Architects, builders, and interior designers have a variety of vendors to work with when helping customers choose fixtures, furniture, and flooring. These professionals either need an expensive showroom and office or they must cart around heavy binders full of product photo’s and descriptions to show their clients. But, this practice…
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…
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…
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…
Black Friday isn’t just a US holiday and it’s not even just one day. People all over the world look for bargains the entire week of US Thanksgiving and into what’s now known as Cyber Monday. According to Forbes, Consumer spending over the Black Friday weekend is expected to increase…
Thanksgiving week in the US means the biggest travel days of the year, both flying and driving. I would have thought filling up your tank earlier in the week would be better than waiting until Tuesday or Wednesday, but the pricing trend isn’t proving that to be true in most…
What is alternative data for research? Data is the basis for all sound research models. Alternative data along with traditional data ensures a complete picture and allows modeling of future events. Alternative data includes information that is publicly available on the internet, but often difficult to get in a structured,…
Besides the ubiquitous pumpkin and apple pie on Thanksgiving, what other desserts may be served? Well, this could vary state by state. Based on web data extracted from Flipkey and Daily Meal, a lot of other pie types may be served in the southwest and eastern seaboard. Each state has…
Indeed.com currently has 6,832 job listings for pricing analysts in the US alone and 24% of those state the requirement to monitor competitor pricing. With competitor retail pricing available for anyone to see online, it’s necessary that a pricing analyst is able to easily gather web data. This is becoming…
Import.io increases speed and ease of use by reducing time to data and simplifying the customer experience. Recently, Import.io standardized the user interface and dashboard on React and users are seeing up to a 50% improvement in responsiveness. React is a javascript library built and maintained by Facebook, Instagram, and…
