Category: Blog
How we developed Crisis Management (ComON blogpost)
Our CCO, Camilla Ley Valentin, blogs about how Queue-it originally came up with the idea of our recently launched Crisis Management concept for online disaster contingency. Read the full post here. The blogpost is in Danish, so feel free to contact us directly for more information in English or check out this post launching Crisis [...]
Read moreWill the flower sites be ready for Valentine’s Day traffic this year?
In 2011, Pingdom and other website monitoring services reported extended website failures during one of the greatest revenue periods for the online flowershops. As Pingdom reported last year, Americans alone spent $18.6 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts. If you have ever experienced a seasonal sale actually causing your website and shop to crash when users [...]
Read moreIntroducing Crisis Management, a disaster contingency plan must-have
Is your website an integrated part of your disaster contingency plan? For most government and large organizations, the answer is probably (or at least it should be) yes! Online crisis information is becoming increasingly important in connection with disaster communication – it is an effective way of reaching masses of citizens, and people will tend [...]
Read moreAre you following our start-up blog on ComON.dk?
Queue-it’s CCO, Camilla Ley Valentin, is a regular blogger on the Danish IT news provider, ComON. Now you can follow Camilla’s blogs about life in the Scandinavian start-up scene. The blog is in Danish, so if you are looking for insights in English, don’t be afraid to get in touch! Recommend on Facebook Share on [...]
Read moreVirtual waiting room vs. virtual queue – what’s the difference
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are approaching fast, it is time to consider what to do with those excess users, to avoid your marketing success from causing website failure during the holiday campaign season. While the queue system may in fact be implemented with the look and feel of a virtual waiting room, [...]
Read moreAre you monetizing your captive audience?
How do you turn a potentially negative user (non-access to your website) into a returning customer? By Camilla Ley Valentin, CCO People who are waiting patiently in line for something that they are interested in, make a uniquely captive audience. This is of course only true as long as the queueing process is perceived as [...]
Read moreIs your webshop ready for another jump in online holiday spending?
Best practice from the high load experts By Camilla Ley Valentin, CCO The holiday shopping season will be upon us very soon. This year will once again be a record setting jump-up for online retail. According to the National Retail Federation, online shoppers say they will do half their shopping online and will spend nearly 22% [...]
Read moreOnline ticket sales increase again in 2011
According to the latest member survey by INTIX, online ticket sales increase once again this year. “Similar to last year, 61% of respondents report a moderate to significant increase in online ticket sales. Over the years, more and more ticket sales have been made though the Internet. In 2011, 41% of respondents claimed 50% or [...]
Read more“Clever system you have… but we have no use of it”
By Martin Larsen, Senior Developer, Queue-it “Clever system you have… but we have no use of it.” This is a frequent comment we get from developers and architects when introducing Queue-it – and I get it. Sometime in the history of the Internet we have grown accustom to having resources available anytime anywhere. This [...]
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