By Andy Chen, Founder and VP, Strategic Partnerships
Today we announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office just issued a key patent to PowerReviews related to our tag-based review technology – specifically, the ability to present at-a-glance review summaries that make reviews more informative and easier to use. This is the first of seven patents [...]
by Darby Williams, VP Marketing
A New York surprise. I’m in New York visiting PowerReviews clients and partners. A great trip on its own. It also happens to be the wrap-up of the World Series, and I find myself in Time Square, a half block from Virgil’s BBQ where I had just eaten (a whole other [...]
by Yvonne Gando, Social Commerce Analyst
With online retailers gearing up for the holidays, there is no shortage of tips and tactics out there to tap into social to supercharge sales. We decided to poke around the social web and take a look at how a couple of big name retailers (who also happen to be our [...]
by Yvonne Gando, Social Commerce Analyst
If you lean in a bit further and look a little more closely, you’ve known this thing called social media for years. It’s ripped right out of those social studies textbooks that weighted many a sixth-graders’ backpacks, in their curricular insistence on opening young minds to the strands that define [...]
By Andy Chen, Co-Founder
I’m pleased to announce that Pehr Luedtke has joined PowerReviews as CEO. This move is the next step in PowerReviews’ expansion into broad-based Social Commerce Solutions. Pehr brings a unique combination of marketing and merchandising experience at branded retailer Levi Strauss and consumer online marketing and operations experience running Epinions, [...]
by Yvonne Gando, Social Commerce Analyst
The Wall Street Journal featured a story yesterday that credited PowerReviews with helping ecommerce businesses boost customer review volume and build trust among online shoppers. The results: shoppers feel more comfortable buying online, while merchants are better able to identify problems with their products or services.
The article highlighted the success stories [...]
by Yvonne Gando, Social Commerce Analyst
TwelpForce. People power. Consumer-driven innovation. The “conversation”. Gen Buy. Lobster tails. These are just a few of the core concepts (and choice food items) that gave conference attendees something to talk about at this year’s Shop.org Annual Summit.
Cheers to all who stopped by our booth. Visitors were certainly not afraid [...]
On Friday, July 31, 2009, Internet Retailer announced the Internet Retailer Top 500 “Solution Leaders” – the top 3 vendors in each solution category they track.
We are very pleased to be recognized by Internet Retailer as the Solution Leader in the Customer Reviews and Forums category – click here for the full article (screen shot [...]
As head of Client Services at PowerReviews working with many of our 300+ clients, I’ve seen a significant shift in how customer reviews are being employed by retailers and Brands in the past 18 months. In the early days, my work centered around educating clients on the importance of customer reviews in closing sales on [...]
When Andy and I started this business several years ago, we knew that SEO was an intrinsic part of the value equation for customer reviews. But to provide a review solution that grows in functionality with every product release, we chose to use Javascript on the client’s website to pull in new features as soon as they’re [...]
