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A Son’s Story of His Father

June 20th, 2008 by Brett Hurt | Founder and CEO

My father, Brian Douglas Hurt, passed away last night at 3am.  He passed in his sleep from a sudden heart attack and, fortunately, it seems like it happened almost immediately.  I got the call from my sister around 3:15am, and I have been ever up since, holding my mother, her, and my niece after it [...]

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Here’s the Wrap on Bazaarvoice 2008 Social Commerce Summit

June 1st, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

The 2008 Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit has come to a close. What an event! What a rush! As a Bazaarvoice team, we’ve never had so much fun. It was a thrill and privilege to spend 2.5 days with our partners, clients and advisors. From the anecdotal feedback from attendees, they also had a great time [...]

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How to LIVE RICH

April 29th, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

A good friend and ex-Dell colleague (and Bazaarvoice client) passed away on Friday, April 25, 2008, after a courageous and inspiring battle with brain cancer. I want to celebrate and share the piece of his life I knew, and the words of wisdom he left for all of us. Two months after I joined Dell [...]

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AdAge: Family, Friends Most Influential on Shoppers

April 10th, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

Ad Age reported resutls from a study by ZenithOptimedia…

Recommendations from family and friends trump all other consumer touchpoints when it comes to influencing purchases, according to new data from Publicis media network ZenithOptimedia. The data comes from ZenithOptimedia's Touchpoints ROI Tracker, a comprehensive project comprising over 300,000 interviews across 34 countries and covering more than [...]

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Ask & Answer Increases Sales Conversion 22%

October 23rd, 2007 by Wayne Stribling | VP of Client Services

Bazaarvoice recently released Ask & Answer, a new product that allows consumers to ask questions and get answers directly from other consumers (or from the company itself) on the product detail and product category pages. It’s an innovative idea intended to address a significant problem: 67% of online consumers leave a website due to a [...]

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Perspective from the new Client Services VP - Wayne Stribling

July 28th, 2006 by Wayne Stribling | VP of Client Services

I am very excited about joining the Bazaarvoice team as the VP of Client Services. Coming from a medium-sized software company that went public in 2003, Callidus Software, I was attracted by the impressive value that the Bazaarvoice solution delivers to clients and the market potential for this type of ASP solution. While working at [...]

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Virtual eCommerce Tradeshow (Bazaarvoice Speaking) — April 4-6

April 1st, 2006 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

Unless you enjoy planes and hotels, there’s no reason you can’t get great eCommerce content from the comfort of an Aeron chair and your computer!
Brett Hurt (CEO) and I will be presenting at eComXpo, the online virtual trade [...]

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