SLI Systems is now part of Avolin
We’re currently running a mini poll on LinkedIn. When on a site, do you search or navigate more often? Which do you do first? Take the poll and see the results here www.tinyurl.com/8wyuvq.
Our friends over at Merchant Advantage posted an interesting summary of the history and the current state of the various Comparison Shopping Engines.
I was reading Jacob Neilsen’s Alertbox article on Interaction Elasticity today. In the newsletter he mentions that shorter navigation paths are usually better. “4 easy clicks are more usable then 5 easy clicks, because the extra click is more work for users”. This sounds obvious and it got me thinking about how it relates to […]
Yesterday we released an interview with Alan Lim from Purely Gadgets on the ecommerce podcast. Alan is one of our UK based customers and is our first non US guest on this podcast. Alan is from Singapore, has an office in London and one in Hong Kong (from where he sources a lot of their product […]
I was just looking at the data from our search logs and noticed that we served 20% more queries on behalf of our customers on Cyber Monday than we did on Black Friday. To be clear these are search and navigation queries – primarily on ecommerce sites. Black Friday is the biggest retail day for bricks […]
We have just released this interview on the ecommerce podcast with Aaron Magness, the Business Development Manager from Zappos. Aaron talks about the approach Zappos takes to customer service and it particularly resonated with me. One of the ways that Zappos ensures that every employee is focused on customer service is by insisting that everyone […]
Over the past few months we have been upgrading our infrastructure to provide improved redundancy to our customers. Specifically we’ve enhanced our geographic redundancy so there is now no single point of failure. We’ve always had redundancy – so that if a server fails then there will be no interruption to the service of our […]
In case you missed it, last week the National Retail Federation (NRF) released the results of an ecommerce survey conducted by Shopzilla® for Shop.org, which show that a majority (56%) of online retailers expect holiday sales to increase at least 15% this year over last. While the number of retailers expecting that level of sales […]
I wanted to send out a note of caution for those of you who may be talking to someone from one of our competitors, Thanx Media. Take what you hear from them with a grain of salt. We are getting mounting evidence that they are not being truthful to our customers and prospects. By way of background, Thanx […]
We’ve just posted the next episode of the ecommerce podcast: an interview with Brian walker from Forrester Research. Brian describes the services that Forrester supplies to the online retailers and some of the trends that he is seeing. Online retail is still growing and in this economic situation is one of the few bright lights […]