Archive | ecommerce

05 March 2009 ~ 3 Comments

What will Magento become in 2009?

Magento Commerce is quickly growing, and according to the Magento website is the fastest growing eCommerce platform at the moment. Magento is still young, but I peronally know more and more online retailers looking at it as a solution. The underlying structure, robust and powerful API, and complete separation of design/themse and core code make [...]

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04 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The traffic is coming, but why aren’t they buying?

It strikes me that many website owners out there concerned with conversion rates don’t spend enough time understanding the visitors to our websites. I have definitely been guilty of that. Maybe you are too? If you think about it, I am sure you would would agree with me too. We should spend more time really [...]

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08 February 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Magento Commerce online store performance

We have been using Magento Commerce for about 3 or 4 months now as a new online store platform for a few of our websites. Magento is a new product, but already growing very quickly in users and features. We are currently ChannelAdvisor customers and had been using the standard ChannelAdvisor store for some time. [...]

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22 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

So, what WAS in the Big Brown Box?

I mentioned a appliance website some time ago in another post, talking about the slow adaptation of online sales in Australia by the large brick and morter incumbents. www.bigbrownbox.com.au has been doing quite a lot of marketing and launched a little while ago. Initially when I browsed around it was extremely slow, but this seems [...]

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07 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Looking ahead at retail for 2009…

I have been spending a little time this week thinking about 2009 and retail in general. Although I haven’t been able to speak to too many other sellers recently the ones I have spoken to are hinting at the same issues. Prices are all going up, thanks to the current exchange rate (1 Australian dollar [...]

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29 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Wow – what a year.

Well, 2008 has been a long year of hard work, meeting new people and enjoying my new baby daughter (who is now very nearly 1 year old!). It has been ages since I have written anything in my blog, thought I had better do a little catch up! I hope you have had a prosperous [...]

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25 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Is Magento Commerce a good eCommerce solution for you?

There are been a little bit of buzz around the place about Magento Commerce. The open source eCommerce arena has been a crowded one in the last 5 years. The big names are popular still (including stores like X-Cart, osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded and there are more). But Magento was mentioned to me by [...]

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12 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

PeSA Australia Summit Wrap-up

Back on deck at work this morning, following up a few people that I met at the Pesa Summit over the last few days. It was great to meet some readers of my blog, and talk to a lot of sellers. After my panel session on Business Automation my 15 min one on one blocks [...]

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11 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

PeSA Australia Summit Day 1

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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12 July 2008 ~ 10 Comments

ChannelAdvisor Users: Your store of choice?

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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