Improve E-commerce Conversion Rate with 5 Critical Enhancements

Your e-commerce business is full speed ahead. But that’s not good enough. You’ve been tasked with higher and higher growth expectations. And now you have even more at stake. You are likely spending more and more to drive traffic to your site. You can’t let that big investment in advertising fizzle with diminishing ROI. Good […]

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Retail Executive Brief: Customer Experience Trends for 2018

The pressure is on for retail businesses to deliver on big sales growth expectations. That’s in the face of slow consumer spending growth combined with the tectonic shift in traditional retail channels. You need to turn more shoppers into buyers. You can’t afford for your investment to bring more shoppers in the door or onto […]

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E-commerce Merchandising: The Ultimate Guide to the Newest Techniques

E-commerce merchandising has one goal in mind – connect shoppers with the right product so that they “Add to Cart” fast. Merchandise well and you’ll increase conversion rates and boost your average order values. But execution is always incredibly difficult. You have different visitors with different mindsets toward actually buying. Those shoppers are engaging with […]

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Is Your Merchandising Working?

Just as in brick-and-mortar stores, the importance of designing your online site to sell most effectively can’t be overstated. Building online merchandising equivalents of in-store experiences promises that shoppers will not only find what they came to your site to find, but will discover products they didn’t even know they wanted, until you showed them. […]

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All Things Amazon and Personalization Prevail at SLI Connect NYC

Dozens of e-commerce companies, thought leaders and SLI partners convened this fall at Carnegie Hall in New York City for our third annual SLI Connect event. During packed presentations and breakout sessions the group tackled many issues and opportunities for online retailers today. Among the over-arching themes were strategies to compete with Amazon, ways to […]

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Harness the Power of Mobile for Higher Holiday Sales

Evidence from 2015 suggests that record-breaking numbers of holiday shoppers will make their 2016 purchases online. (Click here to Master 2015 Holiday Trends to Clinch 2016 Holiday Sales.) Trends show a steady shift from the majority of online purchases being made from a desktop to more purchases being made on mobile devices. While computers still […]

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Master 2015 Holiday Trends to Clinch 2016 Holiday Sales

Every year it seems like just as we start settling into the summer haze, holiday planning kicks into high gear! Since 31.5% of the $343 billion transacted online occurred in the fourth quarter last year (U.S Commerce Dept), smart retailers can’t afford to nap (for too long) in that beach chair. If those numbers don’t […]

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SLI Buyer Engine – The Heart of a Powerful E-commerce Suite

I have a confession. For more than a decade, SLI has been far too modest about our e-commerce innovations. Perhaps our engineering team has garnered so many patents that they haven’t stopped to reflect. It hit me when we learned of the latest SLI patent related to our auto complete algorithm. We began applying for […]

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Perfecting E-commerce in the Beauty Industry

Those in search of the perfect foundation, the best anti-aging serum or the hottest shade of lipstick used to have to go from makeup counter to makeup counter, only to be disappointed by a limited selection of brands and information. In 2000, fresh-faced 21-year-old Kate Morris took this challenge into her own hands and launched […]

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SLI Celebrates 15 Years of Innovation

Everyone at SLI has heard the story of how this company started. In 2001, five of us bootstrapped SLI out of necessity and because we saw an opportunity. We had lost our jobs when NBCi collapsed in the dot-com crash (NBCi had bought our previous company GlobalBrain). But we knew there was an opportunity for the search technology we created. So on August 1, 2001, SLI was born with the aim of improving site search. In many ways, we were ahead of our […]

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