Site Search Horror Stories: Horrific Hidden Search boxes and Menacing Merchandising

The market for online shoppers can be dark and perilous territory for eCommerce sites. Customers come and go, and it can be easy to disappear forever in a forest of competing stores. Don’t be snatched up by the myriad threats to your site by keeping a keen eye focused on optimizing your site’s usability to […]

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Site Search Horror Stories: Texas Relevance Massacre

For eCommerce sites, there is nothing more terrifying than discovering your products are buried six feet under. Ineffective site search can bury relevant results to the point where your customers won’t find what they’re seeking. If your customers are looking for black hooded cloaks or wooden brooms, they may not even find them when they […]

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Stock Levels and Site Search

One factor to consider when building a brilliant site search is how stock levels should impact the search. A great search should deliver a product that the searcher wants to buy and that the retailer wants to sell. But what if that product is out of stock or low in stock? There’s not a simple […]

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CSM of the Month: Kish Maharaj on Dog IDs

Talk to any dog owner, and you’ll quickly find that their pet is just another member of the family. They’ll do anything they can to protect them. DogIDs sells pet collars with built-in ID tags that any dog owner would drool over (sorry!) However, they weren’t seeing the conversions on their site that they were […]

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SLI Systems Named in Top 100 NZ Tech Companies

SLI Systems was just ranked in the TIN100 report, which catalogs the top 100 technology companies in New Zealand. The ratings rank companies by revenue, an analysis of market sectors, a New Zealand company ownership review, in depth statistics of the current financial times and the impact on the industry. We’re honored to be part of the list […]

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Master Mobile Commerce with our Upcoming Webinar

Mobile commerce is experiencing explosive growth as more shoppers embrace making purchases through a mobile device.  Yet 79% of large online retailers still don’t have a mobile optimized site. Where do you fall? Do you have a mobile site but want to improve it? Or are you looking to offer a mobile site, but not […]

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Best workplace award

Great news: SLI Systems New Zealand office has been voted one of the finalists for Best Workplaces in New Zealand! The survey, which was completed by Kenexa, took into account answers from 33,000 kiwis from 289 organizations. Winners for each category will be announced in November, and we’re looking forward to learning the results. This […]

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eCommerce Merchandising Made Easy

In contrast to the brick and mortar stores where we all grew up shopping, online shopping offers a variety of ways to put the right items in front of your customers. Instead of sorting through racks or shelves of products that we don’t want in order to find the few items we do want, merchandising […]

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Our Weekly Webinar Series Starts Tomorrow!

Just a quick reminder that the first webinar of our weekly webinar series starts tomorrow! In each 30-minute session showcasing a different top retailer, you’ll get the inside scoop about what worked, what didn’t and how these retailers augmented their site to improve conversion rates, ROI and overall site usability. Tune in every Wednesday from […]

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How Women are Shaping eCommerce

Traditionally, men have led in purchasing in the eCommerce space, buying digital media, computers and other consumer electronics. However, as more eCommerce sites have expanded their reach to apparel, beauty and items for the kids from clothes to toys and party supplies, the number of shopping transactions by women has outpaced men in most areas. […]

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