Research indicates that as many as 60 percent of online shoppers use a merchant's search feature to navigate the website. With so many potential customers typing keywords rather than using a site's navigation hierarchy, advanced search features are not just nice to have. They are a competitive advantage as powerful as customer reviews, cross-selling, and email marketing. SLI Systems offers a hosted, learning-based search and navigation solution that can supercharge an online merchant's site search, improving sales and increasing the likelihood that a merchant's shop will show up on search engine results pages (SEPRPs). Add to the solution SLI's reputation for extraordinary customer service and you can understand why I am awarding SLI fi...
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who build it and use it. This week, we'll hear from Joshua Manley, president and co-founder of Cartfly, a hosted ecommerce solution created by Ustrive2 Inc., and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Cartfly is an ecommerce widget that works as a portable, mini-storefront across social networks, blogs and personal websites. Cartfly is currently in use on more than 8,000 websites and personal pages. We'll also hear from a Cartfly customer, Dani Campbell, who uses the widget to sell merc...
Spree, the open source ecommerce shopping cart, and Amazon.com have both announced new products in time for the holiday shopping season. Spree is an ecommerce platform using the Ruby on Rails programming language. New features include coupon and discount support and an improved system of shipping calculators. Coupon and Discount Support With Spree 0.9.0, coupon eligibility is customizable on a per coupon basis. For example, an ecommerce merchant can configure coupon eligibility based on start date, expiration date, number of uses, and combinations (ensuring that specific coupons cannot be used with other coupons in the same order.) Shipping Calculators The new shipping-rate calculator system has a more modular design. The screens...
You might’ve heard the news that Twitter Lists are alive and kicking. If you don’t know what they are, here’s a brief explanation:
Any Twitter user can create a list of people on Twitter, which can be followed with one click. For example, all the people on the Carsonified Team can be found at twitter.com/carsonified/team.
We’re with Robert Scoble on this one: We LOVE this idea (see his great write-up here). It’s going to make Twitter even more valuable because you’ll be able to easily find and follow the type of people you’re interested in.
Here are five Twitter Lists we think you’ll find useful:
If you know of any really great lists, please add them to the comments!
