Americaneagle.com recently teamed up with Discovery Clothing, a women’s clothing store with over 30 retail locations in Chicagoland, Florida, Wisconsin, and Indiana, to design, develop and launch its first ever ecommerce website.

Michael Seifert, CEO of Sitecore, started the Wednesday opening keynote discussing how online consumer expectations and experiences change and that the next evolution is to move from campaigns to conversations. Michael discussed and explained Sitecore's three key pillars:

A few weeks ago, the NFL kicked off the 97th season of what is now America’s favorite pastime. As a big NFL and football fan myself, along with many staff members at Americaneagle.com, I can personally attest to the fact that we’re always excited to do work for an NFL team or an organization affiliated with the NFL.

The SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) show is one of the most well-known and respected trade events for automotive specialty products in the world, and this year, Americaneagle.com is proud to be a first-time exhibitor.

Did you know that check-in was ranked as one of attendees’ top stressors at events? Since registration is often the first thing attendees experience before your event, it’s important that you make a good impression.

We’re very excited to hold a Chicago Sitefinity User Group this evening, Wednesday, September 21st, 2016, at the Americaneagle.com headquarters in Des Plaines, and invite you to join us! The event will be held from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CST, and is open to anyone interested in learning more about the Progress Sitefinity platform.

Trends come and go, so applying best practices to your e-commerce website can help you navigate the changing tides of your industry, allowing you to get more mileage out of your platform. Here are 5 tips to keep your website future-proof

Ask yourself, do you understand your customers? Do you really know what your site visitors are looking for from you? Do you know what frustrates them about your site or what prevents them from completing a call to action? And what do they appreciate about what your site already does?

Chances are you’ve heard of Pokémon Go – maybe you’re even playing it right now! In the few weeks since the public release of the app, an estimated 75 million downloads have occurred! Trendswatch 2016 predicts that augmented and virtual realities are going to provide arts and cultural organizations with new ways to make exhibits more accessible. Pokémon Go’s popularity is proof that virtual reality technology isn’t going anywhere anytime soon

The holiday season will be upon us sooner than you think, and as the optimum time for many retailers to increase their revenue draws nearer, we’re here to guide you on how best to prepare for the season of good will.

2016 has been deemed the year of conversational commerce and it’s time for companies to get on board with this new trend. According to Chris Messina, the person who coined the term, conversational commerce, “pertains to utilizing chat, messaging, or other natural language interfaces (i.e. voice) to interact with people, brands, or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.”

Our client, BAI, was seeking a strong, customer-facing website that accentuated their style and brought awareness to their business. They came to us with a clear understanding of what they needed and were quick to adopt our insight and recommendations.

Let’s face it: every email address you add to your list is not equal. While we all want to make sure our subscriber list is growing, it’s the crème de la crème that really drive our email marketing revenue. Those familiar with the 80/20 rule, known as Pareto’s Principle, inherently understand that it’s this small segment of your customer base who can have the greatest impact on your overall business.

Instagram is becoming increasingly popular with businesses looking to engage with millennials and portray an aspirational lifestyle associated with their brand.

If I compiled a list of words front end developers hear the most, “Bootstrap” would be very high in the ranks. The most well-known front end framework created by Twitter is reportedly used on over 10 million websites and applications at the moment.

Here at Americaneagle.com, we’re looking forward to welcoming our clients to our annual Forum! The Forum will be held on Thursday, September 29th at the Americaneagle.com headquarters in Des Plaines, Illinois.

We’ve all had some good shopping experiences, and hopefully it happens regularly. When you do have a great experience with a merchant, the interaction leaves you satisfied, happy, and wanting to return.

Americaneagele.com recently attended ASAE’s Annual Meeting and Exposition in Salt Lake City, on August 13-16, 2016. This event was held for association professionals and industry partners to network and collaborate and exchange ideas and resources.

Marketing is in a state of change and it’s now transitioning into a consumer focused form called context marketing.

There’s a lot of talk about the effectiveness of social proof psychology in split testing. Interestingly, the more it’s talked about the more it may be true. That’s because social evidence we hear from others in our culture persuades us to assign more credibility towards that information, whether or not it’s actually true.