Founder & CEO - serial software technology entrepreneur whose prior startups were acquired by Microsoft and Ricoh. Focused on use of AI in ecommerce. Spending most of his time listening to and learning from founders, online marketers, and ecommerce professionals, and channeling their input into Obviyo’s product development.

Must-Have Product Recommendations For Your Shopify Store

Must-Have Product Recommendations For Your Shopify Store PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION KICKSTART: a short list of simple, ready-to-go product recommendations that will effortlessly unlock new revenue potential for your Shopify store. Why product recommendations? Short answer: if shoppers can’t discover a product of interest – they can’t buy it. Ecommerce sites use product recommendations to help shoppers…

AI Powered Merchandizing Playbook for Shopify

AI Powered Merchandizing Playbook for Shopify DISCOVERY, CONVERSIONS, AND REVENUE: learn why you need AI powered merchandizing and how you can effortlessly act to continually create relevant, scalable and revenue generating product discovery experiences for all your visitors. Note: This post shares the know-how and tools needed to take action and achieve positive results for…

Search abandonment and the impact of Shopify partnership with Google Cloud AI

Search abandonment: the impact of Shopify and Google Cloud AI partnership TACKLING $2 TRILLION ECOMMERCE PROBLEM: Shopify’s partnership with Google Cloud AI to provide enterprise class search and discovery tooling to enterprise brands will have game changing impact on the entire Shopify ecosystem. Shopify’s commitment to AI and the best of breed enterprise technology stack…

Revenue Growth Automation

Revenue Growth Automation SUSTAINABLE REVENUE GROWTH: learn why the future of your online business depends on the ability to leverage customer data and artificial intelligence and how you can act to drive new revenue from existing web traffic. Note: you can interact with Revenue Growth Automation capabilities in our Shopify app demo store – just…

Top 50 Home Furnishings Brands on Shopify Plus: Customer Bond Building Teardown

Top 50 Home Furnishings Brands on Shopify Plus: Customer Bond Building Teardown Here’s the top 50 home furnishings brands on Shopify Plus. For 10 of the biggest, I’ve assessed adoption of customer bond building. With practical tips for improving your own store.  From the audit, I can confidently say Home Furnishings brands provide shopping experiences dominated…

Announcing Obviyo: Your eCommerce Hyper-Personalization and Optimization Platform

Announcing Obviyo: Your eCommerce Hyper-Personalization and Optimization Platform When we started HiConversion over 10 years ago, one of the biggest problems facing every eCommerce brand was low conversion rates. Inspired, we created a machine learning system to automate and accelerate experimentation for eCommerce. The result was a multi-patented, ‘real-time’ optimization engine – capable of detecting…