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Back in the boom days of the dot-com explosion Vitamins.com was a stellar success story. This video pays tribute to the team responsible for that success. Hans Bjordahl, then Manager of Creative Services: “Within 12 weeks of launch, Vitamins.com was taking more orders per day than competitors MotherNature.com and eNutrition.com. Featuring full online commerce functionality for 15,000 SKUs and a modular design that allowed for partner-specific customization, the site achieved the highest conversion rate among the top 20 e-commerce sites on the Internet (Goldman Sachs, January 2000), as well as an extremely low cart abandonment rate of 39% – compared with an industry average of 65% (Boston Consulting Group, February 2000).”
Robert Haft bought the domain name and hired XOR to rebuild the site (which was then taking an average of four or five orders per day). The rebuild cost Haft about a million that he spent with us, and he threw two more million at nationwide advertising and within a year sold the company for 103 million. Not bad. The site was such a runaway success that we had taken 1.8 million in orders before we could make arrangements for the lavish launch party!
We built this one right. Focus groups for the look and feel, extensive usability testing to refine the information architecture and functionality, steps the are sadly skipped by two many sites being built these days.
All of this success helped to make XOR an IPO acquisition target and sure enough, when the shiny shoe money guys invaded it was the beginning of the end…but XOR was exciting while it lasted, but because another victim of the kind of greed and corruption personified by the likes of Andersen Consultant veterans.
The soundtrack was recorded years later and features me on bass, drums and rhythm guitar, Ed Downs on lead guitar, and Vitamins.com team programmer John Barnette singing (seen at the beginning and end of the movie).
Back in the boom days of the dot-com explosion Vitamins.com was a stellar success story. This video pays tribute to the team responsible for that success. Hans Bjordahl, then Manager of Creative Services: “Within 12 weeks of launch, Vitamins.com was taking more orders per day than competitors MotherNature.com and eNutrition.com. Featuring full online commerce functionality for 15,000 SKUs and a modular design that allowed for partner-specific customization, the site achieved the highest conversion rate among the top 20 e-commerce sites on the Internet (Goldman Sachs, January 2000), as well as an extremely low cart abandonment rate of 39% – compared with an industry average of 65% (Boston Consulting Group, February 2000).”