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09 May 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Web Performance Optimisation (WPO)

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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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26 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Shipping Automation and our solution – ReadytoShip

Early on, ‘back in the old days’, our staff manually copied and pasted addresses for customer orders into shipping software packages or (*gasp*) hand wrote labels. This was all fine and dandy until we started selling more than about 5 – 10 items per day. Firstly, shipping started to take too much time in our [...]

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08 February 2009 ~ 14 Comments

Most Online Fraud Attempts Are Easy To Spot, But What About The Rest?

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27 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

5 Tips to Get Useful Feedback From Your Customers

Getting customer feedback/testimonials/complaints can really help you identify what parts of your business are working well and what needs attention. We recently implemented a free feedback service on one of our online fishing  stores, and the information we have received has been quite valuable. People have given us testimonials which we can use on the [...]

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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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