ChannelAdvisor Announces the Launch of ShoppingAdvisor(TM).ShoppingAdvisor[TM] Eliminates Etailers' Reliance on Their IT Organization While Providing the Most Efficient Solution to Managing Comparison Shopping Campaigns RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. -- ChannelAdvisor, a leader in on-demand solutions and services that enable retailers to optimize their e-commerce sales strategies, today announced the launch of ShoppingAdvisor[TM], the first self-managed solution that puts merchandising products on comparison shopping engines back in the hands of retailers. As the comparison shopping industry becomes more complex, retailers find it more difficult to manage their efforts and maximize results. ShoppingAdvisor enables retailers to easily customize their product feeds to individual comparison shopping engines' taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, without requiring internal IT resources. ShoppingAdvisor allows retailers to focus on the core principals of operating a successful comparison shopping program: minimizing spending, increasing revenue and improving efficiencies. ShoppingAdvisor's built-in profitability management enables retailers to define business rules that will automatically adjust bid levels or remove products to improve profitability. In addition, ShoppingAdvisor includes pre-defined business rules that leverage best practices for increasing product exposure and conversion with the various shopping engines. Two of the early adopters of ShoppingAdvisor are eBags, number 92 on the 2007 Internet Retailer 500 Guide, and U.S. Cavalry cavalry, a military force consisting of mounted troops trained to fight from horseback. Horseback riding probably evolved independently in the Eurasian steppes and the mountains above the Mesopotamian plain. By 1400 B.C. , a leading provider of military, law enforcement and outdoor equipment. "If I were to design a product to manage our comparison shopping program, it would emulate the functionality in ShoppingAdvisor," said Jon Mellen, Sr. Marketing Manager, eBags. "The control I have with this application is unparalleled to anything I have discovered available in the market today, and the results we have experienced thus far have exceeded our expectations." "As the number of consumers using comparison shopping engines continues to rise, the ability to adapt quickly and effectively becomes a challenge. For this reason, our objective was to find a self-service solution to efficiently manage this program to produce the high ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). we've experienced with search," said U.S. Cavalry E-Commerce Director, Michael Nuss. "Only ShoppingAdvisor provided us the level of management we needed to market our products successfully, and the user-friendly system allowed us to be live in a matter of days." "ChannelAdvisor has managed comparison shopping engine programs for the industry's largest retailers over the past four years. During this time, we've gained substantial insight into technology requirements that are integral to customer success in this ever-changing environment," said Scot Wingo, Chief Executive Officer of ChannelAdvisor. "ShoppingAdvisor is a key component of the ChannelAdvisor Complete platform and we're pleased to announce its availability." In conjunction with this announcement, any retailer that signs up for ShoppingAdvisor prior to June 30th 2007 will receive a 60-day, money-back guarantee. ShoppingAdvisor's industry leading features include: * Advanced Dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard. (2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard. Interface - Get a 360-degree view of your feed status, your performance across individual channels, and be alerted when your traffic or revenue reaches predetermined pre·de·ter·mine v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines v.tr. 1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: thresholds. * Merchandising Engine - Include or exclude products with the click of a button, re-write titles and descriptions and build business rules that can dynamically generate unique content for each product on each channel. * Built-in Profitability Management - Evaluate individual product performance including cost per order, return on ad spend (ROAS ROAS Return on Advertising Spending ROAS Robin On A Stick (internet art/photography project) ROAS Regional Office Administrative Services ), and profit margin at each comparison shopping engine. * Keyword Term Generator - Identify which keywords are driving traffic to your website and easily incorporate them into your titles and descriptions to improve relevancy. * Multi-channel Category Mapping - Map your data feed to the taxonomy of over 40 comparison shopping engine's categories. * Advanced Reporting - Monitor the performance of your campaign strategies by channel, category, landing page or product. * Seamless Paid Search Integration - ShoppingAdvisor is seamlessly integrated with SearchAdvisor[TM], ChannelAdvisor's paid search solution, providing a single login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. , unified channel reporting, bid management and keyword term generation. Additionally, ChannelAdvisor is introducing a series of initiatives that help new ShoppingAdvisor customers improve their day-to-day multi-channel campaign management. ShoppingAdvisor customers can select from one of several enhanced services Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; packages to support their need to establish a go-to-market strategy or evaluate areas of improvement with their current comparison shopping campaigns. One specific program enables customers to be live on 15 comparison shopping sites within 5 business days. ShoppingAdvisor will debut June 4-7 at the Internet Retailer 2007 Conference in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , CA. Attendees will have the opportunity to see live demonstrations of ShoppingAdvisor at booth number 1015. ChannelAdvisor is also offering an interactive webinar for customers and prospects which will be Tuesday, June 12that 2:00 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT . Sign up is available at http://www.channeladvisor.com/webinars. About ChannelAdvisor Corporation ChannelAdvisor Corporation provides technology and services that enable leading online retailers to maximize their products across multiple e-commerce marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon.com and Overstock.com, comparison shopping engines such as Shopping.com, Shopzilla, Nextag and Google Product Search A search service from Google that specializes in finding products and the stores where they can be purchased. Originally known as "Froogle," merchants do not pay Google to rank their products, and there is no wallet or shopping cart function. and search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). . In 2006, ChannelAdvisor managed over $1.6 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV GMV Game Music Video GMV Gross Merchandise Value GMV Ground Mobility Vehicle (US Army special operations vehicle) GMV Gross Metal Value GMV Got My Vote GMV Good Morning Vietnam GMV Generalized Minimum Variance ) on behalf of its customers. ChannelAdvisor solutions combine best practices, on-demand software See SaaS. and integration technology to help retailers sell more products, faster, by automating labor-intensive, manual functions so they spend less time optimizing campaigns and more time solving marketing and business issues. ChannelAdvisor's customers include, GSI Commerce GSI Commerce is an ecommerce company specializing in running online shopping sites for brick and mortar companies that wish to have an online presence. It contracts with companies such as Zales,[2] iRobot,[3] Hershey's, Palm Inc. , Sears, Brookstone, Abebooks and Motorola. ChannelAdvisor Corporation is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with offices in Seattle, the United Kingdom and Germany. For more information, visit http://www.channeladvisor.com/. |
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