PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/24/09 -- MarketLive, Inc., a leading eCommerce softwareand services provider, today launched the MarketLive Client Innovationsorganization to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver MarketLive IntelligentCommerce Solutions(TM) to retailers. MarketLive Client Innovations combinesleading eCommerce technologies with proven Intelligent Selling(TM) bestpractices to boost overall retail business performance. The organizationwill help MarketLive retailers leverage solutions such as advanced siteanalytics, search engine marketing, email marketing, intelligentmerchandising, and other technologies to drive optimal growth and success.Hamilton Hunt, a 15-year veteran of retail professional services, joins theorganization as vice president. Hunt will lend his experience in efficientdelivery of custom technology and services to retailers using theMarketLive platform. Before joining MarketLive, Mr. Hunt served six yearsas a strategy and technology innovations expert with Pinnacle RockAssociates (PRA), a renowned retail supply chain consulting company. Priorto joining PRA, he was vice president at MarchFirst, a global eCommercemanagement and technology services company. Mr. Hunt graduated fromStanford University with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics andComputational Science. He also holds an MBA from Haas School of Business,University of California, Berkeley.
The MarketLive Innovations group exemplifies the power of MarketLive'sCommerce-as-a-Service(TM) delivery model, a unique approach of providingessential eCommerce platform technologies, service solutions, and retailindustry connections in an integrated eCommerce offering. The neworganization will help retailers rapidly and efficiently implementMarketLive and other partner technologies, greatly expanding thefunctionality and effectiveness of their eCommerce sites. (For moreinformation, see press release: MarketLive Launches Commerce-as-a-Service,March 9, 2009.)
Mr. Hunt commented, "Our merchants need the ability to rapidly enhancetheir sites and adjust their tactics to respond to changing marketdynamics. The MarketLive Client Innovations organization leverages theflexibility of the MarketLive Intelligent Commerce Platform(TM) along withadditional technologies and services to help retailers succeed online.Through tight partnerships with our retailers, we are able to understandtheir particular business challenges and design and deliver strategies thatwin in their markets."
The MarketLive Client Innovations organization will initially offeradvanced marketing and merchandising solutions, proven site searchmethodologies, rich product content and categorization for on-sitemerchandising, SEO/SEM strategies, personalization and one-to-one marketingsolutions and tactical execution.
"We are committed to meaningful partnerships with our retailers in allareas of site and eCommerce operations," said Mark Pierce, CEO ofMarketLive. "MarketLive Client Innovations has been part of ourCommerce-as-a-Service strategy since its inception. The formalization ofthe organization is a major step forward in our ability to help ourretailers achieve their goals, and a key advancement of our strategy.Hamilton brings critical experience in eCommerce and a track record ofinnovation. We look forward to the advancements MarketLive ClientInnovations will bring to our retailers."
About MarketLive
Since 1995, MarketLive, Inc. (www.marketlive.com) has providedenterprise-class eCommerce retail technology and services. In use by over100mid-market retailers, MarketLive is essential in implementing and operatingsuccessful eCommerce sites for these retailers. The extensible, scalableMarketLive® Intelligent Commerce Platform is the industry's firstCommerce-as-a-Service(TM) offering, and is built on the proven bestpractices-based Intelligent Selling methodology. It enables merchants toenhance their customers' experience online while dramatically improvingacquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive is the mosteffective, fully featured, customizable eCommerce solution on the markettoday. MarketLive powers successful retail eCommerce sites includingPeruvian Connection, Bon-Ton Stores, Sport Chalet, Dr. Perricone M.D.,Gaiam, Title Nine, Sur La Table, French Toast, Burpee Seeds, and manyothers.
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