Archive for the ‘Online Sales’ Category
Thursday, August 15th, 2013
The Winning Group’s online sales have notched $150 million in annual sales, meaning its combined sales is a record $350 million for the company, Australia’s leading kitchen and laundry appliance specialist.
The 25 per cent jump in sales was propelled by a massive 35 per cent year-on-year growth in the firm’s Appliances Online and Big Brown Box internet offerings, and 17 per cent rise in Winning Appliances’ bricks-and-mortar sales.
“The retail stores were just over $100 million probably five years ago and now it’s $150m. The websites this year reached just over $150m,” group chief executive John Winning told The Courier-Mail.
“The debate between online versus offline is over – Australian retailers must perfect their business formula across all platforms to earn the trust and repeat business from savvy shoppers,” Winning said.
“We think that if the market turns, our growth could increase significantly, even more than 25 per cent. We’ve ridden out a couple of pretty tough years very successfully and now we’re looking forward to the many customers that we have talking positively about their experience with us.”
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Tags: Australia, business, online, The Winning Group
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Monday, August 12th, 2013
Established in 2013 by Leah Bridge and stationed in Central Coast, New South Wales, Navy Crockett is an online boutique to buy gifts for the hard-to-buy-for man in your life.
Navy Crockett is actually the second business for the busy Bridge. She also has a design studio that she operates. Thankfully she embraces the chaos and variety of running the two very different businesses.
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Tags: Australia, business, Central Coast, Navy Crockett, New South Wales, online
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Thursday, August 8th, 2013
After taking note of the dearth of functional unisex clothing for kids being sold in Australia, Katie Brannaghan of Melbourne, Victoria started Hipkin in 2012.
Going back and forth to Europe with her husband, Brannaghan noticed that a lot of the cool, functional brands of children’s clothing weren’t filtering through to her home country and she decided to do something about it. A year later and Hipkin is going strong.
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Tags: Australia, busines, children's clothing, clothing, fashion, Hipkin, Melbourne, Victoria
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
The internet is a big place, but one site that is making it feel a little homier is Our Little Place, an online book and interior design boutique.
Started by Sarah Rogers on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Our Little Place has been around since 2011 and was born from Rogers’ passion for interiors, fashion, travel and books.
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Tags: Australia, books, boutique, business, Gold Coast, interior design, Queensland
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Monday, August 5th, 2013
Set That has impressed some big players enough to land some lucrative online partnerships.
International retailers like Bloomingdale’s, Marks & Spencer, StrawberryNET and John Lewis, and Australian brands, including Styletread, zanui, Surfstitch and The Iconic have hopped on the Set That bandwagon.
Set That lets consumers explore “sets” of products that have been compiled and curated by other site users to find a suitable product to buy. The user’s profile and shopping preferences are drawn upon to create a customised shopping experience.
The most unique aspect of the website is the financial rewards offered for building and marketing sets through online social media. Set creators are able to earn up to 2% commission, either banked into their PayPal account or donated to charity, for an item that generated a sale as a result of their set.
More than 100 stores have already committed to the site and co-creators, Aussie mums Kim Westwood and Liz Tehan, are in early talks with investors in Australia and abroad.
Projections for Set That are to have 300 registered stores by the end of 2013 with that number increasing to more than 3000 by 2015. The stores are anticipated to showcase 1.5 million products to 200,000 users this year and 15 million products to 2.5 million users by 2015.
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Tags: Australia, business, online, Set That
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Monday, July 29th, 2013
Yotpo, the free social networking review plugin for ecommerce sites, is now available for WooCommerce sites.
Yotpo sends automatic emails to your customers a certain number of days after their purchase and prompts them to review the product. On average, Yotpo claims to convert 8% of customers into reviewers, which may not sound like much, but is a ot higher than the industry average of just 1.2%.
Yotpo also makes it easy for reviewers to share their reviews on their social networking accounts, which in turn drives traffic to the sites using Yotpo.
Unlike other plugins that promise to drive traffic to your site but don’t actually prove it, Yotpo has its Campaigns feature, which lets you keep track of exactly how what Yotpo has done for your site.
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Tags: Australia, business, customer reviews, reviews, woocommerce, woothemes, Yotpo
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Friday, July 26th, 2013
Online retailers with extensive experience have proclaimed that it is the delivery system and not the fanciest new technology or the flashiest website that will lure Australian customers to shop at Australian online businesses.
Paul Greenberg, a pioneer in Australia’s online retail sector as co-founder of the DealsDirect Group in 2004, has said that customers want their orders delivered in a timely manner and if Australian businesses can that, they will likely prosper.
“The battleground has shifted to the supply chain,” he says.
This seems to be the philosophy of online fashion retail giant The Iconic, which placed a tremendous amount of importance on getting people their orders as quickly as possible, regardless of the cost. The Iconic has recently been in the spotlight for having to jettison a number of jobs and also for taking big losses in its first two years of operations. But all that is now said to have been a planned growth strategy. Investors ploughed a further $28 million into the business late last week.
As it becomes increasingly more difficult to keep fickle online shoppers happy, fast and reliable delivery is where many online retailers are hoping to set their businesses apart. However, Greenburg notes, that is not easily done, as a distribution network that hums like a well-oiled machine also tends to drive up costs and online retailers will have to make sure that they generate enough revenue to cover those costs.
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Tags: Australia, business, delivery, online, supply chain
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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Small and medium sized businesses in Australia or from overseas can now adopt a sub-domain name under www.businesses.com.au.
Australian domain name rules outlined by the .au Domain Administration prevent anyone but Australian businesses or companies from owning .com.au or .net.au domains.
But the opening up of business.com.au to subdomain names means that overseas businesses who want to do business in Australia can now have a local domain name.
Local private people, contractors, business owners and incorporated or unincorporated businesses can also have an online presence on the premium domain for a low weekly rental.
Greg Rogers, from Faxts Media which runs Businesses.com.au, said that applications are now open anyone in Australia or overseas to apply for a Businesses.com.au domain.
“AuDA rules are strict. An Australian business name or ABN is an essential requirement to own a .com.au domain name,” Rogers said. “I checked with AuDA myself and there are no restrictions on sub domains if the main site is owned by Australians”
“Netregistry owns a .com domain www.au.com. They have been selling and hosting websites as www.sample.au.com which are sub domains of .au.com, for years. There are 1000′s of them. Businesses.com.au is Australian and perfect for any business.”
“Businesses.com.au will allocate sub domains on a first come first served basis. We will not allow trademarks to be used unless the applicant has permission or is the holder of the trademark.”
To apply for a domain name with businesses.com.au, email ceo@businesses.com.au.
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Tags: Australia, business, business.com.au, domain name, online, subdomain name, website
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Monday, July 22nd, 2013
WooCommerce has recently introduced another seven exciting extensions for everybody’s favourite online store creator.
They are:
- Hipay.com Payment Gateway – This is a plugin to extend Woocommerce, allowing you to take payments via the Hipay payment service.
- US Export Compliance – Makes your shop compliant with the US Export regulations.
- Group Coupons – Allows you to link coupon validity to WordPress users.
- ConstantContact Integration – Allows you to build Your Constant Contact email list with WooCommerce.
- Recommendation Engine – Allows you to offer Netflix/Amazon style product suggestions to your customers.
- InterFax Integration – Integrates your WooCommerce site with InterFax, which enables you to fax the order details to your customers and yourself on every completed purchase.
- Composite Products – With “Composite Products”, WooCommerce allows you to create sophisticated, dynamic product kits by compositing existing products.
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Tags: Australia, business, extensions, woocommerce
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
Online men’s clothing retailer Kent & Lime have taken the stress out of clothes shopping for its customers.
Instead of choosing their own clothes, Kent & Lime customers are asked about their dress sense by a style advisor who then selects clothes for them from a variety of brands. The clothes are posted out and upon receiving them the customer has 10 days to try them on and make up his mind. What he likes he pays for, and what he doesn’t he simply returns at no extra cost.
Will Rogers, who founded Kent & Lime along with Nick Gonios, said the idea behind Kent & Lime was to provide a genuine personal service that helps male shoppers cope with the often overwhelming choice online.
“We thought there must be a way of reducing all that noise that is out there and give people a place to go that cuts through all the choice. That’s what really sparked the idea,” Rogers says.
The business is also trying to capitalise on the poor service many shoppers lament in bricks-and-mortar stores.
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Tags: Australia, business, online
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