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Mercado and Organize-Everything.com Team Up for Special Webinar: "Accelerating Online Revenue through Site Search & Merchandising"
PLEASANTON, CA - February 8, 2006 - Mercado Software, a leading provider of e-commerce search & merchandising solutions, will host a 1-hour webinar featuring guest Kevin Watts, Director of E-Commerce at Organize-Everything.com. The webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, Feb 14th at 11am PST (2pm EST).
Mr. Watts will present some of the challenges facing online retailers, and explain why choosing the right product search solution is vital to business success. He will also discuss the relationship between search & merchandising and a retailer's ability to engage in 'active selling' – and, how Organize-Everything.com was able to increase revenue by 57%, their items sold by 58%, and their number of orders by 60% after one month of using their new solution, Mercado bFIRST©.
To attend this webinar sign up at www.mercado.com.
If you are a multi-channel retailer or emerging online e-commerce business, you will learn:
- How to overcome common challenges when rolling out commerce search technology
- Why merchandising integrated with search is the best way to increase total sales and deliver an optimal customer experience
- How properly cleansed and staged data coupled with the latest merchandising solutions are helping e-commerce sites sell more
- What your e-commerce search deployment options are – ranging from ASP to hosted custom solutions, through in-house licensed software solutions
Today, online retailers of any size have the opportunity to use smart search-based merchandising to provide a great customer experience – while creating more selling opportunities. Mercado will discuss its solution, the result of the collective merchandising best-practices of many of the top brands in online retail, as well as the newest deployment options.
Common challenges & trends for leveraging and managing technology to drive retail sales will also be presented – as well as solutions that experts feel are critical for success.
About Mercado
Mercado is the leading e-commerce search & merchandising software specialist for online multi-channel retail and B2B organizations. By enabling a superior buying experience and equipping business managers with a powerful platform on which to implement merchandising strategies, retailers and businesses can constantly grow their business results. Sears, Williams-Sonoma, JCPenney, Macy's, Tower Records, MSN, and OfficeMax, are some of the companies benefiting from Mercado's solutions. Mercado's widely-adopted Commerce Search & Navigation (CSN) platform provides customers of many leading online retailers with an easy way to quickly find the products they're looking for, and gives merchandisers the tools they need to optimize selling opportunities at every point of customer interaction.
For more information about Mercado Software, please visit www.mercado.com or call (888) 376-1400.
About Organize-Everything
Organize Everything was founded in 1997 for the purpose of providing one convenient place to shop for storage and organization solutions. People choose to shop with us because they find the products they want every time. We listen to our customers every day, adding new items when they request and discontinuing products which don't match our customer's expectations. We continually update and improve our website, our content, our services and the site's functionality based on the suggestions of our customers. We strive to offer every organizing and storage product and all the information about these products and brands for online shoppers like you. It's a goal that our customers are helping us achieve through their suggestions and comments.
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