And the winner is…

We had a great time at the Internet Retailer Conference last week in Chicago. It is very stimulating talking to so many people, including online retailers, industry experts, and the other vendors. SLI sponsored the opening reception on the Monday night and we gave away a MacBook Air (from our Cupertino neighbor, Apple) – this […]

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Internet Retailer Conference

Next week we’re traveling to Chicago for the Internet Retailer Conference. We’re exhibiting at booth #655 (near the front of the exhibit hall). We’re also hosting a series of presentations with our partners – CORESense, PowerReviews, WebLinc, ExactTarget, Trinity Insight, and DMinSite will demonstrate how their leading technologies along with SLI Systems advanced site search […]

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Spencer’s and Spirit Halloween now using SLI

Today we’re announcing that Spencer’s and its sister company, costume retailer Spirit Halloween are using our Learning Search and Site Champion services. Spencer’s sells humorous gifts and Spirit Halloween sells costumes.    The two e-commerce sites (the company also operates brick-and-mortar locations around the country) see their biggest traffic around Halloween and Christmas. It’s important […]

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Exact Target’s Route 1 to 1 seminar visits Atlanta and New York this week

SLI along with Salesforce.com and Omniture are sponsoring Exact Target’s Route 1 to 1 seminar series titled “The New eMarketing Essentials”. This 13 city seminar tour will help put email, analytics, CRM and search solutions to work in ways that will help your marketing investments perform better. This week we will be in Atlanta, GA […]

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PowerReviews vs Bazaarvoice

Jay Shaffer, the VP of Marketing for our partner PowerReviews, wrote an interesting post last week about their competitor Bazaarvoice (who is also one of our partners). It’s interesting because Jay is openly accusing Bazaarvoice of trying to copy some of the PowerReviews capabilities. It’s a very aggressive approach to this sort of problem. While […]

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Site search conversion data from Coremetrics

Last week Coremetrics announced that they making free ecommerce data available to their customers for benchmarking. Their announcement included some sample data including the fact that 15% of consumers used site search, resulting in a conversion rate of 5.6%. The conversion rate is interesting when compared to some of the other conversion rates in the […]

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