PARK RIDGE, IL - September 28, 2012 - Tony Svanascini, CEO of Americaneagle.com, a leading website design, development and hosting company, was interviewed by Horizon Interactive Awards for the award-winning Garrett Popcorn site.
A Chicago institution for 60 years, with a recent international expansion, Garrett Popcorn continues their rich tradition of producing high-quality popcorn mixes. The Garrett Popcorn website won the Horizon Interactive 2011 Best in Category for E-Commerce as well as accolades from the Internet Advertising Competition for Best Retail Website. It features an interactive, dynamic Tin Builder Application that allows Garrett Popcorn customers to personalize their tin.
Svanascini sat down with Horizon Interactive for a full interview on what went into the Garrett Popcorn site, how the objectives were achieved, and his tips to a successful ecommerce site.
"The number one most important factor in the success of an e-commerce site is to make it EASY for your customers to buy from your website," explained Svanascini. "It’s also important to give the customer the right tools on the back end so they can easily update the site and integrate the site with other processes as well as providing useful reporting information on sales."
Read the full interview here.
About Americaneagle.com, Inc.
Americaneagle.com, Inc., founded in 1978, is a leading Web design, development, and hosting company based in Park Ridge, Illinois. Currently, Americaneagle.com employs approximately 200 professionals in offices throughout the country including Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Some of their 5,000+ clients include Hobby Lobby, New York Giants, NASCAR, Stuart Weitzman, Garrett Popcorn, Chicago Bears, Abbott Laboratories, and the U.S. Army. For additional information about Americaneagle.com, visit www.americaneagle.com.
About the Horizon Interactive Awards
In its 10th year, the Horizon Interactive Awards was created to recognize excellence in interactive media production worldwide. Since 2001, the competition has received many thousands of entries from countries around the world and nearly all 50 US States. Each year, those entries are narrowed down to the "best of the best" to be recognized and promoted on and international stage for their excellence. The judging process involves a Horizon Interactive Awards advisory panel, end user panel and a worldwide panel of judges consisting of industry professionals. Winning entries are dubbed the "best of the best" in the interactive media industry. For more information, visit www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.