On Sunday Radio Network House in Christchurch, New Zealand was demolished by implosion. Check out the video. Our first office was located on the 6th floor this building. We moved in 11 years ago with half a floor of space and eventually occupied a whole floor before we outgrew it. The building was damaged beyond […]
Discussions about how site search helps businesses add to the bottom line, and SLI systems itself, have been hitting the news lately. So, I thought I’d round the recent ones up for you, in case you’ve missed any. These articles are a good read, as they present lots of useful tips and information about how […]
Last week, Brian Burstein of MarketingSherpa shared some useful tips on the SherpaBlog for maximizing your site search (a few were provided by our CEO, Shaun Ryan) in his post “On-site Search: How to help your customers find what they want (to buy).” Interestingly, as Brian reports, “According to the MarketingSherpa Ecommerce Benchmark Report, customers […]
Come visit us at our Shop.org booth (#807), and we will give you a free site critic review. We’ll let you know how you can improve the search and navigation experience of your users, and run a few tests with you to determine how accurate your site search is. We’ll also be able to demonstrate […]
At 4:30am on Saturday morning Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. This is the location of our New Zealand office. Amazingly no one in the city was killed and there were very few injuries, despite there being widespread damage. Our staff are all well and, with one exception, have escaped major […]
If you place banner ads and promotional notices all over your website, but skip the search results, you’re missing a lucrative showcase for your holiday marketing efforts. Many online shoppers don’t browse retail sites using navigation – their shopping expeditions start with site search. So they’ll never see your promos if they’re only placed on […]
Today we issued a press release about Hard Rock Cafe and the work we are doing with them. The press release explains why you need ecommerce specific features in a site search solution for a site that has both an online store and significant non-product content. I don’t normally mention our press releases on the […]
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, […]
Last week we announced that Lighting by Gregory, one of the largest lighting and ceiling fan distributors in the U.S., has seen some impressive results from using our Learning Search site search and Site Champion user-generated SEO solutions. In fact, they’ve seen a 40% increase in their online conversion rate since deploying our technology. With […]
We’ve upgraded the look and feel of the blog – apart from making it look more like our site, we have made the fonts a little larger. Hopefully you’ll find it easier to use. For those that care -we’ve also changed our blogging platform. Previously we were using Moveable Type. We’re now using WordPress.