Weldon W. Whitener is the founder of Pricesearcher, a vertical search engine that aims to index all of the world's prices in one centralized location. Pricesearcher has gathered pricing data on over 1.3 billion products from 12 countries, checking prices up to 3 times per day. They have indexed identifying product information for millions of items. Price is one of the most important factors for customers when making purchasing decisions online, so Pricesearcher seeks to provide transparency on pricing trends and strategies to help merchants optimize their approach.
5. @Pricesearcher
PROGRESS TO DATE
Gathered data on 1.3 billion products
Online in 12 countries
Gathered 91 Billion price points for our
products
On average we check the price of a product 3
times a day
We have gathered:
17,000,000 ISBNs
144,000,000 MPNs
73,000,000 SKUs
157,000,000 GTINs
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13. @Pricesearcher
PRICING FIRST STRATEGY ALIGNS TO CUSTOMERS
PURCHASING PATTERNS
I use price comparison sites when
searching online for items I want to buy
80%
Statement Response rate
I use search engines like Google/Bing to
compare prices on items I want to buy
65%
On average I look at three or more websites
before making a purchase online
79%
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14. @Pricesearcher
Which top five sites did people visit immediately before this site?
CUSTOMERS ARE CONTINUALLY LOOKING FOR A
BETTER DEAL
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