The retailing community and the vendors that provide supporting roles, like RichRelevance, have spent the better part of this year gearing up for the make-or-break 24-hour marathon: Black Friday.
As a result of our company winning the 2009 Intel Premier IT Knowledge Award (announced on 9/1/09), I had the opportunity to participate in the CIO 100 Symposium Awards in Colorado Springs, CO.
When we launched RichRelevance, we chose the tagline “next generation personalized recommendations” because the status quo solutions – all first generation products – were not delivering on the promise of a faster, easier, and more enjoyable shopping experience.
In response to richrelevance receiving the “2009 Best Place to Work” in the SF Bay Area recognition, one of my advisors reached out to me and asked a pertinent question: what are you doing to preserve your culture?
Last quarter, we launched MyRecs a “zero-integration” product building on the data and integration of our RichRecs and RichMail products. The results are exciting thus far and are only getting better.
I am excited to have the opportunity to write about something near to my heart. As I’ve grown in my career the quality and enjoyment of my workday—primarily influenced by company culture and the people I work with—has become increasingly important to me.
We are very fortunate that despite all of the turmoil in the greater market, richrelevance gets to celebrate 2008 as the best year ever.
At RichRelevance, we have been planning for the holiday shopping load since early summer. This was our first Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and since we provide recommendations for some big merchants, we knew this was going to be a critical test of our product architecture, infrastructure, and execution.