Archive for February, 2009
eBay 2.0. Or is it all too late?
It has been a little while since I read Scot Wingo’s blog, and he had a great post recently that I took the time to read and digest. It was his own roadmap on how he thinks eBay should change in order to survive. For those who don’t know, Scot is founder of ChannelAdvisor (software [...]
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 [...]
Kontera/Infolinks text link ads – do they work?
I want to see if Kontera or Infolinks context ads worked. Not just that though, I wanted to see if one service was better than the other and if the revenue was worth the potential complaints from site visitors reading our content. So, how effective are they?
I am running for charity!
On April the 5th my wife and I will be running in a charity event called Run for The Kids. This event is a 5.7km and a 14km run around Melbourne designed to raise money for the Royal Children’s hospital which does fantastic work. It is an icon of Melbourne and as new parents to [...]
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. [...]
Most Online Fraud Attempts Are Easy To Spot, But What About The Rest?
Most online fraud is pretty easy to spot. And it seems most of the perpetrators must either be stupid, ignorant, or maybe both. If you run an online store selling anything remotely valuable for the black market (like electronics, car parts, expensive hobby items etc) then you have no doubt received fraudulent orders from Indonesia, [...]
