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 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, [...]
We at PowerReviews, have always known the best way to populate reviews on your ecommerce site is to solicit them from your customers post purchase with a follow-up email. In most cases, it was something that required a fair amount of technical expertise from extracting your order history to populating the correct links in your [...]
When we launched PowerReviews Express in January, one of the first platforms we tested the integration on was Shopify from Jaded Pixel Technologies. Since it was so simple to set up an e-ecommerce storefront, it was perfect for our QA efforts. I remember thinking we need to partner with these guys. Well a few months [...]
As you may know, we launched an on-demand version of PowerReviews in December, called PowerReviews Express™, focused on small and medium-sized online businesses. Express has the same tag-based reviews capabilities that are used by our Enterprise clients, such as REI, Staples and Toys “R” Us, but at an affordable price (starting at $80/month), and with [...]
A posting on VKI Studios’ official company blog today, discussed the value that a “customer-facing, independently-moderated [customer review] system” brings to the online shopping experience.
A joint client of ours – PetWellBeing.com – had an in-house testimonials engine on their site and decided to enhance their system by implementing the PowerReviews customer reviews solution in an [...]
It’s hard to believe that another year has passed…and that so much has changed within and outside of our industry. The macro-economic environment has altered the way we approach our business, the world is getting more connected (and mobile!), and the individual has begun to exert his/her power to create dramatic change.
On a smaller scale, [...]
This blog post guest-written by Kamran Lotfi, Product Manager for PowerReviews Express
In an ongoing effort to build and maintain presence within their industry and compete with larger retailers, SMB retailers actively seek out the most cost-effective and impactful ways to help engage shoppers, build trust and grow their business. Faced with an inherent distrust factor [...]
Amidst all this uncertainty in the news these days, there is only one thing we here at PowerReviews know for sure – merchants love our review solution and are adopting it in record numbers.
As of this week (October 15) our 2008 Total Sales YTD (year-to-date) have surpassed total sales for all of 2007. With three [...]
As I am sure many of read in my last blog or perhaps read in the recent article our friends at Internet Retailer Magazine penned earlier this week PowerReviews To Test Customer Reviews Service for Smaller E-Retailers. This vision of ours, to bring to market a review solution designed with the challenges that smaller online [...]
