USuggest.com Launches Beta Site Providing Cutting Edge Online Shopping Platform and Blog Monetization Tool

USuggest.com Launches Beta Site Providing Cutting Edge Online Shopping Platform and Blog Monetization Tool

Site Looks To Conquer The Long Tail of E-Commerce

USuggest (http://www.usuggest.com/), created by a team of Arizona State University computer scientists, announced today the launch of its beta platform designed to impact the blogging community. The company empowers bloggers with the ability to tag and recommend products directly from their blogs, directing their audience to online retailers like Amazon.com, WalMart.com, and Target.com. The bloggers would then receive a commission from any sales generated through referrals. Unlike affiliate marketing which is retail portal specific, USuggest’s “Suggesters” direct consumers to the site with the best price across their 500+ site vendor network.

In its beta phase, USuggest.com will be working with leading bloggers to install the platform on their sites and reap the rewards of monetizing their opinions. Currently, millions of bloggers are utilizing their sites as a platform from which to discuss products and relevant experiences with them. USuggest.com not only enables bloggers an opportunity to turn their opinions into cash, but also a relevant context from which to discuss products which will be extremely beneficial to consumers looking to find as much information as possible before making their online purchase.

“We are moving from an information age to a recommendation one, and we feel that our company is harnessing the power of digital word of mouth in a way that is beneficial to both bloggers, consumers and the e-tailers themselves,” said Hasan Davulcu, CEO of USuggest.com. “Through combining the existing context that the individual bloggers have on their sites with some of the web’s largest vendors we are proving consumers with the ultimate comparison shopping tool.”

USuggest.com has been in development for more than a year, since the original concept of a shopping site that would go beyond product reviews to offer cash rewards to helpful shoppers was born. USuggest.com’s creators were a team of computer scientists who would go onto win the $20,000 first prize in the Arizona State University’s Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge in 2005.

To learn more about USuggest.com and to speak with CEO Hasan Davulcu please contact nsteinberg {at} 5wpr(.)com.

ABOUT USUGGEST.COM

USuggest.com is the future of online shopping harnessing the power of contextual recommendations. Working with leading bloggers and e-commerce vendors, the site allows consumers to read a product recommendation on a blog and instantly be directed to the best price across USuggest’s network of 500+ e-tailers.
Contact:

Neil Steinberg, 5W Public Relations
212.584.4306
nsteinberg {at} 5wpr(.)com

Sari Conway, 5W Public Relations
212.584.4270
sconway {at} 5wpr(.)com
Website: http://www.usuggest.com/