GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, price, and company data that can (1) be embedded into existing static and dynamic Web pages and that (2) can be processed by other computers. This increases the visibility of your products and services in the latest generation of search engines, recommender systems, and other novel applications.
Martin Hepp (UniBW)
martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Fri Jul 10 07:50:58 CEST 2009
Dear all: A recent PayPal study shows that the lack of comprehensive information about total costs, payment options, and other details causes a lot of shoppers to abandon an already started online purchase. The study suggests that many consumers leave the site mainly because they want additional information before completing the transaction. Even if many of those would have been willing to buy at that site, eventually, they don't do so because they never come back from their searches for additional information. Most important reasons for cart abandonment: -- High shipping charges: 46 percent -- Wanted to comparison shop: 37 percent -- Wanted to shop offline: 26 percent -- Couldn't find preferred pay option: 24 percent The important thing for me in here is that merchants LOOSE money because they don't make available important details for the customers. It is not that the potential buyers are eventually not convinced of the offer. It is that they want to have more information before completing the purchase and get lost somewhere in the Web when searching for additional information. Or they are not directly pointed to a store related to the online presence. With GoodRelations, any merchant could provide such details and empower what I call "Deep Comparison Shopping". For the full study, see http://www.cnbc.com/id/31506399/site/14081545 For a presentation on "Deep Comparison Shopping", see http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/deep-comparison-shopping-1591651 For the abstract of my upcoming invited talk at EC-Web 2009 entitled "Product Variety, Consumer Preferences, and Web Technology: Can the Web of Data Reduce Price Competition and Increase Customer Satisfaction?", see http://www.heppnetz.de/files/56920144.pdf Best Martin Hepp ---------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: mhepp at computer.org phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) skype: mfhepp twitter: mfhepp Check out the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data! ======================================================================== Webcast: http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp Tool for registering your business: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/ Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe Project page and resources for developers: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Tutorial materials: Tutorial at ESWC 2009: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in One Day: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Tutorial_ESWC2009 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: martin_hepp.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 308 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ebusiness-unibw.org/pipermail/goodrelations/attachments/20090710/ebc9f59c/attachment.vcf>