I spotted a post by Bryan Eisenberg at FutureNow listing the top 10 online retailers by conversion rate. First of all – I was pleased to see three SLI customers in the list – FTD, Blair.com and Drs Foster and Smith. Before you start comparing your conversion rate to these sites and trying to work out why […]
Next week we’re heading down to Phoenix, AZ for the eTail West 2009 conference. This event is one of the largest conferences in the ecommerce industry and has an impressive list of speakers as well as a good mix of vendors.
When I was at the Internet Retailer design show in Miami last month I noticed that more and more retailers are using video on their site. Fat Brain Toys president and co-founder, Mark Carson showed me an example of video on their site that shows kids playing with one of the more popular toys on their […]
Yesterday we released a podcast interview with our customer Ian MacDonald from Century Novelty. During this interview Ian talks about how he started off as a stock boy while he was at school and is now General Manager. Century Novelty started with a physical store in 1951 but is now is exclusively online. Focusing […]
Last week I spotted an interesting blog post by Anna Skaya and Adam Salamon – over at Bazaarvoice. They described how our UK based customer Boden is using social tags to enhance their site search. I’ve been a fan of integrating ratings and reviews with site search for some time and I think the idea of using […]
We have just released an interview with the CEO and founder of our partner DMinSITE, Larry Kavanagh. Larry talks about their SaaS ecommerce platform for catalogers and the experience they have gained from the 78 sites that they run. This includes information about improvements they made to the checkout process of one of their customers […]
We found out recently that we were one of five companies selected for Shop.org’s Innovation Contest as part of the Shop.org Strategy & Innovation Forum. Alongside companies like BazaarVoice (an SLI partner) and others, we have the opportunity to give a short presentation about our innovative idea – leveraging site search data to dramatically improve […]
This week we released an interview with Mark Dirks, president of Beacon Technologies. Beacon Tech are a partner of SLIs and we have a number of customer’s in common. Mark has a wealth of experience – he’s been working with web based applications since the early 90s. One of Becon Tech’s strength’s is their Google […]
We posted this interview with Jeff Zwelling from YLighting just before Christmas but I was a little busy and did not get a chance to blog about it. Jeff is very entrepreneurial – he co-founded Ylighting and is currently working on an opportunity he sees to improve analytics for ecommerce. I’m sure you’ll find it enlightening […]
Happy New Year to everyone! 2009 is barely underway and there are already many exciting things happening… Internet Retailer Web Design Conference While the U.S. makes history with the inauguration of president Obama, we’ll be busy – along with many other ecommerce technology companies – showing our wares at the Internet Retailer Web Design conference […]