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MarketLive revamps e-commerce site for large Chicago furniture retailer

August 20, 2013

MarketLive, providers of e-commerce technology for high-growth merchants, has announced that Chicago's The RoomPlace has re-launched its e-commerce website on MarketLive's Intelligent Commerce technology platform.

Specific requirements for the new site include:

• Respond immediately to product trends using a central admin system that controls all merchandising pages and promotions, allowing website changes to be implemented in seconds;
• Reinvigorate the site with features such as furniture bundles and buyer protection plans;
• Optimize the e-commerce site for natural-language search; and
• Maintain and manage a flexible website using in-house staff.

"This particular set of eCommerce requirements was extremely well matched to the MarketLive platform's rich feature set and deep industry expertise," said Mark Pierce, CEO of MarketLive. "In addition to implementing essential centrally controlled merchandising and promotions, integrated search and navigation, and SEO optimization technology, the project allowed us to contribute our merchandizing expertise and retail know-how to ensure the success of the re-launched site. Our ability to provide self-serve tools to The RoomPlace, so they can continue to react to market and customer needs in real time, is a key to their ongoing revenue growth."

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