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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 & Their Impact on SEO.
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 to Miami next week attending the Internet Retailer Web Design conference where I hope to meet a bunch of current and future customers and partners and learn a thing or two about web design. If you’re going to be there then come along and meet us at our booth or drop me an email: shaun.ryan at sli-systems.com.
I often hear from our customers and partners that SLI is one of the most responsive vendors they have ever worked with. One of my goals for this year is to ensure that we continue to provide a remarkable level of service as we grow. As always, we are looking to add new features to our service that will help our customers’ businesses.
Last year we updated our merchandising console, introduced Auto Complete, improved the speed of our search, and upgraded our infrastructure to provide improved redundancy. All of these were provided at no additional cost to our customers. We also continued to improve our best practices as we gained experience running the search on over 350 sites. We have several more improvements in the works – that you will see rolled out in 2009. I look forward to telling you more as we release these and I wish you all a prosperous 2009.
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 Jan. 19-22 in Miami.
Stop by our booth (#43), or join us at the SLI-sponsored cocktail receptions on Monday and Tuesday nights. (The theme of Tuesday night’s reception will be Chinese New Year and a celebration of the “Year of the Search B-Ox.” Come have a drink on us!)
Shop.org Strategy & Innovation Forum
We’re also looking forward to Shop.org’s Strategy & Innovation Forum Feb. 2-4 in Orlando.
We’re participating in the Innovation contest, the winners of which will be announced on Feb. 3 at the show. If you have a few minutes, go to the web site and take a look at the entries – and if you think SLI’s idea shows true innovation, feel free to cast a vote our way. (Note: this contest is open to retailers’ votes only.) You may vote for up to 5 entries. The deadline is 11:59 EST on Friday, Jan. 16.
If you’re planning to attend either event, let us know – we’d love to see you!
If this week it seems that SLI Systems is everywhere that’s because its our busiest week of the year.
Here are some of the various events that we are visiting this week;
Enterprise Search Summit West
September 23 – 25
San Jose, CA
Booth #235
ExactTarget Connections ‘08 User Conference
September 23 – 25
Indianapolis, IN
DMinSite Customer Summit 2008
September 22 – 24
Boulder, CO
LENSER Client Summit
September 24 – 26
San Rafael, CA
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 created a lot of interest. The winner was Shirley Tan of American Bridal. Conincidentally Shirley is an existing customer of SLI Systems. She was very happy to win the laptop.
Next week on June 10 – 11, we will be exhibiting at the GC 2008expo at Earls Court, London.
GC 2008expo is the leading public sector IT event in the UK. It’s the exhibition and conference where public servants come to see the very latest technologies in action and to discover the solutions to the challenges they face within government.
If you would like to learn how SLI Systems site search and navigation solutions can further advance your on-line presence we would be excited to see you at the GC Expo stand #704.
For those of you who couldn’t make it – here’s a recap of day one at SMX Sydney by Neerav Bhatt. Neerav wrote up SLI as one of the vendors with interesting products and snapped this picture of the intrepid traveller Ed Hoffman.
Next week we’re attending the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Sydney event in Sydney, Australia – April 10 – 11, 2008.
The event has attracted some impressive international speakers including; Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, and Danny Sullivan, Editor-In-Chief of SearchEngineLand.com and host of the Daily SearchCast podcast.
SLI will be exhibiting and we welcome you to stop by our booth.
Next week we’re attending the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West event in Santa Clara, CA, February 26 – 28, 2008.
SLI will be exhibiting (booth #320) and our CEO Shaun Ryan will be speaking on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 2pm – 2:30pm. The topic of Shaun’s presentation is “Internal Search and Navigation – Best Practices – and Their Impact on SEO”.
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