It feels a little strange to finally see my book in the wild (yes, Making money on eBay for Dummies is now on sale!). I first spotted it online at Booktopia for pre-order. Wierd feeling! It was a long time in the making, and should be on shelves of bookstores in early December. So if [...]
One of my business partners sent me a great link yesterday and I was thinking about it a little tonight. The post is located here : http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/05/07/wpo-web-performance-optimization/ Steve names a new type of business and this is Web Performance Optimisation (with a nice TLA of WPO!). I wonder if we will see WPO offered as [...]
Today marks the entrance of Clive Peeters into the online retail world with the launch of the clivepeeters.com.au eCommerce site. News broken by internetretailing.com.au informs us that the site is tightly integrated into the exisiting Clive Peeters ERP system. Bigbrownbox.com.au (Radio Rentals) is getting 800,000 claimed visits a month is the only real incumbent in [...]
I just got back from Online Retailer in Sydney. It was the first event of it’s type in Australia, attracting over 2500 attendees and a good number of exhibitors. I had opportunity to talk to many of the attendees, catch up with many other online retailers and also interviewed people like Armand , VP of [...]
DealsDirect.com.au, Australia’s largest online retailer has announced the acquisition of DinosaurDeals.com.au. I suspected we might see some form of consolidation in the online space this year, and there could be more to come in future, although the press release indicates that perhaps you need some special business qualities to encourage an acquisition to take place. [...]
In a smart move, Getprice have introduced a category bidding system for their customers. Now, if you want to appear at the top of a category or search, you can bid more to appear there. With enough customers feeding products to the site now (they say 1.5 million products online), this is a move that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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