ecommerce

eBay to Phase Out 3rd Party Checkout

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 [...]


2008 – Year of the Australian Online Retail Summit?

Summits coming up that you might be interested in attending: “The eBay Seller Summit, by eBay sellers for eBay sellers”, June 12th I think that one could be related to eBay? The ESS08 summit is being held in Sydney on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at the Bankstown Sports Club in Bankstown, Sydney. This event will [...]


Release : ChannelAdvisor Catalyst Conference Coming Soon!

I got sent this press release information from ChannelAdvisor today regarding their upcoming conference at the Sunshine Coast in July. The early bird discount rate is nearly over, so if you are considering attending to learn more about online business, how to grow and improve it then you might like to consider attending. Yours truly [...]


My Best Tips For Improving Your eBay DSRs

If you are an eBay seller, Detailed Seller Ratings are going to become pretty important very soon. eBay are introducing a raft of changes under new leadership including Finding changes (search), fee changes and more. Detailed Seller Ratings are going to matter to you. If you haven’t been concerned about your ratings, and you take [...]


ChannelAdvisor Australia giving away free beer?

It is nice that ChannelAdvisor has an office here in Melbourne. Even nicer is that they aren’t far away, and they are a bunch of generous folk who have just held some Christmas drinks for a few important clients (oh, and they also invited us along after some arm twisting). Heck, there was some free [...]


DealsDirect.com.au to be next Amazon?

DealsDirect.com.au, Australia’s largest online department store and a site with a very large and growing turnover, is now expanding their category offering into mainstream product. Previously, oo.com.au seemed to be the only large online seller of this type offering a good selection of ‘name brand’ products but now DealsDirect has begun moving in to that [...]