If you sell products online, you know the importance of having up-to-date and accurate product information. For any successful ecommerce website or online marketplace, you’ll need high quality images and current product descriptions. But, you may struggle with getting what you need from manufacturers in a timely manner. Manually copying…
Twenty-first century businesses are evolving at an increasingly rapid rate, and the main catalyst for this evolution is advancing technology, with data as a key focal point. Not only is data important for most businesses to operate and compete, it’s becoming absolutely essential. And the exponential growth of data that’s…
We are excited to announce that Sunil Ramesh has joined Import.io as the VP Products. Sunil brings a wealth of experience from 16 years of leading Silicon Valley engineering and product teams. Most recently, Sunil was in product management at Amazon A9 in the visual search and augmented reality team. Sunil…
Reflections on 2017 It’s been a great 2017 partnering with our awesome customers on successfully getting web data for price monitoring, investment and market research, lead generation, MAP compliance, and so much more! The Import.io platform has made tremendous strides over the past year with the addition of hundreds of features and…
Feature article Turning customer reviews into actionable data If you run a consumer-based, retail, or hospitality business, chances are your company has customer reviews on multiple website. It’s time-consuming and a bit mind-boggling to read through 100s of reviews to determine what differentiates your businesses and take action based on the…
For many companies with capable engineers, build vs. buy comes into play when purchasing software solutions. Web data extraction is no exception. Before embarking on a project to build your own web data extractor, here are 10 questions to consider: Does your team have experience in writing code for…
If you run a consumer-based, retail, or hospitality business, chances are your company has customer reviews on multiple website. You can easily access the reviews and see your overall average score and that’s great, but what if your score is the same as your competitors? It’s time-consuming and a bit mind-boggling…
Feature article Best Practices for Monitoring Retail Prices and Enforcing MAP Minimum advertised price (MAP) policies have been around since the early 1900s. However, they’ve perhaps never been more relevant and useful than they are today. That’s because we live in a world of instant price comparison. Shoppers can get…
We recently published the article Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) Enforcement Best Practices discussing why manufacturers should monitor and enforce MAP. In this post, we’ll show you how Import.io helps manufacturers keep track of product pricing to ensure compliance with MAP. This example is based on monitoring just a few websites, but if…
Minimum advertised price (MAP) policies and MAP enforcement have been around since the early 1900s. However, they’ve perhaps never been more relevant and useful than they are today. That’s because we live in a world of instant price comparison. Shoppers can get pricing on a product from multiple online sellers…
