My name is Chris Ruesink, I began deleveloping nwamarketplace.com in June of 2013. For a couple of years I have been trying to create a concept that would be beneficial to all of my community in NWA. I have always enjoyed Craigslist and eBay, but I found both of the sites to have many flaws and gaps that I wanted to create something that encompassed some of their services as well as many of my own
ideas to make the best marketplace for NWA. So creating the site I decided to not only have the classifieds availability but allow users to create their own auctions as well. Then I always thought it would be useful if when I posted listings on classified websites if their was a utility that created a tangible marketing tool... so when creating this site, I created the ability to print and create flyers for your listings and auctions so the users not only could easily promote through the social networking bridges built in, but as well as click a button and print out something they can post at local coffee shops, work, and any other place they found convient. I wanted to also include the ability for the 1 person business to a large company to be able to have their own online store without paying outrageous fee's to web design companies for an eCommerce website. So without having any design or programming knowledge anyone can build their own store and sell their products on nwamarketplace.com. We can even set up what is called a sub-domain, for example: YourName.NWAMarketPlace.com for you for free. The bottom line is that I created nwamarketplace.com to help my community, individuals, businesses, non-profits, ect. By creating this virtual Marketplace, it allows for Northwest Arkansas to get more exposure to it's businesses and helps people who need to get rid of items and earn a few bucks. The basic services are all free, but if you find you need some additional exposure on your listing, you will find that our fee's are cheaper than any of the larger sites out there. Our goal is to serve our area, not get rich.
