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 yo...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/ecommerce-merchandising-guide.html
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...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/harness-power-mobile-higher-holiday-sales.html
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...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/sli-buyer-engine-heart-powerful-e-commerce-suite.html
Easy is a critical feature for today’s technology solutions – easy-to-implement, easy-to-use, easy-to-measure and easy-to-update. Of course solutions need to be effective and results are the ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/easy-a-deciding-factor-for-e-commerce-technology.html
It was an interesting move when Toys R Us removed the gender filters from its UK website. There has been pressure for toy retailers to do this to stop reinforcing gender stereotypes and Toys R Us...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/are-gender-filters-necessary-to-search-for-toys.html
More than half of all time spent shopping online is done via smartphones and tablets, propelling mobile commerce to grow three times faster than overall e-commerce. In addition to site search, si...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/navigate-mobile-shoppers-toward-sales.html
Well-designed site navigation leads shoppers straight to the items they want, much like a well-designed satellite navigation system directs drivers to their destinations. Great site navigation he...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/navigation-the-art-of-good-usability.html
In the drive to turn your visitors into buyers, navigation is a critical part of the shopping journey. More than 70% of site visitors navigate their way to the products they have in mind. But if ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/announcing-next-generation-learning-navigation.html
50+ years ago, futurists predicted that advances in technology would provide a life of ease. Instead, we use today’s technology to do more, faster – even with shopping. As an increasing numbe...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/five-site-features-that-speed-shoppers-love.html
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 ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/major-corporations-endorse-sli.html
Are you addicted to cosmetics? Hoarding makeup is not uncommon. If you own multiples of eye shadows, lipsticks, blushes and brushes (as I do…), then you’re not alone. Indeed, it’s globally ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/why-you-dont-need-to-brush-your-hair-when-you-buy-cosmetics.html
Though many of us are barely settling into summer, retailers are already touting back-to-school clothes and supplies. This year, the role of e-commerce in back-to-school shopping is bigger than e...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/technology-that-makes-back-to-school-shopping-elementary.html
Imagine getting your online storefront ready for holiday shoppers during the lucrative Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days and beyond, only to have the entire eCommerce experience shut do...
Sasha Butkovich is Senior Writer for Ecommerce Outtakes and a guest blogger for SLI’s Site Search Today. In case you haven’t noticed, I’ll say the obvious: mobile eCommerce is growing like ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/give-your-mobile-shoppers-what-they-want.html
In my last blog regarding usability, I detailed some of the design features and functionality that make eCommerce user-friendly for an older demographic. The important features to optimize site s...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/what-do-young-consumers-want-from-ecommerce.html
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 pu...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/customer-success-natural-wellbeing.html
Buttered Popcorn… Cream Soda… Toasted Marshmallow… most of us have favorite likes or dislikes when it comes to Jelly Bellies. And it’s nice to be able to order those favorites from Jelly ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/sweet-success-with-jelly-belly.html
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...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/saas-vs-on-premise-solutions.html
In many situations in life, redundancy is undesirable. Our language and writing teachers told us to avoid use of redundant phrases – totally destroyed, armed gunman, exact same, merge together�...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/in-ecommerce-be-really-really-redundant.html
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 2...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/the-growing-need-for-outstanding-site-search.html
This article is part of our monthly “CSM of the Month” feature, in which an SLI Systems Customer Success Manager discusses a current client example. One of the more interesting projects I’v...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/csm-of-the-month-mark-lawson-on-analysys-mason.html
This is third in a series of success stories on eCommerce sites that are growing their business with advanced site search. Also in this series, read about Party Supplies Delivered and Vermont Ted...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/find-your-way-out-of-any-paper-jam-with-this-online-store.html
This is second in a series of success stories on eCommerce sites that are growing their business with advanced site search. See live presentations of these stories at the SLI Theater at IRCE June...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/a-beary-good-success-story-vermont-teddy-bear.html
This is first in a series of success stories on eCommerce sites that are growing their business with advanced site search. See live presentations of these stories at the SLI Theater at IRCE June ...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/reason-to-party-203-more-conversions.html
Changing to a new eCommerce platform is a huge investment, not only in dollars, but time spent integrating your site and training your team on the new features and functions. When you’ve just s...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/technical-ability-matters-dont-overlook-advanced-site-search.html
Guest Post by Sasha Butkovich of Ecommerce Outtakes There are plenty of potential errors to be made in ecommerce navigation, and you’ve probably seen them all at one point or another in your ow...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/3-ecommerce-navigation-errors-to-avoid-2.html
If there is one key takeaway from the Internet Retailer Web Design and Usability Conference, it’s that eCommerce sites must be responsive to the increased sophistication of customers by offerin...
Does it really come as a surprise that eCommerce purchases on tablets is outpacing smartphones? No, probably not. Though they share the same mobility and ease of use as smartphones, tablets are a...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/tablet-browsing-made-easy.html
A surprising fact was just reported: older consumers are most likely to make holidays purchases online this year. The study, conducted by Velaro, highlighted some interesting facts that online re...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/surprise-older-shoppers-are-more-likely-to-purchase-online.html
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 app...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/how-women-are-shaping-ecommerce.html
We talk a lot in this blog about ways to get more business value from site search. Today, I’d like to talk about the importance of navigation, and more specifically the navigation pages in deli...
While Henry Ford was great at making cars, he clearly missed a key opportunity to delight his customers when he said, “People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.” F...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/colorize-your-search-to-delight-your-customers.html
One of the most effective paths to growth for an online retailer is expanding the product line. The bigger your catalog, the better chance you’ll be able to attract customers to your store. �...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/site-navigation-gone-wild-how-to-get-it-under-control.html
How about sharing your thoughts on what 2012 will bring? I’ll start – While 2011 could be called the year eRetailers got interested in mobile and social media, 2012 will likely be the year of...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/2012-the-year-of-the-tablet-and-continuation-of-social.html
The use of smartphones and tablets for shopping this holiday was featured among the NRF’s list of the Top 10 trends for 2011. They predicted that half of Americans with smartphones and 70 perce...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/mobile-commerce-consumers-have-a-split-personality.html
The process of prepping your online storefront for holiday shoppers begins earlier every year – but there’s still time for last-minute “quick hits” that can help boost conversions and enc...
Over the past several weeks we’ve shared with you some of the advice provided in our downloadable “Big Book of Navigation Tips.” Perhaps one of the key take-aways in the Big Book is that yo...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/when-it-comes-to-navigation-always-find-ways-to-improve.html
Just like in a physical store, it’s important to merchandise your navigation pages with information about what products are on sale, the promotions you’re running, what items are marked for c...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/merchandise-navigation-pages-for-more-click-throughs.html
When approaching navigation it’s important to remember that search engine spiders are a key audience. Google, Bing and other search engines analyze site navigation structures as they crawl your...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/improve-seo-with-simple-tweaks-in-navigation.html
When you’re trying to find something on a poorly designed or overly cluttered website, it can feel like you’re in one of those computer games where you’re trapped in a dark hallway and don�...
Refinements are an important part of navigation, as they help narrow a broad category so visitors get to items they’re looking for more quickly – and also help them get to particular items to...
Most e-commerce sites, and even non-ecommerce sites, have customer ratings and reviews. The ratings give people a quick view at how well a product (or content) has fared among people who’ve alr...
The 2011 Multichannel Merchant (MCM) Awards are out, and we now know which are the top 10 retail sites with the best search and navigation. It’s great to see such an influential industry public...
The busy holiday shopping season is already underway – but it’s not too late to make small improvements that will make it easier for shoppers to find their way around on your site, as well as...
I came across browsegoods.com today. This uses a Google maps type of interface to browse through a reasonable size shoe collection. You can see all the shoes on one page then zoom into a categor...
https://www.sli-systems.com/blog/a-new-interface-for-browsing-on-line-stores.html
This week we launched our Learning Navigation service. This is a natural extension to our Learning Search service. Learning Navigation makes it easier for your visitors to find what they’re l...