Interview with Ian MacDonald from Century Novelty

  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 […]

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Free Webinar – Best Practices for CSE Marketing & Site Search

Merchant Advantage and SLI Systems are hosting a webinar this week on Best Practices for CSE Marketing and Site Search. The 30-minute webinar will be held Thursday Feb 19, 2009 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern. By participating in this webinar, you will learn: How Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE’s) can bring you new customers – without […]

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Social tags and site search

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 […]

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SLI to Exhibit at SMX West

This week SLI is exhibiting at the SMX West Conference. The event is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center which is nice as its only 15 minutes from our office. SLI is exhibiting plus we are running a Theatre Presentation -Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:20am on Internal Search & Navigation Best Practices […]

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Interview with Larry Kavanagh from DMinSITE

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 […]

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Shop.org Innovation Contest Winner

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 […]

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Interview with Mark Dirks from Beacon Technologies

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 […]

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling from YLighting

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 […]

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2009

Welcome to my first blog post for 2009. I’ve had a few weeks off relaxing in a fantastic New Zealand summer and only checking my email when I feel that buzz in my pocket. I’m refreshed and ready to go. 2009 is certainly going to be an interesting year. I’m starting off with a trip […]

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See us at Internet Retailer Web Design and Vote for SLI in Shop.org’s Innovation Contest

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 […]

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