quiet policy of shipping anywhere in the world if an individual customer from any given country were to send an email requesting a shipping quote to that individual's respective locale.

Well, a gentleman from Pakistan did just that, and EGAN Medical replied with a shipping quote which surprised both parties in terms of the price. No, it wasn't shockingly high, but rather the opposite. The shipment cost just over $12 U.S. dollars, a figure which both parties found to be quite reasonable all things considered.

About a week after the gentleman requested the shipping quote, an order came through with a shipping destination in Pakistan.

The sale is notable within the annals of EGAN Medical firsts in that it was not just the company's first-ever sale to a Pakistani customer, it was EGAN's first-ever sale to a customer located anywhere but the United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Greece or Portugal. Prior to the shipment to Pakistan, EGAN had not experienced a sale beyond the reaches of North America and Western Europe. (Article Continued Below Image)

As for the product purchased, one could not be faulted for wondering what type of product is so rare and important that buying it from someone halfway around the world is worthwhile and justified. Well, apparently the Best Cradle (Adjustable Prenatal Cradle), which is manufactured by a Michigan-based company called It's You Babe, LLC, is that important. The Best Cradle provides support to virtually every spot on a woman's body that experiences pain as a direct result of being pregnant. It is more comprehensive than a traditional maternity belt in the design, and as a result can help relieve pain all over the body as opposed to merely the abdominal region and back.

The Best Cradle was apparently important enough to one gentleman that he went well out of his way to find out if a company was willing to ship to his country-of-origin, request a shipping quote, then purchase it from halfway across the globe so that his daughter would be as comfortable as possible during her pregnancy.