Meet Neil Thomas, SLI’s New Chief Revenue Officer, President North America

Neil Thomas knows what it takes to grow a world-leading Software as a Service (SaaS) company. In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales of cloud-based business analytics firm Adaptive Insights, Thomas grew the company’s sales team from five to 150 and its customer base from launch to thousands of enterprises in […]

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SLI CEO Honoured

SLI Systems CEO Dr. Shaun Ryan and his brother and co-founder Dr. Grant Ryan were named “2014 New Zealand Engineering Entrepreneurs of the Year” at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards. This accolade is one of the 10 awards SLI received this year. The 10 awards SLI received during 2014 are: New Zealand Engineering Entrepreneurs […]

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SLI Reports on Halloween and Thanksgiving Shopping Trends

SLI’s capabilities to deliver insights into online shopping during Halloween and Thanksgiving is receiving exposure in global news outlets such as Forbes and CNN Money. The company studied 2014’s most popular Halloween costumes with Frozen leading the pack.  Also, the company studied recent U.S. shopping behavior and found Cyber Monday (Dec. 1) saw nearly 30% more […]

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Major Corporations Endorse SLI

Hear in a recent video testimonial how U.S. gourmet food and gifting company Harry & David saw a US$437,000 increase in 2014 sales after implementing SLI’s Site Champion™. Other recent video testimonials include the U.K.’s largest mail order seed company Thompson & Morgan and the U.K.’s number one winter sports apparel and equipment retailer Snow […]

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SLI CEO Confident of Long-Term Growth Prospects

Welcome to the first edition of our new bi-annual investor newsletter. In this newsletter we plan to provide updates on the company and its customers along with the deeper information you need to fully understand SLI’s market. This time I’ll kick it off with an overview of the e-commerce market and where we believe it’s […]

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Survey Reveals eCommerce Marketers are Leaving Money on the Table. Are You?

The results from our annual eCommerce survey are in. Unfortunately, what our latest survey revealed is that a majority of marketers are not taking advantage of the extra “punch” that site search can give their marketing programs. This represents a huge missed opportunity for eCommerce brands to improve ROI of their marketing campaigns and increase […]

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Optimize Your Search Merchandising for the Holidays

As an eCommerce professional, you’ve likely been preparing for the holiday shopping season for months – deciding which products to feature, planning orders and organizing marketing campaigns. Retailers predict an 11-20% rise in holiday spending for 2013, with eCommerce and mobile driving much of the growth (Retail TouchPoints, Aug. 12). While the opportunity is great, […]

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Customer Success: Natural Wellbeing

Natural Wellbeing is a site rich with reports, reviews and expert advice about the holistic and natural wellness products they offer. Such quality content can really help move shoppers through purchase decisions – especially for a natural health products site, where first-time buyers can be skeptical. But in order to be useful, the content has […]

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SaaS vs. On-Premise Solutions

One of the most frequently asked questions when evaluating site search solutions is why a SaaS-based solution is better than on-premise. The reasoning may follow that with on-premise, you pay for software once, instead of monthly service fees. But while having a one-time payment for a software package may seem like the most logical and […]

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The Growing Global Need for Great Site Search

Every day we see how introducing great site search is one of the easiest and quickest ways to turn more visitors into buyers. Earlier this month our customers were telling their stories at IRCE 2013 in Chicago. These are businesses like Samuels Jewelers, which doubled the per-visit value of their site search users after implementing […]

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