The system reveals hard to find items and excellent gift
ideas for your situation.
- Shopper takes simple interests and attributes survey.
- Survey helps prompt a clear picture of recipient.
- Gift Professor searches for products that match these
interests.
- Shopper views matching results and if pleased, goes on a "mini
first pass" shopping spree.
- Shopper saves interesting ideas to a private "retrievable"
store.
- By building a "recipient specific store" shopper organizes
ideas for future consideration.
- Repeat for as many recipients as desired.
(coming soon) Access saved stores via Smart Phone, portable
devises, PC or Mac.
- Gift Professor is a tool for the shopper who is short on time.
- Zero in on the best of the best and cut browse time by 90
percent.
- We added a layer of meaning by ranking each product on
multiple descriptors.
- The simple survey is matched to this painstaking database of
descriptors.
- In one page view see combinations of products you never knew
existed from up to ten different interests, occupations,
personal styles, favorite sports teams, and key relationship factors.
- Multiple attributes are what make the Gift Professor
calculation so revolutionary and three dimensional.
This is "the mighty" Product Toolbar. It will help your shopping
experience in a variety of ways.
The toolbar is on every product in our store.
As you discover interesting and hard to find items we encourage
you to save them to a store for careful consideration later using the
toolbar's + icon. A Store is similar to a shopping cart, but the layout
is much more conducive to good decisions.
First, click the green + on the toolbar and select a receiving
store by clicking that store's name. You may select My Store, or a Saved
Store. 
When you click - the + icon appears indicating that you have
saved this product to this store.
This one is just for you. As you are browsing various categories
throughout Cool Products you can also save random products to My Store
by using + icon . You can also take a self profile on Gift Professor to
be presented with suggestions that fit you. Products you save from
Results on a Self Profile will go into you're: My Store.
A saved store is automatically created when you submit a Gift
Professor survey for a specific person.
A saved store is also automatically created when you click the
create a new store option via the product toolbar.
From the toolbar, click Create New Store and add the intended
recipient's first name in the dialog box.
You can also use the + icon on save products in your personal My
Store or on any product residing in another store you have created. And
you can use the + icon on any product in the Newest, Top Voted or
Merchant product sections also. In other words....anywhere on the site.
- These are the products you have refined from your survey
Results page
- The process of saving ideas helps you pull favorite gift
prospects together on one page.
- Set yourself free and try finding and saving 20 products, per
recipient.
- By building this recipient specific store you are saving ideas
for future consideration.
- Once created, you can add to it anytime or quickly review the
contents to locate & buy the perfect gift.
- These easily accessible stores help you confidently analyze
pre organized products in one simple place.
- Retrievable customized stores provide the ultimate in shopping
convenience.
- The overall purpose of our system is to encourage you to save
product ideas for those you hope to please.
- You can build one store for you and one for each of your
family and friends.
- Stores are sort of a person specific shopping cart (without
time or size limitations).
- How cool is that?
- We solicited real people to provide these insights: some
experts, some were everyday people/
- If you are not familiar with the category, this feature is a
handy guide to help you get a feel for the niche.
- This shortened article came from our companion website:
Coolapedia.
- It gives you a taste for what can be found in Coolapedia.
- If you have better insights, click the comment button on the
guide or write an article on Coolapedia.
- Our inventory is located by a network of participants.
- The eyes and ears of the many - finding the best of the best -
for each category of interest.
- Really cool people (like you) help the catalog every day by
contributing ideas from the abundance of the web.
- For this to work we've endeavored to enlist a few great people
to participate in this marketplace of ideas.
- People like you!
- We've set up easy systems for thoughtful, critical, visitors
to suggest, vote or comment on products.
- These are friendly components to enlist natural expression.
- This way we hope to represent products that are always
relevant, fresh and new.
- First and foremost, we seek trust, goodwill and mutual
understanding with customers & merchants.
- Building trust is more important than controlling the sale and
pushing inventory - teach us.
- Being respectful to you is central to what we are trying to
do.
- People Powered Gift Ideas is about a website, trusted
customers and friends all at the table together.
We trust you
- We hope to make it clear that we're open to and encouraging of
two way communication.
- We hope you'll join us in this project and help to make it
great.
- We believe something really important happens when we trust
our customers. They trust us.
- We seek a harmonious 21st century marketplace that is rich and
engaging for everyone.
You can trust us.
- Your personal information and results belong to you. You can
share results or profiles with someone else, but we won't. Only you can
see what you create here. We protect any information you provide to us.
It will never be sold or shared with anyone.
- If you are a merchant we pledge to represent you to best of
our ability and treat your products fairly.
- If you are an expert article contributor we hope to benefit
you and enhance your credibility.
- These are People Powered Gift Ideas, not corporate sponsored
ads.
- We believe the most basic aspects of a truly collaborative
movement are; treat people fairly and share as much back with the
community as you can.
- Visitors like you are invited to pick a favorite product
category & vote on what's here.
- It's easy. Just hover your mouse over any product and click
the button.
- While you are shopping, the courtesy of your votes eventually
help move products up to the top of the list.
- Over time, a category's most interesting products move to the
top of the page for visitor's to see first.
- Less interesting products move down the page until they are
removed.
- We are asking you to think critically about CoolProducts to
verify what we have to offer.
- Voting provides an interesting constructive way for you to
shop.
Note: Voting is different than saving a product + to a store.
- The Suggest a Product button at the bottom of the page offers
an easy interface to input missing product ideas.
- By shopping (or voting) in a category first, you'll get an
idea of what we have and what is missing.
- The Suggest a Product web page offers various tools to aid you
in locating great product ideas.
- To set the stage, the page instructions endeavor to make it
fun as if you are being assigned to a scavenger hunt.
- The page provides tabs for: Category definition, Keywords,
Others have suggested, Approved Merchants
- Your approved suggestions are made available for sale on
CoolProducts.com in their respective category.
- When a new product is found, suggested and posted to the site,
the participant who found it receives credit by having their user name
posted beside the product on the product page. We hope to eventually
offer incentives to participants but we need to grow our community
first. Please bear with us and stay tuned.
- Rules & Regulations: Please remember CoolProducts does not
sell: books, CDs, DVDs, or apparel. These items are well represented
elsewhere. When a new product is submitted our moderators make the
first approval. This way only items that are; 1. Appropriate, 2. High
quality and 3. Available in reasonable quantities get presented to
shoppers. Before a product is approved and posted we endeavor to form a
commissionable relationship with the suggested merchant of that
product. Thus, we offer a list of approved merchants on the Suggest a
Product page. Once this relationship is achieved, the approved "cool"
product is virtually assured of being posted on CoolProducts.com. When
we get approval we let you know by email.
- Coolapedia is a "companion website" to coolproducts.com. It's
a shopper's aid.
- Coolapedia is a wiki, allowing people to collect and edit
their knowledge & expertise in one place at any time.
- In 650 categories, the wiki gives shoppers free access to
newly created product and category information.
- Ours is a network of peers lending their experience, ingenuity
and insights.
- The content is generated by volunteer participants, students
and generous experts.
- Wikis truly represent social media's foundation of
user-generated content.
- Users can edit and improve their insights at will, free to
all.
- Contributors are first invited to Vote on Products to help
determine what is cool and to help acquaint them with the existing
inventory.
- Articles come from a survey taken by participants, that
centers on products, insights into trends, info to help shoppers learn
more about the category and opinions on how-to-gift in a given
category.
- Take: The Coolapedia Article Survey
In responses, we encourage opinions on products that you feel
support (or are contrary to) your insights. Remember CoolProducts does
not sell: books, CDs, DVDs, or apparel. We seek items that are:
- appropriate
- high quality
- available in reasonable quantities.
- Besides being a great help, we hope this expert sharing helps
contributors hone their own expertise and credibility.
- Throughout the site just click on the comments icon Know something about a certain
product? Tell other shoppers. Comments are certainly useful as a
buyer's aid and are often more helpful than the canned merchant or
manufacturer product description. We are trying to build you an
engaging marketplace of information so go ahead, express yourself!
- This page helps you keep track of everything you have done on
the website. You have to be logged in to see it.
| Saved Stores |
My Favorites Store |
My Suggestions |
My Recent Activity |
My History |
- Once logged in you can access your My Activity section:
- By clicking the link on the People Power tab on the top of the
page.
- By clicking your user name in the upper right hand corner of any
page after you have logged-in.
- Via the + icon on the product toolbar where it says: Go to my
Stores.
- Via the
button on the Gift Professor results page.
- It's all privacy protected and you can delete anything about
your activity, at any time.
My Suggestions is a visual list of products you have suggested via Suggest
a Product on CoolProducts.com.
A log of products that you have either: 1. voted on, 2. suggested
or 3.purchased within the last 6 months.
