Strands Blog

We are excited to announce that specialty retailer Metropark has chosen Strands Recommender to power their intelligent up/cross-sells and personalization. As a fast growing specialty retailer Metropark was looking to automate their merchandising process and boost sales during the holiday season.

After looking at numerous recommendation providers, Metropark chose Strands due to our quick implementation, easy to use merchandising interface, detailed reporting and also our reasonable pricing.

Currently Metropark is utilizing Strands Recommender on it’s product detail under “May We Suggest” and will be adding email recommendations and shopping cart up-sells soon:

Metropark is one of the many retailers who have taken advantage of our Standard Pricing plans, which start at $249/month and provide a similar feature set to our premium customers at an affordable price. It’s a great way to improve your merchandising, sales and learn more about your customers buying behaviors. As your revenue grows, you can always upgrade to our premium service.

We’re happy to announce, that as of today, we’re working with the fast growing start-up Kedin.es to offer personalized recommendations for their great service. Kedin is similar to US based Upcoming.org and Going.com as it provides users with a rundown of the latest concerts, art exhibitions, athletic races and interesting events in their cities.

To continue their growth, Kedin was looking for new forms of differentiation and personalization was key to their strategy. Kedin was impressed with Strands ability to drive increased engagement and customer loyalty on similar sites such as 11870.com and Blip.tv. With these goals in mind, Kedin was able to implement Strands in two functional areas of their site:

1.) Personalized Events Page: Once a user creates a profile, Strand’s automatically begins learning about their tastes and preferences and makes relevant suggestions.

2.) Related Events: Strands learns from all visitor’s behavior on the site and suggests related events in their area.

If you’re visiting Spain or already live there and are looking to bring out your inner socialite visit Kedin.es. Also visit our website for more information on how recommendations can dial up your social media site.