Archive for the ‘business’ Category
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
When stay at home mum Kristy decided to have friends purchase children’s party supplies and ship them to Australia so she could re-sell them in the country, she was only expecting to take in maybe an extra $50 per week.
Well, she’s getting a lot more than that, bringing in a tidy six-figure profit every year.
Starting out with an eBay story, she eventually switched to selling from her own website www.discountpartysupplies.com.au and started pulling in a quarter of a million dollars, all from her spare bedroom and all without borrowing a single cent.
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Tags: Australia, business, discountpartysupplies.com.au, online
Posted in Australia, business, children, eBay, innovation, internet usage, online business, Online Sales, online stores, selling online, Success story | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
Australia is leading the way across the globe for new online businesses.
The amount of internet start-ups increased 200% from 2010 to 2012, outpacing both the United States and Britain by four times. However, that doesn’t mean that these new businesses are automatically booming. Many of them incur losses in the first few years of operating until they gain momentum and start making profit.
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Tags: Australia, business, online
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
With $50 million in revenue, Freelancer.com, started in 2009 by Matt Barrie and stationed in Sydney, has overtaken its competition to be the go-to place for businesses to find top notch freelance contractors and for those contractors to find work.
Recently, the website made headlines for expanding its innovative crowdsourcing contest feature beyond design categories to include projects in any category.
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Tags: Australia, business, contractors, Freelancer.com, online
Posted in Australia, business, Crowd funding, innovation, online business, Success story | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
Flippa is the premier site in the world dedicated to being a marketplace for buying and selling websites.
Founded in Melbourne in 2009 by Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle, the site has over 200,000 registered users buying and selling websites.
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Tags: Australia, business, Flippa, internet, online, website
Posted in Australia, business, domain names, internet usage, online business, Online Sales, online stores, selling online, Success story, web-based | No Comments »
Monday, July 1st, 2013
Garnering 30 million site visits and over 250 million page views since its launch in 2008 by Justin Cameron and Lex Pederson, SurfStitch, an online retailer that specialises in surf gear that is headquartered on the Gold Coast, is one of Australia’s most highly trafficked eCommerce sites and has pulled in $30 million in revenue for the company.
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Tags: Australia, business, internet, online, SurfStitch
Posted in Australia, business, online business, Online Sales, online shopping, online stores, selling online, Success story | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 29th, 2013
The online retailer The Iconic (officially named Internet Services Australia 1 Pty Ltd in Australia) that popped up in 2011 and started laying waste to its bricks and mortar competitors is now itself in trouble.
Recent reports have emerged that The Iconic, which promises excellent service and speedy delivery as its selling points, is hemorrhaging both money and staff as it tries to cut costs to stop the bleeding.
From August 2011 to December 2012, Iconic had revenue of $30.6 million but a loss of more than $44.7 million.
The company’s owners, the German Samwer brothers have used a similar model of doing business that has led to great success in Germany, India, Singapore, Poland and the Philippines through their head company, Rocket Internet.
Internal documents from the company that had been obtained by the media show that the company’s business plan is to jump into new markets and become number one at any cost using the promise of free, overnight delivery.
And whilst it has worked in other markets, it seems to have stumbled in Australia so far.
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Tags: Australia, business, The Iconic
Posted in Australia, business, Expansion to Australia, online business, Online Sales, online shopping, online stores | No Comments »
Friday, June 28th, 2013
Founded all the way back in 1997 by Jay Hennock and Hannah Schwartz, Australia’s No. 1 dating site, RSVP.com.au, sold for close to $40 million to Fairfax in 2005. It is headquartered in Sydney.
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Tags: Australia, dating, RSVP
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Thursday, June 27th, 2013
SourceBottle founder Rebecca Derrington must have seemed like an angel to journalists looking for sources for news stories when she started SourceBottle in 2009.
The site, headquartered in Melbourne, allows both journalists looking for sources to quote in stories and people who want to act as quotable sources to register on the site for the purposes of connecting the two groups.
She started in Australia and has since expanded to other countries.
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Tags: article, Australia, journlist, news, PR, source, SourceBottle, story
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Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Brisbane-based online travel accommodation provider Wotif issued a net profit after tax downgrade to between A$50.5 million and A$51.5 million for the 2013 financial year, some of which was attributed to its Asia Web Direct domain names being affected by recent Google ranking criteria changes.
Wotif was started in 2000 by Graeme Wood and has $1.161 billion in revenue.
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Tags: ASX, Australia, Australian Securities Exchange, business, Wotif
Posted in Australia, Australian Securities Exchange, business, investment, online business, web-based | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
The online coupon site CatchOfTheDay.com.au, founded by Gabby Leibovich, netted an increase in revenue of 62% in 2012 to $230 million.
The site, which has distribution centres in Braeside and Truganina, Victoria, started in 2006 and has been going strong ever since.
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Tags: business, Catch of the Day, coupons, internet
Posted in Australia, business, online business, Online Sales, online shopping, online stores, selling online, Success story | 1 Comment »
