Well known venture capital firm Sequoia Capital made a now famous presentation to their portfolio companies titled “RIP: The Good Times”, warning these companies about the seriousness of the economic crisis and the need for them to become cash flow positive before they need more capital. This has been widely circulated and cited and now potential […]
SLI Systems CEO Shaun Ryan speaks to Melissa Campanelli of eM+C about the importance of Site Search within an ecommerce site http://www.emarketingandcommerce.com/podcasts.
As we highlighted in a previous post, we recently conducted a survey of 322 retailers asking them about the tools they give top priority to when it comes to online marketing. We were happy to find that site search and SEO are two of the top three technologies of choice for retailers today (email marketing […]
This is a question that we are very interested in here at SLI. Most of our customers are retailers. Through our services we are talking to these people every day. Our relationship with them feels more like it is more than just a business relationship. Their passion infects us and we really want them to […]
Yesterday we announced that WEBS has implemented our Learning Search to power the site search on its all-things knitting ecommerce site Yarn.com. Aside from strengthening its online brand visibility and improving the customer experience, WEBS has discovered another benefit to an effective site search solution – more productive employees. According to owner Steve Elkins, employees […]
Omniture announced yesterday that they are going to acquire certain assets in our competitor Mercado. The deal needs the approval of the Israeli government and that may not happen until the end of the year. In the meantime Mercado’s customers are in limbo from a support point of view. Most of the technical staff in […]
Today we announced that Jelly Belly are using SLI’s Learning search and Site Champion. We’ve also released an interview with Jason Marrone, Jelly Belly’s e-commerce marketing manager. The interview was fun and informative. It made me hungry talking about all their candy. It was really interesting to hear about one of their most successful promotions that […]
Have you read the news today? If you have, you couldn’t ignore the many stories related to the current economic conditions and questions about what it means for business. According to a recent story by Kevin Ryan at Search Engine Watch, everyone wants to know what the economic meltdown means for advertising and marketing dollars, […]
There are numerous rumors going round about the demise of one of our competitors, Mercado Software. They have a decent reputation but appear to be having severe cashflow problems. I would like to make an offer to any Mercado customers that are concerned about how this may impact the fast approaching holiday season. At SLI […]
A few weeks ago I was quoted in an interesting blog entry on Information World Review (http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2008/08/google-stakes-i.html) talking about enterprise search and, particularly how Google is, once again, putting pressure on the industry. I think it’s worth expanding on a couple of things, particularly what I mean by enterprise search going beyond “what’s behind the […]