24 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Want to grow your eBay business?

Want to grow your eBay business? Then consider attending this years PeSA event in Sydney, called ‘Survive & Thrive’. PeSA is the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance and the Australian arm is holding this year’s seller event in Sydney. Last years was a great success with hundreds otf attendees, and I think this years will be [...]

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09 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Woopra – Sounds wierd, but it’s addictive!

What the hell is Woopra? That’s exactly what I thought when I first heard the name. (BTW, What is it with Web 2.0 products and brands seeming to require some sort of zany name? Bing? Woopra? Or make your own name) Anyway, Woopra is basically a real time analytics tool much like Google Analytics though [...]

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01 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Internetretailing.com.au launches today

Today a project that I have been involved with takes a big first step. Mark Freidin and I today launched www.internetretailing.com.au. We are not making a big fanfare, and it will surely evolve, but we are happy to see it live. We are excited by this industry, and in particular the growth that our industry [...]

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05 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Twitter Spam – I Knew It Wouldn’t Take Long

Beware, it has started. Twitter Spam. If you haven’t been hit yet, just wait, I am sure it won’t be long. 3 times in 3 days I have been ‘followed’ by someone and after clicking through to their profile (like I do for everyone who Follows me – don’t you?) I am met with something [...]

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24 April 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Magento Fraud Detection Module Released Today.

Just a quick blog post to mark the launch of our first commercial Magento Module, the Magento Fraud Alert Module featuring MaxMind. We had developed this for our eCommerce arm or the business to make it much easier to identify possibly fraudulent orders. Using the MaxMind minfraud services we check all available data about the [...]

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20 April 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Magento Performance – Magento 1.3 Benchmarks

Magento Performance is a hot topic at the moment. We recently installed Magento Commerce version 1.3.0 on a test server with a current production database to do some performance testing and I thought I would publish a few results. They aren’t exhaustive tests, but indicative I think. Although we haven’t done a huge amount of [...]

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09 April 2009 ~ 3 Comments

The Fast Rise of Magento Commerce

I follow Magento Commerce and it’s development rather closely. This is because on of my businesses retails online using the Magento ecommerce software and my other business leverages this knowledge (and a lot of other online retail experience) to develop Magento modules and code and shipping automation software. I have written about some of this [...]

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31 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Mark Webber’s Daily Drive?

Apparently Mark Webber just handed back the keys to his daily drive whilst in Melbourne for the Melbourne Grand Prix F1 event in Albert Park. Mark Webber’s Formula 1 car is currently powered by Renault, but during his stay in Melbourne he was handed the keys to a Ford Performance Vehicles F6, a turbo charged [...]

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25 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Automate Australia Post Click and Send International labels

Australia Post has just released Click and Send, and new way to print out international labels and customs declaration forms. Previously international shipments were a real pain because of the handwritten customs forms and separate labels that needed to be printed. Now at least Click and Send can print these forms for you (see their [...]

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22 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A long (mostly non work) week. But still stressful…

I spent the week down in Hobart due to a family emergency. My dad had a health issue, and I flew immediately down to Hobart on Tuesday morning. I had spent the day in Sydney on Monday (long day), spent all week on Hobart and just got home yesterday. A long week. Thank God my [...]

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