If you were unable to attend our webinar on Thursday you can watch the recording from the Merchant Advantage website. Best Practices for CSE Marketing and Site Search Michael Lambert, CEO, Merchant Advantage & Shaun Ryan, CEO, SLI Systems The 30-minute webinar was held on Thursday Feb 19, 2009. By watching this webinar you will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]