PowerReviews Experiences Record Growth
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PowerReviews (www.powerreviews.com),
a leading provider of award-winning social commerce solutions, is
experiencing unprecedented growth year-to-date, as reflected in customer
wins, hiring, international expansion, and widespread adoption of its
innovative new product releases.
?Facebook Onsite goes beyond the
?Like? button by bringing the Facebook experience to the retailer?s
site. This opens up new opportunities for retailers and brands to
leverage the Open Graph to drive customer loyalty and sales.?
"Retailers and brands are recognizing user-generated content is core to
their social commerce programs, and that they must facilitate
conversations among consumers in a variety of mediums if they are to
stay relevant," said Pehr Luedtke, CEO, PowerReviews.
"As a result, we are experiencing record growth in the adoption of our
products, and our leadership in the space is confirmed by our clients'
successes.?
Year-to-date client growth includes a 51 percent increase in new
PowerReviews Enterprise clients and a 28 percent increase in
PowerReviews Express clients. PowerReviews has also added top talent to
its Engineering, Product Management, Operations and Marketing teams, and
will continue to hire aggressively through the remainder of 2010 and
beyond.
International expansion is another key piece of PowerReviews? current
growth, with the company now providing support for more than 14
languages including French, German, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, and
Portuguese.
Client interest in beta partnerships for social commerce product
launches has been noteworthy, with a growing number of PowerReviews?
enterprise clients committing to the adoption of Facebook OnSite, the
newest addition to PowerReviews? Open Commerce Suite.
?Our clients are active partners in our commitment to innovation in
social commerce, and we?re pleased with the interest and excitement
surrounding Facebook OnSite,? said Cathy Halligan, Senior Vice President
of Sales and Marketing, PowerReviews. ?Facebook Onsite goes beyond the
?Like? button by bringing the Facebook experience to the retailer?s
site. This opens up new opportunities for retailers and brands to
leverage the Open Graph to drive customer loyalty and sales.?
Finally, PowerReviews reports an astounding 39 percent boost YTD in
review count on its award-winning consumer-facing site Buzzillions.com,
bringing the site?s total number of customer-created product reviews to
more than 12 million.
The significance of customer-generated content relative to its
sales-boosting capabilities was highlighted in the Internet Retailer?s
2010 Emerging Technology Survey, which revealed U.S. online retailers
that offered product reviews and recommendations saw 21 percent higher
total sales, 21 percent improved conversion rates, and 15 percent more
purchases of higher ticket items. Buzzillions.com powers reviews and
recommendations from real product users for over a million products in
thousands of categories across PowerReviews? robust retailer network,
including consumer electronics, apparel, sporting goods, health &
beauty, and home and garden.
About PowerReviews®
PowerReviews is a leading provider of social commerce solutions,
including customer reviews, to retailers and brands. The company's
innovative tag-based approach to collecting, organizing, structuring and
analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and
customer engagement. Recognized as the customer reviews Solution Leader
in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, PowerReviews works with over
1,000 retailers and brands on over 3,500 websites, including Staples,
Drugstore.com, Gardener?s Supply, Diapers.com, Callaway and Jockey. In
addition to its Enterprise solution, PowerReviews offers an on-demand
solution for small- and medium-sized businesses called PowerReviews
Express (powerreviewsexpress.com).
PowerReviews also operates a product reviews and recommendation site for
consumers, called Buzzillions.com (buzzillions.com).
TidalWave PR
Lisa Tarter, 415-203-2462
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