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New sites for gadget nuts: Gdgt and Retrevo

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Don't skip Retrevo when you're looking to make a purchase... Retrevo has an AI core that gathers up product review and pricing data from numerous sources (including CNET), to present overall recommendations on products. What's new is its Farecast-like feature of telling you if the product you're looking at is at its peak of popularity, or heading toward or away from it, plus indicators telling whether users like it, and if it's a good value or not at the moment. Click Here to read more.

 

Retrevo Site Seeks To Simplify Buying Process

    Shopping for consumer electronics can be intimidating. Opinions -- both professional and personal -- abound, and the technology changes so quickly that the fear of buying an outdated technology can be paralyzing. With a new version of its consumer electronics shopping Web site, Retrevo.com looks to make the process of buying consumer electronics a little easier...

The revamped site, which begins a live Beta test today, is intended to simplify the consumer electronics buying process, culling information ranging from Web-based professional product reviews to general consumer response to prices and deals, and then placing that information in an easy-to-understand format. Click Here to read the full story.

 

Retrevo: A New First Stop for Tech Shoppers

    Have you shopped for a digital camera lately? Even for shopaholics like me, it can be a daunting experience. The choices are, quite simply, mind-boggling. Sifting through them all and trying to pinpoint the best model for your needs and budget is a Herculean task.

Sites like PC World (my former employer) and CNET help, with expert reviews, ranked charts, and links to user reviews, specs, and (typically) pricing engines (to help you find the best deals on the models you’re researching).  Now, however, a site called Retrevo is raising the bar on aggregating product information and packaging it in exceptionally accessible and user-friendly fashion.

Click Here to read the full story.

 

Retrevo + Twitter = Finding Out Whether That Technology Bargain Is Truly A Bargain!

   

 

The moment I hear Twitter anything my ears perks up, especially with me being a twitter fan...

 

How Well Does Your Agency Communicate its Own Benefits?

    Customers are no longer buying products just for the sake of owning one. They want products that are prime examples of their category. Companies focusing on innovation need to work to emphasize, in the customer's mind, what the innovation really accomplishes in their daily lives. Click Here to Read More.
 

Retrevo Launches Gadget Tell-All Video Series

 

“We’re not saying that gadgets make someone a better person, we’re just saying that functional gadgets go hand-in-hand with doing anything of significance in today’s world.”

Show Us Your Gear’s pilot episodes spotlight many celebrities and well-known people including Alltop founder, and former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com. Click Here to Read More.

 

Parks Associates & Retrevo Present On Consumer PC Purchase Habits at 2009 "Connections" Conference

    Tricia Parks, CEO, Parks Associates, and Vipin Jain, CEO, Retrevo, presented research from the Consumer Decision Process Annual Survey on June 3 at CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase.
Their presentation, Navigating the Changing CE Purchase Process,
discussed the impact of the recession and the need for flexibility in
selling CE to consumers, especially as the power of brand has
diminished.
 

Consumers Willing to Pay More for Innovation Despite Hard Times

  Trends suggest companies that innovate and develop customer-centric
products attract more buyers than companies that simply lower prices
and maintain the status quo. Click Here to Read More.
 

Marketers Need To Highlight Innovative Benefits

   

Although consumers may be cutting back on their consumer electronics purchases, they may be more willing to pay a premium for devices with clear innovative benefits, according to online electronics resource Retrevo. Retrevo's CEO Vipin Jain says, "Because consumers today are spending less and counting their money, they're also less likely to throw money away on a product that they don't need and that doesn't put them at the
center of the universe." Click Here to Read More.

 

George Chamberlin's Money in the Morning - Consumer Electronics as Wedding Gifts

    Never mind a kitchen blender or silver platter, more than half of the people getting married this year would like to receive consumer electronics. But not just any product. According to the new Retrevo gadgetology study, a camcorder is at the top of the list, followed by digital cameras. Click Here to Read More
 

 
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