Baynote Product Recommendations enables our customers to more effectively merchandise their products across their entire site. However, many ecommerce vendors invest heavily in their merchandisers to create complimentary and comparative products to increase conversion rates and average order values.
Today I had an enlightening conversation with one such vendor. He spoke highly of his [...]

Before going to eTail East which was this week in DC, we at Baynote were a little concerned that attendance would be down given the economy and the high cost of travel.  Attendance was only slightly down from last year and the enthusiasm was high for both pure-play eTailers as well as with the online [...]

This morning, MediaPost’s Marketing Daily posted an article on the decline of email marketing effectiveness. JupiterResearch recently completed some research on permission-based email marketing. While email continues to be a heavily used means of communication, users have become increasingly skeptical about promotional email.
Turned Off Users
The JupiterResearch document claims that email users’ likelihood to [...]

Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, is widely known for his rivalry with Larry Ellison, but above all he is known for his controversial statement “Software is Dead.” While this might be incredibly zealous, there is some truth to it, but I would like to rephrase this statement: Software as we know it is [...]

Were you just asking yourself about where you can find out about the most effective online merchandising techniques? Well what do you know? Mike was just talking about exactly that last week with Jason Billingsley, Co-founder and VP of Innovation at Elastic Path. Mike and Jason’s webinar is available here if you’d like to listen, [...]

CIO Insight recently posted the results of a pretty interesting survey a few weeks back. As you can see the hottest category on the survey is collective intelligence, or as explained: “technologies that gather and present ‘wisdom of the crowds.’” One of the interesting things about the survey is the demographic of those that [...]

Have you ever wondered how an entire colony of ants can find their way to a food source? Or how internet marketers apply the same principle to make contextual recommendations? Or how merchants automatically promote certain products to super specific customer segments? If you haven’t already then I bet you do now! You can find [...]

This week was a big first for us here at Baynote with the debut of our premier webinar, Bond vs. Barbie: The Dynamic Positioning Imperative with Stanford consulting professor, Tom Kosnik. In the webinar, Tom discusses the shift in branding strategy from the concept of durability and the never-changing “spy-chic” persona of James Bond [...]

Several privacy groups are calling for a “Do not Track List” to limit behavioral profiling techniques similar to “Do Not Call Lists” that keep those pesky telemarketers from tying up our phone lines. As an employee at Baynote, I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t love the idea of recommendations driven by [...]

If you are ever doing any research around SEO, a principle that you will soon not forget is “content is king.” This phrase must reside on every SEO related article/website known to mankind. In its defense, the phrase is absolutely correct. Having good content on your website is more important than anything else. [...]