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I just got home from the PeSA Australia summit, Navigating Success for Change. A good turnout with close to 300 signups,s to the Flemington staff were kept busy with coffee and snacks during breaks. Keynote this morning was from Jonathan Garriss (of Gotham City Online) who has flown in from the US and talked about [...]

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ChannelAdvisor announced that they have acquired another $20 million of VC funding from New Enterprise Associates. Also, they announced some staff reductions. Pushing towards an IPO, the lay offs are an effort to control expense and move toward profitability. Apparently around 45 people will be/have been laid off from headquarters with some more staff cuts [...]

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Well, I am back from some long needed time off, hence the long break between posts. I travelled with my wife and now 8 month old daughter to South Australia and visited a lot of family friends, squeezed in some fishing and even got time to read a book. Wow! It was a fantastic trip. [...]

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Some news this morning that eBay seller ebusiness supplies (eBay account, website) is now NARU on eBay, not answering customer emails and seems to have stopped trading. This article from The Age sheds a little more light on the situation. These guys have been in business for many years now and moved a lot of [...]

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I know I have a few ChannelAdvisor customers reading my blog. This post is for you! We are developing some automation tools for ChannelAdvisor customers, and to assist with a development roadmap I would LOVE some feedback on whether or not you use the ChannelAdvisor Store or another store altogether… I put together a quick [...]

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eBay.com.au released a statement yesterday notifying of their intent to withdraw its notification to the ACCC regarding the removal of other payment options from the eBay.com.au website. This didn’t come as a big surprise. Going to court over the matter would indeed have been a long and painful process, not to mention the amount of [...]

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We are currently part of a beta test group for ChannelAdvisor, testing their integration into a new ‘premium’ storefront. I was pretty eager to put my hand up for this, as the old store has a lot of limitations and shortcomings. It certainly isn’t a best of breed product. Is the new premium store going [...]

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Time to change all your listings back to include all payment options? Today eBay announced it would postpone its (now) 15th July deadline for changes of listing payment options to PayPal only, citing its requirements to wait until the review process of the ACCC regarding its recent draft notice is complete. It seems fairly inevitable [...]

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Each day I answer emails about importing product from china. It seems that when you search in Google now for ‘Importing from china” my blog ranks pretty highly. I have one particular buyer in China that I trust and have used for years now. He actively works with me and for me to source a [...]

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eBay annouced that it is to phase out 3rd party checkout. This is a move that will impact many thousands of (usually large) eBay sellers. It will affect us, as we use ChannelAdvisor, as do many larger sellers. ChannelAdvisor’s main markets are US and UK, and they have some very big eBay sellers using their [...]

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