Arbor Scientific Selects PowerReviews To Provide Online Customer Reviews
Arbor Scientific Uses PowerReviews to Drive Sales Leads SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)-- PowerReviews(TM) (www.powerreviews.com), the Internet's most comprehensive developer of customer-review solutions for retailers and their shoppers, announced today that Arbor Scientific (www.arborscientific.com) the leading science education supplies retailer, has chosen PowerReviews to harness the power of its customer reviews, increase sales and build stronger customer relationships. "PowerReviews allowed us to easily deliver customer-friendly, highly-informative product reviews," said Dave Barnes, Marketing Manager of Arbor Scientific. "Not only was the integration and start-up process quick and easy, but the feature has caught on quickly and been very popular with our customers." The PowerReviews technology platform for collecting, organizing, structuring and moderating relevance-based reviews helps online retailers significantly leverage customer reviews and boost their sales by giving shoppers access to the most meaningful reviews from people just like them. The user-generated content and community drives the highest sales uplift in the industry. "We are honored to work with Arbor Scientific to provide highly relevant product reviews to their wide range of customers," said Jay Shaffer, VP of Sales and Marketing for PowerReviews. "The affinity functionality of our review system allows their customers to fully understand the 'voice' of the review - whether it is from a student, parent or educator - thus enabling them to better identify with the product and make the right purchase decision." About Arbor Scientific For over 20 years, Arbor Scientific has been a leading supplier to the science education market for physics and physical science products. Known as the "Sharper Image" of science, Arbor Scientific provides science educations with engaging, innovative and resources that assist them in becoming better teachers. Once strictly a print catalog mailer, Arbor Scientific has expanded its online presence over the last decade to become one of the leading online retailers in the science education community. This includes an entire section of their web site that provides free teacher resources like lesson plans, student lab activities, demo ideas and access to the CoolStuff Newsletter archive. About PowerReviews PowerReviews (www.powerreviews.com) is an enterprise solutions company that provides customer reviews and social merchandising solutions to multi-channel retailers and their shoppers. Our technology platform for collecting, organizing, structuring and moderating relevance-based reviews helps online retailers significantly boost their sales. PowerReviews' user-generated content and community drives the highest sales uplift in the industry, and in addition to working with more than 240 online retailers, including Staples, Toys "R" Us, REI, Ritz Camera, Walgreen's, Diapers.com and The Sports Authority, we have also launched our own shopping portal, Buzzillions (www.buzzillions.com). The company is based in San Francisco and is backed by Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards. for PowerReviews Jennifer Johnson Avril, 718-871-7117 jen@verbfactory.com Copyright Business Wire 2008
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