Making Money Online
Clive Peeters launches eCommerce website today.
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 this [...]
Online Retailer 2009 in Sydney – the State of Online Retail in Australia
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 Global [...]
A Quick Summary of PeSA 2009 in Sydney (+ some pics)
PeSA Sydney 2009 was a great event. A full attendee list of 300+ eBay sellers were there. Here is a brief summary of the event from my perspective. (for more info on the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, click here).
Well, what a great conference. PeSA conferences are usually a focused get together of like minded sellers, [...]
Want to grow your eBay business?
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 even bigger.
Tickets [...]
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 with a [...]
Internetretailing.com.au launches today
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 has and is [...]
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 testing [...]
The Fast Rise of Magento Commerce
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 in [...]
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 tour here), [...]
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 understanding our [...]
