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SPECIAL DATES VALENTINE’S SEARCH INSIGHTS
External ReferenceBy Germán Heredia on 23 February 2018
Romance was certainly in the air last week as many of us reached into our wallets to demonstrate our love. Valentine´s day has in fact become one of the busiest and most important days of the year for some eCommerce companies, driving millions of buyers worldwide.
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Valentine’s Commerce Search?
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 13 February 2018
Valentines drives hundreds of Millions of buyers who expose very unique Search & Discovery patterns. In our experience, Valentines buyers exhibit high commitment, knowing more about their desirable item, looking for shortcuts.
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The Perfect Commerce Strategy
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 07 February 2018
There are two ways of looking at the capacities that a Commerce Platform has to offer. One is technically, another experientially. Technically, a store is seen as a set of interconnected steps that serve a user in the so called Shopping Process. Experientially, a store is seen as a User Interfacing layer that serves a Human need to communicate.
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2018's turning point GDPR
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 27 December 2017
Understanding the significance of the GDPR directive triggers the notion of Data as a potential liability. The majority and the fastest growing sets of Data held by any online store or platform are in fact made of Personal Data.
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Irresistible products aren’t reasoned into existence
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 28 November 2017
We live in a world of Data, relying on metrics religiously, unquestionably and following their lead.
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The Dream UI A Magic Moments maker
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 15 November 2017
When using the real world as a source of inspiration, the digital world is capable of creating principal memories or awakening moments. Leaving aside VR and upcoming voice or gesture innovations, everyday devices are already filled with visuals that bring life to the otherwise flat screen. Rotations, motions and transitions emulate the physics of our world; a mimicking act of Design (-Mimesis, Plato-) that connects with the Human Being who seeks to realise the basic need of feeling.
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MongoDB Europe ’17 arcade beers and data
Blog PostBy Edgar Herrero on 14 November 2017
After an hour trip on the ‘Tube’ in a cold wet London Wednesday morning from Shepherd’s Bush to the O2 Arena where this years MongoDB Europe edition was held, we got there wet and hungry… BUT, what we would see was just going to change our moods for good.
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Expressive Design in Commerce
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 08 November 2017
An online store is a communication system where the Sender of a Message (-and the receiver of a response-) is a Human Being. When People are confronted with products and offers in a device screen as opposed to confronted with other Human Beings, our unique capacity to articulate and understand emotions is blocked.
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What is Digital Empathy and how can we evoke it
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 26 October 2017
How can eCommerce tools connect with the Human Being behind the Data? Many words have been written on personalisation. There are plenty of software products around profiling through Data. However, these tools provide little and in many cases no service when it comes to connect to our emotional drive.
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ImagineYourData Learn career opportunities for Data visualisations
Blog Post23 October 2017
Did you know that DataViz is a multi-billion growing industry? The challenge for future developers is to know how to develop visual and actionable products in a world where data complexity is growing. Learn about the technologies used by ImagineYourData.com and EmpathyBroker.com to generate game-changing visualisations on our talk on Data Viz! When? Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 12 am Where? Aula Magna in the Aulario Sur, Escuela Politécnica de Ingeniería de Gijón, University of Oviedo.
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Presenting a new venture ImagineYourData.com
Blog PostBy Angel Maldonado on 13 October 2017
The future of search is not search but Empathy. I am both pleased and excited to share a new venture: ImagineYourData.com ; an open lab where our amazing Data, Insights...
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Keywords network
External Reference06 October 2017
We were interested to find which relations exist across different queries, with that in mind we considered just the queries containing more than one keyword, removed all stopwords (words that do not carry any relevant information such as with, me and I), and plotted a diagram with the most frequent keywords, and their connections.
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Seasonal Keywords
External Reference01 October 2017
This chart shows how the main keywords on search queries change over winter, spring, summer and autumn.
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Desktop vs Mobile II
External ReferenceBy Álvaro Díaz on 29 September 2017
As a further part of the comparison between the behaviour of users using Mobile and Desktop devices, we have analysed the distribution of Search traffic throughout the day.
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Visualising Black Friday
External ReferenceBy Angel Maldonado on 27 September 2017
We have all been exposed with excitement and concern to the challenges and opportunities that Sale campaigns pose to our stores and apps.
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Desktop vs Mobile
External ReferenceBy Álvaro Díaz on 26 September 2017
This chart represents a comparison over the last year of the Search traffic evolution between Desktop and Mobile devices, showing a notable increase in Mobile traffic during the last months.
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Trends
External Reference25 September 2017
We were interested to find how some end users queries behave through the whole year, and find out from the data if would emerge common patterns.
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Why Conversion? Mmmm....
Blog PostBy Angel Maldonado on 15 September 2017
Here is a collection of marketing messages from Software Vendors within the eCommerce Search offering: SLI-Systems: " Convert shoppers into buyers " Findify: "Sell more... " Bloomreach: " ...more discoverable,...
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My First Data visualisation with StatsAPI
External Reference15 September 2017
This is my first post, where to start? after working roughly 2 weeks with the STATS API I would like to share my experience. As the way I see it, EmpathyBroker’s StatsAPI is aimed to process the data available in EmpathyBroker Search & Navigation eCommerce customers (queries, clicks, add2carts and all aspects of the search & navigation journey) and give insights, and shorten the distance between raw data and usable information.
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Expressive Design in eCommerce
Blog PostBy Angel Maldonado on 17 August 2017
Being Empathetic to the emotional nature of customers is the single trigger that can be the catalyst to create loyalty. Whether you call them Users, Visits, Sessions, Customers, they are People, just like you and I, driven by desires and emotions, People who have an special emotional connection with family, friends and also with he things they take into ownership.
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Empathy appoints Eduardo Sanchez as Executive Chairman
Blog Post28 June 2017
Empathy announced the appointment of Eduardo Sanchez as Executive Chairman. A seasoned software executive, he brings more than 25 years of experience on data, advanced analytics and cloud businesses.
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A new professional environment
Blog Post05 June 2017
At EmpathyBroker we believe that understanding engineering and computer students is very important. They will be our partners in the future and we need to transmit the philosophy and values of our company, our way of working and our products and services.
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Decoded Fashion
Blog Post08 May 2017
It is with pleasure that we can announce that we will be proud sponsors of the Decoded Fashion Summit 16th – 17th May. We are looking forward to talking to as many brands as possible about Site Search, Findability and what they do with all that data.
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Collaboration is King
Blog Post06 April 2017
All my greatest achievements in life have been due to a great team ethos and spirit of collaboration and helping each other so that we all achieve. This applies in all areas, including any sporting achievements, work recognition or matters of house & home such as recently going unbeaten in the local 7 aside league. As the saying goes ‘no man/woman is an island’. No martech is an island either.
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Misconceptions in Site Search
Blog Post09 March 2017
Search isn’t sexy Search IS sexy. If you see search as a vital component of your ecommerce site, then it can be like lingerie. With your site already working efficiently and with it being appealing to the consumer, this added layer can be the difference to a higher conversion rate ;). If we look at Zara.com this is a fine example of how search can improve the way in which your site works for the consumer. Zara make search the focal point of their website and allow their customers to discover.
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EmpathyBroker will be Gold sponsor in the next MeasureCamp London
Blog Post20 January 2017
EmpathyBroker is delighted to announce that will be contributing to the next MeasureCamp London as a Gold sponsor. MeasureCamp is an open and free to attend unconference for the Web Analytics and Digital Marketing industry that had its first edition in London in 2012 and now this city is getting ready for the 10th one.
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Looking for a pretty bunch of flowers? Check out the new search feature at Interflora
Blog Post20 December 2016
Can you imagine a life without flowers? Bouquets for weddings, bunches for anniversaries and many options for decorating both events and your home.
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All i want for Christmas is 100% findability
Blog Post13 December 2016
The jolliest time of the year is coming to town. We see “Merry Christmas” everywhere and we can’t avoid falling in love with the message whilst spending a lot of money on gifts. Have you already prepared your Christmas display boards? Well, when you run an e-commerce business there’s so much work to do, and it’s not only about decorating your windows. Besides visuals or design customization such as background skins or special banners, there’s a powerful tool that you can work on to improve your e-commerce conversion Site Search.
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5 Site Search trends to adopt in 2017 (if you are not yet riding the wave)
Blog Post29 November 2016
As we have pointed several times, an on-site search is more than a search box; it can be a powerful sales tool, a continuation of your navigation menu or a stunning user experience booster. But it depends on how far your e-commerce goes with search engine.
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The power of Findability on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Blog Post22 November 2016
The end of the year is coming; Christmas time are closer than we can imagine and the time to start thinking on Christmas gifts has to be right now. Hopefully for those shopping lovers Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts are also coming and this is one of the best news for this situation.
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Riding through Lovely Bikes user-adjustable e-commerce
Blog Post15 November 2016
As Queen said ‘I want to ride my bicycle’ and I want it to be special. Can you imagine if you can create your bike exactly as you want? Including smaller parts of it? LovelyBikes makes it possible by offering bikes and accessories of different parts of the world and being careful when choosing small and closer producers so they can offer an original product to their customers.
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Findability and Add2Cart correlation
Blog Post08 November 2016
Too often within e-commerce we talk about simple conversion metrics that don’t focus on the customer or brand experience, both of which are extremely important and hold great value. The same can be said with regards to site search. The main goal seems to be whether the customer bought or not, regardless of their experience.
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Trick or search? Get your site ready for halloween!
Blog Post31 October 2016
Sometimes, we like to say Findability is a kind of magic. But far from being a spooky concept, Findability is all about numbers, analysis and, especially, empathy. When you get visitors data from your site search you are able to design a better sales strategy based on users’ intentions and navigation.
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Findability, the fundamental component of online conversion
Blog PostBy Angel Maldonado on 27 October 2016
Imagine your client always finds what they need when they come to your site. Imagine that they love your brand so much that they recommend you to everyone they know? Stop imagining! Make it happen!
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MASSIMO DUTTI ‘S NEW BRAND APP SITE SEARCH
Blog Post25 October 2016
EmpathyBroker’s Team is very glad to announce our last and successful project for Massimo Dutti the integration of our site search on the brand’s mobile app.
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EmpathyBroker powers Desigual's omnichannel search
Blog Post14 October 2016
So many colours, shocking prints, playfulness branding actions go around this Spanish brand that encourage people to Find your atypical look. Because people who buys in Desigual, likes to be different, original and unusual. So why do they offer a common Search Engine for their users? Not at all. Big search bar and a big text that attracts users to search and find, and, for sure, enjoy the experience.
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When Search met Findability
Blog PostBy Angel Maldonado on 11 October 2016
To the consumer, search within eCommerce has been traditionally a negative experience, particularly when compared with Web Search and other consumer tools that inevitably set the benchmark of what Search should deliver. In our view, eCommerce Search has failed to deliver for two simple reasons
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RichRelevance releases the new e-Commerce Search FIND powered by EmpathyBroker
Blog Post06 October 2016
EmpathyBroker and RichRelevance have collaborated through an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) agreement to create a new Search Product. The new Search Engine for e-commerce (to be marketed by RichRelevance) is named FIND; a ground braking development that adds personalisation to each user experience, dealing with the real challenge of e-Commerce Search, that is; the emotional and subjective nature of people's intentions when searching for things to buy.
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Facets internal search engine what you want, as you want
Blog Post04 October 2016
Getting into a web ecommerce and finding exactly what you’re looking for is a shared dream for all users and all e-commerce. Why? Because a happy customer is a customer...
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ADORE ME MOBILE OMNICHANNEL IS THE NEW BLACK
Blog Post29 September 2016
Is there anything more adorable than someone who knows you better than you do? Someone who knows your preferred bra color? Okay, okay. Perhaps it sounds a little bit freaky. But when that “somebody” is one of the top underwear and lingerie e-commerce startups, it sounds much better, doesn’t it? When EmpathyBroker started working with Adore Me, the disruptive women’s intimates company based in New York City, knowledge and empathy went first we knew that intimate apparel required a deep and delicate knowledge of customers. So we decided to focus our work on tracking, in order to gather relevant customer data by means of tracking every step, every search, every navigation behavior, we would be able to increase Findability on Adore Me products.