This week SLI is exhibiting at the New Zealand Retailers Association eCommerce Seminar Series being held in Christchurch on July 2nd and Auckland on July 3rd.

This week SLI Systems will be visiting Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA as part of the ExactTarget Route 1 to 1 seminar series.

For more information on the various cities and to register visit the Route 1 to 1 site.

We had a great time at the Internet Retailer Conference last week in Chicago. It is very stimulating talking to so many people, including online retailers, industry experts, and the other vendors. SLI sponsored the opening reception on the Monday night and we gave away a MacBook Air (from our Cupertino neighbor, Apple) - this created a lot of interest. The winner was Shirley Tan of American Bridal. Conincidentally Shirley is an existing customer of SLI Systems. She was very happy to win the laptop.

This week SLI Systems will be visiting the OC, Orange Country, CA as part of the ExactTarget Route 1 to 1 seminar series.

For more information on the various cities and to register visit the Route 1 to 1 site.

Next week we’re traveling to Chicago for the Internet Retailer Conference. We’re exhibiting at booth #655 (near the front of the exhibit hall).

We’re also hosting a series of presentations with our partners - CORESense, PowerReviews, WebLinc, ExactTarget, Trinity Insight, and DMinSite will demonstrate how their leading technologies along with SLI Systems advanced site search and navigation solutions can help your ecommerce site jump to the next level.

If you would like to find out more or to request a meeting please visit our Partner Solution Zone page.

Next week on June 10 - 11, we will be exhibiting at the GC 2008expo at Earls Court, London.

GC 2008expo is the leading public sector IT event in the UK. It’s the exhibition and conference where public servants come to see the very latest technologies in action and to discover the solutions to the challenges they face within government.

If you would like to learn how SLI Systems site search and navigation solutions can further advance your on-line presence we would be excited to see you at the GC Expo stand #704.

We strive to continually improve the service that we offer our customers. One part of that is ensuring that the search and navigation pages load quickly. The graph below shows how the average time (to serve the complete search page) for one of our customers has improved over the last 12 months.

Even though this customer has a complex search, we thought 2 seconds was a little slower than we would like. We’re much happier with it sitting below half a second.

The changes that you can see are improvements to our algorithms and the configuration of our servers. They are examples of improvements that all of our customers receive the benefit of (with no additional cost to them).

Our April and May newsletters contain a two part article on using your site search for more than just people visiting your web site or e-commerce site. We discuss using site search for search marketing, customer service teams, in-store kiosks, targeted emails and more.