This theme can very well be suitable for a desserts, cakes, food industry type of website. It is a fresh, clean, and modern design, it offers many functionalities such as the full support for WooCommerce plugin made by WooThemes.
Also you will have a choice of three different content layouts, and the theme is fully responsive, which means that the dimensions of the website can automatically be fitted to any screen size, whether it is a mobile screen, tablet screen, or PC.
Woothemes have launched 7 new WooCommerce extensions.
Theses extensions provide quite a lot of support to the existing WooCommerce Plugin for WordPress.
You can read more about the features of these new extensions at: http://www.woothemes.com/2013/05/welcoming-may-with-7-more-woocommerce-extensions/
Peddlar is a new theme developed by the WooThemes team, it is a very clean design, and it provides some cool features such as support of WooCommerce Brands extension to showcase your company’s brands.
Peddlar is built mainly to support the eCommerce type of websites, however it can also be installed for the basic websites such as business pages or personal website.
It comes with many features and facilities, and one of the coolest features of this theme is the full width featured slider.
According to an article published at the Sydney herald Newspaper, the business-to-consumer e-commerce has passed a trillion US dollars in a single year for the first time. In 2012, more than 10 million people, or almost 50% of the population, had bought something online, spending an average of $3,547 per person.
What is more interesting about this news is that the average expenditure per online buyer in Australia is higher than in the US and the UK by 54 per cent. It is also expected that the average expenditure per online buyer for Australia will grow by 7.2 per cent this year.
This means that the physical stores are definitely going to be affected by this change, it is the time for online stores to dominate the market.
Freshbooks is an accounting software used by over 1.8 million business owners worldwide. It offers a nice and simple dashboard to perform various accounting tasks and invoicing, you can choose to use your brand’s logo and details to be on the invoice.
This Freshbooks account can be easily integrated with your WordPress site using the Freshbooks Woocommerce plugin. By using this plugin, you will be able to automatically invoice your clients once they purchase products from your Woocommerce store. This will mean that the balance in your Freshbooks account will be updated as well. This process is very recommended for every online store to have, it makes life a lot easier and definitley increases productivity.
You can read more over at http://www.woothemes.com/products/freshbooks-integration/
Due to the economic slowdown Australians are becoming more reliant on online business sites, which is just another way for boosting economy and going about increasing their savings. Online business is very successful and offers many benefits, whether it is used to increase the number of sales for a business, to get a business back on track or to start a new business from scratch.
ING Direct executive director Rob Hendriks says “Australians are very creative in boosting their income. We see an increased effort in selling goods online, taking additional jobs, and especially in New South Wales we see a lot of women entering the workforce.”
You can read the full article at http://www.smartcompany.com.au/economy/049233-more-australians-to-start-online-businesses-as-two-speed-economy-takes-hold.html
Woocommerce 2.0 is an eCommerce plugin that helps businesses and website owners to showcase their products easily and proffessionaly. Woocommerce 2.0 has recently been released to the market, it is a newer version and a refinement of the previous version of Woocommerce 1.0. Woocommerce 2.0 has been reviewed by Zach Russel; he discusses the various aspects of this very powerful eCommerce plugin built by the Woothemes corp. He also discusses the many things that have been added or changed in the Woocommerce plugin such as:
You can read the full article at http://wpdaily.co/woocommerce-20-review/
Damp Streetwear is a retail shop that has recently discovered the power of online business and how it can improve their sales. Damp Streetwear is owned by Matt Dampney, he is the founder of cutting edge clothing brand and also owns a design studio in Australia. Matt Dampney has decided to start the online retailing for the clothing side of his business, this is to increase his sales and reduce the costs of running a business on the street such as shop rental.
Matt says his business used to pay between $20,000-50,000 annually for the cost of shop rental which is very expensive. This was before he found out about the idea of online business, which gave him a substantial opportunity to expand and market his business.
You can read more over at http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/damp-streetwear-the-future-of-retailing-20130403-2h5nf.html
